Celebrity Charades
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Chad Lowe
| Celebrity Charades | |
|---|---|
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| Presented by | Jay Johnson Chad Lowe |
| Narrated by | Dick Patterson (1979) |
| Music by | Score Productions |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 45 (1979) |
| Production | |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Production company | Fein-Schwartz Productions |
| Original release | |
| Network | Syndicated (daily, 1979) AMC (2005) |
| Release | January 1979 – June 24, 2005 |
Celebrity Charades is a game show that originally aired from January to September 1979 as a syndicated series throughout the United States.[1]
The original version was hosted by Jay Johnson, along with his dummy Squeaky, and Dick Patterson was the announcer. The series was modeled after the 1962-1964 TV show Stump The Stars, which itself is a successor of the long-running Pantomime Quiz of the 1950s.[2]
Much like the earlier versions, the show consisted of two teams of four celebrities attempting to act out comedic phrases, each within 75 seconds instead of two minutes like in prior versions. The team who guessed all their phrases in the least amount of time won $500 for their favorite charity. In the event of a tie, teams got only $250 each towards their charity.
The series was produced by Fein-Schwartz Productions, in association with Columbia Pictures Television. Music was provided by Score Productions, and would be recycled for other game shows: a re-arranged version of a commercial cue later became the theme to Mindreaders, hosted by Dick Martin of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In fame, which in turn, was also the theme for an unsold 1980's pilot called Puzzlers hosted by future Wheel of Fortune star Pat Sajak and was used as the theme called Claim to Fame[3], produced by Carleton Productions in association with Goodson-Todman Productions, hosted by Mike McManus, it aired exclusively in Canada on CTV from 1981 until 1982. Additionally, a re-arranged version of the main theme with a faster tempo was used during the pricing game Switcheroo on the Tom Kennedy version of The Price Is Right, which was previously used as the theme for an unsold game show pilot called Babble (also hosted by Kennedy) in 1984.