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Showoffs is an American television game show which ran on ABC from June 30 to December 26, 1975. Bobby Van hosted it, with Gene Wood as announcer. The Mark Goodson-Bill Todman production involved two teams competing in a game of charades.

Two teams of three players competed. The teams were composed of two celebrity guests and one civilian contestant. One team wore red sweaters and the other blue over their street clothes.

Because the team colors were indistinguishable on monochrome-only television sets (which were still somewhat common in 1975), the words "REDS" and "BLUES" were later printed on the front of each team member's sweater for the benefit of home viewers.

One team was isolated while the other two team members acted out a series of words to their partner for sixty seconds. The actors could alternate in acting, and the guessing partner could pass on a word if he or she got stuck, but he or she could do that only once per turn. When time ran out, the isolated team returned to the stage and acted out the same words as the first team. The team that guessed the most words in their own minute won the round, and the first team to win two rounds won the game.

If a round ended in a tie, a tiebreaker round was played in which both teams had 30 seconds to act out three words. The team that does that in the fastest time wins.

Towards the end of the show's run, the method for winning the game changed. In this format, a team had to correctly convey and guess seven words or more to win.

Extra rounds were played if the goal had not been reached by the end of a full round, and the tiebreaker was cut to two words in 30 seconds.

Either way, the contestant on the winning team won a $1,000 prize package plus a chance to play the Payoff Round.

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