La Tête et les Jambes () is a French game show which was broadcast from October 20 1960 to September 15 1975 to June 26 1978.Laurence Leveneur, Les Travestissements du jeu télévisé : Histoire et analyse d'un genre protéiforme (1950-2004), Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2009 () It was created by Jacques Antoine in 1957 as a sequence in the show Télé Match, it was presented by Pierre Bellemare.
Principle of the game show The game combines two competitors: a competitor ("the head") has to answer complex questions on a specific topic. In a case of failure, a high-level competitor ("legs"), must catch up with their opponent by performing a minimum performance to allow him to stay in the game.
If one competitor reaches the end of the 24 questions (6 questions per week for 4 weeks), they will earn 100,000 francs.
Bibliography Michel Drucker et Gilles Verlant, Les 500 Émissions mythiques de la télévision française, Coll. Histoire et Act, Flammarion, 2012
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