History Trivia / DoubleDare1986

* DuelingShows: With ''Series/FunHouse'', at which several {{Take That}}s were directed. In one noteworthy example, Marc Summers had a Cable [=ACE=] award given to ''Double Dare'' prominently displayed on his podium, and he proudly declared, "''Series/FunHouse'' doesn't have one of these, we do!"
** In an episode of ''Super Sloppy Double Dare'' in which a curse had ostensibly been placed on the show, Marc joked that perhaps ''Series/FunHouse'' host [=J.D.=] Roth was responsible for the curse.

* EditedForSyndication: Nickelodeon regularly edited some of the sponsor plugs for ''Family Double Dare'', as well as ''Series/LegendsOfTheHiddenTemple'' and ''[[Series/WhatWouldYouDoNickelodeon What Would You Do?]]'', likely to make a quick buck. The new plugs are voiced by Doc Holliday (regardless of whether or not Harvey was the original announcer), the sponsors clearly date to after the show ended (AOL and Skechers in 1990?), and the image is often surrounded by a funky border. Nick would change the plugs roughly each year; at least one FDD episode circulates from its original airing, a later Nick airing, and a [=GaS=] rerun, and all three copies have a different set of plugs. This practice ended when the Nick [=GaS=] reruns started.

* EditedForSyndication: Nickelodeon regularly edited some of the sponsor plugs for ''Family Double Dare'', as well as ''Series/LegendsOfTheHiddenTemple'' and ''[[Series/WhatWouldYouDoNickelodeon What Would You Do?]]'', likely to make a quick buck (you can tell here, as Doc Holliday voices these plugs, the sponsors clearly date to after the show ended (AOL and Skechers among others), and the image is often surrounded by a funky border). They would change them roughly each year; at least one FDD episode circulates from its original airing, a later Nick airing, and a [=GaS=] rerun, and all three copies have a different set of plugs. This practice ended when the Nick [=GaS=] reruns started.

* EditedForSyndication: Nickelodeon regularly edited some of the sponsor plugs for ''Family Double Dare'', as well as ''Series/LegendsOfTheHiddenTemple'' and ''[[Series/WhatWouldYouDoNickelodeon What Would You Do?]]'', likely to make a quick buck (you can tell here, as Doc Holliday voices these plugs, the sponsors clearly date to after the show ended (AOL and Skechers among others), and the image is often surrounded by a funky border). They would change them roughly each year; at least one FDD episode circulates from its original airing, a later Nick airing, and a GaS rerun, and all three copies have a different set of plugs. This practice ended when the Nick GaS reruns started.

* EditedForSyndication: Nickelodeon regularly edited some of the sponsor plugs for ''Family Double Dare'', as well as ''Series/LegendsOfTheHiddenTemple'' and ''[[Series/WhatWouldYouDoNickelodeon What Would You Do?]]'', likely to make a quick buck (you can tell here, as Doc Holliday voices these plugs, the sponsors clearly date to after the show ended (AOL and Skechers among others), and the image is often surrounded by a funky border). They would change them roughly each year; at least one FDD episode circulates from its original airing, a later Nick airing, and a GaS rerun, and all three copies have a different set of plugs. This practice ended when the Nick [=GaS=] reruns started.

* EditedForSyndication: Shortly before Nick [=GaS=] debuted in 1999, Nick edited some of the sponsor plugs for ''Family Double Dare'', as well as ''Series/LegendsOfTheHiddenTemple'' and ''[[Series/WhatWouldYouDoNickelodeon What Would You Do?]]'', likely to make a quick buck (you can tell here, as Doc Holliday voices these plugs, the sponsors clearly date to after the show ended (AOL and Skechers among others), and the image is often surrounded by a funky border).

* HeyItsThatGuy: Jocelyn Steiner was a contestant on a 1989 ''Super Sloppy Double Dare'' episode before going on to star in ''Welcome Freshmen''. Her team name was the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYML7N69mK0 Surfing Sushis.]] She also came back for the ''Super Special'' episode in 1992.

** Also applies behind the scenes as well. Unit manager Marjorie Cohn later served as creator and producer of fellow Nick game show ''Series/GetThePicture'', while co-creator Dee LaDuke would later create ''Series/HeyDude''.

** The Australian version of "Family Double Dare" was hosted by a young Larry Emdur. While that notorious version only lasted for three episodes, Larry went on to host [[Series/ThePriceIsRight The Price is Right]] beginning in 1993.

