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| Aired | |
| ABC Daytime, July 12, 1976-October 22, 1976 | |
| Run time | |
| 30 Minutes | |
| Host | |
| Jim Peck | |
| Announcer | |
| Kenny Williams | |
| Origination | |
| Studio 54, ABC Television Center, Los Angeles, California | |
Hot Seat was a short-lived game show where two married couples competed as one team played at a time.
Game Format[]
Two married couples played against each other one at a time. One of the spouses had to guess what the other would say when asked a round of three questions.
The spouse sitting in the "hot seat" would have their emotions measured by an electronic GSR device. Each question would have two choices. The player at the podium would select one answer and the spouse would respond to each choice with a negative response. The arch above the "hot seat" would feature a meter which indicated which answer was more of a lie; the answer that was the most true (the one which had the most lights lit up) was considered the correct answer.
The three questions were worth $100, $200, and $400. The couple with the most money at the end of the show could take either an additional $500 or play the bonus round for a trip and a new car. Whichever option was not chosen went to their opponents.
Pilot[]
The pilot, recorded on January 17, 1976, was played the same as the series with the exception of the bonus round: the husband sat in front of a turntable, while the wife saw the lie-detector reactions in another isolation booth. The husband would be shown three prizes (in this case, a washer/dryer combo, an expensive sports car, and a cheap iron with ironing board), and had to say "No, I would not like that prize." for each one. After the husband's third reaction, the wife chose which prize the couple would win.
However, there was a twist: namely, the third prize was modeled by a young lady wearing a bikini. The wife, unaware of this and only seeing that the lie detector had shot to the very end of the scale for the third prize, chose it (again, based on her husband's reaction, which had clearly lied about not wanting the model). After the wife came out of the booth, she screamed in agony upon seeing what the show had done.
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Trivia[]
Both this show and Family Feud (Dawson) premiered on the same day.
On Who Wants To Be a Millionaire? (or Millionaire) had a term for the contestant also called the "Hot Seat" where they have to answer questions in order to win the cash.
An active and currently rotating pricing game on The Price is Right (Carey) called "Hot Seat" premiered in 2016.
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