Win, Lose or Draw is an American television game show that aired from 1987 to 1990 in syndication and on NBC.
New York described Win, Lose or Draw as "a knockoff" of the board game Pictionary,[4] however, Burt Reynolds and Ed McMahon referred to playing the game at Burt's home during the August 2, 1978 episode of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, three years before Pictionary was created.
[5] The set for the original Win, Lose or Draw was modeled after Burt Reynolds' living room.
[1] A pilot with Bert Convy as host was taped on November 2, 1986, at CBS Television City in Los Angeles, California, and featured Loni Anderson, Betty White, Burt Reynolds, and Tony Danza playing the game, with Rod Roddy announcing.
[7] Vicki Lawrence hosted the edition produced for NBC, which inherited the 11:30 a.m. Eastern timeslot that had been occupied by Scrabble for three years prior to its premiere.
NBC canceled the daytime series in the summer of 1989, and its final episode aired on September 1 of that year.
During its run, the syndicated Win, Lose or Draw made several road trips, including Hawaii, Central Park in New York City, Burt Reynolds' ranch in Jupiter, Florida, Walt Disney World, Disneyland and Navy Pier in Chicago.
Each team sat on a couch on a set designed after Burt Reynolds' actual living room at the time.
However, if a non-drawing team member mentioned a word that was part of the answer, their teammate at the sketch pad was then allowed to write it down.
At the thirty-second mark, a doorbell sounded (or fanfare during the College Tournament in 1988), and the drawing player had the option of handing the marker off to one of his/her teammates, but the puzzle value would then be cut in half.
If there was extra time at the end of the show, an audience member would be called on stage and given the opportunity to sketch a subject for either the men's or women's team to guess in 60 seconds, much like the main rounds, with $100 awarded if the chosen team was able to identify the subject.
At this point, the show began to use returning champions, who stayed on for ten days or until defeated, whichever came first.
Originally the show aired on Saturdays at 6:30 p.m. and Sunday mornings at 11:30 a.m.[9] Rotating as announcers during the first season were Brandy Brown, Chase Hampton and Tiffini Hale from The Mickey Mouse Club, with Mark L. Walberg taking over that duty for the final two seasons.
Gameplay was largely identical to the original run,[2] with the following differences: In April 2013, the Disney Channel announced a new version of Win, Lose or Draw, to be hosted by Justin Willman, which premiered on January 17, 2014.
All contestants who appeared on the show received a copy of the Party edition, as did select audience members.