Trivia Trap
Two teams race through trivia to win $10,000.
Trivia Trap, a Mark Goodson Productions game show, aired on ABC from October 8, 1984, to April 5, 1985. Two teams of three contestants, split into juniors and seniors, competed in trivia rounds for a $10,000 prize. Bob Eubanks hosted, with Gene Wood, Charlie O'Donnell, and Bob Hilton rotating as announcers.
Quick Facts
- Runtime
- approx. 22-26 Minutes
- Company
- Mark Goodson Productions
- Creator
- Mark Goodson
- Executive producers
- Chester Feldman
- Producer
- Jonathan Goodson
- Director
- Marc Breslow
- Presenter
- Bob Eubanks
- Announcer
- Gene Wood
- Charlie O'Donnell
- Bob Hilton
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Broadcast history
Trivia Trap premiered on October 8, 1984 in ABC's 11:00 AM timeslot, taking over the time period for a house of reruns (like Benson, celebrity Family Feud specials, etc.). That time was home to popular game shows The Price Is Right on CBS and Wheel of Fortune on NBC and struggled as a result. ABC canceled Trivia Trap after six months and 128 episodes; the show's final episode aired on April 5, 1985. The following Monday, All-Star Blitz took over the show's timeslot. Game Show Network aired the show several times over the late 1990s into the late 2000s, while Buzzr aired the first two episodes as part of the "Lost and Found" marathon in September 2017, and the show continued to air on Buzzr until April 2018. Trivia Trap was the final Mark Goodson-produced game show to have an original format. From then until the acquisition of Goodson's company by the predecessors of FremantleMedia, all of the shows produced by Mark Goodson Productions were revivals of previous series and Trivia Trap was also the last Mark Goodson-produced game show to premiere on ABC until a revival of Match Game premiered in July 1990.
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