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Split Second (game show)
Split Second is an American game show that was created by Monty Hall and Stefan Hatos and produced by their production company, Stefan Hatos-Monty Hall Productions. Three contestants compete to answer three-part trivia questions to win cash.
There were two editions of Split Second produced by Hatos and Hall. The first was a daytime series produced for ABC that premiered on March 20, 1972, and ran until June 27, 1975, and was recorded at ABC Television Center in Hollywood. Tom Kennedy was the host for the original ABC version, with Jack Clark serving as announcer.
The second version was produced for syndication in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, at CHCH-TV's studios; this series premiered December 15, 1986, and was a co-production of Hatos-Hall and distributors Concept Equity Funding Limited and Viacom Enterprises. Canadian television stations CHCH-TV, CFAC-TV, and CITV-TV assisted in the production of the syndicated series as well, but were not credited on American airings. The revival series featured Monty Hall as host with Sandy Hoyt as announcer and aired until the end of the 1986–87 season with reruns airing until September 11, 1987.
In February 2023, it was announced that the show would be revived by Game Show Network, with John Michael Higgins as host. It premiered on April 17, 2023 and ended on July 15, 2024.
On each version, three contestants compete to answer.
Each question the host asks has three possible correct answers. Some questions took a form such as "Name the three films for which Katharine Hepburn won the Oscar for Best Actress." For most questions, three words, names, or phrases were displayed on a board that acted as clues, and the question took a form such as "Pick a word from the board and give its plural." For the ABC version, approximately once each episode there was also a "Memory Buster", in which the host gave a list of items and asked which three of them were common to each other.
Contestants ring in by pushing a button on their lecterns. The first person to ring in is permitted to provide any one of the three answers. The second-fastest provides one of the remaining answers, and finally, the slowest player got whatever was left, by default. In the '70s version, the clues on the board were revealed first and contestants could buzz in before the question was completed, whereas later versions allow contestants to buzz in only after the clues are revealed.
Each player receives money, or points on the 2023 version, for correct answers. The value of each answer was determined by the number of people supplying a correct response, and there was no penalty for a miss. Some questions were open-ended, meaning that if a contestant gave an incorrect answer, the next contestant could answer that same question. If the question was this/that, then once it was answered, it was out of play. In the 2023 revival, once a question is answered, it is out-of-play, regardless, except in the Countdown Round.
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Split Second (game show)
Split Second is an American game show that was created by Monty Hall and Stefan Hatos and produced by their production company, Stefan Hatos-Monty Hall Productions. Three contestants compete to answer three-part trivia questions to win cash.
There were two editions of Split Second produced by Hatos and Hall. The first was a daytime series produced for ABC that premiered on March 20, 1972, and ran until June 27, 1975, and was recorded at ABC Television Center in Hollywood. Tom Kennedy was the host for the original ABC version, with Jack Clark serving as announcer.
The second version was produced for syndication in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, at CHCH-TV's studios; this series premiered December 15, 1986, and was a co-production of Hatos-Hall and distributors Concept Equity Funding Limited and Viacom Enterprises. Canadian television stations CHCH-TV, CFAC-TV, and CITV-TV assisted in the production of the syndicated series as well, but were not credited on American airings. The revival series featured Monty Hall as host with Sandy Hoyt as announcer and aired until the end of the 1986–87 season with reruns airing until September 11, 1987.
In February 2023, it was announced that the show would be revived by Game Show Network, with John Michael Higgins as host. It premiered on April 17, 2023 and ended on July 15, 2024.
On each version, three contestants compete to answer.
Each question the host asks has three possible correct answers. Some questions took a form such as "Name the three films for which Katharine Hepburn won the Oscar for Best Actress." For most questions, three words, names, or phrases were displayed on a board that acted as clues, and the question took a form such as "Pick a word from the board and give its plural." For the ABC version, approximately once each episode there was also a "Memory Buster", in which the host gave a list of items and asked which three of them were common to each other.
Contestants ring in by pushing a button on their lecterns. The first person to ring in is permitted to provide any one of the three answers. The second-fastest provides one of the remaining answers, and finally, the slowest player got whatever was left, by default. In the '70s version, the clues on the board were revealed first and contestants could buzz in before the question was completed, whereas later versions allow contestants to buzz in only after the clues are revealed.
Each player receives money, or points on the 2023 version, for correct answers. The value of each answer was determined by the number of people supplying a correct response, and there was no penalty for a miss. Some questions were open-ended, meaning that if a contestant gave an incorrect answer, the next contestant could answer that same question. If the question was this/that, then once it was answered, it was out of play. In the 2023 revival, once a question is answered, it is out-of-play, regardless, except in the Countdown Round.