Also for the following 2 Questions, I would have guessed 1 of the following 2. Mona Lisa City: 24-Paris 36-Milan Ghirardelli Chocolate Factory City: 6-San Francisco 5-London
What would you do if you played Wonderwall and you had 2 strikes and $500,000 with 10 seconds left?19 correct answers,would you have tried the 20th for the million dollars knowing that 1 more incorrect answer means a strike out or would you bail out?
@@JonesDylan874 Very smart person you are, I'd bail out too to avoid strike out or time out.Did anyone ever go through an almost entire almost 3 minutes without getting a single strike?
I loved the Wonderwall! It causes the contestant to not just know the answer, but to find and announce it as soon as possible. This show would've killed the almost infinite amount of time for people to answer for a $1,000,000 by adding The Pyramid"esque" aspect to it.
One part I liked about the wonder wall is that they made it trickier by adding several similar answers that could also have multiple meanings in some cases. This one had both Cincinnati and Cleveland as Ohio cities, and I saw a British version that had multiple Bible books (Genesis, Exodus, etc), where Genesis was used to refer to the band. It made the whole thing a bit more challenging.
The British version also had "Major, General, Private" where Major ended up being the answer to a question about the Prime Minister John Major. Very clever.
It shouldn't have been made to be trickier at all.How are you supposed to know which is correct and which would be a strike?The question of what is the psychological term for the uncontrollable urge to set fires,Arson and Pyromania were both on Catherine Rahm's Wonderwall board,I'm glad she said 27-Pyromania and not 9-Arson.They made it difficult on every contestant, even Jennifer Caird so no one would win the million dollars,So devious and unfair.Also,why did the bail out ring sometimes and didn't ring sometimes?It should've rang everytime when pressed.
The one of "What was Madonna's very first hit single?",There was "Like A Virgin" and "Borderline",Glad Cath said 33-Like A Virgin,I like when Dick Clark said,(Correct,Right,Yes,That is right,more than Wrong or No).When Jennifer had the 2 strikes and was asked who's the current mayor of New York City?There was Koch and Giuliani,she was smart to say Giuliani,because she'd have gone down on strikes if she had said Koch.The World Headquarters of Heineken,the baseball team Mark McGwire plays for and the question on Who is the woman in the famous tabloid photograph that ended Gary Hart's 1987 presidential campaign, there was 1-Donna Rice and 3-Jessica Hahn,i felt bad for her when she said 3-Jessica Hahn and Dick Clark said(Wrong!It was 1- Donna Rice.The strikes and the board made it very difficult for her,also the #1 should've come up a little faster for her to get that.Unfair that board has more than 1 answer on there,2,3 or sometimes 4 different answers.
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.
If that happened either way,Catherine Rahm would've had only $2500,she ended up with a total of $502,500.The highest scoring contestant.Was each person's Wonderwall answers and questions on the 3 pronged board random?
@@seanmontgomery801Each contestant was assigned a random preset question stack and associated answer wall yes, like on Millionaire. The show was actually a sister show to Millionaire, despite airing on competing networks it shared the same producers and composers
What would you do if you had 19 correct answers,but 2 strikes,1 pass and 1 pit stop left?Bail out with $500,000 or go for the 20th answer knowing if you're right,it's $1,000,000,but if you're wrong,the oval with the words STRIKE OUT come up.Do you think Catherine Rahm did the smart thing in bailing out?
I bet you'd panic too.I'd panic totally understandable. LOT OF MONEY ON THE LINE.Plus the fact that Catherine's 3 minute timer almost expired so she had to BAIL OUT instead of risking STRIKE OUT or TIME OUT.II'm curious,If Catherine got 6-San Fransisco for where the Ghiradelli chocolate factory is,would she have won the million dollars just before timer expired?
Catherine Rahm did the smart thing by bailing out with $500,000:total winnings,$502,500.Trust me when I say this,if I amassed $500,000,had no strikes and maybe 1 minute ,had both passes and pitstops,If it was an easy solve,I'd go for it ,get it right and win the million.
