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Cash Cab by Chico Alexander, GSNN

Air time: 6p ET/5p CT on Discovery
Host: Ben Bailey

First up in Ben's Cab of the Cash is someone we'll refer to as Bandanna Girl going to Union Square... because she's late. She sweeps the $25 questions, and uses her street shout out at $50. In Greenwich Village, she finds out that the famed FBI director that "always got his man but never found a woman" was J. Edgar Hoover... the hard way. First strike. Second strike: what US holiday was once known as Decoration Day? "Flag Day?" Memorial Day. She gets $200 at the Red Light Challenge: four of the five oceans that make up the 71% of the Earth's water. She gets the big four, Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Arctic. Final one: Southern. She ends up with $550, but will she go for the Bonus? She said she was late... She's gonna walk.

While she spends her cash on another tattoo, Trevor & Janine go down to Mott & Prince. They sweep the $25 tier. They sweep the $50 tier. First strike: the dromedary, or Arabian, is the best known variety of what animal? "A horse?" A camel. Trevor calls up Tony to figure out that REM's "Man on the Moon" was an ode to Andy Kaufman. What legal charter limited the power of English kings? "The Emancipation Proclamation?" That was 600 years late, it was the Magna Carta. Trevor & Janine get their walking papers on the last letter of the Greek alphabet by saying zeta. It was actually omega... and you've reached yours. Get out! Please exit on the curb side of the vehicle.

Jordan's group of four is going to the Met. First strike: Joey, Johnny, DB, and Tommy are the original members of what influential punk band? "The Misfits." No, they were hardly influential. It was the Ramones. They use the street shoutout in the Upper East Side. in the 1870s, Dr. Zaminoff invented a universal second language. What was it? Any Red Dwarf fan knows this, it's Esperanto. Too bad the group says "sign language." They have $225 going into the Red Light Challenge: five states that have coasts along the Pacific Ocean. They get Washington, Oregon, California, Alaska, and Hawaii for $575! Jordan has to call up his friend Matt on this: owned by Mills & Boone, what publisher is synonymous with the romance novel. They go with Harlequin... right! And here we are at the Met at $675. Will they take the big risk? They try it. Captured by Arabs in 711, this craggy territory was passed to the Spanish in 1462 before England took control in 1713. Name this stone peninsula off the coast of Spain. They go with Gibraltar... They just won $1350!

100 Mexicanos Dijeron by Jason Hernandez, GSNN

Air time: 7p ET/6p CT on Telefutura
Host: Marco Antonio Regil

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Family Feud by Chico Alexander, GSNN

Air time: Check listings or familyfeud.com
Host: Richard Karn

Carrillo (Saul, Amy, Angie, Monica, Sal)

Broadous (Lillian, Deborah, Angelica, Michelle, Shyann); three days, $21,480

Another week, another Breast Cancer Awareness Special. Go to www.getbcfacts.com. Thank you. Round 1: a place where people often become regulars (6). Saul one-ups Lillian with club to her restaurant. They also get the gym. The Broadous try "grocery store" for the steal. Got it for 87! Other answer: church, jail.

Round 2: a fictional character with the word "old" in their name (6). Deborah gets #2, Old Yeller. Michelle gets Old Mother Hubbard, fetching #6. Shyann gets Old Maid, #4. Old MacDonald had number one, E-I-E-I-O. We go to the Carrillos for the steal: "Old River". Don't you mean "Old Man River?" Guess so. The Broadous get 150. Other answers: Old Man River, Old King Cole..

Double Round: an activity that many people do while half asleep (full board). Angie gets #2, snore. Sal gets #1, watch TV. Read, talk, make love, and sleepwalk also make the survey for 140.

Triple Round: a good gift for someone who's staying at the hospital (4). Michelle gets top of the board with flowers. Books, food, and.... to the Carrillos with "music". Not there! The Broadous win, 402-140! Other answer: balloons.

Can Michelle and Shyann get the Fast Money again? Nope. They come 20 points short for $900 more, giving them $22,380. And once again, Family Feud and AstraZeneca are ponying up $5000 to Y-Me for breast cancer research.

