Barris also claims that the advent of multiple cable channels in the 1980s and early 1990s ( in Canada and the United States ) presented another challenge to the staff of Front Page Challenge and contributed to its demise.

Barris, a survivor of lung cancer, is also an author and claims to have worked for the CIA.

Barris also co-wrote or wrote some of the music that appeared on his game shows.

The next year Barris began The Newlywed Game, originally created by Nick Nicholson and E. Roger Muir, also for ABC.

Barris also made several attempts through the years at non-game formats, such as ABC's Operation Entertainment, a variety show staged at military bases akin to USO shows ; a CBS revival of Your Hit Parade ; and The Bobby Vinton Show, a Canadian-based syndicated variety show for singer Bobby Vinton ( produced in conjunction with Chris Bearde and Allan Blye ).

He also hosted a short lived primetime variety hour for NBC from February to April 1978, called The Chuck Barris Rah-Rah Show, essentially a noncompetitive knock-off of Gong.

Gong Show and Dating Game also ended otherwise successful syndicated runs in 1980 because of the Three's a Crowd and Newlywed controversies, likely because stations were fearful of community and advertiser retribution on account of Barris ' reputation.

Barris also composed the following songs ( with performer, who performed the music first, listed on each ).

Sony then hired two producers, Peter Guber and Jon Peters, to serve as co-heads of production when Sony also acquired Guber-Peters Entertainment ( the former game show production company, Barris Industries ) for $ 200 million on September 29, 1989.

DeLugg also wrote the theme music for other Barris projects including The $ 1. 98 Beauty Show, Camouflage ( where, in a throwback to an earlier era of game shows, the music was actually performed live by DeLugg and his band ), Leave It to The Women, Three's a Crowd, and The New Treasure Hunt.

Outside of " She Loves You ", Swan's most remembered hit was Palisades Park in 1962, written by Chuck Barris, and performed by the most successful artist on the label, Freddy Cannon, who also scored hits with " Tallahassee Lassie " and " Way Down Yonder In New Orleans " before moving to Warner Brothers in 1964.

" The clip also appeared ( uncensored ) in the 2002 film Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, about the life of producer Barris.

Kaufman also penned the screenplay for Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, a biopic based on the " unauthorized autobiography " of Chuck Barris, the creator of such popular game shows as The Dating Game and host of The Gong Show.

George Barris also installed his own " Barris Kustoms " emblem on the lower part of each front fender.

In 2002, Cera played the young Chuck Barris in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and he also provided the voice for Brother Bear in The Berenstain Bears animated series.

The next day, Sony also announced that it reached an agreement with Guber-Peters Entertainment Company, Inc. ( NASDAQ: GPEC ; formerly Barris Industries, Inc .) to acquire the company for $ 200 million when Sony hired Peter Guber and Jon Peters to head CPE.

It began to license its designs to model car manufacturers such as Aurora, Revell, MPC, and AMT, which spread the Barris name into every hobby, department, and discount store in the United States and also into the minds of millions of eager model builders.

George Barris was responsible for the frame of the original batmobile and other famous automobiles he also created customized cars for various celebrities.

Between 2002 and 2006, Barris also designed two custom Cadillac hearses for episodes of the cable television series Monster Garage.

When series production was approved, the Grabowski rod was retained as the ‘ hero ’ car, and a second —-‘ stunt ’, or special-effects —- car was commissioned and built by celebrated car customizer George Barris, whose Barris Kustom Industries licensed it to AMT for model kit production ( an inaccurate rendering ) and also toured it after series wrap with other of his creations.

Many other music business executives such as Guy Barris and Derek Green of A & M Records also came to see it, some travelling thousands of miles.

He also hosted a short-lived send-up of beauty pageants called The $ 1. 98 Beauty Show created by Gong Show producer / host Chuck Barris, in 1978.