@@EfrenBlackjackCongrats 👏. Did anything interesting happen in the unaired episode that CBS won't hunt you down for disclosing a quarter century later? I have learned that the show made up fake personas and everyone was really working in showbiz in California and weren't web designers in Texas or whatever. That's wild to me, lots of WWTBAM contestants were interviewed and told their true stories, I didn't think they'd still be giving fake personas to game show contestants in 2000, that was lame. Not a slant against Californian entertainers, just a bit lame the careers were made up apparently... Do you think the show shouldn't have been cancelled?
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.
A half million dollars was the highest ever won in the short history of the Americanized version of 'Winning Lines', and it was won by that lady. Only once had a player (Jennifer) struck out and lost everything in the Wonderwall except for the $2,500 won from the preceding round.
Hey,why don't you stop making fun of Jennifer Caird?She tried very hard,but it was an unfair board and it made things extremely difficult.There's a lot of factors,The pressure,being seen in front of millions of people ,the Wonderwall board and the money too.That was so difficult ,that not one person captured the million dollars.Is 3 minutes really enough time to get 20 questions correct?
@@tomdalfonzo9959Also for the following 2 Questions, I would have guessed 1 of the following 2. Princess Diana Married To Prince Charles British Church: 16-St. Paul’s Cathedral 48-Westminster Abbey Face On People Magazine The Most: 31-Princess Diana 18-Paul Newman
Well,St.Paul's Cathedral and Princess Diana were absolutely correct while Westminster Abbey and Paul Newman would've been absolutely wrong(Strikes).How can one know which of the multiple answers are right and which are strikes?
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.
Would Catherine have been able to use her other pit stop with 6 seconds and possibly get 6 San Fransisco right and win $1,000,00? and do the pit stops freeze the 15 second and the 3 minutes counting down?
I feel very bad for Jennifer Caird.The board she had was mostly difficult, Shame it caused her to be the only strikeout victim in the Wonderwall bonus round.Was it random for each contestant and how did they choose the questions and the answers(49)?That's a lot to keep track of and very confusing.
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.
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).
Yes. As dick Clark said in the rules, the bail out button was activated after a contestant either got two strikes or had 15 seconds left on the clock, at which point they could stop the round and take what they had one so far if they wished.
Thanks And Hi,Dorvell.How do you do?If you were on Winning Lines,had 19 questions correct,but also 2 strikes,would you try for the 20th correct and win the million knowing if you answered wrong or the 15 seconds expired ,it would be an oval saying STRIKE OUT?Would you bail out with $500,000 or go for the million?
If only she knew that Tara Lipinski was a skater, or the Pacific was deeper than the Atlantic, or she had more time to find the location of the chocolate factory. Oh, well.... Anyway, the Wonderwall is my all-time favorite bonus game!
They made the Wonderwall round super tricky for all 9 survivors especially Jenifer Caird the only person that went down on strikes.Very difficult board going back and forth,15 seconds,no answer or a wrong one ,a strike,2 passes,2 pitstops,3 strikes,ur out like in baseball. HATED WHEN THE OVAL WITH STRIKE OUT ON A RED BACKGROUND RUBBING IT IN.
I miss this era when game shows were giving away too much money 😅 Seriously let's go back to WWTBAM having easy questions and game shows with broken ideas that give out millions, I don't even care if the show is boring, let's just all watch it and get people money 😅
I know she's the director of a stage version of the Little Mermaid a few years ago, the 500k may have helped her pursue that passion Shame she forgot the pass and the pit stop, but she got to live her dream with the 500k, it looks like
Ok,hypothetical question,Catherine Rahm was one question away from being a Millionaire, also 1 wrong or NO answer away from STRIKE OUT. If Catherine hadn't bailed out when she did,would it have shown both STRIKE OUT and TIME OUT?
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 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)
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.
