Friday

April 30


This week in ShortShots:

Thursday
Wednesday
Tuesday
Monday
Weekend

All times eastern

Reruns:
Cram
Friend or Foe?
I've Got a Secret
Lingo
Russian Roulette
Shop 'Til You Drop
The Weakest Link
Whammy!

Some game logo captures appear courtesy of Mike Klauss, Jay Lewis, and David Livingston.


Host: Richard Karn
Weekdays, check familyfeud.com: Syndication

SPEEDROUND: The Martinezes (Carla, Bonnie, Brian, Beth, and Brittney; $395) get Little, taking on the Littles (Floyd, Debora, Christy, Adrian, and Ricky). The Littles are ganging up on the champs as we go to triple score and something that has wings. Adrian fires with the number one, a bird. Rest of the champs come up with a fly, while the champs steal with angel. Other answer: butterfly. Time for sudden death: a kind of key teenagers have. Littles take it with housekey, 483-234.

Adrian and Ricky play the Fast Money board. Ricky delivers 94, while Adrian gets them to 165 for $825.

-Chico Alexander


Host: Tom Bergeron
Weekdays, check hollywoodsquares.com: Syndication

Kathy Griffin
comic
Alan Young
"House of Mouse"
Joan Rivers
E!
X
Kathie Lee Gifford
actress/singer
Martin Mull
Center Square
O
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
basketball great
Jason Alexander
actor
Jeff Corwin
"Jeff Corwin Unleashed"
Louise DuArt
"Living the Life"

Contestants: X: Keith Camire ($4500). O: Colleen Sanchez.

Game one continues from yesterday's show. Seems like we've done that all week. Anyway, we go the distance with Colleen picking up five - Alan, Kathie Lee, Martin, Jason, and Louise - for $1000.

Secret Square game is for a tour of a city so nice, they filmed it twice. We put a TV tour of New York City in Kareem's square. Keith finds him, and together they have to identify Bill Murray in "The Cradle Will Rock"... They don't. It only gets worse for our champion. Sorry, ex-champion. Yes, Colleen keeps the stream of champs flowing with a win of Kathy, Martin, and Louise for $1000. Keith leaves with $4500.

Another thing we seem to be doing this week is bringing out the blushing steamer trunk. This time, it's for a cruise of the Caribbean. She captures four - Alan, Joan, Kathie Lee, and Louise - for four keys spotted. She takes the east key (and leaves the complimentary keychain)... It was a sign, I swear. Right key was southeast, giving Colleen $4000.

She is challenged by our new Mr. X, musician/student/former Channel One anchor Tonoccus McClain. Out of time again, but next week, it's our take on the Drew Carey April Fool's shows, as we present "It Just Ain't Right Week". For official rules, check out the site.

-Chico Alexander


Host: Alex Trebek
Weekdays, check
jeopardy.com: Syndication

SPEEDROUND: Final Jeopardy! Category: 18th Century British Novels. Answer: This title person asks a pile of money, "What art thou good for?... one of those knives is worth all this heap." Correct response: Who is Robinson Crusoe? Don leaves with $19,800.

Al Davis had a commanding lead and and runaway win going into Final Jeopardy! However all players couldn't come up with the correct person, but it didn't matter for Al because he becomes the new Jeopardy! champion with $18,000. Don Kraft left with $29,800.

Now Al gets to relax as Jeopardy! begins their kids shows from Washington, DC all next week and Power Players the week after that.

-Jason Huhn


Host: Bob Barker
11a Weekdays: CBS

It happened again.

For only the second time in TPIR history, we were about to play Lucky Seven, when a model (in this case, Rachel Reynolds) crashed into the big doors onstage. It wouldn't have made a different in any case, as Shelley Woods lost her bid for the offending Ford Mustang Convertible. But she does have a couple of cell phones.

She could call up that half's winner, David Carillo, who won a home gym in his one bid, but lost out on appliances and a food processor, locked forever away in Safe Crackers. His Showcase Showdown moment more than made up for it, as he won $1000 on the Big Wheel.

He'll face top winner Shannon Loftus, who gives a shout out to Middle Earth at UC-Irvine. She wins sport watches and plays Poker Game for a set of accessories, a dinette, a washer/dryer, and a carpet cleaner, winning all of them with three 8s over the house's two pair.

Showcase 1 cringes with a karaoke, a digital piano, and a Dodge Ram. Shannon keeps it, bidding $25,500. David is left with a bedroom group with mattress and bedding, a luggage set, and a trip to Hong Kong. He tags it at $17,775, an overbid.

