Game Show Dynamos
Produced by patricia boiko
A couple gets their family out of debt by winning on TV game shows, again and again.
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Overview
- Genre
- Cultural History, Society, Social Issues, History, and Personal Doc
- Synopsis
He was a history teacher. She was a children's author. Together, Bernard and Claire Boiko of Queens, NY were the dead-broke parents of five children. A pair of curiously relatable outsiders, they captured American hearts and saved their family by doing it. Yes! They appeared on TV game shows 28 times over 37 years. From Tic-Tac-Dough (1956) to Trivial Pursuit (1993), they had the answers.
- Stage
- finished
- Running time
- 60 and 55 minutes
Credits
- patricia boiko ... Producer, Director, Editor, Cinematographer
Production Details
- Prod. Co.
- Winning Pictures, LLC; Game Show Dynamos, LLC
- Country
- United States
- Years of Production
- 1997-2014
- Locations
- New York, Seattle, San Diego
Distribution Details
- Release year
- 2016
- Distribution
- MVD, Soundview
- Language
- English
- Subtitles
- Closed captioning in English, Spanish subtitles, Japanese subtitles, Korean subtitles
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