Cop Out (Game Show)

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Cop Out
Format	Game Show
Created by	Chuck Barris
Starring	Geoff Edwards
Country of origin	United States
Production
Running time	about 24 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Unknown, supposedly CBS
Original run	1972 – 1972

Cop Out was an unsold television pilot created by Chuck Barris and hosted by Geoff Edwards that pitted two contestants, playing against each other, and trying to see if celebrities are telling the truth, or "copping-out". Two different pilots were made, for CBS.

This was Geoff Edwards' second try at hosting a game show, after the other failed pilot Says Who?. He would finally host his first game show with Hollywood's Talking

1 Gameplay
2 Criticism
3 Set
4 Themes
5 Episode Status
6 References

[edit] Gameplay

Geoff would ask a celebrity a personal question. The celebrity would then answer by secretly locking in whether they would tell the truth or cop out. He then asked three other panelists to say what they thought. Correct answers were $100, and wrong answers deducted their entire score and gave the opponent an additional $100. The person with the most money at the end of the game won.

[edit] Criticism

The game was very hard to do, with only one correct answer by a contestant in the entire pilot. This may or may not have led to it not being sold.

[edit] Set

The pilots were presumably shot in Studio 33 at CBS Television City. The studio sets of the two pilots differ. In the first pilot, the word "Cop-Out" was seen on the playing floor, while the other was up upon a pedestal above the celebrities.

[edit] Themes

The first pilot's theme was "The Little Russian Song" and the second was "Mother Trucker" from How's Your Mother-In-Law.

[edit] Episode Status

The second pilot was last seen in 2000 on GSN. There is an unknown status on the first one, but it more than likely exists, as pilots were never aired, and could escape the standard wiping procedures of daytime television in the 60's and 70's.