Finders Keepers (1987 TV series)
| Finders Keepers | |
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Intro title for Finders Keepers.
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| Created by | Geoffrey Darby Bonni Grossberg Michael Klinghoffer Neil Krupnick Dee LaDuke |
| Presented by |
Wesley Eure (Nickelodeon) Larry Toffler (Syndication) |
| Theme music composer | Edd Kalehoff |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 195 (Nickelodeon: 130; syndication: 65) |
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| Location(s) |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (first two seasons) Los Angeles, California (syndication) |
| Running time | 30 minutes (including commercials) |
| Distributor |
20th Television CBS Television Distribution |
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| Original network |
Nickelodeon (1987–88) Syndicated (1988–89) |
| Original release | November 2, 1987 – March 10, 1989 |
Finders Keepers is a children's game show that debuted on Nickelodeon in 1987 and later aired in first-run syndication starting in 1988. The show featured two teams of two children attempting to find hidden objects in different rooms of a house.
The Nickelodeon version premiered on November 2, 1987 and was hosted by Wesley Eure. Following this version's cancellation, Larry Toffler hosted a syndicated version that premiered on September 12, 1988.
The main game was played in two rounds, each with two halves. The first half of each round involved finding hidden pictures in a complex drawing, and the second half involved ransacking rooms in a large house built on-stage.
In the first half of each round, the object for the teams was to find hidden pictures drawn into a larger picture based on clues given by the host. On the Nickelodeon series the picture was displayed on a telestrator and the team used a light pen to circle the object. On the syndicated series the picture was displayed on the game board with plastic laminate stickers similar to Colorforms representing the objects, and the team had to run to the board and stick a laminate to the picture to show where the hidden object was.
Each correct item located earned $25 for the team and an opportunity to search one of four rooms in the house for that round. During the first half of the Nickelodeon series the players chose the rooms they wanted to search, but this was later changed so that each hidden object found awarded the opportunity to search a specific room.
Each picture had a maximum of six objects hidden within it. In the first half of the Nickelodeon series, an incorrect answer meant a room would go unclaimed. For the subsequent episodes and syndicated series, the round was played until all four rooms were claimed or all six clues were played.
The house consisted of eight rooms that could be whimsical versions of traditional rooms in a typical home (e.g., a living room, a bathroom, a den or a kitchen), or complete fantasy rooms, such as "Sherlock's Study," "Ali-Baba's bathroom", a sewer (which contained a pool of water), Tarzan's tree house, a pastry shop, or "Frankenstein's laboratory."
In each room, the host read a clue describing an object hidden within that room. The team had 30 seconds to find the object, and were given one chance to show it to the host once found. Each room in this round was worth $50, which went to the team if they found the object in the room. If the team either failed to find the correct object or showed an incorrect one to the host, the opposing team won the money.
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