All four celebrities alternated turns acting out a series of words for the winning contestant to guess during the next 60 seconds during the first round, with each correct answer worth $1.
Additionally, when a player lost the bonus round, the "Losing Horns" fanfare from The Price Is Right was played.
Elaine Joyce, Ron Masak, Linda Kaye Henning, and Dick Gautier were the celebrities, and the format was the one used in the first half of the series' run.
[2] While there, he lost control of his rental vehicle, which crashed and overturned on the side of the road, and suffered injuries that would claim his life on June 6, 1975.
Showoffs debuted on June 30, 1975, at noon (11:00 am Central), replacing Password and inheriting its predecessor's ratings problems.
Despite facing the much-hyped but popularly-and-critically-panned Magnificent Marble Machine on NBC, Showoffs could not make any sort of dent in CBS's hit daytime drama The Young and the Restless, which had become a top-ten show by that point.
The game finished its six-month run on the day after Christmas and bowed out in favor of the ailing Let's Make a Deal, which left its 1:30 pm (12:30 Central) slot after over eleven years on two different networks; the ABC version would be canceled six months later.
A scheduling shuffle involving Rhyme and Reason made way for Regis Philbin's first shot as a game show host, The Neighbors.
One of Blyden's pilots is held by the UCLA Film and Television Archive; a clip was shown in VH-1's 2005 series Game Show Moments Gone Bananas.
The episode broadcast on Christmas Day is also held at UCLA and was aired by Buzzr on September 25, 2021, as part of their annual Lost and Found marathon.