Music
Father-and-son composer team Keith Strachan and Matthew Strachan wrote the show's music. Brought in after the initial pilot with a brief instructing them to create music providing mood and tension, they decided to approach the project like a film score with music playing almost throughout the entire show, a unique approach for a game show at the time. After almost completing the task they came up with the idea of taking the pitch up a semi-tone for each subsequent question in order to increase tension as the game progressed. The music has received numerous ASCAP awards.
A soundtrack album was released, featuring most of the musical stages, but not all of them.
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