This show was really great. It had somewhat challenging questions, but not too many questions, nor were they phrased too academically like other million dollar shows. The big downfall of course was how easy it is to lose and not make the wonderwall. In the US games in which everybody has more of a chance are more popular. I personally like this format, but it's perfectly understandable how it didn't succeed with the general population.
I think it's because she already had the bailout active from having two strikes, thus the sound got faster to mean she could lose by either Strike Out or Time Out.
What's really difficult about this setup is that many of the listed answers are similar. For example, the question about the deepest ocean could have been answered with either Atlantic or Pacific, which were both on the board. She guessed Atlantic, but it turned out to be Pacific. Many of the questions have multiple logical listed answers, making the ability to see the answers almost more difficult than if they were not seen.
the producers did luck out, big time, i have a feeling she probably took a guess at the "deepest ocean" question. (we all know that it was a 50/50 shot.) (had she gotten that needless to say, she wouldn't have needed the ghrirardelli chocolate factory.
This bonus round is a really tense one. It may sound easy to see the answers (A LA NOW YOU SEE IT) but with time constraints & big money involved it's tricky. Things may sound a bit convoluted but with the way Dick Clark explains it, you can understand it the first time. It may be a lot to swallow but it makes for an exciting 3 minutes. This round was pretty tough to watch, Catherine was so nervous here & just lost it when she could have had it, I really hurts I know. 4.5 star bonus round here.
I think your version across the pond is much better. I don't think Winning Lines should've been made into a million dollar game show, in my opinion. If they left it as the trip around the world jackpot, it may have proven more successful
I think the reason the US version used a million dollar jackpot was to compete against Millionaire at the time. There were other million dollar game shows at that time (Greed, 21, It's Your Chance of a Lifetime, and Paranoia) that all competed against Millionaire. Winning Lines was the first to bite the dust.
@gameshowguy2000 There was also The Chair with John McEnroe, but that only had a $250,000 top prize. He hosted the UK version as well, which had a lower top prize. The UK had Greed for a while as well, with Jerry Springer as host.
"Winning Lines" aired on CBS during the spring of 2000. Good show, but had the bad luck of being picked to compete with "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire", and tanked in the ratings. No one made it to the million dollars during the show's run. Based on the British series, in which contestants competed for luxurious vacations instead of money.
Right..I remember seeing this show in Jan-Feb 2000 on CBS. I actually found it rather cool but alas it was basically trumped by the rapidly-emerging-in-the-ratings WWTBAM on ABC, which ironically was produced by Celador, who also made Winning Lines. A slew of these Millionaire-alike shows came out in 2000, such as Greed, Twenty-One, etc.-but only WWTBAM enjoyed real staying power.
And I believe that last digit in the home viewer game should've been 6 (in two digits, that'd be 06), because the last correct Wonderwall answer was 6 (San Francisco), even if she wouldn't have gotten it in time, since Dick had already completed that last question.
yea but she could have used her 2nd pit stop and find the last answer and win a million but was it cincinatti or london that that chocolate factory was in?
And I thought she couldn't use it, until I was told that the Pit Stop (which is 15 seconds long) freezes the main clock (which, by the time the question was asked, was at 0:03). The factory was in San Francisco (#6).
Technically, "San Francisco" is incorrect. The Jelly Belly factory is in Fairfield, CA, which is a good 30 miles north of San Francisco. I guess for the purposes of the show, SF is an acceptable answer, but I really hate these kinds of technical inaccuracies.
Also, what's up, StaminaMan? Finally found a place to dump your collection?
Yeah, I did. There's still more to put up, but I'm lazy.
And actually, it's not Jelly Belly -- it's Ghirardelli. Though I can see how easy it would be to make that mistake. He's referring to the chocolate factory, which I believe IS in San Fran. But I'm amazed you knew that about Jelly Belly. Big fan of the J-beans, Al?
Yeah, I am. Amanda sends me a bag of their reject beans - "Jelly Flops" - now and then. Sometimes she travels to Vacaville to visit a couple import stores there and the Jelly Belly factory is along the way.
Dick Clark needs to enunciate better. I could've sworn he said "Jelly Belly". But yeah, the Ghirardelli plant is close enough to S.F. to say that's the location. I was in the flagship store once. Kinda small, moreso than you'd expect.
THANK YOU! I've been waiting for a (US) Winning Lines clip to be posted up here. This has to be the most convoluted bonus game ever (complete with Sidewinder joystick to play it with) but it was really fun to watch.
Well, how many in the UK version won the Trip Around The World (20 correct answers)? The clip that StarSyndicate has came direct from the Celador site, and the lady there got only 17 correct answers (meaning she got a trip to Hawaii).
