Maybe the ads were from the pilot?

All depends...the only print ads I've seen for Strike it Rich were all sketched.

Very true, although I assumed it was popular because it was half an hour of Barrymore larking about with contestants and oh! there's a game somewhere too.

I never really enjoyed it to be honest.

That was my take, as well...seemed to me almost like a half-hour of Barrymore chatting it up w/the contestants, w/the game thrown in as an afterthought.

I must, however, give him credit for maintaining the energy level needed on a show like that...the UK version had one player from each team running the arches, w/the others at stage right podiums for the toss-up questions, which meant a lot of running back across the stage during the game.

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")

You might want to clarify that SIL had three rows of monitors in the end game - at least it did in the one episode I saw (I think in 1994).

Also, didn't the UK version have questions hidden behind one of the monitors in each column (it counted as "good" or "bad" - I can't remember what exactly the SIR monitors had - depending on whether or not they gave a right answer)?

-- Don

If you're talking about the US Strike it Rich from 1986, the category and five answer choices were displayed on a computer screen to the right of the contestant area. At the end of each team's row of screens, there was a question holder with the final questions which would win the team the game upon answering one. As far as what the monitors did upon a team giving a right answer, I don't recall. The screen displaying the answer choices would say "Champions: (team member one and team member two)" when a team won the game.

Ummm........Zach, the last post specifically says "the UK version". Once again, PJTP.

Tyshaun

I know PJTP, but I saw SIR and thought he meant the US version of the show(not to be confused with the UK version, Strike it LUcky)

And on top of that, you weren't even close to answering the question asked.

According to the UK Game Show Page:

"On the thirty screens would be 10 Arrows (a free move), 10 Questions (True of False questions which turned into free moves or Hot Spots) and 10 Hot Spots. The computer would jumble everything up and then blank out the screens. The contestants now had to guess Top, Middle or Bottom for each of the ten columns of screens, and if it was a free move or they got a question correct they would win 5% of the money they were playing for. If they got a Hot Spot they lost one of their "lives". This would keep going until they got to the end or they ran out of chances."

It also says that they preselected how many Hot Spots they would be allowed to hit, the options being 2, 3, or 4, and of course, the fewer you chose, the more money you could win.

(By the way, on the US show, the arches contained dollar signs and bandits.)