Winning Streak (American game show)

Winning Streak is an American television game show hosted by Bill Cullen and announced by Don Pardo.

The first contestant to buzz-in got a chance to answer; a correct response awarded control of the letter, while a miss gave it to the opponent.

The winner faced the Money Board, which consisted of 18 squares numbered 1–18 and laid out around the edges of the display grid.

If one winner lost while playing the Money Board, the other was automatically declared the champion for that match and kept their winnings.

As soon as one contestant failed to give an acceptable word, the opponent won the championship and all the money accumulated by both of them in their respective games.

Winning Streak replaced Stewart and Cullen's Three on a Match, swapping time slots with Jeopardy!.

In the 1990s, Game Show Network aired a single episode of Winning Streak on two occasions: as a standalone broadcast, and in mid-1998 as a subject of original series Faux Pause.

[2] The latter appearance notably included a freeze-frame shot of the production slate, which lists the air date of August 9, 1974 – a day where Streak was preempted due to NBC's coverage of the departure from office of President Richard Nixon and the inauguration of Gerald Ford as his successor, explaining why this particular episode is the only surviving full episode.