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==Gameplay==
 
==Gameplay==
In each episode, three pairs of contestants would spend some time talking with host Hart. Then they responded to quiz questions during the game. Each team started with $50 and on each question they bet in increments of $10 how much they wanted to risk. The pair who finished the show with the most money had an opportunity to double their cash prize towards the end of the show by answering one final question, with no penalty for an incorrect answer.
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In each episode, three pairs of contestants would spend some time talking with Hart, afterwhich they responded to quiz questions during the game. Each team started with $50, and on each question, they would bet in increments of $10 based on how much they wanted to risk. The pair who finished the show with the most money had an opportunity to double their cash prize towards the end of the show by answering one final question, with no penalty for an incorrect answer.
   
 
==Inventors==
 
==Inventors==

Revision as of 21:06, 6 November 2019

Host
Hart Pomerantz
Co-Host/Annoucer
Warren Davis
Broadcast
Double Up
CBC: 6/1/1974 – 10/5/1974

Double Up was a game show similar to the American comedy quizzer, You Bet Your Life.

Gameplay

In each episode, three pairs of contestants would spend some time talking with Hart, afterwhich they responded to quiz questions during the game. Each team started with $50, and on each question, they would bet in increments of $10 based on how much they wanted to risk. The pair who finished the show with the most money had an opportunity to double their cash prize towards the end of the show by answering one final question, with no penalty for an incorrect answer.

Inventors

Dan Finkleman & Hart Pomerantz

YouTube Links

First Nine Minutes of the Show
Last Nine Minutes of the Show