Double Up – Nostalgia Central

1 9 7 4 (Canada)
12 x 30 minute episodes

Premiering on Monday 1 July 1974, this summer replacement for the panel quiz show, This Is The Law, was loosely based on the 1950s show, You Bet Your Life, with Groucho Marx.

On that show, the simple quiz ran second to the chat with the contestants, where Groucho always remained at least one step ahead of his guests.

Double Up also had a simple question-and-answer type of quiz and also depended on the cleverness of host Hart Pomerantz.

The show’s title referred to the fact that, of the three competing pairs of contestants on each show, the pair who won the most money would return at the conclusion for the chance to double their money.

Pomerantz, a practising lawyer, had worked as a comedy writer and performer with his partner Lorne Michaels. For several years, he had also been the comic relief panellist on This Is The Law.

Sadly, Hart never became Canada’s Groucho Marx.

Host
Hart Pomerantz
Announcer
Warren Davis

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