With this show, Dick Clark became the first, and to this day only, person to have hosted a game show on all of the Big 4 Networks (ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox).
Oh man. I (as a kid myself at the time) treated this show like it was the Super Bowl when it originally aired. As I recall, the build-up to it was really intense.
Contestants 1. BRANDON FISH 2. ALEX DORF 3. CHARLES HANNA 4. SHANE MELLO 5. DAVID FULLER 6. JOSHUA MYER 7. TERRENCE KIM 8. BOB HANSHAW 9. ANNILYN SCHILL 10. MARIA-ELENA SISNEROZ 11. BOBBY SAKURAI 12. JOHN HAWKSLEY 13. ANDREW FOSTER 14. JOHN LABELLE 15. JAMES TROHAN 16. DANIEL LIFSCHITZ 17. KEVIN WELCH 18. MARCO BELTRAN 19. ADAM SORRIN 20. JOE CLARK 21. COLIN CALLAHAN 22. MICHAEL BLEICHER 23. JESSE GOTTSCHALK 24. SEAN SANTOS 25. BERNARD BINDER 26. KEERTHI SHETTY 27. JULIA GLEICHMAN 28. CAISA SANBURG 29. MICHAEL JEZIERNEY 30. JAMES YEIN 31. RAFAEL CICHOCKI 32. CECILY HARWITT 33. NATE FESTINGER 34. ELAINE PODOSEK 35. ERIC BAIR 36. RANNA BANSAL-NETTAR 37. LINDA GOLDSTEIN 38. TERESA CAICCIO 39. ZAC ELLINGTON 40. NORA TILLMANNS 41. MICHAEL SHIH 42. BRITTANY BEHRENS 43. MERYL FEDERMAN 44. RICHARD PANG 45. KATHERINE HU 46. MATTIAS LEHMAN 47. SAMUEL BHAGWAT 48. ANGELA HANNAN 49. GALEN BASCOM 50. MICHAEL PALACIOS
Well, this is embarrassing to see again, 21 years later. My mom sent me the video on facebook--I hadn't realized anyone still had it. Fun fact, during the first round, the punch-in-your-answer system wasn't working, so we wrote the answers on paper, and they filmed us pushing buttons for TV.
Wow!!!! It's a pleasure to meet one of the former contestants on this show. I remember watching this when it aired. How many rounds did you make it through?
I remember this when I was 8 years old those kids are sure smart and have good I.Q those questions were super hard those questions were even harder then what they give you like on jeopardy and win Ben Stein’s money and other game show thanks I’ve waiting for this episode for years
@@machoman1016 The reaction was positive--I was at a private school for gifted kids at the time. I'm embarrassed in hindsight because I sort of floundered once I hit middle school and high school (where I went to public school and really had no idea how to fit in), but also because this is record of my deadname, haha.
Do you have the ESPN game show Sports on Tap? Would love for you to show that and Tom Green last I checked he is a newsman in Denver. You could see if you could interview him for hosts at home!
@@Scubaguy12 He also was the announcer for Greed's sister show It's Your Chance of a Lifetime that sadly only ran for a week and five episodes in June 2000.
Hi! I subscribed to your channel over a week ago and I asked this question previously but didn't get a reply. I hope I'm not sounding bothersome but I was wondring if the Big Spin episodes in your archive also contain those from Geoff Edwards tenure as host or is it just episodes from the later years. Personally I would love to see more from the first six years epecially between 88-91 if not, 1992-94 or some from the last episdes filmed in Sacramento to where they had that beach themed set?
Challenge of the child geniuses has a lot of similarities to other game shows, music (from the same composer as Greed) is a greed like vibe and plays throughout the show, face off is basically a best of 5 version of the the terminator round, one to one is literally it's your chance of a lifetime, the semi final is the weakest link head to head but with 3 players, the final is basically a first player to get 5 wrong looses concept which is really good but to put it simply, this is who wants to be a millionaire for kids From the creators of greed.
With this show, Dick Clark became the first, and to this day only, person to have hosted a game show on all of the Big 4 Networks (ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox).
Well, the Big 4 networks, syndication ($50,000/100,000 Pyramid and The Challengers), _and_ cable (It Takes Two reboot on what is now Freeform).
I loved this show like you wouldn't believe. THANK YOU for all these rarities, Adam! So appreciate it!!
You're welcome. Glad you're enjoying it!
Oh man. I (as a kid myself at the time) treated this show like it was the Super Bowl when it originally aired. As I recall, the build-up to it was really intense.
Adam, you rock! I have been hoping that someone would upload this one as the second one has already been uploaded. Thank you!!!!
Contestants
1. BRANDON FISH
2. ALEX DORF
3. CHARLES HANNA
4. SHANE MELLO
5. DAVID FULLER
6. JOSHUA MYER
7. TERRENCE KIM
8. BOB HANSHAW
9. ANNILYN SCHILL
10. MARIA-ELENA SISNEROZ
11. BOBBY SAKURAI
12. JOHN HAWKSLEY
13. ANDREW FOSTER
14. JOHN LABELLE
15. JAMES TROHAN
16. DANIEL LIFSCHITZ
17. KEVIN WELCH
18. MARCO BELTRAN
19. ADAM SORRIN
20. JOE CLARK
21. COLIN CALLAHAN
22. MICHAEL BLEICHER
23. JESSE GOTTSCHALK
24. SEAN SANTOS
25. BERNARD BINDER
26. KEERTHI SHETTY
27. JULIA GLEICHMAN
28. CAISA SANBURG
29. MICHAEL JEZIERNEY
30. JAMES YEIN
31. RAFAEL CICHOCKI
32. CECILY HARWITT
33. NATE FESTINGER
34. ELAINE PODOSEK
35. ERIC BAIR
36. RANNA BANSAL-NETTAR
37. LINDA GOLDSTEIN
38. TERESA CAICCIO
39. ZAC ELLINGTON
40. NORA TILLMANNS
41. MICHAEL SHIH
42. BRITTANY BEHRENS
43. MERYL FEDERMAN
44. RICHARD PANG
45. KATHERINE HU
46. MATTIAS LEHMAN
47. SAMUEL BHAGWAT
48. ANGELA HANNAN
49. GALEN BASCOM
50. MICHAEL PALACIOS
I'd be interested to hear what they're all doing now.
