Cheap Seats — Season 1, Episode 5: 1997 Spelling Bee

Episode synopsis

Check out the most memorable Bee in recent history as 13-year old Rebecca Sealfon takes the Spelling community by storm as she battles youngsters from across these United States for the much-coveted title.

About Cheap Seats

Cheap Seats without Ron Parker, commonly shortened to Cheap Seats, is a television program broadcast on ESPN Classic hosted by brothers Randy and Jason Sklar. The brothers appear as fictional ESPN tape librarians who amuse themselves by watching old, campy sports broadcasts and wisecracking about them. Cheap Seats debuted on February 4, 2004, with an episode that showed ESPN sportscaster "Ron Parker" getting buried under a shelf full of tapes, forcing the Sklars to fill in, as they were behind Parker on the "hosting depth chart". The founding production team behind "Cheap Seats" included Mark Shapiro, Showrunner, Todd Pellegrino, James Cohen and Joseph Maar. Cheap Seats was originally an hour-long program. There were about 10 one hour-long episodes in the first season, all of which were subsequently cut down to fit a 30 minute time slot.

More episodes from Season 1

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• E3Wide World: Part 1
• E4Garvey/Bonilla Celebrity Night
• E6Roller Derby
• E71978 World's Strongest Man
• E8Superdogs! Superjocks
• E91978 Superstars
• E10Wide World, Part 2: Real Men
• E111994 World Series of Poker
• E121979 Oilers vs Redwings
• E131990 Dog Show-1990 Cheerleading