game again. Later, an additional rule forced the champion to retire after five attempts at the bonus round. The villains in the Gauntlet were, from start to finish: Alphonse the Gangster Bruno the Headsman Mr. Van Louse the Landlord Nero the Fiddler Count Nibbleneck the Vampire Frank and his little friend Stein Kid Rotten the Gunslinger Jeremy Swash the Pirate Dr. Deranged the Mad Scientist Lucretia the Witch Production information Whew! was taped in Hollywood, California at CBS Television City, with production alternating between Studios 31 and 33. Broadcast history Whew!s debut was part of a shakeup of the overall CBS daytime schedule. The show was given the spot on the schedule that had previously belonged to Match Game. At the time, the long-running Match Game had been airing at 4:00 p.m. Eastern in the last network-programmed daytime slot of the day. CBS’s morning lineup featured All in the Family reruns at 10:00 a.m., the hour-long game show The Price Is Right at 10:30 a.m., and the veteran soap opera Love of Life at 11:30 a.m. The network added Whew! to its morning lineup and placed it at 10:30 a.m following reruns of All in the Family. The Price Is Right moved thirty minutes later to 11:00 a.m.—which it still occupies to date—and relegated Love of Life to the 4:00 p.m. slot for Match Game, which resulted in the soap's cancellation months later. Whew!s actual run time, with commercials, was 25 minutes. The remaining time (in between the show and The Price Is Right) was taken up by the five-minute CBS Mid-Morning News with Douglas Edwards. Its network competition was restricted to NBC’s daytime lineup, as ABC did not program the 10:00 AM hour at the time (ABC affiliates and independent stations chose their own programs). From its premiere, Whew! went up against All Star Secrets until that series was cancelled. NBC then relocated Hollywood Squares, which it had been shuffling around the schedule for some time by 1979 (where it aired in three separate time slots that year alone). Both programs faced each other head to head for the remainder of the run of Whew!. Incidentally, Hollywood Squares was cancelled shortly after Whew! aired its finale. After the final episode of Whew! aired, the series was replaced the following Monday by reruns of Alice, which remained in the 10:30a.m. timeslot until September 1982 (when Child's Play premiered). Celebrity Whew!