Go all out!

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Go all out! was the German adaptation of the US -amerikanischen television - game show Let's Make a Deal .

The broadcast

Go all out! ran from January 2, 1992 to May 31, 1997, Monday to Saturday in the pre-evening program of Sat.1 . The show moderator was initially Jörg Draeger , who was replaced by Elmar Hörig on September 12, 1996 after moving to RTL .

From April 28, 1997 to January 30, 1998 the broadcaster tm3 broadcast repeats from the early days of the show.

The new edition on kabel eins ran Monday to Friday from February 1, 1999 to December 28, 2001 and was again moderated by Jörg Draeger. The program ran again for a month on Thursday evening at 8:15 p.m. in the 2002 summer program and on Sundays at 7:10 p.m. for a month in the summer of 2003, before it was finally discontinued with the last edition on July 13, 2003.

The game

A viewer was selected from the audience by the moderator. He usually had the option of choosing one of three goals (boxes, balls, envelopes ...). There was a profit hidden behind at least one envelope. The moderator tried to dissuade the candidates from their selection with increasing amounts of money or to let them abandon the game. Sometimes winnings of different values ​​were hidden behind two goals. It was also played with more than three envelopes. The latter could also contain cards that referred to one of the three goals.

The moderator gave tips on which goal or which envelope to take. Money was also offered to the candidate for making a particular decision. The tension of the show was mainly due to the fact that as a viewer you never knew whether the presenter wanted to help the candidate or lead him on the ice.

The consolation prize was a Zonk, a red and black cloth rat. If the candidate had chosen the wrong goal in the guessing game, only the Zonk could be found behind it and a booming low tone sounded.

One of the winners was allowed to play the final, the “Big Deal” at the end. For this purpose, the moderator asked the winners, who were lined up in a row (in order from first to last), one after the other, whether they would like to play the big deal and thus bet the profit that was thus gone. If someone agreed, the winners behind them were automatically out of the game and couldn't play the big deal even if they wanted to.

"Goat problem"

In the final, the candidate had to choose one of three goals, behind which a main prize (usually a car), a medium win and the Zonk were hidden. After the decision, one of the unselected gates was opened first (usually the one with the medium win), after which the candidate was given the opportunity to redo his decision between the two remaining gates. The question of whether to switch is similar to the so-called goat problem , in which under certain circumstances a switch can increase the chance of winning the main prize from 1 ⁄ 3 to 2 ⁄ 3 . However, other requirements and sometimes other solutions apply.

useful information

  • The original music of Go Whole! from 1992 was composed and produced by Klaus-Peter Sattler , father of the Zonk fanfare.
  • On October 12, 2004, the Zonk was voted one of the “most annoying things of the 1990s ” in a vote by ProSieben and was symbolically buried.
  • From the first broadcast in 1992 to 1996, Alif Amiruddin was the voice-over for product presentations and prices in over 1000 broadcasts .
  • From February 1, 1999 to July 13, 2003, Sven Blümel was the off-screen speaker for the prizes. Before that, he was a spokesperson for the Sat.1 wheel of fortune .
  • On January 22nd, 2007, a one-time remake of Go Whole! with Oliver Pocher and Oliver Petszokat as part of the nine-part program Gameshow-Marathon on ProSieben .
  • In his entertainment show TV, Stefan Raab totally revealed that the winnings and the consolation prize were in slightly differently shaped envelopes (hinged part with or without rounded corners), which the moderator Jörg Dräger denied in an interview.
  • The television station Sat.1 Gold showed repeats of the program from 1996 between March 2013 and August 2014, always on weekdays at around 8:30 a.m. In the meantime, Sat.1 Gold programmed the repeats to the old slot the evening before, but postponed them to the morning after a month because the ratings were too low.

Relaunch

Go all out! was discontinued in 2003. The station 9Live broadcast a program based on the concept under the title Alle gegen Draeger .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ TV totally helps - go all out . Broadcast 0045 on April 11, 2001. Online at tvtotal.prosieben.de.
  2. ↑ https://massengeschmack.tv
  3. ↑ “Go all out!” Loses slot on the previous evening , quotemeter.de of 23 September 2013.