Jeopardy! by Chico Alexander, GSNN

Air time: Check listings or jeopardy.com
Host: Alex Trebek

Maria Kokiasmenos (law school graduate from Vernon, CT); $18,000

Kathy Reiff (homemaker from Groton, MA)

Mark Levin (retired dentist from Wellington, FL)

Last time, Maria was impossible to catch. Will that trend continue today? The newly-christened "defense attorney" starts with $200 "C" Food. At the TV time out, Alex reveals an LLV, a long-life vehicle... his car. Maria picks up where she left off, $5800 to Kathy's $1800. Mark, meanwhile, has some catching up to do with -$2800.

Maria goes on the Road to Rhode Island and finds the Daily Double under $800. She bets $1000 of her $6600 on the painter born in 1755 whose work can be seen on the one-dollar note. "I don't know." Gilbert Stewart. Still in the lead, but only with $5600 now. She catches up nicely, though, and has $7000 at the half. Meanwhile, Kathy has more than half that, $3800, while Mark, still in the red by two large, starts Double Jeopardy!...

... with $400 JS Bach & Sons. First Daily Double under $800 Bodies of Water goes to Kathy, as she bets $1000 on the river at Limerick, 70 miles from its mouth. "I can't think of it." Limerick, Ireland... the Shannon River puts her at $7200. In an obvious plug for the DVD of the same name, Maria finds the second Daily Double under $2000 Mr. and Mrs. Smith. She goes level on this: when her husband Clyde died in 1940, she took over his seat as a House Representative from Maine. "Who is Mary Smith?" Not sure, but it was Margaret Chase Smith. She has $14,200. Kathy rallies to catch up to striking distance, $11,200 to her $13,400. Meanwhile, Mark came out defeated and goes home with a score of -$1600, good for $1000 in third-place cash. Of course you know this means a two-woman affair in...

Final Jeopardy! in "1940s Movies": this 1942 film gained greater distinction following a January 1943 meeting of Allied leaders in its title location. Correct question: What is "Casablanca"?

"If you missed this, you're going to hate yourself!" Sure enough, no one gets it. The defeat is double for Maria who leaves with $20,000. On the other hand, a conservative wager means that Kathy comes back Monday with $5200.

The Price is Right by Chico Alexander, GSNN

Air time: 11a ET/10a CT on CBS (markets may vary)
Host: Bob Barker

Deborah McAllister, Clara Rector, Cindy Thomas, and Sandy Klapp start the Friday before Christmas.... Week :) The object of their desire, a playhouse. Clara wins it and a chance for a Jeep Wrangler playing Cover Up. The price is not $21,745. First cover-up, $19,258. She gets the 1 and the 9. Second cover-up, $19,834. And the price is right! Happy birthday, Clara!

Coming up on Clara's heels is Manohack Keeton, who wins a set of small kitchen appliances. But how about some big ones? You can buy all the appliances you want with $16,000. The products in It's In the Bag: Campbell's Cream of Mushroom, Citracal Plus, Pringles chips, Smucker's blackberry jam, Glad Forceflex bags, and Hershey's chocolate syrup. She goes for the chips at 79¢, the calcium at $10.97, the soup at $1.02, the syrup at $2.25, and the jam at $3.35. She's right on the chips... right on the calcium.... right on the soup.... And we have a bailout. The bad news, the other two were right. The good news: she's richer by $4000.

Cindy picks up a riding lawn mower in round 3, as she is offered a trip to Rio in Pushover. The lineup is 6 1 8 7 5 0 9 4 1. She lines it up to $8750... Wrong. Should've pushed it a little further to $6187. She won't be going to Rio, and she won't be going to the Showcase either. That trip goes to Manohack.

CBS.com eTicket plug goes here. Nifty.

Tina Keane starts the second half winning golf equipment. Now she has a chance to win a new living room in Secret X. First X is free, you know that. But she only gets another one from a $49 Holiday Bear. So that just leaves Xes lower left and upper right. The Secret X needs to be in the middle for a win.... and it's up top. Darn.