Shannon's bid, though, was right on the money, as she takes away $30,946. A perfect warm-up for tomorrow night's million-dollar wingding.

Other winners:
Jerry Dohay: Soccer table and a Pontiac Grand Am SE
Jennifer Napier: Baker's rack and a motorcycle
Ruth Ann Castro: Double swing set and a sauna

-Chico Alexander


Host: Donny Osmond
Weekdays, check
pyramidgameshow.com: Syndication

Players: Bob Mackey (real estate agent) and Tricia Schroeder (teacher/mother of two)
Partners for Classic TV Week: Russell Johnson and Dawn Wells (both of "Gilligan's Island")

Dawn and Bob sweep "I'd Like to Exchange My Hubby for a Different Size" (things that come in different sizes). "Skip the Vows and Go to the Honeymoon!" is the Super Six for a trip to Jamaica. That's one heck of a honeymoon. Russell communicates to Tricia all six parts of a wedding video. They also need five in "Two Divas & Pavarotti: a Three Aria Tour" (things at an opera) to win. They only get four to tie it at 14. Dawn and Bob get three "V"-words. Russell and Tricia get five "J"-words to win, 18-17.

Tricia's the mother of twins. And she's expecting another set of twins! Her family is in the crowd hoping for $10,000. Russell gives in the Winner's Circle. They pass "famous French people" and burble "things that are sold out" (offending clue: opening night tickets for a play). They never pick up the former, but Tricia does get $900 for the babies.

"She's So Cheap, She Shops at the Lost & Found" is the Super Six for a Sony digital movie studio. Karen Essex of Worcester, MA plays along as Tricia communicates to Dawn four ways a cheap person saves money. They need four in "My Convertible Doubles as a Blow-Dryer" (things people do when they drive), 11-10.

Tricia just felt a kick. We better make this Winner's Circle round fast, then. Dawn gives. To win, "uneven things." A bad hem and odd numbers will do it for $10,000, $10,900 total.

-Chico Alexander


Host: Frank Nicotero
Weekdays, check streetsmartstv.com: Syndication

SPEEDROUND: Today, it's SSN - Street Smarts News, with Justin and Myya looking to make some news himself. Frank asks the tough questions - and some easy ones - to Meagan, Law, and Meredith. Myya schools Justin by a score of $1300 to $400 going into the Wager of Death: George W. Bush's inauguration took place in what American city?

Justin goes with Meagan, while Myya teams with Meredith. Meagan gets it right with "Washington, DC", leaving Justin with a big fat goose egg. Meredith also gets it right, but does Myya get it right? Yep, winning $1799.

-Chico Alexander


Hosts: Pat Sajak and Vanna White
Weekdays, check
wheeloffortune.com: Syndication

SPEEDROUND: In their final show before airing three weeks of shows from San Francisco, Mick Buchman had lots of excitement knowing the occupation ANTIQUE DEALER and playing the bonus round winning a total of $11,450 all in cash. He also did well in the bonus round, where is selected letters helped him solve the phrase  STAYING POWER. Mick adds another $25,000 more for a final cash total of $36,450.

-Jason Huhn


Host: Meredith Vieira
Weekdays, check millionaireTV.com: Syndication

Back in the hot seat is Amy Bethard, who reached the $300 level on Thursday's show and still has all her lifelines.

On the $2,000 question, she asked the audience to know that from 1951 to 1985, Jack La Lanne hosted a TV show that offered instructions in fitness.

On the $4,000 question, Amy calls up Matt to know that the first line, "Once upon a midnight dreary", is in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven".

On the $16,000 question, she uses her 50:50 and she correctly answers that in Scottish folklore, the brownie is an elflike creature who finishes up housework at night.

Amy blew her $32,000 question as with over 12 million people, the province of Ontario has the highest population. She said Quebec. Amy should've thought about populations in Toronto, Oshawa, Ottawa, London, Windsor, Sarnia, Kingston, Hamilton, Peterbourgh, Barrie, Orillia, Owen Sound, North Bay, Sudbury, Sault Ste. Marie, Thunder Bay and Niagara Falls (C-Note: Okay, we get it). This unemployed TV producer leaves with $1,000.

Tony Suffoletta is next up. On the $4,000 question, he asked the audience and a huge majority said that canine teeth are also known as incisors. Tony goes for it, but they were wrong! They are cuspids. Sadly, Tony also ends up with $1,000.

Let's see if Suzanne Jonker can do better as she's next up. She got to $8,000 without using a lifeline and goes for $16,000 on Monday.

-Jason Huhn