WinTuition
| WinTuition | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Game show |
| Presented by | Marc Summers |
| Starring | "Gorgeous George" Davidson |
| Narrated by | Burton Richardson |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 22+48/2=35 minutes |
| Production company(s) | LMNO Cable Group Fair Dinkum Productions Sugar Bros. Entertainment Game Show Originals Sony Pictures Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | Game Show Network |
| Original release | December 9, 2002 – April 1, 2003 |
WinTuition is an American game show created as an original series for Game Show Network, on which it originally ran from December 9, 2002 to April 1, 2003. The game had a school-oriented theme in which three contestants competed to answer questions on general school-based subjects in an attempt to win a $50,000 college fund, hence the name of the show. The show was hosted by Marc Summers and announced by Burton Richardson. Henry Winkler served as the show's executive producer.
WinTuition went into production and first aired on GSN in late 2002. The show was produced by Henry Winkler and hosted by Marc Summers. Kennedy, who at the time was the host of Friend or Foe?, hosted one episode in 2003 as part of an April Fool's Day prank in which the hosts of Game Show Network's original series traded places.
Burton Richardson announced the show, and a male model identified as "Gorgeous George" Davidson occasionally brought out props related to the questions.
The main game was divided into twelve levels, or "grades," with each level containing question material appropriate to that particular grade The subject of each grade was announced before the question was asked. All three players started the game with 500 points.
One buzz-in question per grade level was asked for the first four grades, while in fifth grade every player was asked his/her own question as part of a spelling bee or matching/guessing game. Correct answers were worth 100 points each; missed questions cost the player 100. On some episodes, an elementary school age student provided a home viewer question before the commercial break at the end of this round, then gave the answer after the break ended.
Questions in this round had several correct answers, each of which was worth 250 points. Each player got to give one answer, starting with whoever buzzed in first, after which any player who had answered correctly could try to give answers to any or all remaining parts of the question. A miss at any time cost the player no points, but froze him/her out of the rest of the question. Four correct answers were possible in 6th and 7th grades, seven correct in 8th. After all three grades had been played, the lowest-scoring player was "expelled" from the game and went home with the complete 2002 set of the World Book Encyclopedia as a consolation prize.
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