Well, this is embarrassing to see again, 21 years later. My mom sent me the video on facebook--I hadn't realized anyone still had it.
Fun fact, during the first round, the punch-in-your-answer system wasn't working, so we wrote the answers on paper, and they filmed us pushing buttons for TV.
Wow!!!! It's a pleasure to meet one of the former contestants on this show. I remember watching this when it aired. How many rounds did you make it through?
@@timothysilva2409 Got eliminated after the first round.
I remember watching it on first run in 2000. I wished they’d continue doing these annually so that I’d have a chance at becoming a contestant
The Amazing DC, will always be my Idol Forever. Bless his heart up in heaven.❤😇👍
That “one-on-one” round reeks a certain game show which was red-hot at the time (and also #1 among all primetime network shows for the season)…
That's our New York tv station
That male announcer was from hit game show "greed", and "super greed".
AND "It's Your Chance of a Lifetime" and "Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?" He's Mark Thompson of Fox 11 KTTV Los Angeles.
Greed & Super Greed are the same show, really.
Thank you for posting this Adam. I regret not watching it when it was origjnally on
You're welcome!
Did this inspire a decade later the planned for FOX "Our Little Genius" which never made the TV airwaves due to some controversy?
They were feeding the answers to the kids.
Meryl Federman would win the 2007 Jeopardy! Teen Tournament Summer Games.
what? meryl federman was on this?
i ask because i met her in 2013 at an open casting call for the million second quiz.
I remember this when I was 8 years old those kids are sure smart and have good I.Q those questions were super hard those questions were even harder then what they give you like on jeopardy and win Ben Stein’s money and other game show thanks I’ve waiting for this episode for years
Glad you can watch it now!
This is the last game show hosted by Dick Clark, coming a few months after Winning Lines ended its run.
Do you have the second special?
Right here: th-cam.com/video/nTBybDqhIPM/w-d-xo.html
i would have loved to have been on this, dick clark is one of my favorite game show hosts
Did anyone else notice John left eye twitching a lot?
That's why I searched for this for years. I thought that he was under some kind of mental duress.
All these kids are in there early 30s now.
I almost wish I'd kept in touch with some of the others. Wonder how many else burnt out in high school or college.
@@darkerSolstice how did you hear about this competition?
@@machoman1016 My mother got me involved, I was only 10 at the time.
@@darkerSolstice did any of your schoolmates see you on the show and if so was the reaction positive or negative?
@@machoman1016 The reaction was positive--I was at a private school for gifted kids at the time. I'm embarrassed in hindsight because I sort of floundered once I hit middle school and high school (where I went to public school and really had no idea how to fit in), but also because this is record of my deadname, haha.
good evening Adam I haven't seen this one before but i like it :)
I'm glad Josh!
Do you have the ESPN game show Sports on Tap? Would love for you to show that and Tom Green last I checked he is a newsman in Denver. You could see if you could interview him for hosts at home!
Who was the announcer for this show. The announcer for this was the announcer for Greed on Fox
Mark Thompson he also hosted the Guinness world record primetime series in 1998-2001.
@@machoman1016 yes ur right
@@Scubaguy12 He also was the announcer for Greed's sister show It's Your Chance of a Lifetime that sadly only ran for a week and five episodes in June 2000.
Hi! I subscribed to your channel over a week ago and I asked this question previously but didn't get a reply. I hope I'm not sounding bothersome but I was wondring if the Big Spin episodes in your archive also contain those from Geoff Edwards tenure as host or is it just episodes from the later years. Personally I would love to see more from the first six years epecially between 88-91 if not, 1992-94 or some from the last episdes filmed in Sacramento to where they had that beach themed set?
I have episodes of The Big Spin thet were recorded for me but they were after Geoff was already finished hosting. I'll post one or two at some point.
Finally the whole enchilada
What international versions of challenge of the Child Geniuses were hosted by different people?
I remember watching this on TV. I think I was ten at the time.
I thought there were two of these.
There were.
Challenge of the child geniuses has a lot of similarities to other game shows, music (from the same composer as Greed) is a greed like vibe and plays throughout the show, face off is basically a best of 5 version of the the terminator round, one to one is literally it's your chance of a lifetime, the semi final is the weakest link head to head but with 3 players, the final is basically a first player to get 5 wrong looses concept which is really good but to put it simply, this is who wants to be a millionaire for kids From the creators of greed.
Way before "Are you smarter than a 5th grader?"
now, not Greed, not Millionaire, not The Chair,... THIS SHOW has the most omnious music (and host)
So a lot of these questions I didn't didn't find to be very hard. I'm now significant older than these contestants were, though.
Do any of you think this type of game show can be made today or would it be discouraged?
What’s my line I’ve got a secret password plus super super market sweep please to tell the truth please