QUICK FACTS

DEBUT DATE:
SEPTEMBER 12, 1988

FINALE DATE:
SEPTEMBER 8, 1989

TOTAL EPISODES
RECORDED: ???

NETWORK: SYNDICATED

HOST:
PETER TOMARKEN

ANNOUNCERS:
JIM HACKETT, JOHN HARLAN, BOB RIDGELY

QUOTE:
"IF YOU HIT 'HOT SPOT' & MAKE IT TO THE END OF THE GAME..."

RANDOM NOTE:
USA NETWORK AIRED RERUNS STARTING THE MONDAY AFTER ITS CANCELLATION!


Welcome to the new Wipeout section on SuperShow 8000! Wipeout was a short lived game show, that I watched mostly when it was in USA Network reruns in the late 80s to early 90s. This show, hosted by Peter Tomarken of Press Your Luck fame, did this show right after Bargain Hunters was cancelled. Let's just say that this is much, much better, without a dought.

While the show isn't exactly one that everyone remembers (even game show fans sometimes have a little trouble), just like Press Your Luck, it has more of a cult following than anything else. I have to be honest, I was a little surprised to find out that this was a show that viewers wanted to see very much, but I must say, that while looking for information and while taking the screengrabs of various episodes, I really found myself getting into the game.

This is one of those shows that was born, died, was reborn shortly with the reruns, and then seemed to be forgotten about. Until now. Doing a quick glance and web searches, I noticed that there are not that many other fansites of Wipeout out there on the internet, so I am very happy to be one of the first ones out there to have one for the fans themselves.

Right now, I don't have that much on the show itself here. All you can do is read the rules of the show, see some pictures and details of the pilot episode that got Paramount Pictures off their butt and got the show on the air, and a various videograb collection. However in the near future, I am going to have a page of screengrabs and various details on the computer video games that were based on the show, as well as have a foreign version page (Australia at the moment). I am currently still getting some information from sources. I am still unsure on what else I can add about the show, so if you have any ideas, feel free to let me know by sending me an email from the main page.

WIPEOUT: THE PILOT
RULES OF THE PROGRAM
THE PC GAME (Coming Soon)
PICTURE ARCHIVES