Time Masters (game show)

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Time Masters is an Australian children's game show hosted by Tony Johnston from 1996-1998 on the Seven Network,^[4] in 3 seasons at the beginning Tony would meet the two teams of two schoolkids. In 1998, the show ended and was replaced with Wipeout a year later also hosted by Johnston.

Season One[]

Brain Strain[]

Each team were asked questions and then had to negotiate an obstacle course^[5] of "The Wobbly Planks" then round a corner and go into "The Groove Tube" to get to a board at the top of the course and hit one of the six possible answers and had 120 seconds to get as many as possible. Then repeated with the other team.

Round Two[]

This round consisted of a Concentration style puzzle clue which spelled out the answer needed and one player from each team would run from one end of the studio to the other collecting plastic balls with letters printed on them, while the other would arrange them in the correct order. In a race to the finish.

Round Three[]

Was usually an arcade driving game the closest placed to first won. The game was called Cyber Cycles by Namco.

Season Two and Three[]

Slam Dunk[]

Instead of Brain Strain was Slam Dunk. One player would sit out that round. Again with 6 answers to choose from the player was now charged with throwing the basketball through the corresponding hoop number to get the question right. A member from the rival school (but not one of the players) would be brought on and sit in the SLAM DUNK chair and if the player managed to get all 6 answers correct they would be dunked into a vat of water.

Scramble[]

A prototype Go Go Stop board, similar in vein to Wipeout, which replaced Time Masters and was originally also hosted by Tony Johnston, the player who sat out the first game is brought in to play this one. It was 5 squares across by 9 high with the task being get to the top as quick as possible by answering a series of questions each time you hit a blocking square.

Round Three[]

It was usually an Arcade Driving Game, one in particular Manx TT, wherein the closest placed to first won.

Trivia[]

• The show was rerun in 1999-2003 on Disney Channel.
• This show was the second and final spin off kids game show for A*mazing.

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