Original title
Raise the Dead Featuring Elvira
Released
10/28/2000
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
1
Number of episodes
8
An All Hallows Eve presentation of GSN's Game Show Saturday Night broadcast on 28 October 2000. Elvira, the Queen of Halloween, gravely unearths the dead-before-arrival game show pilots Cop Out, The $10,000 Sweep, Twisters and The Riddlers for a bewitching programming trick. Clad in her signature "little black dress," Elvira introduces each pilot and teases viewers with a trivia question before fading into the night. After each show, she mysteriously reappears to reveal the answer.
Cop-Out! was a unsold game show pilot that pit two contestants against each other, trying to see whether celebrities are being honest or "copping out" (not telling the truth).
Get Rich Quick! was the failed Bob Stewart pilot that premiered the format of forming questions one word at a time.
Second Guessers was an unaired pilot involving members of the studio audience trying to guess the answers people on the street would give to cute questions.
The $10,000 Sweep was a primitive version of Pyramid. The host asks a question, and if the correct answer is given, it will lead his/her teammate to the identity of a related person, place, or thing; if a team makes a "sweep" by winning four games in a row, they win $10,000.
Dollar A Second was the wild and crazy quiz/stunt show where contestants win money for every second they stay on the show.
Ten contestants competed for one whole week trying to answer questions, although they were only shown halves of them.
This game involved four celebrities and two civilians segregated into teams by gender. In the first round, one celebrity was asked a question such as "Can you forgive a cheating husband", and before he/she answered the question, he/she would lock in whether they were going to answer the question based on their beliefs, or what they believed their celebrity partner's believed.
Five celebrities played against five contestants of the same occupation, hobby, etc. in a game of asking & answering riddles.
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