Party Game (game show)

Party Game
Genre Game show
Directed by Henry Pasila
Presented by Bill Walker
Starring Jack Duffy
Dinah Christie
Billy Van
Narrated by Riff Markowitz
(as "Gardiner Westbound")
Theme music composer Burt Bacharach
("Bond Street")
Country of origin Canada
Original language(s) English
Production
Producer(s) Riff Markowitz
Running time 30 minutes each
Release
Original network Syndicated through CHCH-TV
Picture format 4:3
NTSC colour
Original release 1970 – 1981

Party Game was a Canadian television game show in the 1970s, produced by Hamilton independent station CHCH-TV from 1970 to 1981.[1] It aired throughout Canada in syndication, broadcast on 32 stations at its peak.[2]

Hosted by Bill Walker, the show featured two teams of three players in a charades competition. The Challenger Team was composed of a contestant joined with two guest star players who appeared either for a single day or for the whole week, while the Home Team consisted of series regulars Jack Duffy, Dinah Christie and Billy Van. Using game play similar to the American game show Pantomime Quiz, answers were usually jokes or complex phrases involving a pun or some other form of word play (example: "Tiny Tee Hee.... "I didn't come here to be fiddled with" said the pussycat as she rescued her offspring from the violin factory").[3] Viewers at home were also invited to send their own joke or phrase, which if used, could win them a small prize.

Party Game was produced by Riff Markowitz, the executive producer and star of The Randy Dandy Show and executive producer of The Hilarious House of Frightenstein.[4] It was taped in a double suite at the Windsor Arms Hotel in Toronto. The set was a simple living room type with couches and a few wall pictures and pieces.

The voice-over announcer who announced each charade was credited as "Gardiner Westbound", a nod to a stretch of the Gardiner Expressway in Downtown Toronto heading toward Hamilton, but was actually producer Markowitz.

References

  1. ↑ TV North by Peter Kenter, p.129.
  2. ↑ "The party's over for TV charades," Jim Bawden, Toronto Star, June 3, 1981, p. C1.
  3. ↑ "Party Game with Billy Van". YouTube.
  4. ↑ "How a publicity hunting TV mini-tycoon turns shy". Toronto Star, January 8, 1972.


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/27/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.