Every member of this studio audience has written down the last four digits of their phone number! If you want to share in thousands of dollars write down yours! Because everyday, someone at home wins on...
And now here's the Poet Laureate of Television,
Nipsey Russell!
Broadcast History
Airdates: September 23, 1985-December 20, 1985, NBC
Host: Nipsey Russell
Hostess: Lee Menning
Announcers: John Harlan, Gene Wood, Johnny Haymer
Studio: NBC Studio 2, Burbank
Packager: Sande Stewart Productions
Your Number's Up! theme song (2.00 MB, 2:11)
Main Game
Three contestants competed in a phrase solving game. Each player
would recieve a diamond. A wheel was spun, which had numbers on it and a 
"car"
space. 2 players would get a number (or
car) on each spin and one would get the blank space. The person on
the blank space would pick one of two partially revealed phrases
which had initials in them 
standing for the answers. (Ex: As
predicted the IOM.....) Nipsey would then finish the phrase
(...turned out to be a bad for Caesar.) and the first of the two
contestants who
jumped in and
answered
correctly got a diamond and
the number that was on the wheel was placed on a board behind the
contestants. This was where the home player game was brought in.
People in the studio audience who's last 4 digits of their phone
number matched numbers on the board, that meant that their number was
up and they would come down and chose
a contestant who they thought would win the game. If 
they were
correct, they won a trip.
If you hit the car spot, the
contestant picked a number which may be
under a license plate on the car. If correct,
the player won the car. People at home whose last 4
digits matched the board could send in a postcard which was entered
into a drawing for cash prizes. 6 diamonds for the player won the
game and went to the bonus round.
Bonus Round
Before the bonus round the player selected a postcard sent in by a
home viewer. In the bonus round, the player had 60 seconds to uncover
the home players last 4 digits in their phone numbers. The board 
resembled a telephone keypad with the numbers 0-9 posted. The player
called out a number and behind each had a number of letters which
corresponded to the answers to clues (Ex: "NYY, baseball team known as
the bronx bombers"). If the contestant uncovered all 4 of the
numbers in the contestants number, both the contestant and the home
player won $5,000. If the contestant had more of one
number in their
number, then if the number was posted as many times as it was
included. (Did anybody ever have 4 of the same number in their
number?)
Facts
-Nipsey Russell is known as the "Poet Laureate of Television" as he is famous for his quatrains that he gives frequently. Nipsey has appeared on many game shows as a panelist, such a "Password" and "The $25,000 Pyramid." He also was a semi-regular on "Match Game" in the '70s and a regular on the ABC game show "Rhyme and Reason." Nipsey is probably best remember for his role on the series "Car 54, Where Are You?" and was also in the movie "Wildcats."
-On the final episode, the wheel landed on the car space FIVE times and was NOT won once!
-This was Sande Stewart's first game without his father, Bob, more famous for the various Pyramid's, working with him. Sande was the producer of "Inquizition" and "Hollywood Showdown" on Game Show Network.