Choose Top Side is a children's television show aired on NBC Saturday morning from 7 January to 31 March 1956. The event was hosted by Gene Rayburn and announced by Don Pardo and produced by Goodson-Todman Productions
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The show has two teams of kids competing to earn points with the winning team getting the prize. Each side is represented by four children, usually three boys and one girl. The boys competed against each other and the girls competed against each other.
The teams were named "Pilot Room" and "Bronco Busters". Each team has an adult assistant dressed as a space commander or cowboy, respectively. The assistants introduced each contestant to Rayburn. Each selected player selects a postcard from a pool that has been sent by children from all over the country. The winning team also wins the prize for the child whose postcard they have drawn.
Children compete against each other. The stunts are the types that may be seen on Beat the Clock (Other Goodson-Todman Productions). The winning team for each action generates 100 points. The losing team is allowed to do something else to get 25 or 50 points. Their entertainment act was dictated to them by a character called "Mr. Mischief", the puppets operated and voiced by Pardo. The deadline for action is a whistle that can explode at any time. This is then converted into a balloon in Mr. mouth. Mischief that will expand until broken. When it was time for the losing team to go see Mr. Mischief, Gene accompanied the boy while doing a "ridiculous path" - probably the precursor of the Monty Python Silly Walk episode.
At some point in the show is a contest called Super Duper Doo action. Every week a child is chosen to compete in additional action for the possibility of winning the grand prize at the end of the four-week period by getting the most items. The first action involved throwing 15 playing cards on a ball covered with masking tape hanging on the ceiling, standing in the box (the promised gift is a ship's rig). The second action involves the firing of 10 sheets of paper from the podium, trying to get them to land in a wastebasket laid in front of them (the promised gift is a television set). It is not known what the third action involved.
If there is extra time at the end of the event, there will be a team action to allow the team to pursue the points.
The four children on the winning team won the bike's main prize for studio contestants and cameras for home partners. The other team received a sportsmanship award from ice skates for studio contestants and home partners.
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CBS version
On April 23, 2005 and November 27, 2007 GSN aired episodes from previous versions produced for CBS with hosting Bob Kennedy. The teams are called "Space Rangers" and "Cowboys", with each team having a big bleach of children at his side.
A child from each team competes in the stunts, and then earns points on the ring-toss board with each nail marked with a number of points. The winning child will throw two rings for their team and the losing child will throw one. The show has three "magic numbers" per show, which if the total score points the team will win them 10 extra points, and a special gift for the kid who threw the ring. This process is repeated with different children from each team until the event timed out.
All the boys on both teams received "sportive gifts", such as cameras, and members of the winning team, along with several home audiences selected from a collection of writings, winning top prizes, such as watches.
Stunts
The actions used during the breakout were designed by Bob Howard and Frank Wayne; the same two people also did the stunts for Beat the Clock, which was still airing at the time.
Episode status
The series may or may not be destroyed; this is uncertain because, although Goodson-Todman usually keeps their show, NBC will usually destroy anything they think is not worth keeping - children's shows are no exception unless the company (like Hanna-Barbera) dictates otherwise.
The GSN has aired one episode of CBS and the first five episodes of NBC in the past. On September 11, 2017, Buzzr aired the first NBC episode.
External links
- Utopia Game Show: Select Up Sides (Rayburn version)
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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