Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak

PILOT SPIEL: ''First, the championship women's team: (insert four female contestants) and (insert fifth female contestant). And now, the members of the men's team: (insert four male contestants) and (insert fifth male contestant). The game is... HOT STREAK! And here he is, BRUCE FORSYTH!''

SERIES SPIEL: ''First, the members of the (championship) (insert gender)'s team: (insert contestants names) and now, the members of the (insert gender)'s team: (insert contestants names). There here today on BRUCE FORSYTH'S HOT STREAK And now, here he is... here's BRUCE FORSYTH!''

This was Pyramid with a twist. It's the only US game show hosted by British personality Bruce Forsyth.

Gameplay
Two teams of five contestants (one consisting of men, the other consists of women) compete in a battle of the sexes game of word association.

The Bonus Round
A subject was given to the team captain to start, with his/her teammates once again wearing headphones. The captain gave four words associated with the subject, the ones he/she thought were the most obvious. After that, the teammates have 20 seconds (five seconds per team member) to guess the four words provided by their captain. Each word guessed was worth $200. This process was repeated with a second subject worth $300 per correct guess.

For the third and final subject, if the team was able to guess all four words provided by the captain within 20 seconds, their bonus round score was multiplied by five, for a maximum payoff of $10,000. If the team was unable to do so, they added whatever they won in the first parts of the bonus round to their winnings from the main game.

Pilot Rules
The pilot bonus was played exactly the same except that the payoffs are different: Subjects #1 & 2 - $300

Subject #3 - 10 times the value

The maximum grand total is $24,000.

The Party Line Pilot
Three pilots for the show were made, with the first from 1983 titled Party Line. It was hosted by Gene Rayburn with Jay Stewart announcing. Forsyth hosted the other two pilots (with Rod Roddy announcing both).

For the most part, the main game was played the same as the other two pilots and series, but contestants earned points instead of money. Ruck Zuck, the German version of this show, used the same scoring format.

However, the bonus round for the first pilot was substantially different from the series and other two pilots. The winning team faced a zigzag line of nine players, and all team members were given the same word. The team captain was given a baton, and with the baton he or she gave clues to each of the nine players, without repeating any clues. If at any time the captain runs out of clues, he/she can pass to the next teammate in line (the process is the same for the other team members). The first transaction was worth $100 and the money doubled for every subsequent transition, up to $25,600. The process lasted for 40 seconds as in the main game.

International Versions
The following are a list of countries that did their versions of (Bruce Forsyth's) Hot Streak:
 * Australia
 * Belgium
 * France
 * Germany
 * Greece
 * Indonesia
 * Israel
 * Poland
 * Russia
 * Serbia
 * Spain

Addition Note
Both the Spain and Serbian versions of the show (known as Dame Una Pista/Give Me a Clue and Zlatni Krug/Golden Circle respectively) has a mixture of Hot Streak and the popular British game show Give Us a Clue.

Music
Ray & Marc Ellis

Catchphrase
"It's nice to see you, to see you... AUDIENCE: Nice!" - Bruce Forsyth and the Audience - 1986

Taglines
"Don't wanna be left out, do ya? If you're feeling hot, and wanna streak, then tune in each and every day of the week on Hot Streak. Cheerio!" - Bruce Forsyth, 1986

"Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak is a Reg Grundy Production!" - Gene Wood/Marc Summers - 1986

Additional Page
Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak/Video Gallery