This is the television game in which daring determines the fate of the player!
This is a game strategy, luck, and knowledge!
This is...
And now here's your host...
Jim Lange!
Broadcast History
Airdates: September 29, 1980-September 24, 1982
Host: Jim Lange
Announcers: Jay Stewart, Charlie O'Donnell
Origination: NBC Studios, Burbank (1980), CBS Television City, Los Angeles (1981-1982)
Packager: Jack Barry and Dan Enright Productions
Main Game
Barry and Enright took elements of two of it's popular game shows, The Joker's Wild and Tic Tac Dough and combined them into one game show and made Bullseye.
Two
contestants competed. The champion would hit his/her plunger to stop a randomly 
"spinning"
board in the shape of a star, with three windows. The upper left and right
windows each had four different categories with random values ($50-200 early on,
later $100-$400). The bottom window was 
the
"contract" window which contained numbers 1-5 and a "Bullseye."
The plunger would stop the spinning windows, and the contestant would pick one
of the categories. The "contract"
determined how many correct answers had to be given before a player could decide
to spin again or "bank" the money. If a "Bullseye" came up
in the contract window, they could answer as many 
questions
as they wanted. Each correct answer put money in the "pot". If at any
time a player missed a question, control passed to
their opponent. If they answered the question correctly, then they would get
control. When the contract was finished out by either player, they had the
choice of either taking the money from the pot and bank it, which would add
money to their score and pass control to their opponent, or leaving it there,
keep control, and spin again, hoping to get enough to win
the game at the end of the contract. Money could ONLY be banked at the end of a
contract (unless a Bullseye was hit in the contract window). The first player to
bank $1000 ($2000 later on) won the game.
Bonus Island
The
winner went on to the "Bonus Island." Behind the windows now were
Bullseye's, various amounts of money, and behind one was the dreaded Lightning.
Everytime a player spun money
it was kept in the pot. Everytime they spun a Bullseye, the window would become
"frozen" and was out of play, 
which
would be good if there was Lightning behind it. If a player hit lightning 
at
any time, they would lose the money in the pot. Getting three Bullseye's won a
prize package plus double the money in the pot. 
If
a player was able to get through 10 spins however, and not hit lightning or get
three Bullseye's, they'd win $5,000 cash plus the prize package. If a player was
lucky enough to get three Bullseye's on one spin, they'd win $10,000 plus the
prize package.
Any player who won 5 games would win a car.
Facts
-The neon lights and flashy set of Bullseye was almost ahead of it's time. Johnny Carson, who's Tonight Show taped across the hall at NBC even complimented it's set when he walked over one day.
-Late in the show's run, the show became Celebrity Bullseye, and celebrity players played for charity. Each match was a best of three game.