Press Your Luck is an American television daytime
game show created by
Bill Carruthers and Jan McCormack. It premiered on
CBS on September 19, 1983 and ended on September 26, 1986. In the show, contestants collected spins by answering trivia questions and then used the spins on an 18-space game board to win cash and prizes. The person who amassed the most in cash and prizes at the end of the game won.
Peter Tomarken was the show's host, and
Rod Roddy was the primary announcer.
John Harlan and
Charlie O'Donnell filled in as substitute announcers for Roddy on different occasions.
Press Your Luck was videotaped before a studio audience at
CBS Television City, in Studios 33 and 43 in Hollywood, California. The show was a revival of the earlier Carruthers production
Second Chance, which was hosted by
Jim Peck and aired on
ABC during 1977.