Scrabble

Scrabble is an American television game show that was based on the Scrabble board game. The show was co-produced by Exposure Unlimited and Reg Grundy Productions. It ran from July 2, 1984 to March 23, 1990, and again from January 18 to June 11, 1993, both runs on NBC. A total of 1,335 episodes were produced from both editions; Chuck Woolery hosted both versions of the series. Jay Stewart was the announcer for the first year and was replaced by Charlie Tuna in the summer of 1985, who announced for the remainder of the original version and the entirety of the 1993 revival. Two contestants play... a crossword game on a computer-generated Scrabble board. The objective of the game is for a contestant to guess three correct words before his or her opponent. Each word is built on a letter of the previous word , with all remaining letters blank. The contestants are shown the space that the word occupies, and are told the number of letters in the word along with a clue.
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