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Courtesy of Poseidon’s Underworld, we are introduced to the short-lived first-run syndication panel game show filmed before a live studio audience on the Universal backlot. Celebrity contestants, contemporary with the programme’s 1988 to 1989 airing (a real embodiment of the end of the decade transition from glamour to grunge with a particularly garish set) with the inaugural panel consisting of comedian Anne Bloom of the HBO parody Not Necessarily the News, Marsha Warfield of Night Court, Jaime Farr of M*A*S*H and George Wyner of Hill St Blues, would quiz a mystery guest who was separated by any number of degrees from a famous relative and try to determine whom that better known next of kin was, in keeping with the tradition of classic game shows like What’s My Line? and Figure it Out. Subject to interrogation over the run of the show included Cher’s mother, Georgia Holt, Patsy Swayze, Jackie Stallone, Rona Newton-John and spouses and offspring, content or not to not share the spotlight, like the ex-wife of Herve Villechaize of Fantasy Island or Bob Denver’s (The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis and Gilligan’s Island) step son or Lassie’s trainer—from the series reboot. Winnings were donated to charity.