An electric shock enables Satch to predict numbers, so the Bowery Boys are off to Las Vegas to win enough money at the roulette wheels to let their landlady buy an apartment building. Witnessing his winning streak, some gangsters decide to move in and find out his "system" for beating the odds.
Bugs races Daffy to get to the TV station first and win the prize on the "Beat Your Buddy" show.
A retrospective of the classic game show, What's My Line, in which a four-member celebrity panel attempted to identify a contestant's occupation through yes or no questions. In addition, each episode featured a celebrity mystery guest that the panelists tried to identify the guest while blindfolded. The show ran from 1950-1967 and prominently featured John Daly, Bennett Cerf, Arlene Francis, and Dorothy Kilgallen. This documentary looked back on the show 25 years after it premiered.
In this satire, a police detectiveis investigating the disappearance and kidnapping of the host of a television dance show. However, instead of finding his man, he is trapped into becoming a contestant on a children's quiz show. What's worse is that he becomes a very successful contestant.
A week in the life of "The Gong Show" host and creator Chuck Barris.
The story of hard-luck Melvin Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes.
A man and a woman participate in a new game show where partners have to choose between love and money.
Efter deres odyssé over det amerikanske kontinent gør familien Griswold deres bedste for også at lægge det gamle Europa i ruiner. De lægger ud med at vælte Stonehenge, som fatter Clark kommer til at bakke sin lejebil ind i (rattet sidder jo i den forkerte side!). Resten af ruten går gennem Frankrig, Tyskland og Italien med slåskampe, tyveri og kidnapning til følge.
The Grand Knockout Tournament (colloquially also known as It's a Royal Knockout) was a one-off charity event which was shown on British television on 19 June 1987. It followed the format of It's a Knockout, a slapstick TV gameshow which was broadcast in the UK until 1982. The event was staged on the lakeside lawn of the Alton Towers stately home-cum-theme park.
I en nær fremtid bliver betjent Ben Richards uskyldigt dømt for mord. Som straf skal han deltage i et tv-show, hvor morderiske psykopater i kostymer jager flygtende fanger rundt i en labyrint. Det hele transmitteret i tv til stor glæde for befolkningen. Deltagerne dør som fluer indtil Ben kommer til og sætter menneskejægerne grundt på plads.
Den uduelige dagdrømmer George Newman holder højst på et job i et par dage, før fyresedlen bliver skrevet. Til alt held vinder hans onkel en tv-station (som næsten er gået bankerot) i poker, og George får tjansen som stationens nye "visionære" manager!
Familien Knable er en helt almindelig gennemsnits-tv familie. Det vil sige, at hver person i familien ser cirka 6 timers tv hver dag. Problemet er bare at at hele familiens kvote bliver brugt af far-Roy. Han spenderer stort set hele sit liv foran flimmerskærmen og ingen kan komme i kontakt med ham når fjernsynet er tændt. Lige på nær den underlige mand, der en dag ringer på og tilbyder Roy en gigantisk parabol-antenne med tilgang til 666 nye kanaler - gratis. Roy er ekstatisk, lige indtil den store parabol suger ham og hans kone Helen, ind i Djævlens egen tv station. Roy og Helen skal nu overleve 24 timer med en helvedes barsk program-flade.
Overklassefyren Charles Van Doren ved tilsyneladende alt. I Quiz Show efter Quiz Show muler han med imponerende paratviden og den ene nørdede fessertype efter den anden. Van Doren får efterhånden stjernestatus, men så begynder advokaten Dick Goodwin at efterforske sagen. Er der virkelig tale om intelligensens svar på supermand - eller stikker der noget andet under?
Da Brodie kasseres af sin kæreste, (Shannen Doherty), søger han tilflugt i indkøbscentret sammen med sin ven T.S., hvis kæreste også har forladt ham. Når de ikke står og hænger eller får noget at spise, beslutter den umotiverede duo at vinde deres kærester tilbage med hjælp fra de ultimative lovovertrædere Jay (Jason Mewes) og Silent Bob (Kevin Smith), hvis evindelige eventyr giver ordet "pestilens" en helt ny betydning.
On Christmas Eve, a relentlessly cheerful woman escapes from the killers hired by her husband, and embarks on a series of strange encounters.
Two young people, Daniel and Samantha, are selected in a television show to marry. They have never seen each other ever. After the wedding ceremony took place on television, then married life really starts. To collect the price money of one million pounds, they have to stay together for at least six months.
Joanna, a good-for-nothing girl who miserably failed in her attempt to win any television game show and contest, is hired by Nino as his personal secretary, believing that she could be her lucky charm. But things did not work as he planned, until...
Compilation of classic moments and unseen outtakes from the first 23 series (1990-2002) of the popular BBC comedy show.
On May 19, 1984, an out of work ice cream truck driver from Southwestern Ohio broke the bank on CBS' hit game show of the mid-1980's "Press Your Luck" and made TV history by setting a record for the most money won by a contestant in one appearance on a daytime game show; A record which may have been long been surpassed with the Big-Jackpot game shows of today, but still stands strong as the biggest win in "Press Your Luck's" history. Was it brilliance? Was it cheating? And how did he do it? "Press Your Luck's" host and crew, the family of Michael Larson - the man who walked away with $110,237 in cash and prizes - and Michael's opponents from that fateful day gathered in Hollywood 19 years later to relive the events of that remarkable event in TV history.
Footage from the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" is examined to reveal how a contestant almost cheated his way to the jackpot.