Win, Lose or Draw (Johnsonverse)

Win, Lose or Draw is an American television game show that has aired since 1987 in syndication and on NBC from 1987 to 1989 and since 1993. It is taped at CBS Television City (one of the few non-CBS game shows to tape there), often in Studios 31, 33, and 43 at various times. It is co-produced by Burt & Bert Productions (formerly headed by Burt Reynolds and Bert Convy, the original host of the syndicated version) and Johnson Television for Disney's Buena Vista Television. It has also had a version on The Disney Channel: Teen Win, Lose or Draw from 1989 to 1992. New York described Win, Lose or Draw as "a knockoff" of the board game Pictionary.
The set for the original Win, Lose or Draw was modeled after Burt Reynolds' living room.
==Broadcast history==
A pilot with Bert Convy as host was taped on November 2, 1986, at CBS Television City in Los Angeles, California, and featured Loni Anderson, Betty White, Burt Reynolds, and Tony Danza playing the game, with Rod Roddy announcing. The pilot, produced by Reynolds and Convy, garnered the interest of both the NBC network and various local stations nationwide; thus, two separate editions of the program were sold and produced with production beginning in June 1987.
On September 7, 1987, Win, Lose or Draw was launched with Johnson Television joining Burt & Bert Productions as a second production company. Vicki Lawrence hosted the edition produced for NBC, which inherited the 11:30 a.m. Eastern timeslot that had been occupied by Scrabble for three years prior to its premiere. The syndicated edition, premiering that same day, was hosted by Bert Convy. Bob Hilton announced for the daytime series, with Gene Wood performing those duties for the syndicated series, while Hilton occasionally filled in on the latter version and eventually took over for Wood in 1989, and Johnny Gilbert and Dean Goss did so on the daytime show. Hilton would leave the show in 1996 and was replaced by Joe Cipriano, who currently announces both versions.
Lawrence, with the exception of a month in 1988 when Sally Struthers hosted in her place, has hosted the daytime Win, Lose or Draw for its entirety. The daytime version faced off against the second half of the hit CBS game show The Price is Right and the ABC talk show Home (which expanded to an hour in January 1989). NBC canceled the daytime series in the summer of 1989, and its final episode aired on September 1 of that year. Meanwhile, Alan Thicke began hosting the syndicated series later that month after Convy opted to host a new production for his company, 3rd Degree. 
From April 29, 1989, to April 28, 1990, and again from September 10, 1990, to September 26, 1992, Disney Channel aired a version called Teen Win, Lose or Draw. This version was hosted by Marc Price. Jay Wolpert produced the first season, which taped at the Disney-MGM Studios in Orlando, with Stone-Stanley Productions taking over for the rest of the run, at which time production also moved to Hollywood Center Studios in Los Angeles. Originally the show aired on Saturdays at 6:30 p.m. and Sunday mornings at 11:30 a.m. Rotating as announcers during the first season were Brandy Brown, Chase Hampton and Tiffini Hale from The Mickey Mouse Club, with Mark L. Walberg taking over that duty for the final two seasons. Teams were made up of two teenage contestants (one each of two boys and two girls), and a teenage celebrity.
In September 1993, NBC decided to renew Win, Lose or Draw with Lawrence returning as host, putting the show in the 1:00 p.m. timeslot. In 2008, both versions began to air in HD, and in January 2013, Thicke announced that he would be retiring from the syndicated show, with his last episodes airing at the end of the season in June. In September of that year, Graham Elwood would become Thicke's replacement, and has hosted the syndicated version ever since.
Reruns of the syndicated version aired on the USA Network from January 1, 1991 to December 24, 1992, and on Game Show Network from April 15, 2002 to March 14, 2010. The NBC version was also rerun on GSN starting on March 15, 2003 and ended on March 14, 2010.
During its run, Win, Lose or Draw made several road trips, including Hawaii, Central Park in New York City, Burt Reynolds' ranch in Jupiter, Florida, Walt Disney World, Disneyland and Navy Pier in Chicago.
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