20, 1965) - A trio of men or women tried to be witty, charming - or smarmy - while answering questions posed by an unseen suitor. Host Monty Hall kept the daily freak show rolling before offering two lucky players a chance to win the "Big Deal of the Day," hidden behind one of three doors. 30, 1963) - Prospective contestants dressed idiotically in hopes of being called on to win either a grand prize or a hunk of junk. What we're looking for are traditional in-studio concoctions hosted by convivial emcees.Ĭongenial hosts Monty Hall, Jim Lange and Bob Eubanksġ0. Excluded are reality competitions such as American Idol and Survivor.
Even harder: leaving out the likes of Family Feud, Password and Match Game.
Here's a list of TV's 10 top quizzes, with the last four especially tough to rank. None of these shows is likely to measure up to the all-time greats of game-dom, though. 100 to Friday nights, ABC has a British import called Wanna Bet on tap and Fox will be strapping contestants to lie detectors this January in The Moment of Truth. CBS is bringing back Power of 10, NBC will return 1 vs. Associate producer (1 episode, 2009).The writers' strike, now very likely to endure into next year, has networks looking to game shows as prime-time putty. Co-executive producer (2 episodes, 2009). Line producer (6 episodes, 2010).Ĭo-executive producer (6 episodes, 2010). Co-executive producer / producer (74 episodes, 2009-2010). (1 episode, 2009) Series Writing Credits. The exchange never made it to air, but in a 1977 taping of “The Newlywed Game,” host Bob Eubanks asked couples to name the most unusual place where they had ever pondered engaging in marital relations. The ‘Newlywed’ Clip that Lives in Infamy. While we can’t claim an exhaustive list, herewith some potential nominees. Jeopardy-like game show featuring Ben Stein as both a host and a contestant. This is something that was never seen when GSN (originally Game Show Network) used to carry 1977-1980 Bob Eubanks hosted Newlywed Game episodes back in the 1990's heyday: Taken from an original broadcast of the Newlywed Game from circa 1979-1980 is a contestant auditions plug for. In what some people called a flashback to the scandal of the 1950’s, in 2010 the FCC began investigating whether contestants on the Fox game show Our Little Genius were receiving answers beforehand.
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