Battlestars

Battlestars is an American game show that aired for two separate runs on NBC during the early 1980s. The show's first run aired from October 26, 1981 to April 23, 1982. An updated version–titled The New Battlestars–ran for 13 weeks, from April 4 to July 1, 1983. Battlestars was produced by Merrill Heatter Productions, Heatter's first show produced without Bob Quigley. The host was Alex Trebek and the announcers were Rod Roddy (1981–1982) and Charlie Tuna (1983). Two contestants—the champion sitting at the blue podium and the challenger at the red podium—competed to capture celebrities from a six-member panel, who sat in a large space-like set made up of triangles. The numbers 1–10 were positioned around the triangles so that each edge...