Man O Man

Man O' Man was a primetime hour-long special based on the German format of the same name.

Broadcast
UPN: August 15, 1995

Host
Michael Burger

Packager
Reg Grundy Productions

Gameplay
The show was loosely based in the format of a beauty pageant but with male contestants. An-all female audience voted for the winner via a series of elimination rounds. Notably the losing contestants would be pushed in a swimming pool.

The male contestants would compete in a number of rounds where a characteristics of a woman may seek in a romancing partner, such as: general knowledge, romantic aptitude, conversation skills and sense of humor would be tested. At the end of each round, members of the entirely female audience each voted for their favorite "man" using a remote control device and the least popular male would be eliminated from the competition by being pushed into the swimming pool that formed part of the show's set by one of the beautiful hostesses. At the beginning of the episode, the ten male contestants would come out on stage and introduce themselves to the audience and form these first impressions the audience would eliminate the least three popular guys. The seven that were left then progressed to the next round, which is a "true or false" game and saw the guys to see how much they know about women. The next two rounds would have the five finalists doing a fairground hammer bell and then performing various songs for karaoke. Next, the surviving three guys go through to the final two rounds, which were to answers the girls and how much they can cope under pressure. After this, the audience voted for the winner with the two runner-up contestants being pushed to the pool simultaneously.

International Versions
These are the past countries that have aired their versions of Man O' Man:
 * Australia: as Man O Man airing on the Seven Network for a brief period in 1994, Hosted by Rob Guest.
 * Germany (Country that originated the program): as Mann-o-Mann airing on Sat.1 from 1992 until 1995, Hosted by Peer Augustinski.
 * Spain: as Uno Para Todas ("One for All") airing on Telecinco from 1995 until 1996, Hosted by Goyo Gonzales.
 * United Kingdom: as Man O Man airing on ITV from 1996 until 1999, Hosted by Chris Tarrant (of UK Millionaire fame).

Additional Notes

 * In Australia, the special was reran for a brief period on January 26, 1997 as part of the network's Coca-Cola Interactive Summer Night promotion. However, the special has not been repeated since then.


 * Most if not all international version (excluding Spain) share the same show's title as the German version, except theirs is spelled as "M-a-n-n-o-M-a-n-n" instead of "M-a-n-o-M-a-n".


 * Both the German and UK versions of the show respectively had a three year run.

Youtube Links
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