@gameshowguy2000 I don't know the exact number, but I think I remember watching at least 4 people winning a trip around the world, if not more (I was quite the fan of Winning Lines)
BMW is a British car, and once she passed it, I spotted it: 28. British. It's good she knew the last one was San Fransisco, but the pressure was just wanking on Catherine, if only she pitted one last time, she probably would've had it. I noticed it just as she hit the BAILOUT: 6.
But gosh, that's a tense moment in television history, I must admit. I wish this show would revive again.
Maybe she thought the same thing I was thinking, that she had 3 seconds left on the clock and thought that wasn't enough time to use that last pit stop (which was 15 seconds).
Those 15 seconds are uncounted. So technically, she would've gotten in in the nick of time. From 3:36-3:51 (the Youtube timer), those seconds were uncounted, so many people would agree with me.
And the # for the San Francisco answer's 6. And to my knowledge, the home viewer contest really killed the US version of this show. The UK version you got to play for a vacation. However many correct answers you had right was the trip you won at the end of the 3 minutes, though 20 gave you a trip around the world.
The side-scrolling is for the home audience's benefit (since we can't see the Wonderwall). The contestant has to actually search the 3 screens for the correct answer.
and there is no doubt in my mind that the producers were hoping that the contestants nerves would've gotten to them and caused them to make a really stupid mistake. (all i'm saying is that no matter how you look at it, the producers basically lucked out, if she had had 2 more seconds on the clock she probably would've won
Yeah, that's what happened. I was on the show, and they kept telling us before we went on to remember to use our pitstops if we got to the final round.
She panicked... she knew it and she forgot she still had a pit stop!
erikdraven1731 1 year ago
If this show were on a different night or an hour long, it probably would've lasted longer.
DorvellTStewart 1 year ago
This show was really great. It had somewhat challenging questions, but not too many questions, nor were they phrased too academically like other million dollar shows. The big downfall of course was how easy it is to lose and not make the wonderwall. In the US games in which everybody has more of a chance are more popular. I personally like this format, but it's perfectly understandable how it didn't succeed with the general population.
argentak 2 years ago
I think it's because she already had the bailout active from having two strikes, thus the sound got faster to mean she could lose by either Strike Out or Time Out.
tbeals46 2 years ago
Oasis...?
teigenCORE 2 years ago
What's really difficult about this setup is that many of the listed answers are similar. For example, the question about the deepest ocean could have been answered with either Atlantic or Pacific, which were both on the board. She guessed Atlantic, but it turned out to be Pacific. Many of the questions have multiple logical listed answers, making the ability to see the answers almost more difficult than if they were not seen.
lpcow13 2 years ago
For $1,000,000 here's your first subjec....er...first question
pjc858 3 years ago 9
OY! and she had a pass left!
Wheeloffortunefan999 3 years ago 2
And a pitstop, too.
gshowguy 2 years ago
the producers did luck out, big time, i have a feeling she probably took a guess at the "deepest ocean" question. (we all know that it was a 50/50 shot.) (had she gotten that needless to say, she wouldn't have needed the ghrirardelli chocolate factory.
Wheeloffortunefan999 3 years ago 2
Answer to that question was #6-San Francisco.
gameshowguy2000 2 years ago
it's not you, it does and it did.
shadowwolfz 3 years ago
This bonus round is a really tense one. It may sound easy to see the answers (A LA NOW YOU SEE IT) but with time constraints & big money involved it's tricky. Things may sound a bit convoluted but with the way Dick Clark explains it, you can understand it the first time. It may be a lot to swallow but it makes for an exciting 3 minutes. This round was pretty tough to watch, Catherine was so nervous here & just lost it when she could have had it, I really hurts I know. 4.5 star bonus round here.
gamshwfan 3 years ago
in britain we have the national lottery winning lines execpt for money therir holiday to play for and no strikes and their are pit stops
dim432 3 years ago 2
I think your version across the pond is much better. I don't think Winning Lines should've been made into a million dollar game show, in my opinion. If they left it as the trip around the world jackpot, it may have proven more successful
canbac21 3 years ago
I think the reason the US version used a million dollar jackpot was to compete against Millionaire at the time. There were other million dollar game shows at that time (Greed, 21, It's Your Chance of a Lifetime, and Paranoia) that all competed against Millionaire. Winning Lines was the first to bite the dust.
gameshowguy2000 2 years ago
@gameshowguy2000 There was also The Chair with John McEnroe, but that only had a $250,000 top prize. He hosted the UK version as well, which had a lower top prize. The UK had Greed for a while as well, with Jerry Springer as host.
bluebear1985 2 months ago
Wow I'm surprised this was on here I was sure I was the only one who had ever seen this show, after all it was on saturday nights on CBS. who knew?
ohioguy4jc 3 years ago 3
whait a minauite we have the national lottery winning line
we have the wonderwall like that but diffrent it has holiday's
dim432 3 years ago
Yep, 20 correct in 3 minutes wins you a trip Around The World.
gameshowguy2000 3 years ago
She had the pit stop, shoulda used it, woulda won a million.
wschmrdr 3 years ago 11
worthless if she didn't know the answer.
shadowwolfz 3 years ago
She said that she knew the answer, but couldn't find it. She could have used the 15 seconds from the pit stop to find the answer.
wschmrdr 3 years ago 3
my bad. i saw this all the way and double checked
shadowwolfz 3 years ago 2
Yeah it's hard though when there's that much money on the line and all of the lights and cameras are on you...
