Double Dare 1976, Theme 1976-1977

[blank77]

High or low,Kings or queens.

Make the right choice and win some green!

Oooooooooonnnnn,CARD SHARKS!!!!!

[rickhh1]

@ryadams91 - All to save a buck and add more commercial time. Quite the shame that advertisements both support and cripple a show at the same time.

[AaronBruceLadner]

Forget the Color, Forget the Suit.

Just Play the Cards Right, and Win the Loot,

On CARD SHARKS!!

[knightrdrx]

this is my ringtone lol

well the card sharks version...i think one person in a store recognized it..i was excited

[ProudScotsmanRex]

Card Sharks?

[Spindriftful]

On one of my game show CD's, I have the truncated version of Double Dare..

[tnawcwvictoria]

and also, here's another fact:

When Double Dare w/Alex Trebek Debut on CBS Daytime, Ted Turner made WTCG (later WTBS) into a SuperStation and WGN became a SuperStation 6 months after Card Sharks w/Jim Perry Debut on NBC Daytime

and now, SuperStation WTBS later became SuperStation TBS and it's now known as TBS and WTBS Atlanta is now WPCH for Peachtree TV and WGN SuperStation became known as SuperStation WGN and it is now WGN America

TV You Can't Ignore

[tnawcwvictoria]

Now THIS was a cool show that took Isolation Booths to another level

Double Dare w/Alex Trebek had a great set w/lots of lights and plus, this was Alex's 1st Game Show for Mark Goodson

also, this show was out when Charlie's Angels and What's Happening!! Debut on abc, Starsky & Hutch changed there theme to Gotcha and Hanna-Barbera gave us Jabberjaw and Clue Club

I think that Jim Perry and Alex Trebek would make a good Man From U.N.C.L.E. and Illya Kuryakin

Alex & Jim used the G-T & Shure MICs

[spxmet]

I don't think there's ever been any more obvious use of recycling than Double Dare-Card Sharks. However, the first synth part used for Card Sharks is one key lower than Double Dare, but the original key is used as the CS contestant cue.

[Dodgerfn5]

@spxmet Remember on Perry's version of Card Sharks, this is the exact same closing theme to the show when Gene Wood is reading all those products at the end.

[GSNLiveFree4All89]

2:10 It's time to face THE SPOLIERS!  and at 0:06 Here's our next challenger now Alex it's *insert crazy first and last name here*

[Ninlego10]

Best theme ever. Period.

[MrAaronLadner]

Aces are High, Deuces are Low. Call the Cards Right, and Win the Dough. On "Card Sharks".

[Novetrix]

Wait a minute... Isn't this also the first Card Shark's theme?

[gsn93]

Yes. Look at the video response.

[rickhh1]

And 5 second end credit theme songs.

All that theme time takes away from the all-mighty commercial time, you know. :P

[I realize commercials pay for programming, but.. in the 22 1/2 minutes that a show airs, couldn't you entertain us a little?]

[juan833cheer]

@rickhh1 GSN should be off the air, the excessive commercials are making GSN worthless right now.

[andrewps84]

@juan833cheer GSN is garbage compared to where it used to be. They show the same shows OVER AND OVER again. It gets a little tiring after awhile to see shows that no one cares about.

[telewatcher89]

@juan833cheer That and the lack of good shows on GSN. A few good classics, NO good originals besides Lingo, and dramatic BORING recently cancelled shows with dark sets that are aired 2 or more times a day.

I miss those rare late night classics like Trivia Trap, Beat the Clock, Body Language, and of course Double Dare with Alex Trebek.

[c3section]

Double Dare.

Back when spoiler alert meant you were about to go for the big money.

[langs10]

Honestly reminds me of a college marching band. Memorable theme.

[Hodmox]

Albeit with a few carrying a Moog/Minimoog :P

[dcbandnerd]

I've often thought it would make a great "stand tune" for a marching band. Someone needs to make an arrangement of this!!

[EKB316]

That hand clap was the thing that made this theme so cool!

[biggameshowfreak95]

This show hasn't been made since 1977. I think its time for a revival.

[geniusinmath]

Can I add your music on my playlist?

[gsn93]

Sure.

