Top Card

Back in 1990, when my beard was still brown and I retained the last vestiges of my hair, I appeared on a local game show called Top Card. Recently I came across an old VHS recording of that two-day event and decided to upload it to YouTube. Since it was a music trivia game, it was pretty much up my alley. And I did pretty well. So, if you're longing to remember what TV game shows looked like in the early 90's, this video is for you.

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Entertainment

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• Jim
• McClarty
• Top
• Card
• car
• game
• show
• TNN
• Nashville
• Network
• Caldwell
• Blake

[Tubewings]

Jim, has anyone ever told you that you looked like Harvey of "Double Dare"?

[SBGGCA]

@Tubewings - No. You would be the first.  :-)

[ITSBRYINDY]

Many thanks for posting this. I loved this show and always thought it was a pretty decent effort for a low-budget niche cable network. The set was super cool as well.

Out of curiosity...did this show have a studio audience or was the applause just sweetening?

Also, was the set large? It sure seems like it was, but I know creative camera angles can be deceiving.

[SBGGCA]

@ITSBRYINDY - You're welcome. The show did have a small studio audience, but they added sweetening. In fact, if you listen carefully, at one point one of my opponents incorrectly answered the BeeGees question about what city the lights went out in. She said Georgia and the audio sweetening suddenly came up -- and just as quickly disappeared. Someone in the sound booth thought she was right. :-)

The set was reasonably large -- big enough to have all those cars on the set.

[1goldenroad]

Factoring in the bill from Uncle Sam, were you able to keep any of the stuff you won?

[SBGGCA]

@1goldenroad - I ended up selling some of the stuff to pay the taxes on the other stuff. But I kept the car. Well actually, I used the value of the car to buy a better model. So basically, it was an opportunity to buy a new car and let the show pay for most of it. ;-)

[HYEYBT]

This is MILES ahead of Catch 21.

[LifeIncorporated]

Who tore that furniture set apart? The dogs or the goat? All I remember of them is that they were a mess by the time I started walking around.

[MovieBumonTwitter]

hey how come there was two 10 cards, I thought no doubles :/

[newstarcadefan]

Loved this show back in the early 1990's. It is one of my favorites too. Just those pesky music rights prevents it from being re-aired though.

[tpir1972]

Did they borrow that bell when Jim hit 21 from Family Feud?

[gshowguy]

@tpir1972 A helluva lot better than he did in his run on Tic-Tac-Dough, that's for sure!

[erikdraven1731]

I only ever saw the final season with Dan Miller, so I was under the impression that the format change was only with him. Thanks for proving me wrong.