This show was an excellent night-time game show which aired on Saturday nights on ABC.  Host Brad Sherwood and a camera crew would find a random person (couple, group of people) and give them one month to learn a skill and a camera to record their progress.  On the night of the show, they would review their tape and come onstage to compete their challenge.  If they were successful, they would win $10,000.  Example challenges include a suburban family man learning to identify 31 flavors of Baskin Robbins ice cream blindfolded, a SoCal business man picking up unicycle riding, and three college roommates learning 5 juggling tricks.  This was a great, clean show but didn't last long.  Toward the end, the show was looking for gimmicks, like in show, a contestant was picked at random from the audience at the beginning of the show and was called back at the end (after coaching) and asked to cry on command in 30 seconds for $5,000.

The game show genre features TV series with contestants competing against each other in various challenges, tasks, or quizzes to win prizes or rewards. Game shows are designed to engage viewers by presenting exciting and often competitive scenarios that involve participants using their knowledge, skills, and strategies to outperform their opponents and win.

Bill Barretta and Pat Sajak in Wheel of Fortune (1983)

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