Total Blackout
TV Show · Game Show

Hosted by Jaleel White (Family Matters), Total Blackout is a half-hour extreme game show in which contestants battle each other and their fears in a series of challenges, confronting their own worst enemy - themselves.

2012 · 21m
  • 14+
Starring Jaleel White

Season 1

  • Entering the Darkness
    EPISODE 1
    Entering the Darkness
    Four competitors try to put their fears and phobias aside as they participate in a series of mind twisting challenges, all without their sense of sight in the pitch black. In this premiere episode, contestants must use their hands, tongues, and noses to successfully identify a variety of truly innocent and surprising items in total darkness. The player with the most refined palate will be the one to touch, taste and sniff their way to $5,000.
    21m
  • 2 Heads Are Blinder Than 1
    EPISODE 2
    2 Heads Are Blinder Than 1
    In this special episode, couples will compete through three challenges in the pitch black for a winner-take-all cash prize. In the dark, teams must battle their wild imaginations and identify an array of items in different tanks and race across a platform that is deceivingly difficult to cross. The final two teams must overcome their fear of the unknown and navigate a maze with critters perched on their heads. The winning team will conquer their minds - and the dark - to go home with $5,000.
    21m
  • Touch, Sniff & Transfer
    EPISODE 3
    Touch, Sniff & Transfer
    Four competitors put their will to the test, as they are forced to strip down to a single sense in each game of this episode while also competing in the pitch black. First, players must identify items using only their hands to touch, then sniff out and identify cringe-worthy items with only their nose. The last two remaining must compete in a race against time while trying not to wake up a deceivingly scary critter!
    21m
  • Good With Your Hands
    EPISODE 4
    Good With Your Hands
    Four competitors will be put through the ringer in three challenges testing very different skills in the pitch black darkness, including: identifying and arranging real-life creatures according to the food chain, identifying some truly pungent aromas from very unusual places, and searching for a specific item in a very confined space. The winner will conquer all of these challenges and come out from the dark $5,000 richer.
    21m
  • Lick, Limbo, Lather and Repeat
    EPISODE 5
    Lick, Limbo, Lather and Repeat
    Four competitors are about to come face to face with the pitch black, as they lick, limbo and lather their way closer to winning the $5,000 grand prize. First, they’ll need to identify items using only their mouth to taste, then literally dance their way around a dangerously electrifying rhythm. The finalists will overcome their fears and bathe in a tub with things that just might make their skin crawl.
    21m
  • Buddy System
    EPISODE 6
    Buddy System
    In another special team’s edition episode, contestants will battle one another in spine-chilling games that involve coffins, pitfalls, and poison.
    21m

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Cast & Crew

  • Jaleel White
    Host
  • H‌N
    Henrik Nielsen
    Producer
  • S‌S
    Scott St. John
    Producer

About

Total Blackout

Game Show

Hosted by Jaleel White (Family Matters), Total Blackout is a half-hour extreme game show in which contestants battle each other and their fears in a series of challenges, confronting their own worst enemy - themselves.

14+

COMMON SENSE

Fear Factor in the dark, with rats, roaches, bleeped curses.

Information

Studio
Syfy
Released
2012
Rated
TV-14
© 2012 Fremantle Media. All Rights Reserved.

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English
Audio

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English (CC)

Accessibility

Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.
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