#Japanese father daughter gameshow series

#Japanese father daughter gameshow series

The father and his girlfriend married on June 11, 1993, the same date of the series finale. Officials at both companies agreed to pull the episode and replace it with a rerun. She contacted NBC and Dave Bell Associates, the series' packagers, to get the episode pulled before its intended broadcast date. A May 1993 Chicago Tribune report reported the team won $6,000 in prizes, but the girl's real mother discovered the deception. Identifying themselves as the Hansen family, the team actually consisted of a father, his 10-year-old daughter and his live-in girlfriend who posed as the daughter's mother. If the team gave three wrong answers, the round ended with a loss, but if they gave three correct answers they won the trip.ĭuring the series' run, controversy arose when one team competing on the show turned out not to be a real family. Before each question, Eubanks would give the child the category of the question and have them decide whether mom or dad would answer it. Up to five trivia questions would be asked of the winning team. The bonus round was played for a family vacation. If there was a tie at the end of the game, a second numerical question was asked with the same rules. After this round, the family with the most money (out of a possible $1,300) won the game, an extra prize and moved on to the bonus round.

The family that came closest (or, if both families were in the same numerical range, the family with the higher number) won $500. Each family had ten seconds to write down their answer. The kids were then brought out to answer the same questions, with each match being worth $200.įor the last question, a numerical question about the average American family was asked. The parents are then asked two questions about their kids. In round two, the kids are put in isolation. The process is then repeated with two questions about their moms. Their dads were then brought out of isolation and were asked for their answers to the same questions. In round one, the parents were brought into isolation, then the kids were asked two questions about their dad. Two families, consisting of two parents and one child, competed in a game similar to Eubanks' own The Newlywed Game. The show was taped at the Disney-MGM Studios in Orlando, Florida in front of a live studio audience consisting of theme park guests. Bob Eubanks hosted and Orlando-area disc jockey Dean Miuccio announced. Just Spot Your Real Dad, and You'll Win the JackpotĬontestant T.J.American TV series or program Family Secretsįamily Secrets is a daytime game show, running on NBC from March 22 to June 11, 1993. The first episode and Prime Time Premiere was starring the adoptee TJ Myers and showed in the Nielsen ratings to have over 11 million viewers, even in it's time slot which was aired while the Super Bowl was being played.Ī United Press International reported that Myers 'guessed which of eight men was her real-life birth father correctly and won $100,000.Īll five episodes aired later on the now-defunct FOX Reality Channel featuring other adoptees. The show drew controversy from adoption rights organizations, leading to one Fox affiliate (more specfically, WRAZ in Raleigh, North Carolina) declining to air the 90-minute special. But either way, the daughter and her father will be reunited in the most dramatic and emotional way possible. But if she guesses wrong, the impostor will win the money.

If she guesses right, the prize money will be hers.

Myers will have the opportunity to interview and observe the men, narrowing the field. And to keep her real dad from revealing himself from the start, there is $100,000 at stake. However, before meeting her dad, the young woman will be presented with eight men who are all claiming to be her father where she must determine which one really is. Myers), who was given up for adoption as an infant, with an extraordinary opportunity to meet the birth father who also has been searching for her.