Whew! was an American game show produced by Bud Austin Company that aired on CBS television from either April 23, 1979, until May 30, 1980. It was hosted by Tom Kennedy and announced by Rod Roddy.

Gameplay

Main game

Both players compete in the independent game. A competition is shown a categories for the number one 2 cycles of play, & decides world health organization may "Charge" & world health organization may "Block" for every of people cycles. Whoever is selected when a number 1 Charger is sent offstage when a Blocker observes a board. A Blocker so receives a risk to place Sextet Interferes on the board. Those days are ga single than Triplet may be located in any one of a gold levels, & those days are gone than one may be situated on the final level.

Whilst a Blocker makes their selections, a Charger comes back, & tend Sixty seconds to right 1 "Blooper" from either every level, starting at Level a single & working their way higher a board, one level at one time. The Fuckup would consist of the factual statement by owning the part of it mangled to produce it humorously wrong, normally (but not universally) around the rhymed fashion. the wrong part of a statement is underlined, & the Charger would use to correct merely that part of the statement to recieve credit for a right guide. (E.g., "Jeff Probst says on Survivor, 'The vibe has broken,'" would exist as answered by having "The tribe has spoken," patch the right account "The B&O was the first American passenger smell" would be "railroad.") If the Charger picked a square that had been blocked, they were forced to wait for 5 seconds before choosing another Blooper on that level. Foul-up usually increased around difficulty just by dollar value, nin level; that is to say, e.g., the $30 Boo-boo in Level Four is theoretically those days are gone hard than the $30 Boner on Level One.

Whenever period was heading out & it appeared unconvincing a Charger can produce it through a board, he or even she got a chance to produce a single go-ditch effort to win the spherical. By yelling "Long Shot!" a clock would prevent & a Charger would immediately go for it to Level 6, bypassing completely of the levels inside between. the Blocker would so become a risk to add a secret Prevent thereto level, additionally to the a single Prevent (in case he or even she chose to put 1 there) antecedently situated on it level. It used to be that a fresh Prevent was positioned, a Charger got of these risk to reveal one of a trey positions in Level 6. In case a Charger, when calling for an extended Shot, detected a Fuckup & aright answered it, it so won the spherical. Whenever, yet, a Charger found a Prevent, so a Blocker would choose the around.

the Charger wins a spherical by either calling an extended Shot so aright answering a Boner, or even finishing tons levels inside Lx seconds. a Blocker wins by either a Charger hitting a prevent fallowing an extended Shot, or even the Charger going away from instance.

A number one streaming video player to win deuce cycles won a match & moved onto a bonus spherical, winning a number of all a Bungle solved along by having the value of any Stops their opponent hit. This added an element of strategy, when a Blocker can theoretically place impedes in all a $50 spaces in a hopes of winning a theoretical maximal total by the board ($750), however the Charger can view this coming & go for the moo values instead.

In the unconvincing event the Charger would last across the lot 5 positions in a given level forswearing right answering of these Blunder, he or even she was allowed a loose pass to the next level. But, by this point therefore lot instance would own been taken off a clock that it would exist as near impossible to save a spherical forswearing resorting to an extended Shot.

The Gauntlet of Villains
the winning streaming video player faced a series of Ten "Villains", wooden caricatures of unimaginative "bad guys," for each one of a babies trying to end a streaming video player from either winning the money. A streaming video player's instance limit for this spherical was Sixty seconds, + One 2nd for every $100 won in the independent game. (So, the streaming video player world health organization won $1,100 experienced Eleven extra seconds to last sustaining the base instance of Lx, for a aggregate of 71 seconds.) Hikers Kennedy scan a Boo-boo ahead of every Villain, & the contestant so experienced Ii seconds to guide it. (For this spherical exclusively, everthing Fuckup featured single a single wrong word, & it was universally a go word of the statement.) Whenever the streaming video player answered aright, he or even she moved inside to the next Villain; whenever non, the correct guide appeared in a monitor placed into that Villain's "belly," & the streaming video player was held at that Villain until he or even she gave a right guide.

In case a streaming video player reached a prevent of a Gauntlet, it won $25,000 (& retired from either a indicate, $25,000 existence the CBS "winnings cap" at a instance for giveaway featuring giving champions). Whenever a streaming video player failed, it received $100 for both Villain passed.

Though seldom utilized on the air, from each one of the tenner Villains in the Gauntlet experienced list. These were, sequentially: One. Alphonse a Gangster Ii. Bruno the Headman (a medieval executioner) Ternary. Mr. Van Louse a Landlord Four. Nero the Fiddler Quintuplet. Count Nibbleneck a Vampire Sextet. Frank & his little friend Stein Septet. Child Rotten a Gunslinger Ogdoad. Jeremy Swash a Pirate Niner. Dr. Crazed a Mad Scientist X. Lucretia a Witch

Celebrity Whew!

Astir midway through the indicate's process, Two celebrities were assigned as partners to either contestant. A teams of Two alternated Charging duties between levels, situated Trine of the Sixer Impedes every on the board, & from each one took half of the Gauntlet of Villains bonus spherical. Aside from either these adjustments, there is no more changes within format were manufactured.

Final Week Note

When you took Whew!'s survive week on a air (Might 26-30, 1980), a format was slightly adjusted and so the indicate there are no hanker "straddled"; that is, can prevent by using the game or even match however around progress, to exist as resumed on the next episode. Under these freshly system, for each one episode began a freshly match between ii teams (the "celebrity" format however existence inside situ on this text), & whenever 1 team won the right-of-3 match in 2 straight cycles, that team would play the favorite third aaround (what would use been the tie-breaker round) solo, sustaining the pattern of Hinders arbitrarily selected from either a database of numerous different legal Blocking system by a computer (apparently programmed per "Villains" of the endgame). This "bonus round" wwhen played for extra money for the contestant, too as extra Gauntlet instance. These adjustments were manufactured to help assure that the series would non prevent in the midst of a game that may not become completed.

Episode Status

A lot episodes come presumed to survive in the possesion of Burt Sugarman, the todays right of first publication holder of the Whew! program & format.