* MissingEpisode: An episode was not aired because a kid with fragile bones lied on the application form to get on the show. His team made it to the obstacle course where he broke his arm.
** It also didn't help that his father was a lawyer. They wound up appeasing him with the seventh obstacle's prize to avoid being sued.

** They also had another friendly rivalry with ''Series/WhereInTheWorldIsCarmenSandiego'', as host Greg Lee previously worked on ''Double Dare'' as a contestant coordinator and studio audience warm-up comedian. In addition, series director and co-developer Dana Calderwood also previously worked on ''Double Dare'' in a variety of roles, including associate director, director, producer, and writer. In the 1st episode of the 5th season of the latter show, Summers made an appearance in one of the sketches which gave out the clues to where the crook had gone, and even began reciting the rules to ''Double Dare'' before Greg corrected him.
* EditedForSyndication: Shortly before Nick GaS debuted in 1999, Nick edited some of the sponsor plugs for Family Double Dare, as well as Series/LegendsOfTheHiddenTemple and ''[[Series/WhatWouldYouDoNickelodeon What Would You Do?]]'', likely to make a quick buck (you can tell here, as Doc Holliday voices these plugs, the sponsors clearly date to after the show ended (AOL and Skechers among others), and the image is often surrounded by a funky border).

* HeyItsThatSound: If someone won the obstacle course on the ill-fated ''Celebrity Double Dare'' pilot, a siren played. The same siren would later signify the $5,000-prize being won in ''Series/SupermarketSweep''

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: 40 episodes of the first variation of ''Super Sloppy Double Dare'', which aired on weekends, and was more or less a carbon copy of the regular weekday edition, were taped in July 1987. 21 of these aired on Nick [=GaS=], and one that didn't air there circulates, with only the main game intact. Allegedly, the reason the other 19 did not get shown on Nick [=GaS=] was due to a water leakage that severely damaged some of the ''Double Dare'' tapes in Nickelodeon's video archives.
** Highlights from these missing 19 episodes include host Marc Summers losing it over a toy boat (as shown in the 1988 Direct-to-Video special ''Double Dare: The Inside Slop''), and one team in particular winning the main game with a record-breaking '''$750''' ($375 split between the two teammates), as described in 1988's ''The Double Dare Game Book''. While no more episodes from the 1987 era have turned up yet, one Orlando episode from 1989 has: Seattle Slug Squishers vs. Disco Dynamos.

** Highlights from these missing 19 episodes include host Marc Summers losing it over a toy boat (as shown in the 1988 Direct-to-Video special ''Double Dare: The Inside Slop''), and one team in particular winning the main game with a record-breaking '''$750''' ($375 split between the two teammates), as described in 1988's ''The Double Dare Game Book''.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: 40 episodes of the first variation of ''Super Sloppy Double Dare'', which aired on weekends, and was more or less a carbon copy of the regular weekday edition, were taped in July 1987. 21 of these aired on Nick [=GaS=], and one that didn't air there circulates, with only the main game intact. Allegedly, the reason the other 19 did not get shown on Nick [=GaS=] was due to a water leakage that severely damaged some of the ''Double Dare'' tapes.

*** Highlights from these missing 19 episodes include host Marc Summers losing it over a toy boat (as shown in the 1988 Direct-to-Video special ''Double Dare: The Inside Slop''), and one team in particular winning the main game with a record-breaking '''$750''' ($375 split between the two teammates), as described in 1988's ''The Double Dare Game Book''.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Below is a list of examples.
** 40 episodes of the first variation of ''Super Sloppy Double Dare'', which aired on weekends, and was more or less a carbon copy of the regular weekday edition, were taped in July 1987. 21 of these aired on Nick [=GaS=], and one that didn't air there circulates, with only the main game intact. Allegedly, the reason the other 19 did not get shown on Nick [=GaS=] was due to a water leakage that severely damaged some of the ''Double Dare'' tapes.

** The FOX version of ''[[Series/DoubleDare1986 Family Double Dare]]'' was MIA on Nick [=GaS=] (rumors persist that one episode aired in its early days, but any evidence of this has yet to turn up). Those 13 episodes may not have aired on television since 1990, but luckily they have since become available through other means. Ten of the episodes turned up on the trading circuit, and iTunes started selling the remaining 3 in 2013.
** All episodes of the Nickelodeon version of FDD aired on [=GaS=]...except for one random 1990 episode. That episode eventually turned up on YouTube in December 2011.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Jocelyn Steiner was on a 1989 ''Super Sloppy'' episode before going on to star in ''Welcome Freshmen''. Her team name was the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYML7N69mK0 Surfing Sushis.]] She also came back for the ''Super Special'' episode in 1992.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Jocelyn Steiner was on a 1989 ''Super Sloppy'' episode before going on to star in ''Welcome Freshmen''. Her team name was the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYML7N69mK0 Surfing Sushis.]]
** She also came back for the ''Super Special'' episode in 1992.