She still won A LOT of money. But you're very true.
ePanda87 3 years ago 3
@wschmrdr Was just thinking the same thing because should would have had 18 seconds in reality with the pit stop.
buckeyesooner82 2 months ago
i knew that that answer woulda been #20 and i also knew about the maximum # of questions
Wheeloffortunefan999 3 years ago
My top 5 million dollar shows in 1999-2000:
1:Greed,
2:Twenty-One,
3:Winning Lines,
4:Millionaire,
5:It's Your Chance of a Lifetime
JamieMillsMall 4 years ago
i know, (i'm pretty good at doing that kinda stuff in my head.)
Wheeloffortunefan999 4 years ago
Best bonus round in any quiz game show ever.
ProfGlitch 4 years ago 3
Ditto.
gameshowguy2000 4 years ago
i have a question, if she had gotten that last question, would she still have to bail out? or would the game end immeediately?
Wheeloffortunefan999 4 years ago
Wow. When was this show on the air? What station?
Was it on long?
twinku1 4 years ago
"Winning Lines" aired on CBS during the spring of 2000. Good show, but had the bad luck of being picked to compete with "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire", and tanked in the ratings. No one made it to the million dollars during the show's run. Based on the British series, in which contestants competed for luxurious vacations instead of money.
BritCanuck 4 years ago 3
Winter.
bellybutton4 4 years ago
Right..I remember seeing this show in Jan-Feb 2000 on CBS. I actually found it rather cool but alas it was basically trumped by the rapidly-emerging-in-the-ratings WWTBAM on ABC, which ironically was produced by Celador, who also made Winning Lines. A slew of these Millionaire-alike shows came out in 2000, such as Greed, Twenty-One, etc.-but only WWTBAM enjoyed real staying power.
huggyface 4 years ago
Real staying power, even when Link came along. But when both shows went the celeb route, that staying power was gone.
gameshowguy2000 4 years ago
Damn thats a tough gameshow :D
idlgames 4 years ago 2
And I believe that last digit in the home viewer game should've been 6 (in two digits, that'd be 06), because the last correct Wonderwall answer was 6 (San Francisco), even if she wouldn't have gotten it in time, since Dick had already completed that last question.
gameshowguy2000 4 years ago
She did really good, most people's nerves would've gotten the better of them. She made half a million dollars, not bad at all!
She's very good looking too! At least she was in 2000 when this first aired.
MVillani1985 4 years ago
January 8th, 2000 to be exact.
KidsTVFan 4 years ago
yea but she could have used her 2nd pit stop and find the last answer and win a million but was it cincinatti or london that that chocolate factory was in?
coltino99 4 years ago
And I thought she couldn't use it, until I was told that the Pit Stop (which is 15 seconds long) freezes the main clock (which, by the time the question was asked, was at 0:03). The factory was in San Francisco (#6).
gameshowguy2000 4 years ago
actually it was 6 seconds when the question was finished being asked. but i wouldnt have known the answer so i would have done what she did.
coltino99 4 years ago
6-San Francisco.
gameshowguy2000 2 years ago
Technically, "San Francisco" is incorrect. The Jelly Belly factory is in Fairfield, CA, which is a good 30 miles north of San Francisco. I guess for the purposes of the show, SF is an acceptable answer, but I really hate these kinds of technical inaccuracies.
Also, what's up, StaminaMan? Finally found a place to dump your collection?
AltheRake 4 years ago
Yeah, I did. There's still more to put up, but I'm lazy.
And actually, it's not Jelly Belly -- it's Ghirardelli. Though I can see how easy it would be to make that mistake. He's referring to the chocolate factory, which I believe IS in San Fran. But I'm amazed you knew that about Jelly Belly. Big fan of the J-beans, Al?
RandomManA 4 years ago
Yeah, I am. Amanda sends me a bag of their reject beans - "Jelly Flops" - now and then. Sometimes she travels to Vacaville to visit a couple import stores there and the Jelly Belly factory is along the way.
Dick Clark needs to enunciate better. I could've sworn he said "Jelly Belly". But yeah, the Ghirardelli plant is close enough to S.F. to say that's the location. I was in the flagship store once. Kinda small, moreso than you'd expect.
