Camouflage (1961 series)
ABC daytime Game Show from Jerry Hammer Productions (Hammer created the follow-the-dots drawings for the rigged show Dotto).
Two contestants, usually female, faced their respective game boards which, when opened, revealed a picture drawing. The objective was to find a hidden object within the drawing. In order to do so, the players had to answer true-or-false questions and score points based on a timer clicking down from 10. A correct answer removes part of the picture (the camouflage) and the player had 10 seconds to find the object and trace its outline with a long stick. For each pass or mistraced picture, the value of the board, starting at 200 points, is reduced by 10 points. Once a player reaches 30 points, a picture of the object is secretly shown to her. A player wins by successfully tracing the object's outline. That player wins a prize package based on her score (true-or-false session and value of the board).
Camouflage was a modest success for ABC, running from January 1961 to December 1962. It returned in a revamped format by Chuck Barris in 1980, which ran for a few months in Syndication. A Camouflage completely unrelated to these formats surfaced on GSN in 2007, where the object was to find words within words.
- Bonus Round: The high scorer of the day tried for a new car by tracing an object within a larger drawing within 15 seconds.
- Home Game: One was made by Milton Bradley. Instead of picture drawings, the object was hidden under five layers of vector shapes on acetate sheets. It also contained separate sheets for players to put over their TV screens and play along with the show.
- Personnel:
- The Announcer: Johnny Gilbert and Chet Gould on the original (Gilbert filled in as host on the show's anniversary show in 1962 with Gould as announcer), and Barris standby Johnny Jacobs the 1980 reboot.
- Game Show Host: Mike Darrow on the original, Tom Campbell on the 1980 reboot.
- Think Music: A lilting 10-second interlude as the players studied their boards after answering a question.
- Show the Folks At Home: The viewers saw the object as it was shown to the contestant after she reached 30 points.