GREED was produced by Mr. Clark and it was a successful Game Show on FOX, but the reason they cancelled it was real simple It was getting higher ratings than FOX's Signature Series The Simpsons and I think the Network Executives weren't too happy about it and cancelled it which was a HUGE Mistake I personally like GREED way better than Millionaire and this show was also better than Millionaire as well
Given the fact that CBS put it on in a Saturday timeslot, the show's demise was hastened. Were there any episodes of this show that wound up not airing in light of the show's cancellation.
@@tnawcwvictoriaThis show isn't too bad but I personally hate game shows that put strangers in a team that can sabotage each other like in Greed or The Chase, or the Weakest Link where the best players are targeted. They're real people who are good at the game getting sabotaged out of money by random idiots. I'll always prefer fair game shows, I hate bullshit that rips them off for home entertainment, I always loved how fair Millionaire is even if people think it was tame
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).
The wonder wall was very tough indeed.Not only finding the correct number and answer,but also watching the time.You need total concentration to try to win money.Sometimes players have difficulty.Jennifer tried but she had difficulty with the wall.Its like watching a tennis match.I felt very bad for her,those strikes are annoying ,especially the oval with STRIKE OUT inside it.Tough game to win on.
But that's why I love it. Not only do you need to know the correct answer, but have the mental agility to find it as fast as possible. It's better than waiting for someone to take 5 minutes to answer 1 question.
Kei Nanjo It's really a shame this show came out when there was a glut of million dollar prime time game shows, and not a year or more later where it could have stood out. The final round was really so amazing, and even better than the UK version because it had a loss condition as well as a question time limit. Much more difficult overall.
I will admit I really liked Winning Lines although at the time, everyone I talked to who watched it mentioned their biggest complaint with the show was they couldn't "keep up with that Wonderwall thing." It is kind of an eyesore, a little bit!
@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.
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 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
@@JoeyLamontagneI think it was theoretically possible to win no holiday on the UK show but nobody came close. I can't remember anyone getting less than 10 answers right. (There was no strikes)
"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.
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.
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?
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.
Although I don't blame her for bailing out, I'm going to have to be one of the many game show fans to point out that she had a Pit Stop! She could've used the 15 seconds from the Pit Stop to find the last answer and win the $1,000,000! I know I would've used the Pit Stop if I couldn't find an answer.
We can all say that from behind our screens as much as we want but if we’re being honest with each other and ourselves, we don’t know what we would or wouldn’t do if we were in her position. Perhaps under all the pressure and with so little time left, she forgot she still had that pitstop and decided to bail out.
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.
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
David,you did the right thing bailing out and pocketing $25,000.Better than having a oval with the words "STRIKE OUT" in them and ending up with only $2500.They make the wonderwall extremely difficult when it goes back and forth.It's like watching a tennis match and your eyes get quite a workout.I would've done the same thing,if I had 400,000 and 2 strikes,if I couldn't find an answer ,I'd bail out too,No lie.Ur a smart man,David Wilson.
@@seanmontgomery801 The contestants didn't have the metronome scrolling. All the answers were spread statically across three big screens. It actually was harder at home than on set in that particular sense, but the pressure of the money and stage lights and everything means it's obviously harder for the contestant.
@@occono3543 It's funny looking back at this now that I'm MUCH older. There are some embarrassing bits cut out (It was my first ever taping and I didn't know what to do at times), but I will say that everyone was wonderful and I got a standing O from the other contestants as I was leaving the studio. Then later that same day another contestants won $400K. I can only imagine how he was lauded.
@@seanmontgomery801 As was mentioned, we had all the answers on big screens in front of us, so the scrolling was for the benefit of the home audience. Still, having an adrenaline-fueled panic rush trying to think of the answers and find it on the board was a lot for a 26-year-old kid who'd never even been on a game show prior. $27.5k for the day was not a bad intro.
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.
Best bonus round in any quiz game show ever.
And to make this even better, THIS HAPPENED ON THE VERY FIRST EPISODE!
Also for the following 2 Questions, I would have guessed 1 of the following 2.
