This piano duet of mine is another TV game show theme; this is the theme to a short-lived show entitled "Mindreaders," billed as the game of hunch and E.S.P. In the game, there are two teams of four, one men's team and one women's team, and each team has three civilians and a celebrity. Host Dick Martin (more famous for being half of the duo Rowan & Martin, the creators of the popular comedy show "Laugh-In") would ask the civilians to secretly lock their answers in to a question that can only be answered "YES" or "NO." The celebrity would then guess how each player replied. If correct, the team won $50. If not, $50 and control went to the other team, so if the men's captain was wrong, the $50 went to the women. The celebrity on the women's team still had to guess how the men replied.

The questions would range from the simple (i.e., "Do you own a pet?") to those that would push the border of the censors (i.e., "If polygamy were legal, would you have multiple wives?"; this was actually a question on one show). Both teams kept all money won, but the winner of the game was the first time to reach $300.

The winning team then played the bonus round, which came in two parts. Part 1 was "Judge the Jury," in which 10 randomly selected members of the audience were chosen to be the jury. The questions again had to be answered "YES" or "NO." Each civilian player, one at a time, had to guess how many people said yes. If they got the exact answer, it was worth $500 to the team, whereas if they were off by no more than two either way, it was worth $200. (So if the player said 5, a 5 would be worth $500, while a 3, 4, 6, or 7 was worth $200.) All other numbers were worth nothing.

If the team got no cash out of this segment, the game ended, but if they did win money after three questions were played, they then got to play Part 2: Celebrity Turnabout. In this part, the three players had to guess how the celebrity would answer one final question. They would each lock in their answer. If the majority matched how the celebrity answered, their bonus winnings were multiplied by 10, for a maximum bonus round total of $15,000.

Both teams played each other for three games and then retired afterwards, for a maximum potential payout of $45,900.

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This arrangement © me and me alone
Original music © and written by Score Productions
Mindreaders © Fremantle and everyone else who owns the rights; it was originally a Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Production, hosted by Dick Martin, with Johnny Olson announcing.

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Theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_RBEoDHaCY
Full shows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLR-TcNmIhg (airdate 12/13/1979)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8xQHpF72Mc (airdate 8/15/1979)