Tic-Tac-Dough (Host: Patrick Wayne)
Another Wink Martindale-hosted show that received a revival shortly after it was canceled was "everybody's game of strategy, knowledge and fun, Tic-Tac-Dough." Unfortunately, without Wink hosting the show, Tic-Tac-Dough was not fun at all. From 1978 to 1985, millions of America's tuned in day after day for their fix of trivia and an oversize version of a favorite game to play in the car while traveling. Wink Martindale hosted 18 different game shows throughout his incredible career, but many people most likely remember him for his time saying "let's shuffle the categories," "avoid the dragon" and "yes for Tic-Tac-Dough." Anyone wanting to go into show business can learn a lot about hosting just from watching Wink do his thing on Tic-Tac-Dough. Wink left the show in 1985 to focus on a new show he was hosting and producing called Headline Chasers. He was replaced by Jim Caldwell but the show was canceled a year later.
In 1990, the show returned with an almost futuristic looking set and a new host, Patrick Wayne. If you are asking yourself if Patrick Wayne has any relation to John Wayne, well, the answer is yes. Patrick Wayne is an actor and the second son of western movie legend John Wayne.
The main game was relatively the same as the previous version. Two contestants, a champion and a challenger, answer questions in nine different categories to earn X's and O's on the Tic-Tac-Dough board. Each correct answer earns money in the pot and whichever player gets three in a row across, up-and-down or diagonal wins the game, all the money in the pot and gets to play the bonus game.
For the 1990 version, the bonus game required a contestant to play with either the X's or the O's. The contestant then selected boxes in hopes of finding their chosen symbol to earn money to the pot. If they can find three in a row of their chosen symbol they won whatever money they added to the pot along with a special prize. Finding the dragon, however, meant the contestant would lose, but finding the dragon slayer was an automatic win.
Joining the 2001 version of Card Sharks, the 1990 version of Tic-Tac-Dough is also one of the worst game show revivals ever. There was nothing particularly exciting about any aspect of the show and it felt like Barry & Enright Productions was just trying desperately to revive Tic-Tac-Dough in any way, shape and form they could. The main game always felt so slow, probably because the players stopped the category shuffling before every turn, and the bonus game was so difficult to win, especially when the board featured a Tic-Tac-Dough with the symbol the player didn't choose.
Then there was Patrick Wayne. It's never a treat watching a newbie game show host who tries to act like their vision of what a game show host is supposed to act like and Patrick Wayne did just that. Between his cheeky smile, his overly inflected voice and his robotic like movements, Patrick Wayne was not even close to being the person who deserved the right to fill Wink Martindale's shoes.
Tic-Tac-Dough is one of the shows featured on the Game Show Revivals That Need To Happen Soon list and one of the reasons it should be revived is so the Patrick Wayne incarnation is no longer the most recent version of Tic-Tac-Dough. Many people didn't know or forgot Tic-Tac-Dough was on in 1990, and to be honest, it should be forgotten.
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