Mona Lisa City:
24-Paris
36-Milan
Ghirardelli Chocolate Factory City:
6-San Francisco
5-London
@@markheying2830Mona Lisa is in Paris, Godiva factory in San Francisco.
What would you do if you played Wonderwall and you had 2 strikes and $500,000 with 10 seconds left?19 correct answers,would you have tried the 20th for the million dollars knowing that 1 more incorrect answer means a strike out or would you bail out?
@@Sean-q2x Bailed out...
@@JonesDylan874 Very smart person you are, I'd bail out too to avoid strike out or time out.Did anyone ever go through an almost entire almost 3 minutes without getting a single strike?
I loved the Wonderwall! It causes the contestant to not just know the answer, but to find and announce it as soon as possible. This show would've killed the almost infinite amount of time for people to answer for a $1,000,000 by adding The Pyramid"esque" aspect to it.
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
One part I liked about the wonder wall is that they made it trickier by adding several similar answers that could also have multiple meanings in some cases. This one had both Cincinnati and Cleveland as Ohio cities, and I saw a British version that had multiple Bible books (Genesis, Exodus, etc), where Genesis was used to refer to the band. It made the whole thing a bit more challenging.
The British version also had "Major, General, Private" where Major ended up being the answer to a question about the Prime Minister John Major. Very clever.
I think that's quite clever, writing each stack of questions as one thing like that.
It shouldn't have been made to be trickier at all.How are you supposed to know which is correct and which would be a strike?The question of what is the psychological term for the uncontrollable urge to set fires,Arson and Pyromania were both on Catherine Rahm's Wonderwall board,I'm glad she said 27-Pyromania and not 9-Arson.They made it difficult on every contestant, even Jennifer Caird so no one would win the million dollars,So devious and unfair.Also,why did the bail out ring sometimes and didn't ring sometimes?It should've rang everytime when pressed.
The one of "What was Madonna's very first hit single?",There was "Like A Virgin" and "Borderline",Glad Cath said 33-Like A Virgin,I like when Dick Clark said,(Correct,Right,Yes,That is right,more than Wrong or No).When Jennifer had the 2 strikes and was asked who's the current mayor of New York City?There was Koch and Giuliani,she was smart to say Giuliani,because she'd have gone down on strikes if she had said Koch.The World Headquarters of Heineken,the baseball team Mark McGwire plays for and the question on Who is the woman in the famous tabloid photograph that ended Gary Hart's 1987 presidential campaign, there was 1-Donna Rice and 3-Jessica Hahn,i felt bad for her when she said 3-Jessica Hahn and Dick Clark said(Wrong!It was 1- Donna Rice.The strikes and the board made it very difficult for her,also the #1 should've come up a little faster for her to get that.Unfair that board has more than 1 answer on there,2,3 or sometimes 4 different answers.
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.
If that happened either way,Catherine Rahm would've had only $2500,she ended up with a total of $502,500.The highest scoring contestant.Was each person's Wonderwall answers and questions on the 3 pronged board random?
@@seanmontgomery801Each contestant was assigned a random preset question stack and associated answer wall yes, like on Millionaire. The show was actually a sister show to Millionaire, despite airing on competing networks it shared the same producers and composers
If this show were on a different night or an hour long, it probably would've lasted longer.
She panicked... she knew it and she forgot she still had a pit stop!
Easily done if someone's counting down the last 10 seconds and, as you say, you panic
Is 15 seconds enough time for answering,using your pitstops and bailing out?
What would you do if you had 19 correct answers,but 2 strikes,1 pass and 1 pit stop left?Bail out with $500,000 or go for the 20th answer knowing if you're right,it's $1,000,000,but if you're wrong,the oval with the words STRIKE OUT come up.Do you think Catherine Rahm did the smart thing in bailing out?
