I'm Telling!: Difference between revisions

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| captioncreator = ''I'mEllen Telling!'' logo.Levy

| creator developer = Ellen Levy<br>[[Haim Saban]]

| developerruntime = Ellen Levy<br>[[Haim= 22&ndash;24 Saban]]minutes

| runtime presenter = 22&ndash;24Laurie minutesFaso

| presenternarrated = [[LaurieDean Faso]]Goss

| narrated theme_music_composer = [[DeanShuki GossLevy]]

| distributornetwork = [[NBC]]

'''''I'm Telling!''''' is an [[United States|American]] [[television]] [[game show]], which ran from September 12, 1987 to March 5, 1988 on [[NBC]] Saturday mornings and was hosted by [[Laurie Faso]] with [[Dean Goss]] announcing.<ref name=Daytime>{{cite book |last1=Hyatt |first1=Wesley |title=The Encyclopedia of Daytime Television |date=1997 |publisher=Watson-Guptill Publications |isbn=978-0823083152 |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofda00hyat|url-access=registration |access-date=22 March 2020|page=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofda00hyat/page/226 226]}}</ref>

The show is essentially a children's version of ''[[The Newlywed Game]]'' with young siblings playing instead of married couples. The show was produced by [[Saban Productions]] and [[DIC Entertainment|DIC Enterprises]].<ref>{{cite web|author=CHARLES SOLOMON |url=httphttps://articleswww.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-10-09/entertainment/-ca-8568_1_cartoon8568-seriesstory.html |title=Kidvid Reviews : Cartoon Debuts Are All Drawn Out - Los Angeles Times |publisher=Articles.latimes.com |date=1987-10-09 |access-date=2012-10-15}}</ref>

Three teams competed, each (usually, but not always)often consisting of a brother and sister. The front game was played in two rounds.

In Round 1, the brothers were "teleported" to the "Isolation Zone" (or "Iso-Zone") using special effects and a video edit (i.e., taken offstage to a soundproof room). One of three pun-styled categories was chosen at random by hitting a plunger, and Faso read a question loosely based on the chosen category. Three questions were played, with each sister choosing one category, and all three sisters responded to every question.

After the sisters' answers were recorded, the brothers were brought back onstage and asked the same three questions. If a brother's response matched his sister's, the team scored points (25 for the first question, 50 for the second, and 75 for the third). If the responses disagreed, no points were awarded. Much like the adult ''Newlywed Game'', more often than not, the siblings would usually argue over their conflicting answers. Round 2 was played in the same manner, but with the sisters taken offstage and the brothers providing initial answers. Question values were increased to 50, 75, and 150 points.

The game continued until both rounds were completed or one team had built up an insurmountable lead. The highest-scoring team received a $1,000 [[savings bond]] and advanced to the "Pick-A-Prize Arcade" for a chance to win bonus prizes. The other teams each received consolation prizes, including a copy of the ''I'm Telling!'' home game.

If two or all three teams were tied for first place after the second round, a tie-breaker question was asked to determine the winner. Before the show, the producers filled a large container (dubbed the "''I'm Telling!'' Fun Box") with many of the same object. Before the game,and each team hadwrote todown their guess how many objects were inat the container,number andof write down their answer on a cardobjects. Whichever team came the closest to the actual number (without going over) would advanceadvanced to the Pick-a-Prize Arcade.

The home audience was shown one sibling's choices, after which the other one selected six prizes by pushing their buttons. Every time the siblings' choices matched, a siren sounded and the light next to that prize flashed. After both siblings had taken a turn, the team won all prizes they had matched; if they made at least 10 matches between them, they won every prizeeverything.

Although theThe last first-run episode aired on March 5, 1988, and repeats aired until August 27. Reruns were seen on [[ABCFreeform (TV Familychannel)|The Family Channel]] from September 9, 1989 to September 8, 1990; August 29, 1994 to September 30, 1995; and October 30, 1995 to March 29, 1996.

While most shows featured brother and sister teams, special episodes were also aired in order to accommodate siblings of the same gender, known as "Brothers' WeekDay" or "Sisters' WeekDay", in which the teams would be all male or all female. Youthful stars of NBC's prime-time series also played with their real-life siblings for charity on two episodes, known as "Celebrity WeekDay".

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