Double Dare turned down $1 Million. Co-creator explains why | Splat Attack Podcast
Double Dare turned down $1,000,000 from Casio. Co-creator Geoffrey Darby tells us why, and what else never made it to air.
For the 40th anniversary of Nickelodeon's Double Dare, we went straight to the source. Geoffrey Darby, the show's co-creator and executive producer, breaks down how a Nabisco pilot, a near-budget disaster, and a theory of what makes game shows work turned into one of the messiest hits in TV history.
We get into:
🟢 How a shoestring budget somehow produced 70+ episodes
🟢 Set design tricks borrowed from Password and the Olympics
🟢 The real story behind the One-Ton Human Hamster Wheel
🟢 The $1M Casio deal they walked away from
🟢 On-set mishaps viewers never saw
Then stick around for Retro Replay, our Splat Stanly segment, where we find out if we actually know Double Dare as well as we think we do.
If you want more Double Dare content, check out our earlier episode where we talked to Robin and Marc Summers about the messiest moments on the show.
Check out Geoffrey Darby's YouTube channel that traverses into the past of Nickelodeon's past.
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0:00 Intro: Marc Summers Loses It
0:27 Welcome to Splat Attack
1:40 Meet Double Dare Co-Creator Geoffrey Darby
2:02 Pitching the Show and Cracking the Format
6:44 Testing the Pilot and the Big Breakthrough
9:39 Making It on a Shoestring Budget
12:37 Designing the Set and Obstacle Course
20:14 Casting Marc Summers and Finding Harvey
26:04 The Clock, Cash Prizes, and a Million Dollar Offer
33:21 Shooting 70 Episodes and Balancing the Difficulty
41:56 Crew Culture, the Gak Origin, and On Set Mishaps
53:57 Celebrity Guests, Family Double Dare, and Florida
1:03:58 Final Questions and Thanking Geoffrey Darby
1:09:31 The Double Dare Legacy: Revivals Through the Years
1:15:14 Splat Stanley's Retro Replay Challenge
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