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{{quote|''"'''Blackout''' — it's not your average game show!"''|Tagline spoken in several promos for the series.}}
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{{spoiler|[[CBS]]}} [[Game Show]] hosted by {{spoiler|Bob Goen and produced by}} [[Jay Wolpert]], whose other major contribution to the game show world {{spoiler|was ''[[Whew]]'' Thankfully, the game this time around}} is{{spoiler|n't as}} unnecessarily complicated.
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In the event of a tie, there would be a sudden death round where the leading player would have the option of describing the single word (for ten seconds) or censoring three seconds of the description. Again, every duplicated key word would allow the opponent to mute out an extra second of the playback. Since neither teammate could hear the description, the wrong word would automatically lose.
''Blackout'' is a cult classic whose brevity can be chalked up to bad timing and stiff competition — it replaced ''[[Pyramid|The $25,000 Pyramid]]'' on January 4, 1988 and faced not only the still-popular ''[[Sale of the Century]]'' on [[NBC]] but also a massive outcry from viewers toward the network for killing off the Dick Clark-hosted game. The resulting low ratings caused ''Blackout'' to be canned on April 1. The show was then replaced with a final 13 weeks of ''Pyramid'', which would be canned (for good this time) on July
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