The show was taped at Universal Studios Florida, with Peter Marshall hosting.
Teams consisting of contestants and celebrities competed to answer trivia questions about film.
The contestant on the first team pushed a button, which randomly selected one of six categories and a point value (either 100, 250, or 500 depending on difficulty).
Marshall would ask them a question in that category, getting it right won the points, with no penalty for an incorrect answer.
PAX ordered 200 episodes (40 weeks) of Reel-to-Reel, which would have taken the series through June 4, 1999.