We get our first man on stage with Charles Johnson, as he wins a side-by-side fridge/freezer. Now he gets to shoot for a 2006 Chrysler PT Cruiser in the Dice Game. First number: 1. The rolls go 3, 3, 1, 3. Charles goes higher, higher, higher, higher. We know at least one of them is right, the fourth number. The second number... 6! The third... 4! The fourth... 2! The fifth... 5! Charles wins the $16,425 car!

Final chance for Deborah and Sandy to get on stage, having been down in the row for the entire hour, and who should get the win? Sherry Browning, as she wins a karaoke. Now to add to that stash with a set of plushie LCD TVs, Tupperware containers, dumbbells, and crystal stemware. The game is Poker Game. Sherry chooses the dumbbells and stemware for herself, at $480 and $838 respectively, getting 8 8 8 4 3. That's what we call a set around here. She decides to keep it. The TVs are $899. The Tupperware is $585. That gives the house 9 9 8 8 5, and Sherry the win! (C-Note: Highest hand possible: a full house with the stemware and the TVs).

(Supplemental C-Note: Bob saw a quick flash of the final price of the Tupperware before the on-air reveal, laughingly saying "I bet there's no 9 in the containers!")

That's all the winning Sherry does, as Charles meets Manohack in the Showcase. First up, a visit to the safe deposit boxes at the First Bank of Price, as we unlock a keyboard, a Mac computer, and a travel trailer. Top winner Charles passes to Manohack, who bids $25,500. Meanwhile Charles is left with a trip to the Priceless Train Depot. On the tracks today: a NASCAR pinball, a dinette, and a pair of off-road motorcycles. Charles bids $15,000. Actual price: $14,401. He's over by about $600. Manohack's actual price... $27,196! She's a winner today with $32,025.

Stats: 3-2-1, $76,582.

Next week, it's Christmas at 7800. You know how we do.

Wheel of Fortune by Jason Block, GSNN

Air time: Check listings or wheeloffortune.com
Hosts: Pat Sajak & Vanna White

Last call for gadgets...last call for gadgets! It's the final day of "Sony Winner Wonderland" Week on WOF! The $1,000 Tossup is SHOW BIZ. Aviva Jacobs from Culver City, CA solved FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT for $1,000. Joe Marino from "The Jersey Shore" is a wedding DJ with 5 kids. Kari Richard is a student from Carlsbad, CA.

The $2,000 Tossup is AROUND THE HOUSE. Joe has $2,000 with LETTER OPENER. And we add some more Sony Gear to the wheel--with a LCD Monitor, LCD Flat Panel TV, Platinum DVD Dream System and Digital Video Recorder worth $7,699. The category is SAME NAME. Joe starts. He hits the $2,500 wedge and 2 S's. He keeps spinning and spinning and solves FLORAL & SLEEPING ARRANGEMENTS for $10,250. He has $12,250 in cash to his name!

The Jackpot round is sponsored by Eggland's Best. The category is ON THE MAP. Kari gets a shot at the wheel. She misses a vowel...over to Aviva. She solves GRAND FORKS NORTH DAKOTA for $4,650. She has $5,650 in cash as well.

The mystery round prize is $10,000. The category is PHRASE...and it's a PRIZE PUZZLE... Aviva starts...she hits the mystery wedge and will risk the $2,000 and hits Bankrupt...over to Joe...he misses...over to Kari...she misses...back to Aviva. She solves DIPPING A TOE INTO THE WATER for $3,400. And it's a PRIZE PUZZLE...and it's a trip to the warm waters of Antigua! It's a trip to the St. James Club worth $5,220! And if you have the SPIN ID of KP03967 you are off to the Caribbean! That round was $8,620 ...and she has $14,270 in trip and cash!

The $3,000 Tossup is OCCUPATION. Aviva has $17,270 with SHEEP RANCHER. She starts this round which is THINGS. She misses...over to Joe. He hits Lose A Turn...over to Kari. She misses...back to Aviva. She solves USERNAME AND PASSWORD for $1,750. She has $19,020. We have time for another puzzle...

...which is PERSON. Joe starts. He misses...and we go into the FINAL SPIN...and it's $1,900 a letter tonight. Aviva solves SILLY GOOSE for $1,900. And she wins with $20,920 in cash and trip to Antigua...Kari got the gooseegg and we give her $1,000. And Joe can spend some money on his family with $12,250 in cash!