I bet you'd panic too.I'd panic totally understandable. LOT OF MONEY ON THE LINE.Plus the fact that Catherine's 3 minute timer almost expired so she had to BAIL OUT instead of risking STRIKE OUT or TIME OUT.II'm curious,If Catherine got 6-San Fransisco for where the Ghiradelli chocolate factory is,would she have won the million dollars just before timer expired?
Catherine Rahm did the smart thing by bailing out with $500,000:total winnings,$502,500.Trust me when I say this,if I amassed $500,000,had no strikes and maybe 1 minute ,had both passes and pitstops,If it was an easy solve,I'd go for it ,get it right and win the million.
OY! and she had a pass left!
Catherine is the biggest winner on the US version of Winning Lines with $500,000. Someone also won $400,000 playing this same bonus game.
My show never aired. It was the only one. :(
What did you win?
@@occono3543$42,500
@@EfrenBlackjackCongrats 👏. Did anything interesting happen in the unaired episode that CBS won't hunt you down for disclosing a quarter century later?
I have learned that the show made up fake personas and everyone was really working in showbiz in California and weren't web designers in Texas or whatever. That's wild to me, lots of WWTBAM contestants were interviewed and told their true stories, I didn't think they'd still be giving fake personas to game show contestants in 2000, that was lame. Not a slant against Californian entertainers, just a bit lame the careers were made up apparently...
Do you think the show shouldn't have been cancelled?
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.
If you look at Catherine's eyes at 5:05, she may have been thinking about bailing out with two strikes before she answered.
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.
5:28 She BAILED OUT and Catherine's just won $500,000 on the first episode!!!
A half million dollars was the highest ever won in the short history of the Americanized version of 'Winning Lines', and it was won by that lady. Only once had a player (Jennifer) struck out and lost everything in the Wonderwall except for the $2,500 won from the preceding round.
The video for that is lost I'm sure isn't it?
th-cam.com/video/aQRMp_HlXCw/w-d-xo.html is the one where Jennifer struck out!
Hey,why don't you stop making fun of Jennifer Caird?She tried very hard,but it was an unfair board and it made things extremely difficult.There's a lot of factors,The pressure,being seen in front of millions of people ,the Wonderwall board and the money too.That was so difficult ,that not one person captured the million dollars.Is 3 minutes really enough time to get 20 questions correct?
Also she that Final pit stop if she wouldve used that she wouldve won the final question
Answer for the BMW question was #44 Bavarian---she passed on it.
If she got it, she would've been a millionaire.
@@tomdalfonzo9959Also where was the Ghirardelli Chocolate Factory?
@@markheying2830 Six, San Francisco.
@@tomdalfonzo9959Also for the following 2 Questions, I would have guessed 1 of the following 2.
Princess Diana Married To Prince Charles British Church:
16-St. Paul’s Cathedral
48-Westminster Abbey
Face On People Magazine The Most:
31-Princess Diana
18-Paul Newman
Well,St.Paul's Cathedral and Princess Diana were absolutely correct while Westminster Abbey and Paul Newman would've been absolutely wrong(Strikes).How can one know which of the multiple answers are right and which are strikes?
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.
Would Catherine have been able to use her other pit stop with 6 seconds and possibly get 6 San Fransisco right and win $1,000,00? and do the pit stops freeze the 15 second and the 3 minutes counting down?
Yeh very likely. An extra 15 seconds and she'd have found it.
I feel very bad for Jennifer Caird.The board she had was mostly difficult, Shame it caused her to be the only strikeout victim in the Wonderwall bonus round.Was it random for each contestant and how did they choose the questions and the answers(49)?That's a lot to keep track of and very confusing.
Originally Geraldo Rivera was supposed to host Winning Lines on CBS
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.
Damn thats a tough gameshow :D
how did you do?
Personally, if I was three seconds away from losing $500,000, I'd probably have forgotton about the pit stop as well.
Is the button near the top of that device where you press to activate the pit stops?
I know it's been said multiple times already...but she had a fucking pit stop left! She could have easily had the $1m.
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).
Wow. When was this show on the air? What station?
Was it on long?