[charmybee3924]

Can you plz download card sharks and the price is right losing horns.

[ben1245689]

the card sharks losing horn is the price is the horn that is used on the price is right

[charmybee3924]

Too Bad. *cue horn.

[animfan1]

The year I started watching reruns of "Double Dare" on Game Show Network was 1994 when I was 6 years old.

[am74343]

That's some ROCKIN' theme music!!

[animfan1]

Ray Winston was the first player in "Double Dare" history to have a board that was clean looking in the spoilers round.

[MiltownPunkette21]

The strange thing is, Edd Kalehoff was the brilliance behind this, the other Double Dare, and Card Sharks, and made them all sound so great, yet similar and exciting at the same time.

[AlexB359]

It could go perfectly with "You win some you lose some"

[AdamStabelli666]

Edd Kalehoff is a musical genius.

[Starskylar87]

What a minute that's the theme for Card Sharks.

[Jnelson09Returns]

Yeah. Both shows used the same theme.

[1983parrothead]

They also use the losing theme heard in The Price is Right.

[misstee101]

Double Dare is such a great show in the 70s. Not be confused to Nickelodeon's Double Dare.

[retroguy1976]

nice theme you could make a hip hop track off of this just slow it down

[knuckles144]

i agree with you. you could make a beat if you sampled the double dare theme.

[EKB316]

@retroguy1976 OK. I know it's a 2 year old post, but I'd love to see someone try that!

[Jude1968]

would love to see this one revived!

[2542ca]

"Double Dare" had one of the best openings:

"Take a risk... Take a chance...Take a dare...Play the game of "Double Dare" with the host of Double Dare Alex Trebek!!!

[gm1990ss]

this is one of the best game show themes ever. if not one of the most colorful.

[gamshwfan]

This theme song may not fit in with the show. Since it is a serious quiz show it doesen't nessesrily fit inas colorful and joyful as daytime tv ws at thetime. Most people said it was too dark for daytime and that would make sense because of the isolation booths and tough trivia involved. The song was reused in card sharks and I feel it fit better because it was supposed to be non serious and joyful. Once again we have a good theme that didn't really fit in with the atmosphere.

[bluebear1985]

That would likely explain why it was used for "Card Sharks" starting in 1978.

[deric8]

I think it works for this show too because this theme has a ying-yang 'you win some, you lose some' feel that works for both shows, while the beat and pacing of the music works because it has a level of suspense and risk involved. The difference is one's suspense is based off the turning of a card, the other

involving knowledge and strategy. From 1:20 to the end it sounds clear to me, where the tempo picks up.

[Jnelson09Returns]

Heck, considering the on-air tryouts for Johnny's and Rod's replacements, TPIR has probably had about 15.

[animfan1]

I saw a first on Double Dare in the spoilers round where Ray Winston used 4 passes (which is the maximum) and had to give on clue #5 which was "With the aid of a Howard Hughes salvage ship, this organization reportedly recovered part of a soviet submarine." All three spoilers got the C.I.A. on that clue alone. The audience groaned on clue #2 which was "This organization was created by congress in 1947."

[gm1990ss]

this is a good song to listen while high.

[Jnelson09Returns]

BEST... GAME SHOW... THEME... EVER.

[animfan1]

"Double Dare" was the only game show to have two announcers.

[smashwhammy]

@animfan1 and there was three on the unrelated Nick show of the same name

[pooka5472]

@smashwhammy In addition, "Shop 'Til You Drop" and "Finders Keepers" both had four announcers.

[pooka5472]

@pooka5472 "Supermarket Sweep" also had four announcers.

[animfan1]

The losing horn noise is used on "The Price Is Right" whenever all 3 spoilers would come up with the right answer.

[animfan1]

The number of spoilers that both Crosswords and Double Dare have in common is three.

[deathboy126]

Perrys remix sux

[deathboy126]

Da theme of Double Dare is like da Jim Perry Card Sharks!!!! Alex Trebek is ugly like dat OMG!!!

[smashwhammy]

it is the same theme

[Xenomovies]

When do the kids go diving through the slime?

[artytoons]

No slime.

Just Ph.d's trying to spoil things and Alex Trebek in full Afro and mustache.

