Puttin' on the Hits
| Puttin' on the Hits | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Reality competition |
| Created by | Wm. Randy Wood |
| Presented by | Allen Fawcett |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 134 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Dick Clark Chris Bearde |
| Location(s) |
Universal City Studios Hollywood, California |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Chris Bearde Productions Dick Clark Productions |
| Distributor |
MCA TV (1984-1988) NBCUniversal Television Distribution (2001-Present) |
| Release | |
| Original network | Syndicated |
| Original release | September 15, 1984 – July 3, 1988 |
Puttin' on the Hits is an American syndicated music/variety competition show hosted and written by Allen Fawcett. The show featured amateur acts lip-synching to popular songs. The show aired on weekends from 1984 to 1988.
The show grew out of lip synching contests developed by Wm. "Randy" Wood, who by 1982 had realized that his contests had grown so popular nationally that he needed to stage them on a broader scale. The planning process eventually grew into Puttin' on the Hits. Gong Show creator Chris Bearde and Dick Clark (fame of "AMERICAN BANDSTAND") are both served as executive producers. Clark's son, Richard A. Clark, produced with Wm. Randy Wood serving as the consulting producer. MCA Television served as distributor. Puttin' on the Hits was taped in Hollywood, California at Universal City Studios.
Contestants would often dress up in costumes and use props to make their act more outrageous. This varied from a seemingly severed head singing "I Ain't Got Nobody" to an Aretha Franklin drag act using couch cushions for breasts. Other acts were more conservative and placed emphasis on performance.
The competition, as it was conducted as many other televised performance contests (e.g. Star Search) were. Each act was judged by a panel of celebrity judges based on their originality, appearance & lip-sync abilities with a possible total of 90 points (for the on-air average score of 30 points) being the maximum value an act could score; to achieve that, an act would have to receive 10 points in each of the three categories from all three judges in the private total score for each 1 of the 6 acts and averaged it in 1 category at a time faster up to 3. The act with the highest score (with the averaged score) at the end of the show wins $1000. They also advanced to the Semi-Finals which is worth $5000 and after that, the season-ending championship show (dubbed the "Grand Final") worth $25,000 to the winning act of the season and in 1988 all 4 Acts in 4 different seasons for the last show's (Dubbed "The Super Final") with the same grand cash prize like "The Grand Final."
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