| Host | |
| Henry Polic II | |
| Announcer | |
| Johnny Gilbert | |
| Taped | |
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| Packager | |
| Bob Stewart Productions | |
| Planned Distributor | |
| Palladium Entertainment | |
"From Television City in Hollywood, this is EYE Q! Today, our contestants are: from Chicago, Illinois, Kathy and Frank Conway; and from Moundsville, West Virginia, Stone and Charlie Stoda. And your host on EYE Q is Henry Polic II!"
Eye Q was a failed attempt to revive the 1960s comedy game show Eye Guess.
Gameplay[]
Main Game[]
Two married couples competed in a game of finding & memorizing answers to questions hidden on a game board with eight numbered squares. The difference between this pilot & Eye Guess is that the answers were not revealed & re-concealed prior to each round.
Host Henry read a question to one player, and then the player in control picked a numbered square (s)he thought the correct answer was hidden behind. An exposure of a wrong answer caused a funny reaction to occur. Players on both teams took turns throughout and finding correct answers earned points. The point values increased throughout the round. Each round had seven questions. In the first round, the first correct answer was worth five points and grew by that amount for each new correct answer. In round two points were doubled, meaning that the first correct answer was worth ten points and grew by that amount for each new correct answer. The first couple to score 200 points won the game, $500 in cash and went on to play the bonus game.
Bonus Game[]
The bonus game was played on a 16 square game board. The catch was that the numbers were not in order, they were arranged at random, plus the winning team had their backs to the board. The object of this game was to get four boxes in a row either across or up & down (no diagonals) in eight picks or less.
Players on the winning team took turns picking off up eight numbers until they either got four in a row or ran out of picks. If the winning team was successful in getting four in a row they won a jackpot which started at $5,000 and grew by $1,000 if not won. If they got four in a row on the first four picks, then they won $50,000.
Music[]
Theme - "Honky-Tonk Humor #2" by Henrik Nielsen (Ole Georg Music)
It was previously used on another failed Bob Stewart pilot, Twisters.
Studio[]
CBS Television City (Studio 33), Hollywood, California
Slate[]
Trivia[]
The show's title is a reference of the term "IQ", meaning "Intelligence Quotient".
The set used in this pilot was previously used on another Bob Stewart pilot called Money in the Blank, which had taped in July 1987.
While not selling in the States, this format was eventually sold to Indonesia's RCTI as Kontak, which ran from 1998 to 2002.
Frank Conway was on the $25,000 Pyramid in March 1986.
Related Shows[]
YouTube Links[]
Clips of the pilot (followed by a clip from the 1,000th episode of The New $25,000 Pyramid)