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earn letters by answering questions (as in the later series Blockbusters,
the answers to the questions begin with the letter selected by the player),
then use those letters to form words. In the unusual bonus game,
players reveal letters on the game board one at a time, and each time must
form a word that uses all the letters shown. As with many Bob Stewart
shows, the format was modified during the run of the series.
Winning Streak owns a strange footnote in game show programming history. When it debuted, it took the Jeopardy! time slot on NBC's daytime lineup. (Jeopardy! moved to the time period vacated by Bill's earlier series, Three on a Match.) Six months later, Winning Streak was replaced in the line-up by Wheel of Fortune. Years later, those two legendary Merv Griffin shows would become the biggest hits in syndication history. Winning Streak would also mark the last teaming of Bill and veteran announcer Don Pardo, who worked together on Bill's first network series, Winner Take All. The pair also worked together on The Price Is Right, Eye Guess and Three on a Match. A few months after Winning Streak ended, Pardo became the announcer for Saturday Night Live, a job he has held for all but one season of the show's historic run. In a 1975 magazine article, Bill commented on the failure of this show and Blankety Blanks. VIDEO
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