Snap Judgment
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Snap Judgment was an American daytime game show hosted by Ed McMahon, airing on NBC from April 3, 1967 to March 28, 1969. The program was produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman.
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[edit] Gameplay (Format 1)
The original program format featured a word association game played by two teams consisting of a contestant and a celebrity. Contestants completed their associations before the start of the show and their celebrity teammates had three tries to guess the association based on the clue word provided by the host. A correct guess on any of those three tries was worth $10 for that team. If all three guesses were unsuccessful, the other team could steal $10 by guessing correctly with one try. If both teams failed to guess correctly, the contestant would reveal the first letter of the association and each celebrity had one shot at guessing the association. The first team to earn $100 won the game and played a bonus round ("The Big 5"). With the contestant offstage in a soundproof room, the celebrity teammate was asked to come up with five associations to a clue word provided by the host, then designate one of those five as a bonus word, the one his or her teammate was most likely to say. The contestant would then return and have 20 seconds to come up with all five associations for $50 each. Initially, the contestant merely had to say the bonus word in order to double the team's winnings. To provide a greater degree of difficulty, a new rule was added requiring the contestant to guess the bonus word to double the team's winnings. For the second game on the same show, the celebrities switched teams.
[edit] Gameplay (Format 2)
On December 23, 1968, the game format was changed to one virtually identical to a sister program, Password, which at the time was off the air. In the new format, the objective was to guess a word from one-word clues with a point structure identical to that of Password (10 points were awarded for guessing the password on the first clue, nine points on the second clue, eight points on the third clue, etc.) After the fifth word, point values doubled. The first team to 100 points won the game and $100 and went on to play a reformatted "Big 5," played similarly to Password's "Lightning Round", only with 30 seconds to guess five words at $100 each.
[edit] Theme music
During its two-year run, Snap Judgment used two different pieces of theme music. For the first five months of its run, the composition "Window Shopping" by Bob Cobert (which was previously used on sister series The Price is Right) was used. A new theme, named after the series and composed by Score Productions, debuted on the program on September 4, 1967 and would last until the end of the run.
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[edit] Episode status
Due to the practice of electronic wiping, every archived episode of Snap Judgment has been erased.