AltheRake 4 years ago
ghiradelli chocolate rulez
namk19 4 years ago
THANK YOU! I've been waiting for a (US) Winning Lines clip to be posted up here. This has to be the most convoluted bonus game ever (complete with Sidewinder joystick to play it with) but it was really fun to watch.
j2xl 4 years ago
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mikey6879 4 years ago
Well, how many in the UK version won the Trip Around The World (20 correct answers)? The clip that StarSyndicate has came direct from the Celador site, and the lady there got only 17 correct answers (meaning she got a trip to Hawaii).
gameshowguy2000 5 years ago
@gameshowguy2000 I don't know the exact number, but I think I remember watching at least 4 people winning a trip around the world, if not more (I was quite the fan of Winning Lines)
HodmoxTheCritic 6 months ago
The US version was so much better thank the UK version by far.
TheStarSyndicate 5 years ago
it's nice to know she's the first one to face the wonderwall and the biggest winner in the us version of winning lines
namk19 5 years ago
Oh no, excuse me. I thought for sure it was British (the BMW), but my mom tells me it was Bavarian, or however you spell it. Excuse me on that
mtiller2006 5 years ago
Darn double post. Hate it when that happens
mtiller2006 5 years ago
Oh no, excuse me. I thought for sure it was British (the BMW), but my mom tells me it was Bavarian, or however you spell it. Excuse me on that
mtiller2006 5 years ago
BMW is a British car, and once she passed it, I spotted it: 28. British. It's good she knew the last one was San Fransisco, but the pressure was just wanking on Catherine, if only she pitted one last time, she probably would've had it. I noticed it just as she hit the BAILOUT: 6.
But gosh, that's a tense moment in television history, I must admit. I wish this show would revive again.
mtiller2006 5 years ago
@mtiller2006
Nope, I just Wiki-ed it, and BMW stands for Bavarian Motor Works, so the correct answer on that passed question was #44-Bavarian.
gameshowguy2000 1 year ago
Personally, if I was three seconds away from losing $500,000, I'd probably have forgotton about the pit stop as well.
germantuba5674 5 years ago 3
Maybe she thought the same thing I was thinking, that she had 3 seconds left on the clock and thought that wasn't enough time to use that last pit stop (which was 15 seconds).
gameshowguy2000 5 years ago
Those 15 seconds are uncounted. So technically, she would've gotten in in the nick of time. From 3:36-3:51 (the Youtube timer), those seconds were uncounted, so many people would agree with me.
naruto4genjutsu 4 years ago
the irony of it is, that as she was giving most of her answers it was scrolling by on screen, so that's another reason y i thought that
booboo900 5 years ago
u must;ve forgotten something pool, THAT INFORMATION IS ON THE SCREEN IN FRONT OF HER! had she taken a deep breath basically she woulda had it
booboo900 5 years ago
And from what I can tell, that screen is probably an iMac computer (I think that monitor had an Apple logo on it).
gameshowguy2000 4 years ago
don't mimic me pool!
booboo900 5 years ago
And the # for the San Francisco answer's 6. And to my knowledge, the home viewer contest really killed the US version of this show. The UK version you got to play for a vacation. However many correct answers you had right was the trip you won at the end of the 3 minutes, though 20 gave you a trip around the world.
gameshowguy2000 5 years ago
it was rigged, she said she couldn't find the # but a second b4 she bailed out it scrolled by on the screen.
booboo900 5 years ago
The side-scrolling is for the home audience's benefit (since we can't see the Wonderwall). The contestant has to actually search the 3 screens for the correct answer.
crazdgamer 5 years ago 2
wait, she had a pit stop, if she knew the answer y didn't she use it so she could find the #?
booboo900 5 years ago
"She had a freakin' pit stop left!"
The nerves must have got to her, and she didn't realize she had the pitstop.
poolboy01 5 years ago 2
and there is no doubt in my mind that the producers were hoping that the contestants nerves would've gotten to them and caused them to make a really stupid mistake. (all i'm saying is that no matter how you look at it, the producers basically lucked out, if she had had 2 more seconds on the clock she probably would've won
Wheeloffortunefan999 4 years ago 3
Yeah, that's what happened. I was on the show, and they kept telling us before we went on to remember to use our pitstops if we got to the final round.
ASLBear 4 years ago 2
how did you do?
Wheeloffortunefan999 3 years ago
$25K win, which was nice. Sort of embarassing, compared to others, but it was fun.
ASLBear 3 years ago
i don't understand why she didn't use it either, the odds are that the 15 seconds would've been enough time for her to find the answer.
Wheeloffortunefan999 4 years ago 2
Answer for the BMW question was #44 Bavarian---she passed on it.
Sjsuman5000 5 years ago
How many people actully know what the B in BMW is?
Lottech96 5 years ago