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Successful contestants are converted into a variety of [[chronometers]].
Successful contestants are converted into a variety of [[chronometers]].


== Tock the Clock Dog ==
== In the News ==
[[File:Phantomtollbooth.PNG|link=The Phantom Tollbooth (nonfiction)|150px|thumb|[[The Phantom Tollbooth]] showing Tock and Milo.]]
Before his appearance in [[The Phantom Tollbooth]], Tock the Clock Dog auditioned for Who Wants to Be a Chronometer?


Although a temporal-medical condition prohibited Tock's participation as a contestant, the show's producers were so impressed that they offered Tock a staff position as Continuity Director.
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File:Phantomtollbooth.PNG|link=The Phantom Tollbooth (nonfiction)|[[The Phantom Tollbooth (nonfiction)|Tock the Clock Dog]] auditions for ''Chronometer''.
The deal ultimately fell through, and Tock went on to gain fame for his work in [[Phantom Tollbooth]].
File:1938834488.01.S001.LXXXXXXX.jpg|link=Doctor Dead (nonfiction)|''Clock in [[Doctor Dead (nonfiction)|Doctor Dead]]'' cover art has interesting chronometric properties.
 
File:Gysin and Burroughs distill Extract of Radium.jpg|link=Extract of Radium|Sponsored by [[Extract of Radium]].
== Sponsorship ==
File:Psycho-trinket.jpg|link=Psycho-trinket|[[Psycho-trinket]] consolation prize.
 
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The show is sponsored by [[Extract of Radium]].
 
Yes, [[Extract of Radium]] - ''[[Humans Love It!]]''
 
== Psycho-trinkets ==
 
[[Psycho-trinkets]] were given out as consolation prizes to unsuccessful contestants.


== Fiction cross-reference ==
== Fiction cross-reference ==
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* [[Chronometer (nonfiction)]]
* [[Chronometer (nonfiction)]]
* [[Doctor Dead (nonfiction)]]
* [[Reality TV (nonfiction)]]
* [[Reality TV (nonfiction)]]
* [[The Phantom Tollbooth (nonfiction)]]
* [[Who Wants to Be a Millionare? (nonfiction)]]
* [[Who Wants to Be a Millionare? (nonfiction)]]



Revision as of 09:01, 13 June 2016

Psycho-trinket consolation prize.

Who Wants to Be a Chronometer? is a reality TV (nonfiction) show.

Participants must compete to measure time, and perform other time-related tasks.

Successful contestants are converted into a variety of chronometers.

In the News

Fiction cross-reference

Nonfiction cross-reference