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

After a year's inactivity, Barris revived Treasure Hunt again in 1981 in partnership with the original 1950s version's producer, Budd Granoff, who had become his business partner ( the show itself was created by its original host, Jan Murray ).

The program, originally created by Nick Nicholson and E. Roger Muir ( credited on-screen as Roger E. Muir ) and produced by Chuck Barris, has appeared in many different versions since its 1966 debut.

Then, Milton DeLugg, who was by this time Barris ' house musical director, created a new, updated theme based on the existing melody for The New Newlywed Game beginning with Jim Lange's 1984 series of specials, and then for the first several years of the Bob Eubanks-hosted revival.

In 2010, George Barris created a woodie version of the Smart Fortwo, an aftermarket firm offered a simulated wood kit for the same car, and GM displayed a prototype woodie version of the forthcoming Chevrolet Spark for the 2010 Paris Motor Show.

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.

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

Barris created a customized gold Rolls Royce for famous actress Zsa Zsa Gabor.

Chuck Barris created the series and was executive producer while Johnny Jacobs announced.

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.

Rufus ' taxi was created by George Barris.

Harry Barris, one of Paul Whiteman's " The Rhythm Boys ," along with Bing Crosby, scatted on several songs, including " Mississippi Mud ," which Barris wrote in 1927.

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 ).

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

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.

The movie featured several songs sung on camera by the Rhythm Boys ( Bing Crosby, Al Rinker and Harry Barris ), as well as off-camera solo vocals by Crosby during the opening credits and, very briefly, during a cartoon sequence.

As with some of Barris ' other projects ( including The Newlywed Game ), it was at one point possible to see The Gong Show twice daily, a relatively uncommon feat in the years prior to cable TV's expansion into the commercial market.

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.

In all other Season 1 episodes Mannix drove a 1967 Oldsmobile Toronado roadster " customized " by George Barris, builder of TV's Batmobile from the 1960s Batman ABC series, since the producers wanted a convertible and Oldsmobile never produced an open-topped Toronado.

Despite the car's original cost of $ 250, 000, the Lincoln Futura was sold to Barris for $ 1. 00 and " other valuable consideration " by Ford Motor Company.

In the early 1960s, Barris, along with other well-known customizers ( Gene Winfield, Dean Jeffries and the Alexander Brothers ) reworked production cars for Ford's " Custom Car Caravan " and " Lincoln / Mercury's Caravan of Stars ".

Barris has built many novelty vehicles for other celebrities ; these include golf carts for Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Ann-Margret, Glen Campbell, and Elton John ; and 25 modified Mini Mokes for a record company contest involving the Beach Boys.

Barris ' company often builds replicas of non-Barris designed vehicles from other TV series, including The Monkees ( Monkeemobile ), Starsky and Hutch ( Ford Torino ), Power Rangers ( Rad-Bug, Turbo Vehicles, and SPD Cars ), and Knight Rider ( KITT ).

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.

The car was designed by George Barris ( famous for other Hollywood custom cars such as the Batmobile, and many others ) and was deliberately designed in bad taste as a ridiculous station wagon, with absurdly over-the-top styling.

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.

* 1929 – Chuck Barris, American game show host, director, and producer

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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.

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

Barris was promoted to the daytime programming division at ABC in Los Angeles and was put in charge of deciding which game shows ABC would air.

Barris told his bosses that the producer / packagers ' pitches of game show concepts were worse than Barris ' own ideas.

Barris first became successful during 1965 with his first game show creation, The Dating Game, on ABC.

During the winter of 1980, Barris attempted to rebuild by bringing back another game show that was not an original of his, Camouflage, in which contestants answered questions for the chance to locate a " hidden object " ( such as a toaster ) concealed within a cartoon-type drawing.

In 1973, Barris released an LP of television game show music, Chuck Barris Presents Themes From TV Game Shows ( Friends Records ).

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.

Popular dating game shows were an innovation of TV producer Chuck Barris in the 1970s.

One of the leading producers to do this was Chuck Barris, whose game shows were designed mainly to entertain the audience, as well as play for prizes.

The tune was written by Chuck Barris, before his days as a pioneering TV game show producer.

Mark Goodson – Bill Todman Productions ( and to a lesser extent, Barry-Enright Productions and Chuck Barris Productions ) had the foresight to preserve many of their games for later reruns ; for years, these shows dominated the Game Show Network ( GSN ) line-up.

During the next seven years he wrote, directed, and produced a wide variety of musicals, comedy-variety shows, dramas, and specials, including the The Big Revue, Showtime and The Barris Beat.

By September 1980, for the first time in his company's history, Barris had no shows in production.

After the shows ' runs ended, Sony Corporation acquired Guber-Peters Entertainment ( formerly Barris Industries ) for $ 200 million on September 29, 1989, a day after Sony Corporation of Japan acquired Columbia Pictures Entertainment.

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.

On November 8, 1989, Sony Corporation bought Columbia Pictures Entertainment for $ 3. 4 billion and the next day, Sony acquired the Guber-Peters Entertainment Company ( formerly game show production company Barris Industries with the library of game shows including The Newlywed Game, The Dating Game, and The Gong Show ) for $ 200 million after hiring film producers Peter Guber and Jon Peters to run the company.

Along with the Chuck Barris, Merv Griffin, and CPT game shows they already owned, these were part of the basis of the Game Show Network, launched on December 1, 1994.

His car shows further publicized the Barris style, as did the car customizing how-to articles George wrote and Petersen published.

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.