Editing Win, Lose or Draw (section)

==Broadcast history==
A pilot with Bert Convy as host was taped on November 2, 1986, at CBS Television City in Los Angeles, California, and featured [[Loni Anderson]], [[Betty White]], [[Burt Reynolds]], and [[Tony Danza]] playing the game, with [[Rod Roddy]] announcing.<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=1986-12-22 |title=Syndication Marketplace |url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/86-OCR/BC-1986-12-22-OCR-Page-0070.pdf#search=%22win%20lose%20draw%22 |magazine=Broadcasting |access-date=2014-03-04 |archive-date=2024-10-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241001092725/http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/86-OCR/BC-1986-12-22-OCR-Page-0070.pdf#search=%22win%20lose%20draw%22 |url-status=live }}</ref> The pilot, produced by Reynolds and Convy, garnered the interest of both the [[NBC]] network and various local stations nationwide; thus, two separate editions of the program were sold and produced with production beginning in June 1987.

On September 7, 1987, ''Win, Lose or Draw'' was launched with [[Richard S. Kline|Kline and Friends]] joining Burt & Bert Productions as a second production company.<ref>{{IMDb title|tt0092483}}</ref> [[Vicki Lawrence]] hosted the edition produced for NBC, which inherited the 11:30&nbsp;a.m. Eastern timeslot that had been occupied by ''[[Scrabble (game show)|Scrabble]]'' for three years prior to its premiere. The syndicated edition, premiering that same day, was hosted by Bert Convy.<ref name="eotvgs">{{Cite encyclopedia |year=1999 |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of TV Game Shows |publisher=Facts on File |edition=3rd |pages=261–262 |isbn=0-8160-3846-5 |last2=Ryan |first2=Steve |last3=Wostbrock |first3=Fred |last1=Schwartz |first1=David}}</ref> [[Bob Hilton]] announced for the daytime series, with [[Gene Wood]] performing those duties for the syndicated series, while Hilton occasionally filled in on the latter version, and [[Johnny Gilbert]] and Dean Goss did so on the daytime show.<ref name="eotvgs" />

Lawrence, with the exception of a month in 1988 when [[Sally Struthers]] hosted in her place, hosted the daytime ''Win, Lose or Draw'' for its entire two-year run. The daytime version faced off against the second half of the hit CBS game show ''[[The Price Is Right]]'' and the ABC talk show ''[[Home (1988 TV program)|Home]]'' (which expanded to an hour in January 1989). NBC canceled the daytime series in the summer of 1989, and its final episode aired on September 1 of that year. Meanwhile, [[Robb Weller]] began hosting the third season of the syndicated series later that month after Convy opted to host a new production for his company, ''[[3rd Degree (game show)|3rd Degree]]''.<ref name="eotvgs" /> The final new episode aired on June 1, 1990; reruns of the series continued to air until the show was withdrawn from syndication on August 31, 1990.

Reruns of the syndicated version aired on the [[USA Network]] from January 1, 1991, to December 24, 1992,<ref name="eotvgs" /> and on [[Game Show Network]] from April 15, 2002, to March 14, 2004.

During its run, the syndicated ''Win, Lose or Draw'' made several road trips, including [[Hawaii]], [[Central Park]] in [[New York City]], Burt Reynolds' ranch in [[Jupiter, Florida]], [[Walt Disney World]], [[Disneyland]] and [[Navy Pier]] in [[Chicago]].