Whew! (#093): September 4, 1979 (First episode w/New Balloon Numbering & New Villains!)

Very creative and underrated show! I often wonder if Patti Deutsch helped write the questions. Based on her impromptu answers she comes up with on "Match Game" of the same era... she rules too! 👍

TOUGH bloopers in the Gauntlet of Villains.

I knew the villains had names (from IMDb and such), but it's neat to see the episode that those names were first revealed).

I will say this the Villains just want attention when they said “Introduce Us Already”. Those Villains look silly on stage. Lol.

Sarah, WHY were you NOT watching the clock?!

WOW!! She got Allen good on the first level!!

Why did they skip episode 92?

GREAT AUDIENCE

The only question I have is why GSF said there’s new villains?

They look like Woody Hayes and 9 guys from Ohio State.

This is how the bonus round from Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? should have gone! If my memory served me correctly, the order you'd tackle Carmen's mob would have been,

Patty Larceny
Top Grunge
Sarah Nade
Wonder Rat
Double Trouble
Robocrook
Kneemoi
Eartha Brute
Vic the Slick
The Contessa

And yes, Rat, Kneemoi and Nade weren't on the first couple of seasons, but you still get the idea.

This episode originally aired the day I started 1st Grade (the day after Labor Day, 1979). My uncles and I had spent a lot of mornings in the summer of ‘79 watching this at my grandmother’s house.

Guy bouncing up and down during the charging like he has to pee.

What's this new villains stuff?

Wasn't there a kids version of this show to some extent in the early 90s? Honestly if this game were to come back it would be perfect for kids.

Really creative game by Jay Wolpert, who was one of the developers of The New Price Is Right in 1972, along with Mark Goodson and Frank Wayne. Too bad Whew! only lasted a year.

The Villains of “Whew!”;
1. Alphonse the Gangster
2. Bruno the Headsman
3. Mr. Van Louse, the Landlord
4. Nero the Fiddler
5. Count Nibbleneck, the Vampire
6. Frank and his little friend Stein
7. Kid Rotten the Gunslinger
8. Jeremy Swash, the Pirate
9. Dr. Deranged, the Mad Scientist
10. Lucretia the Witch

Why was longshot tore screech heard at 10 seconds left? He called for it when it was 3 seconds left

very nice

lawman

never see that coming

this i got to see

this i got to see

I auditioned to be a contestant on this show. I nailed the gauntlet, but I guess I wasn't bubbly enough to make the cut. My then very young son loved the animated characters and he waited every morning to watch "Shoe" with me.

Sarah was a cutey.

I bet she still has that washer/dryer

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fbi agent

my spine just think about

he need a lawman

my spine just think about

If I could resync the Charging/Gauntlet drum cut with my own theme, it would be Lazer Pulse II.

FBI AGENT

I'm guessing the intro was animated by Hanna Barbara.

RIP tom

I actually think this game show is great and it should be rebooted.

CBS game show.

Can anyone see this remade with Disney villians?

I'm binge watching Whew!
I would love to see this game rebooted. Raise the running of the gauntlet to $100,000

Card Sharks December 12, 1978