The Challengers | April 1st, 1991, pt. 4

[morgan8757]

Its to bad that it did'nt come back for a second season 

[WheelockMT4LIFE]

Dick Clark was such a great host, as always. Almost nobody could replace him.

[gamshwfan]

The Final Challenge was a bit dramatic there. Anything could have happened there between the players & their wagers on the subject of The Book Shelf. This was a real good game here; alot of surprises not relating to the game took place, in addition to superlative gameplay from the players in terms of selecting their catagories; they picked the same ones over & over again. I love The Challengers even though it seemed to do the format mambo. The episode gets 4.5 stars; 4 stars for the show.

[gameshowfreak2007]

such a horribly underrated show, 3 problems as to why it didn't succeed IMO, one, the premiere ep. was a disaster, a total run away, two, except for the ultimate challenge there's not that much money being thrown around, three, the rules and strategy are a little complex to the average viewer,

but me, I love this show, if it never comes back in the US. I'd love to see the UK make a version, I think it would do really well over there.

[WheelockMT4LIFE]

The several tweaks to its gameplay is another problem to the show.

[HomeoftheGoodGuys]

What? No Buena Vista TV logo at the end! Bummer!!!!

[tvman19]

can you try to pull up an episode with the ultimate challenge

[mtiller2006]

Don't even have an episode with that

[AaronBruceLadner]

@tvman19 There's an Episode where Larry Kaplan plays the Ultimate Challenge for $60,000.

[jwavada]

this was on channel 27 in Texas. i am from Texas and i lived in Duncanville at the time. thanks for bringing back extra memories

[jwgreek8606]

which channel 27 was it?

[jwavada]

it was kdfi in dallas/ft. worth. the station mayhave been called something else back in the early to mid 90's, but it may have been the same. challengers would come on at 5:30pm, and then trump card would come on afterwards

[texarkanajoe]

@jwavada It was KDFI then. "KDFI-TV 27. The Talk Of Texas"

[jwavada]

@texarkanajoe Thank you. I just remembered that!

[kes1963]

i would love to see this show come back in some kind of format

[nWo69life]

Man this show takes back nearly 20 years when i was 6 during my days off.

[jwgreek8606]

and the challengers using a psuedo version of their theme for think music is an inspiration from J!

[tvpirate05]

I loved this show as a child. Still holds up well after 17 years!

[zeldafanii]

It's like Jeopardy with some twists!

[megamanj2007]

Ironically, Jeopardy's 1991-92 TV season got the inspiring to use video walls, instead of TV monitors for the 1991-92 TV season from this show believe it or not.

[namk19]

that's why i like it

[jimbobago]

@zeldafanii It is mostly patterned after "The Who, What or Where Game" except for the Final Challenge being an obvious copy of Final Jeopardy.

[PKMNwww411]

First View, First Comment, First Rate. Hooray for me!