[Jnelson09Returns]

Sorry, wrong decade.

[secondchance1977]

yes, he was ten years off in 1976, and when DOuble Dare ended on CBS, he would be 9 years off.

[animfan1]

For that "spoiler" element, when one on "Double Dare" gave a wrong answer, you won $100 for each time that happened. When a spoiler on Crosswords gave a wrong answer, they were locked out but had two ways to get back in the game, if someone else spoiled or if all 3 spoilers were locked out. When a spoiler on "Double Dare" gave a right answer, they won $100 and heard the rest of the round. When a spoiler on Crosswords gave a right answer, sometimes they had a choice sometimes they didn't.

[animfan1]

Those losing horns are used on "The Price Is Right" whenever all 3 spoilers got the right answer.

[artytoons]

Choose your clues with care

and beat the smart guys on a dare...

onnnn Double Dare!

(with a Card Sharks opening rhyme)

or

The version is not cards high or low,

it's hoping the Ph.D's don't know...

onnnn Double Dare!

[secondchance1977]

Nice!

[ryanschroer]

I like Perry's remix better.

[animfan1]

Previously means before or prior to while later means subsequently or afterward

[animfan1]

If you watch the opening of "Merv Griffin's Crosswords," the theme music is similar to the 1976 game show "Double Dare" using the words previously & later.

[Jnelson09Returns]

I still don't understand what you mean by "the words previously and later."

[animfan1]

Previously means already used while later means will be in another year.

[Jnelson09Returns]

I'm still confused.

[animfan1]

The theme from "Merv Griffin's Crosswords" was perviously used on "Wheel of Fortune" which was about 14 years ago.

[Jnelson09Returns]

I know that. But it didn't sound anything like this.

[animfan1]

I'm sorry, what I was trying to compare were the spoilers.

[Jnelson09Returns]

Well then, why didn't the word "spoilers" show up in your original comment?

[animfan1]

I really was trying to compare the "spoilers" and I'm sorry I didn't include it in my original comment. The "spoilers" on "Double Dare" are PhD's while the ones on "Merv Griffin's Crosswords" get the opportunity to steal everything from you if you make the one mistake or don't ring in at all.

[Jnelson09Returns]

I know that. I still can't grasp how that key word was not in your comment. And I still don't understand "using the words previously & later."

[huggyface]

I know what you're saying, about the "spoiler" element found both in Double Dare and Crosswords...but also, the car cue theme that was played on Chuck Woolery's Wheel back in the day is now used as the background musak on Crosswords. Of course, Merv produced Wheel (and Jeopardy!), and worked on getting Crosswords to-air before he died last August, a month before the product started to air.

[animfan1]

I can also compare "Merv Griffin's Crosswords" to "Lingo" because those shows involve spelling.

[huggyface]

True that..though I never really cared for "Lingo"; I like Woolery, but I just never cared much for the show.

[animfan1]

I wasn't even born when Chuck Woolery did "Wheel of Fortune."

[animfan1]

I knew about the car cue theme that Merv Griffin composed for the show

[Brandiig]

The theme is about same but the are more horns on this one than Card Sharks.

[Davidt33]

This is the exact same song but they didn't play the entire song on the Card Sharks theme clip.

[CraigFoye80]

I agree with AlbieGray! It's an excellent theme, for both "Double Dare" on CBS and "Card Sharks" on NBC!

[singingsav]

When they close "Card Sharks", with all the parting gifts and the credits, they play the theme EXACTLY as it's heard here.

[oldcbsfantwo]

It's just that they have the same name.

[oldcbsfantwo]

The Double Dare on Nick is different than that.

[supremetaco]

Because they're not the same show.

[WarOfTheKnights]

What is Nickelodeons Double Dare RULES?

[supremetaco]

Double Dare on Nickelodeon involved...uh...kids competing against each other and...uh...slime.

[smashwhammy]

sorry, wrong dare and wrong decade

[SuperGamer7]

In the infamous Trebek "'Fro Era!"

:p

[dcbandnerd]

Oh man! That thing was sickening. Ahahahah.

[AlbieGray]

Excellent theme, for two very good shows.  :)