Fandango was the first TV game show to air on TNN:The Nashville Network (now called Spike TV. It ran from March 8, 1983 - March 31, 1989. To date it's one of the longest running cable game shows on television.

Cast
The host of the show was veteran country music singer "Whisperin" Bill Anderson (whom previously hosted The Better Sex with future Real People star Sarah Purcell). His co-host starting in 1987 was future Top Card hostess Blake Pickett. The announcer was the show's game board "Edgar, the Talking Jukebox", played by future Nashville talk show host Charlie Chase (longtime talk show partner of Lorianne Crook).


Gameplay

The Main Game
Three contestants compete by answering a series of country music questions to win prizes.


Round One
The game starts with a 10 point toss-up question. The first player to buzz-in and answer correctly gets the points and the right to choose from one of eight categories (which are displayed on Edgar) for bonus points. The bonus questions are worth anywhere from 20-100 points. If the person answer the bonus question correctly, he/she gets the points; if not then the current 3rd place player (the player with the lowest score) has a chance to answer to steal those points.


Round Two
This round is played the same way as round one except points values are now doubled meaning that toss-ups are now worth 20 points, and the bonus questions are anywhere from 40-200 points.


The Final Question (Both Rounds)
Both rounds end with one last question posed by Anderson. This is played sort of like Final Jeopardy!, for after the question is read, all three players write down their answers. A correct answer is worth 50 points in round one & 100 points in round two; the points however are deducted if a contestant's answer is wrong.

The player with the most points at the end of the game is the winner, wins a special prize & goes on to play for more prizes.

Note: From time to time, Edgar the Talking Jukebox would ask a toss-up question and a correct answer from Edgar's question wins a bonus prize for the contestant.


The Bonus Round ("Meet The Stars")
In the bonus round, the winning contestant faces a videotape of a famous country music star. Beforehand, the star was asked four question with two answers to them. Now host Anderson asks the same questions to the day's champion. Before each question, the champ selected a prize off Edgar in which he/she likes to play for. Each correct answer won the prize selected beforehand. The player can decide to stop & take the prizes won up to that point, because if at anytime he/she chooses incorrect answer, the game is over & all the prizes are lost. After answering the first three questions correctly, the champ can elect to stop & take the prizes or risk losing the prizes & try to win a grand prize by answering one last question. If the champ answers the last question incorrectly, he/she loses the first three prizes, but if the champ can answer the question correctly, he/she wins the grand prize in addition the prizes won before.


Notes
When the show was cancelled in 1989, it was replaced by Top Card, which was then replaced by 10 Seconds.

Charlie Chase went on to partner with Lorianne Crook & hosting two popular TNN shows. They are Crook & Chase & Music City Tonight.