Scattergories (game show)
Two teams race to name words by category and letter.
Scattergories is an American game show that aired on NBC daytime from January 18 to June 11, 1993, hosted by Dick Clark with Charlie Tuna as announcer. Adapted from the Milton Bradley board game of the same name, it featured two teams of contestants competing to name words fitting a category and starting with a given letter. Produced by Reg Grundy Productions, it was the company's second to last American game show.
Quick Facts
- Genre
- Game show
- Presenter
- Dick Clark
- Announcer
- Charlie Tuna
- Country
- United States
- Company
- Reg Grundy Productions
- Language
- English
- Episodes
- 90 (1993; 1 unaired)
- Runtime
- 25 minutes
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Broadcast history
Scattergories and a revival of Grundy's earlier Scrabble joined the NBC lineup on the same day. NBC gave that time slot back to affiliates after Santa Barbara ended, becoming the first major American broadcast network to do so. In exchange, NBC reclaimed the 12:00 pm slot and placed both new game shows in the noon hour. Scattergories aired at 12:30 pm following Scrabble for its entire run. However, most NBC affiliates did not air it at its scheduled time due to continuing local newscasts or syndicated programming at noon; some stations aired it elsewhere, while others did not air it at all, often relegating it to independent stations in some markets. In markets that aired it at 12:30 pm, it faced Loving on ABC and the first half-hour of The Young and the Restless on CBS. Scattergories did not perform well against either soap opera. NBC cancelled it after twenty-one weeks, with the last episode on June 11, 1993.
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