Premiered in Jan/2000, on CBS, and lasted for just one month, due to WWTBAM boom.
Would Jennifer have been able to bail out if she wasn't sure of the Donna Rice question even with the 2 strikes?
Yes. As dick Clark said in the rules, the bail out button was activated after a contestant either got two strikes or had 15 seconds left on the clock, at which point they could stop the round and take what they had one so far if they wished.
Thanks And Hi,Dorvell.How do you do?If you were on Winning Lines,had 19 questions correct,but also 2 strikes,would you try for the 20th correct and win the million knowing if you answered wrong or the 15 seconds expired ,it would be an oval saying STRIKE OUT?Would you bail out with $500,000 or go for the million?
If only she knew that Tara Lipinski was a skater, or the Pacific was deeper than the Atlantic, or she had more time to find the location of the chocolate factory.
Oh, well....
Anyway, the Wonderwall is my all-time favorite bonus game!
If only this show lasted more than a month, given a premiere week, and aired after the Millionaire craze died off. CBS dropped the ball big time. smh
They made the Wonderwall round super tricky for all 9 survivors especially Jenifer Caird the only person that went down on strikes.Very difficult board going back and forth,15 seconds,no answer or a wrong one ,a strike,2 passes,2 pitstops,3 strikes,ur out like in baseball. HATED WHEN THE OVAL WITH STRIKE OUT ON A RED BACKGROUND RUBBING IT IN.
Or if she knew the B in BMW stood for Bavarian.
Or if instead of Dick telling her she had six seconds left, he reminded her she still had a pitstop.
The Wonderwall is my all-time favorite bonus game too
Man alive. If only she had gotten San Francisco and found it she could’ve won one million dollars
I miss this era when game shows were giving away too much money 😅 Seriously let's go back to WWTBAM having easy questions and game shows with broken ideas that give out millions, I don't even care if the show is boring, let's just all watch it and get people money 😅
I know she's the director of a stage version of the Little Mermaid a few years ago, the 500k may have helped her pursue that passion
Shame she forgot the pass and the pit stop, but she got to live her dream with the 500k, it looks like
Ok,hypothetical question,Catherine Rahm was one question away from being a Millionaire, also 1 wrong or NO answer away from STRIKE OUT. If Catherine hadn't bailed out when she did,would it have shown both STRIKE OUT and TIME OUT?
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 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)
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.
GREED was produced by Mr. Clark and it was a successful Game Show on FOX, but the reason they cancelled it was real simple
It was getting higher ratings than FOX's Signature Series The Simpsons and I think the Network Executives weren't too happy about it and cancelled it which was a HUGE Mistake
I personally like GREED way better than Millionaire and this show was also better than Millionaire as well
Given the fact that CBS put it on in a Saturday timeslot, the show's demise was hastened. Were there any episodes of this show that wound up not airing in light of the show's cancellation.
@@tnawcwvictoriaThis show isn't too bad but I personally hate game shows that put strangers in a team that can sabotage each other like in Greed or The Chase, or the Weakest Link where the best players are targeted. They're real people who are good at the game getting sabotaged out of money by random idiots. I'll always prefer fair game shows, I hate bullshit that rips them off for home entertainment, I always loved how fair Millionaire is even if people think it was tame
@@drewzuhosky6826 One episode ended up not airing, to my knowledge.
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 I think the game would've ended immediately because she would've won $1,000,000.
In the UK version it ended the game with the win immediately. Presumably the same in the US if Catherine or Mike had gotten there
i knew that that answer woulda been #20 and i also knew about the maximum # of questions
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).
The wonder wall was very tough indeed.Not only finding the correct number and answer,but also watching the time.You need total concentration to try to win money.Sometimes players have difficulty.Jennifer tried but she had difficulty with the wall.Its like watching a tennis match.I felt very bad for her,those strikes are annoying ,especially the oval with STRIKE OUT inside it.Tough game to win on.
