This simplified arrangement I did for glockenspiel, vibraphone, and piano is my attempt to do the main theme from "Battlestars." No; that's not a sci-fi series; it's a television game show from the creators of the Hollywood Squares from the early 80s, hosted by Alex Trebek. Some have nicknamed it "The Hollywood Triangles" due to the fact the celebrities were asked a question, and gave a funny punchline before actually answering question, and the contestants had to agree or disagree with the response. However, "Battlestars" was based on the game "Dots," and so it had only six celebrities instead of nine, each inside a triangle connected by 3 dots, for a total of 10 dots. Dots were selected at random by the contestant pressing their buzzer, also determining what celebrity got the question. Contestants would pick which celebrity got the question if the dot was shared by more than one celebrity (unless it meant a capture was possible, at which point it would default to the celebrity that would be captured; players still got the choice if it meant multiple celebrities could be captured simultaneously).
Players kept control until they made a mistake, at which point it went to the opponent. When all three dots around the triangle were completed, and a player made a correct judgement of an answer, they captured the celebrity in question (or multiple celebrities). A wrong judgment at this point meant the opponent had to attempt to capture the celebrity (or more than one). The first player to capture at least three celebrities won the game and played the bonus game.
In the second era of two ("The New Battlestars"), the 10 dots were lit up and had to be extinguished instead; the randomizer determined the first point, but a contestant simply chose numbers afterwards until they made a wrong judgment.
The show used two different bonus games in its two different eras:
Game 1 (Battlestars Two/Picture Game): A photograph of a celebrity was hidden behind a grid of 20 squares, with the corners left blank. The remaining squares were numbered from 1 to 16, each corresponding to a different card in a stack. The champion selected three cards, and the host inserted them into an electronic reader to determine which squares they represented. Those three squares were revealed, and the champion was allowed to reveal one more square of his/her choice and then offer one guess at the subject for $5,000. During a week of Christmas shows in December 1981, the top prize was doubled to $10,000.
If the champion could not identify the subject, he/she could draw up to three more cards, one at a time, and ask for one celebrity's help after each draw (although they couldn't ask for help when going for the maximum grand prize). The prize decreased to $3,000, $2,000, and $1,000 during this stage of the game. Beyond this point, the champion could have two more guesses, revealing one square of his/her choice before each, with the prize decreasing to $500 and finally $250.
During the first few weeks of the show's run, the champion chose a square to reveal before drawing the three initial cards. If the card for that square was chosen during the round, he/she was allowed to draw again. The free choice was later moved to occur after the three draws in order to save time.
Game 2 (The Main Event): The champion selected any three of the celebrities he/she had captured during the game to participate in this round, and decided the order in which they would play. Each celebrity in turn was asked one question with three answer options, which were displayed to both him/her and the champion. In order to win a question, the champion had to either agree with a correct answer given by the celebrity, or disagree with a wrong answer and then give the correct one from the remaining two choices. If the champion won all three questions, he/she won the Battlestars Bonanza, a jackpot containing $5,000 cash and a collection of prizes that grew in value for every game in which it was not won. Otherwise, the contestant received $500 for each correct decision. The typical starting total value of the Bonanza was usually over $10,000.
Information taken from Wikipedia.
NOTE: The fact I used my Hero Forge image of John the Tiger is because that in my universe, his home planet of Kriegland did not have a national anthem at first. When they discovered the theme tune to Battlestars, John liked the sound of the song so much, he adapted it and added effects to it to make it more towards the means of a military war march, instead of the sci-fi sounds it was originally written for (to fit the theme of the show).
This arrangement © me and me alone
Original music composed by the late Mort Garson
Battlestars © Merrill Heatter Productions and everybody else who owns the rights.
Battlestars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCnaHiRggvU (music; the song I did is the middle one of the three)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF8xqh4vWSA (1982 episode)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk5tjUWSZe8 (1983 episode, "The New Battlestars")
Players kept control until they made a mistake, at which point it went to the opponent. When all three dots around the triangle were completed, and a player made a correct judgement of an answer, they captured the celebrity in question (or multiple celebrities). A wrong judgment at this point meant the opponent had to attempt to capture the celebrity (or more than one). The first player to capture at least three celebrities won the game and played the bonus game.
In the second era of two ("The New Battlestars"), the 10 dots were lit up and had to be extinguished instead; the randomizer determined the first point, but a contestant simply chose numbers afterwards until they made a wrong judgment.
The show used two different bonus games in its two different eras:
Game 1 (Battlestars Two/Picture Game): A photograph of a celebrity was hidden behind a grid of 20 squares, with the corners left blank. The remaining squares were numbered from 1 to 16, each corresponding to a different card in a stack. The champion selected three cards, and the host inserted them into an electronic reader to determine which squares they represented. Those three squares were revealed, and the champion was allowed to reveal one more square of his/her choice and then offer one guess at the subject for $5,000. During a week of Christmas shows in December 1981, the top prize was doubled to $10,000.
If the champion could not identify the subject, he/she could draw up to three more cards, one at a time, and ask for one celebrity's help after each draw (although they couldn't ask for help when going for the maximum grand prize). The prize decreased to $3,000, $2,000, and $1,000 during this stage of the game. Beyond this point, the champion could have two more guesses, revealing one square of his/her choice before each, with the prize decreasing to $500 and finally $250.
During the first few weeks of the show's run, the champion chose a square to reveal before drawing the three initial cards. If the card for that square was chosen during the round, he/she was allowed to draw again. The free choice was later moved to occur after the three draws in order to save time.
Game 2 (The Main Event): The champion selected any three of the celebrities he/she had captured during the game to participate in this round, and decided the order in which they would play. Each celebrity in turn was asked one question with three answer options, which were displayed to both him/her and the champion. In order to win a question, the champion had to either agree with a correct answer given by the celebrity, or disagree with a wrong answer and then give the correct one from the remaining two choices. If the champion won all three questions, he/she won the Battlestars Bonanza, a jackpot containing $5,000 cash and a collection of prizes that grew in value for every game in which it was not won. Otherwise, the contestant received $500 for each correct decision. The typical starting total value of the Bonanza was usually over $10,000.
Information taken from Wikipedia.
NOTE: The fact I used my Hero Forge image of John the Tiger is because that in my universe, his home planet of Kriegland did not have a national anthem at first. When they discovered the theme tune to Battlestars, John liked the sound of the song so much, he adapted it and added effects to it to make it more towards the means of a military war march, instead of the sci-fi sounds it was originally written for (to fit the theme of the show).
This arrangement © me and me alone
Original music composed by the late Mort Garson
Battlestars © Merrill Heatter Productions and everybody else who owns the rights.
Battlestars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCnaHiRggvU (music; the song I did is the middle one of the three)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF8xqh4vWSA (1982 episode)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk5tjUWSZe8 (1983 episode, "The New Battlestars")
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