by Jenny Morrill
How far would you go to win $ 100,000 ? Would you leave yourself to be locked in a box and subjugate to potentially fateful extreme of warmth and cold ? The contestants on the abruptly - lived Fox game showThe Chamberdid .
The Chamberaired for just three episodes in January 2002 , before being pulled ( though three other episodes were shot , they were never broadcast ) . The premiss of the show was simple : the longer you could withstand the condition in " the Chamber " while correctly reply world-wide knowledge questions , the more money you won . Any dissenter who respond a total of 25 questions correctly won the rattling prize of $ 100,000 , although no contestant ever achieved this in a broadcast episode .
The show ’s job was with its nominal centerpiece , the Chamber itself : fundamentally a straining sleeping accommodation , contestants were strapped to a board inside the chamber and subject to utmost temperature , H2O K , heftiness contractors , and drop oxygen levels .
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The contestant were in the Chamber for up to seven stave , lasting one minute each . As the rhythm progressed , the conditions in the Chamber exacerbate . In the three installment that aired , only one musician " survived " all seven point .
The factual procedure of the Chamber calculate on which Chamber was being faced : the selection was between the Hot Chamber or the Cold Chamber , which was pick out at random for the dissident by a reckoner .
In the Hot Chamber , the contestant faced the following :
If the Cold Chamber was chosen , this is what the dissenter got :
Clearly , precautions had to be taken to control the safety of the contestants , so they were also wired up to heart and blood press admonisher . If at any point in the plot they were hold bad to continue , the game was stopped . The actor could also cease the game by shouting “ Stop the Chamber ! ” or , well , by passing out ( yes , really ) .
It did n’t stop there . Had the show not been pulled , other Chambers would have been stick in . rumor Chambersthat fortunately never saw the light of day include the Water Chamber , the Electricity Chamber , and the Animal / Insect Chamber ( just in case you needed to be any more creeped out by this show ) .
This picture below exhibit contestant Scott Brown ( who lasted for all seven levels ) in the Cold Chamber . Brown won $ 20,000 for his death - defying efforts .
Perhaps unsurprisingly , critical and interview reaction to the serial was not to a fault cocksure . " While some Fox executive director originally backed the show for bringing some require daring to a computer programme lineup that they say had become somewhat staid,“wrote Bill CarterinThe New York Times , " the lackluster ratings performance clearly made it difficult to justify proceed a show that was generate so much uncongenial chemical reaction . " Considering that the Cold Chamber could induce hypothermia and frostbite , and the Hot Chamber could have cause heatstroke and severe burns , it ’s probably for the best that the show never really entrance on .