** They also had another friendly rivalry with ''WhereInTheWorldIsCarmenSandiego?'', as host Greg Lee previously worked on ''Double Dare'' as a contestant coordinator and studio audience warm-up comedian. In addition, series director and co-developer Dana Calderwood also previously worked on ''Double Dare'' in a variety of roles, including associate director, director, producer, and writer. In the 1st episode of the 5th season of the latter show, Summers made an appearance in one of the sketches which gave out the clues to where the crook had gone, and even began reciting the rules to ''Double Dare'' before Greg corrected him.

* DuelingShows: With ''FunHouse'', at which several {{Take That}}s were directed. In one noteworthy example, Marc Summers had a Cable [=ACE=] award given to ''Double Dare'' prominently displayed on his podium, and he proudly declared, "''FunHouse'' doesn't have one of these, we do!"
** In an episode of ''Super Sloppy Double Dare'' in which a curse had ostensibly been placed on the show, Marc joked that perhaps ''FunHouse'' host [=J.D.=] Roth was responsible for the curse.

** In an episode of ''Super Sloppy Double Dare'' in which a curse had ostensibly been placed on the show, Marc joked that perhaps ''FunHouse'' host [=J.D.=] Roth was responsible for the curse.
** They had a somewhat more friendly rivalry with ''Series/FindersKeepers'', as both Nickelodeon shows were conceived and produced by Geoffrey Darby and Michael Klinghoffer, and even recorded at the same studio complex in Philadelphia until 1988 (''Finders Keepers'' actually drew bigger audience figures than ''Double Dare'' for much of its short run). In one memorable episode, Summers asked a young audience member named Andrea, "What's your favourite show on TV?" Andrea immediately replied, "''Finders Keepers''!" (In addition to the usual ''Double Dare'' T-shirt, she was also given a ''Finders Keepers'' shirt.)
** They also had another friendly rivalry with ''WhereInTheWorldIsCarmenSandiego?'', as host Greg Lee previously worked on ''Double Dare'' as a contestant coordinator and studio audience warm-up comedian. In addition, series director and co-developer Dana Calderwood also previously worked on ''Double Dare'' in a variety of roles, including associate director, director, producer, and writer. In the 1st episode of the 5th season of the latter show, Summers made an appearance in one of the sketches which gave out the clues to where the crook had gone, and even began reciting the rules to ''Double Dare'' before Greg corrected him.
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: There was a brief primetime version of the show which aired on FOX during the summer of 1988. However, it only lasted 13 episodes due to disagreements between Nickelodeon and FOX, as FOX wanted to produce more specials while Nickelodeon wanted the show to remain kid-friendly. This became the first volley which led to FOX striking out on their own and creating Fox Kids.

** They had a somewhat more friendly rivalry with ''Series/FindersKeepers'', as both Nickelodeon shows were conceived and produced by Geoffrey Darby and Michael Klinghoffer, and even recorded at the same studio complex in Philadelphia until 1988 (''Finders Keepers'' actually drew bigger audience figures than ''Double Dare'' for much of its short run). In one memorable episode, Summers asked a young audience member named Andrea, "What's your favourite show on TV?", and Andrea immediately replied, "''Finders Keepers''!" (In addition to the usual ''Double Dare'' T-shirt, she was also given a ''Finders Keepers'' shirt.)

* DuelingShows: With ''FunHouse'', at which several {{Take That}}s were directed. In one noteworthy example, Marc Summers had a Cable [=ACE=] award given to ''Double Dare'' prominently displayed on his podium, and he proudly declared "''FunHouse'' doesn't have one of these, we do!"

** They had a somewhat more friendly rivalry with ''Series/FindersKeepers'', as both Nickelodeon shows were conceived and produced by Geoffrey Darby and Michael Klinghoffer, and even recorded at the same studio complex in Philadelphia until 1988 (''Finders Keepers'' actually drew bigger audience figures than ''Double Dare'' for much of its short run). In one memorable episode, Summers asked a young audience member "What's your favourite show on TV?", and received the immediate reply "''Finders Keepers''!" (In addition to the usual ''Double Dare'' T-shirt, said youngster was also given a ''Finders Keepers'' shirt.)