Barris ' jokey, bumbling personality ; his accentuated hand-clapping between sentences ( which eventually had the studio audience joining in with him ); and his catchphrases ( he would usually go into commercial break with, " We'll be right back with more er ... STUFF ...", occasionally paired with shifting his head to reveal the ubiquitous sign behind the stage reading simply " STUFF ," and " This is me saying ' bye '" was one of his favorite closing lines ) were the antithesis of the smooth TV host ( such as Gary Owens, who hosted the syndicated version in its first season ).

Barris married twice more, to " Red " Robin Altman, and later to Mary Rudolph.

Famed Hollywood car customizer George Barris made two much more accurate replicas for the 1971 television series Bearcats !.

Artists such as Von Dutch ( Kenny Howard ), custom car builders such as Ed " Big Daddy " Roth and Dean Jeffries, hot rod and lowrider customizers such as the Barris Brothers ( Sam and George Barris ), along with numerous tattoo artists, automobile painters, and movies and television shows such as American Graffiti, Happy Days, The Munsters ( The Munster Koach, Drag-u-la ) and The Monkees ( The Monkeemobile ) have all helped to form what is known as Kustom Kulture.

In 1967, Barker hosted the short-lived game show The Family Game for Chuck Barris, where he would ask children contestants questions about their families ' lives, and the parents had to guess how they answered, similar in fashion to The Newlywed Game.

As the car was never titled and was therefore uninsurable, it was parked behind Barris ' shop where it sat idle for several years and was allowed to deteriorate.

In his second book about the program, Alex Barris tells an anecdote about what guest panelist Bennett Cerf said to challenger Jesse Owens about Adolf Hitler during a 1958 episode ; this is one of the episodes that does not survive.

Charles Hirsch " Chuck " Barris ( born June 3, 1929 ) is an American game show creator, producer, and host ; a film director ; and a presenter best known for hosting The Gong Show and creating The Dating Game.

Ted Barris is a journalism professor and author of several books.

At home, Wanda must manage her sister-in-law ( Tammy Lauren ), who is raising two children, Holly ( Jurnee Smollett ), and Barris ( Robert Bailey, Jr .).

The Dating Game is an ABC television show that first aired on December 20, 1965 and was the first of many shows created and packaged by Chuck Barris from the 1960s through the 1980s.

In that article, the Dart is reunited with Mike Connors, George Barris, and Mannix stuntman Dick Ziker.

George Barris ( born January 2, 1925 ) is a designer of custom cars.

Barris is the subject of the title story in author Tom Wolfe's first collection of essays The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby.

Among the exhibits is an original George Barris 1921 modified Oldsmobile Beverly Hillbillies truck donated by series creator Paul Henning who was inspired to do the show after a Boy Scout camping trip in the Ozarks.

Lizards outside cover art is by Gini Barris, who was commissioned to produce it by Peter Sinfield.

Lambros Vassiliou, a close friend of George Barris is now the current owner.

He is one of a group of designers and artists including Ed Roth, George Barris, Norm Grabowski, Dean Jeffries, Bill Cushenberry and the great pinstripe artist Kenny Howard ( nicknamed Von Dutch ), who presided over one of the most productive and creative periods of American custom car and hot rod design.

The first roof chopper is considered to be Sam Barris ( brother of auto customizer George Barris ), who chopped and customized his brand new 1949 Mercury.

* Peter, Paul & Mary's version of the song is used in the film Confessions of a Dangerous Mind during a sequence in which " Gong Show " host Chuck Barris ( Sam Rockwell ) has an on-air nervous breakdown due to his years as a CIA assassin, and visualizes the entire audience as dead bodies.

Peter Barris is an American businessman and venture capitalist.

Barris is currently on the Board of Directors of eight companies ; Broadview Networks Holdings, Inc., Echo Global Logistics, Inc., Groupon, Hillcrest Laboratories, Inc., InnerWorkings, Inc., Jobfox, Inc., MediaBank, SnagFilms and Vonage Holdings Corp. Barris is often featured on the Forbes Midas list and was ranked # 8 on the list in 2011.