![]() ![]() Yet whereas English-language TV audiences had perhaps a difficult time warming up to the concept of pitting children against one another in a contest of wit and endurance, the show has remained an absolute hit in Germany since it first aired in 1977. Like many of the United States’ successful and unsuccessful cultural experiments, the show was exported across the Atlantic and found slightly more success in Britain, where it ran for 100 episodes between 1975-1981. Runaround only lasted for 1 season and 13 episodes in the United States and was cancelled in 1973. Whoever had the most balls in their tube by the end of the show was declared the winner and won a prize. The door with the right answer would subsequently light up, permitting players with the correct answer to pick a ball from a large bowl in the middle of the stage and place them in a translucent tube that kept their score. ![]() When time expired, every contestant had to have chosen an area and stand still. To prevent the contestants from chasing each other and copying answers, the show host would ask them to ‘runaround’ or jump between the three marked answer areas in front of each door until the last possible moment. 9 children had to answer multiple choice questions by running towards three doors, each displaying a possible answer to the question. ![]() In 1972, NBC began airing a new children’s game show as part of their Saturday morning line-up called Runaround. ![]()
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