Ok...Aviva is a good puzzle solver. Her category tonight is PHRASE. She lands on the last 0 in $100,000, and with the RSTLNE we have:

T _ _ N _
_ _ S T

She chooses HKFA and we have:

T H _ N K
F A S T

She didn't need to THINK FAST...she got it pretty easily! And she wins a classy ride...a 2006 Jaguar X-Type Sedan worth $38,115! Her total is huge...$59,035 in cash, car and trip! And we have a car to giveaway...and if you have the SPIN ID of SC01111...you are the proud owner of a Jaguar X-Type! Now this week, the bonus round puzzles take on extra significance. If you have a Circuit City or Online game piece and it matches the bonus round puzzle. Send it in, or register it...and you can win one of 10 $25,000 Grand Prize packages of Sony Electronics gear. So far the puzzles were ZOOM IN, HANG BACK and OAK BUREAU, SKI GOGGLES and tonight's final puzzle...THINK FAST! If you have any of them...you know what to do!

Next week...it's "Tis the Season" week!

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire by Don Harpwood, GSNN

Air time: Check listings or millionairetv.com
Host: Meredith Vieira

Yesterday, Jamie Monson (Minneapolis, MN) made it to $2,000. With 2 lifelines left at this point, how will she fare today?

Whenever she gets nervous, Jamie tends to giggle, and she happens to be doing so at this point. At least despite said nervousness, she's happy to be there, and to be honest, who wouldn't be? After getting some of that giggling out of her system, Jamie resumes playing, and soon enough, she gets to this $8,000 question...

During the telecast of his dad's Supreme Court nomination, 4-year-old Jack Roberts stole the show by doing what?
A: Yawning
B: Dancing
C: Sticking out his tongue
D: Pulling his sister's hair

The 50:50 leaves B and D. Jamie then goes with D... but it's B! Ouch. Well, at least she goes home with $1,000.

Time for this season's 100th contestant (not counting theme weeks), Chris Nash (Dallas, TX). He says he had a horoscope predicting that he'd win the million dollars. Well, to be more specific, it read that he could "expect great wealth soon". So, it may not necessarily mean the million, but let's hope it does, alright? With that, Chris starts by knowing that by definition, the type of party that is supposed to last all night long is a slumber party. He sweeps the lower tier, and as he moves along the middle tier, he faces this for $8,000...

Worn by 2005 Emmy presenters in support of Hurricane Katrina victims, what is the state flower of both Louisiana and Mississippi?
A: Magnolia
B: Gardenia
C: Honeysuckle
D: Wisteria

Chris asks the audience. 81% of the studio audience and 48% of the AIM users go with A, so Chris goes with that... and they're right! On to $16,000...

Which of these countries does not border Iraq?
A: Saudi Arabia
B: Kuwait
C: Afghanistan
D: Turkey

Use of the 50:50 leaves B and C. Chris then says C... and he's right! Now, for $25,000...

An entrée prepared "vol-au-vent" is served in what distinctive manner?
A: In a pastry shell
B: On a stick
C: Wrapped in bacon
D: Uncooked

Chris calls his mother Pat, but unfortunately, she doesn't know. So, he decides not to take the gamble, and walk away. I guess that means the "great wealth" in Chris' horoscope meant $16,000, which is what he's taking home. Oh, and the answer was A.

Next up is Emily Jensen (Montclair, NJ). She also didn't know the answer to that last question, likely because her fiancé does the cooking. Yes, fiancé. She's getting married in June, so she could use the money. Emily starts making that money by knowing that in "Goldilocks and the Three Bears," the bears discover Goldilocks while she is sleeping in bed (at least she wasn't watching Pay-Per-View there, or else the bears would have been really ticked). Emily has no problem getting through the lower tier, and soon after, she has this for $4,000...

At the end of a tennis match, the chair umpire commonly makes what announcement?
A: Match, game, set
B: Game, match, set
C: Set, game, match
D: Game, set, match

Emily turns to the audience for help. 82% of the studio audience says D, and so does 50% of the AIM users. So, she goes with D... and it's D!

And there's the horn. Emily will return to the hot seat next time.