Your Number's Up
Your Number's Up is a game show that aired on NBC from September 23 to December 20, 1985.[1] The show was hosted by Nipsey Russell with Lee Menning as co-host. Announcing duties were handled by Gene Wood for the first month and John Harlan for the rest of the run, with Johnny Haymer and Johnny Gilbert as substitutes.
Your Number's Up
Sande Stewart
Bruce Burmester
Nipsey Russell
with Lee Menning
United States
65
Sande Stewart
approx. 26 minutes
Sande Stewart Productions
September 23 –
December 20, 1985
This show was the first series produced by Sande Stewart, son of game show producer Bob Stewart. Your Number's Up was put up against the elder Stewart's The $25,000 Pyramid on CBS at 10:00 AM Eastern. Most of the staff from Bob Stewart Productions also worked in the production of this series.
Bonus round[edit]
The winner drew a postcard sent in by a home viewer, who immediately won $1,000. Prior to the first episode, postcards were obtained via an ad in TV Guide; during the show's run, viewers with telephone numbers whose last four digits appeared on the main game board were eligible to send in cards. The contestant then had 60 seconds to reveal the last four digits of the chosen viewer's phone number. He/she selected a digit 0–9 from a board which resembled a touch-tone phone keypad, with an acronym displayed below each digit, and a clue was read. (Example: T.P.E. delivered the mail by horse – answer: The Pony Express.) If the contestant answered correctly, all instances of the chosen digit in the home viewer's phone number (if any) were revealed and the digit was removed from the board. If the contestant answered incorrectly or passed, a new acronym was put below that digit.
The contestant won $100 for each correct answer, or $5,000 for revealing the entire number. If the contestant won the bonus game on any day from Monday through Thursday, the home viewer received an additional $1,000; a Friday win awarded $5,000 more. After the series was canceled, 15 home viewers won $1,000 each in a random drawing from the unused postcards.[2]