| Bumper Stumpers | |
|---|---|
 Bumper Stumpers title card | |
| Genre | Game show |
| Created by | Wink Martindale |
| Developed by | Mark Maxwell-Smith |
| Directed by | William G. Elliott |
| Presented by | Al Dubois |
| Announcer | Ken Ryan |
| Composer | Ed Lojeski |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Dan Enright Wink Martindale |
| Producer | Doug Gahm |
| Production locations | Global Television Studios Toronto, Ontario |
| Running time | 22–24 minutes |
| Production companies | Global Television Network Barry & Enright Productions Wink Martindale Enterprises USA Network |
| Original release | |
| Network | Global Television Network USA Network |
| Release | June 29, 1987 – December 28, 1990 |
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Bumper Stumpers is a Canadian game show. Two teams of two players competed to decipher letter puzzles presented as fictional vanity licence plates.[1]
The show was a joint production of Canada's Global Television Network and the United States' USA Network, in association with Barry & Enright Productions[2] and Wink Martindale Enterprises. This was one of three original series that USA and Global co-produced in the 1980s, with a 1985 revival of Jackpot and 1986's The New Chain Reaction preceding it; of the three, Bumper Stumpers was the only one that was not a revival of a previous series, and was ordered by Global without a pilot.[3]
Bumper Stumpers started taping on June 10[4] and premiered on June 29, 1987, and aired concurrently on Global and USA until December 28, 1990. It was created by Wink Martindale,[5] the second creation of his to make air (Headline Chasers, which Martindale launched in syndication in 1985 in the United States with himself as host, was the first) and developed by Mark Maxwell-Smith. Al Dubois, who at the time was a weather forecaster for Global, hosted the show with Ken Ryan serving as the announcer. The show was taped at the Global Television Studios in Toronto, Ontario and it was also the last USA Network game show to be taped in Canada.
Reruns of the series were seen on Global in Canada from 1990 to 1995 and on Game Show Network in the United States in 1994–95 and 2000. Bumper Stumpers later aired on the Canadian specialty channel GameTV from October 1, 2012, until 2017, from January 8 to February 25, 2018, and again from February 4, 2019, to March 1, 2019.
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