But that's why I love it. Not only do you need to know the correct answer, but have the mental agility to find it as fast as possible. It's better than waiting for someone to take 5 minutes to answer 1 question.
Kei Nanjo It's really a shame this show came out when there was a glut of million dollar prime time game shows, and not a year or more later where it could have stood out. The final round was really so amazing, and even better than the UK version because it had a loss condition as well as a question time limit. Much more difficult overall.
Jenifer, IIRC, had a Pit Stop left, and at least one pass. She could've used either one. If she still wasn't sure, she could've bailed out.
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.
I will admit I really liked Winning Lines although at the time, everyone I talked to who watched it mentioned their biggest complaint with the show was they couldn't "keep up with that Wonderwall thing." It is kind of an eyesore, a little bit!
Catherine Rahm lost on the 5/1/2020 episode of Master Minds
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.
Congratulations $ 500,000 spend it wisely
@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.
my bad. i saw this all the way and double checked
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?
whos the host?
Dick Clark
The late great Dick Clark.
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Darn double post. Hate it when that happens
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
we have a UK version where it's 3 minutes to win a holiday
+Anthony Barratt A vacation?
But you win a holiday regardless, WHERE is what is at stake.
@@JoeyLamontagneI think it was theoretically possible to win no holiday on the UK show but nobody came close. I can't remember anyone getting less than 10 answers right. (There was no strikes)
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i know, (i'm pretty good at doing that kinda stuff in my head.)
"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.
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.
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
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?
She had the pit stop, shoulda used it, woulda won a million.
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.
For $1,000,000 here's your first subjec....er...first question
Although I don't blame her for bailing out, I'm going to have to be one of the many game show fans to point out that she had a Pit Stop! She could've used the 15 seconds from the Pit Stop to find the last answer and win the $1,000,000! I know I would've used the Pit Stop if I couldn't find an answer.
We can all say that from behind our screens as much as we want but if we’re being honest with each other and ourselves, we don’t know what we would or wouldn’t do if we were in her position. Perhaps under all the pressure and with so little time left, she forgot she still had that pitstop and decided to bail out.
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.
Yep, 20 correct in 3 minutes wins you a trip Around The World.
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
@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.
And from what I can tell, that screen is probably an iMac computer (I think that monitor had an Apple logo on it).
$25K win, which was nice. Sort of embarassing, compared to others, but it was fun.
David,you did the right thing bailing out and pocketing $25,000.Better than having a oval with the words "STRIKE OUT" in them and ending up with only $2500.They make the wonderwall extremely difficult when it goes back and forth.It's like watching a tennis match and your eyes get quite a workout.I would've done the same thing,if I had 400,000 and 2 strikes,if I couldn't find an answer ,I'd bail out too,No lie.Ur a smart man,David Wilson.
@@seanmontgomery801 The contestants didn't have the metronome scrolling. All the answers were spread statically across three big screens. It actually was harder at home than on set in that particular sense, but the pressure of the money and stage lights and everything means it's obviously harder for the contestant.
Do you have any other anecdotes about the show David if you are still reading TH-cam replies?
@@occono3543 It's funny looking back at this now that I'm MUCH older. There are some embarrassing bits cut out (It was my first ever taping and I didn't know what to do at times), but I will say that everyone was wonderful and I got a standing O from the other contestants as I was leaving the studio.
Then later that same day another contestants won $400K. I can only imagine how he was lauded.
@@seanmontgomery801 As was mentioned, we had all the answers on big screens in front of us, so the scrolling was for the benefit of the home audience. Still, having an adrenaline-fueled panic rush trying to think of the answers and find it on the board was a lot for a 26-year-old kid who'd never even been on a game show prior. $27.5k for the day was not a bad intro.
it's not you, it does and it did.
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.
Real staying power, even when Link came along. But when both shows went the celeb route, that staying power was gone.
Ditto.
Answer to that question was #6-San Francisco.
6-San Francisco.
ghiradelli chocolate rulez
she fails the 2 easiest paris and bavarian lol
worthless if she didn't know the answer.
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