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| GET THE PICTURE
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The opening title for Get the Picture.
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| Airdates:
| Nickelodeon March 1991 - March 1993
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| Host:
| Mike O'Malley
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| Announcer:
| "Henry J"
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| Producers:
| Andy Bamberger, Dana Calderwood, Brown Johnson
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Gameplay
A Round One piuzzle with two screens revealed
Two teams of two kids competed. The first round of the game was called "Connect the Dots". A picture of a person, place or thing was hidden on a 16-screen video wall, with only an array of unconnected dots visible to the players. The host would read a question, and the players would buzz in to answer. A correct answer won $20 and allowed the team to choose one of the screens to see how those dots were connected. A team could make a guess at the puzzle then for $50, but lost $20 if they were wrong.
Two screens during the first round concealed a "Power Surge", which was a stunt that usually involved identifying pictures that were doctored in some way, or memorizing sequences of pictures and recalling the order they were shown. Completing a Power Surge won an additional $20 and allowed the team to see a portion of the actual picture on that screen; if they lost the Power Surge, the money went to the other team. Teams played as many pictures as time would allow in the first round; if time was running short, the picture in play would be revealed one screen at a time until a team managed to buzz in and guess it.
In the show's second season, teams played for points instead of dollars, and each game began with a toss-up picture for 20 points.
A Round Two picture with two screens revealed
The second round of the game was called "Dots". The corners of each screen on the video wall was given a numbered dot from 1 to 25. The questions that were asked now had between 2 and 4 right answers; the team that answered the question correctly won $40 and could connect the dots along the screens equal to how many answers were in the question. (For example, if a team had answered a 2-part question, they could connect dots 7 and 8 together, and dots 9 and 14 together.) When all four sides of a screen had been lit up, that part of the picture was shown, and the team had the choice of guessing the puzzle for $75, at the risk of losing $20 if they were wrong. In the first season, one Power Surge was played, usually as a physical stunt in which players had to reveal as much of a picture as possible before guessing it. In the second season there were two Power Surges, similar to those played in the first round. At the end of the second round, the team with the highest score won the game and advanced to the Mega Memory bonus round.
The yellow team plays the Mega Memory round
For the bonus round, the team was shown nine pictures belonging to a common subject for 10 seconds. After memorizing the pictures, the team then had 45 seconds (35 in the second season) to match the pictures on the board to the clues given by the host. Each player took turns solving the clues by pushing the numbered buttons on a large numeric keypad. The first six matches won $100 each ($100 for each player in the first season, in the second each player split $100 per match); the following three matches won increasingly valuable prizes.
