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TheInquisitiveOne:
Can anyone tell me about the format of the short lived 1982-1983 NBC show Fantasy, Hosted by Peter Marshall?

The Inquisitive One

PeterMarshallFan:
It was hosted by Marshall and Leslie Uggams, FYI.

rugrats1:
The show was more along the lines of sob-story shows like \"Queen For A Day\" and \"Strike It Rich\" (with Warren Hull, not Joe Garagiola), where members of the studio audience, and even people at home, win prizes, services and money, if their cause is deemed worthy by Peter and Leslie.

The show only lasted roughly a year, and was replaced with a revival (in part) of Peter's old show -- \"The Match Game - Hollywood Squares Hour\".

clemon79:
[quote name=\'rugrats1\' date=\'Jul 12 2003, 03:41 PM\'] The show was more along the lines of sob-story shows like "Queen For A Day" and "Strike It Rich" (with Warren Hull, not Joe Garagiola) [/quote]
 Kinda. That makes it sound like people stood up and told sob stories in the audience in order to get prizes, and that wasn't always the case. Here's some of the pieces they did over the course of the hour:

* Show some kind of preproduced story, one of personal triumph or great loss or what have you, and then afterwards introduce the subjects of the story and \"make their Fantasy come true\" by giving them some prizes.

* Reunions, either done remotely or live on set.

Two bits you could pretty much count on seeing on every show:

* Four couples would be brought up onstage, and instructed to secretly choose among four prizes or trip locations, with the caveat that they only won that trip if nobody else selected it. On occasion the lucky coincidence would occur where all four sets of contestants would select a different prize, and much rejoicing would occur.

* The \"Fantasy Fountain\" : A couple is stuck inside the Diamond Head / Kroeger BTC / you get the idea \"swirling whirlwind\" booth, with $50 bills blowing all around them. They got to keep whatever they got into the purse after a minute.

That was the general idea. Like I said before, the concept was fairly lighthearted as opposed to playing \"Who Can Be More Pathetic?\", the set was fairly bright, and overall as opposed to watching a soap opera, it was a pretty painless hour of network daytime television.

zachhoran:
That game where the four players or couples won their choice of prizes if no one else selected it was borrowed from the late 60s Heatter-Quigley show \"Temptaton\"(Fantasy was a Heatter solo production in association with COlumbia Pictures). Write a Check was another variation on this game, where a player wrote in an amount from $100 to $900 in $100 increments, and won that amount if no one else picked it.

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