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.

Interviewed on the NPR program " Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me " on August 1, 2009, Barris said that the Newlywed Game was the easiest program he had developed: " All I needed was four couples, eight questions, and a washer-dryer.

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 ).

The Gong Show eventually had three later revivals, one under Barris ' title ( with Don Bleu ) in 1988-89, one on The Game Show Network in 2000 called Extreme Gong and another with current format owner Sony Pictures Television ( with Dave Attell ) in 2008.

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

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 Newlywed Game, by contrast, another Barris show, had recently-married couples competing to answer questions about each others ' preferences.

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.

:" Dean Jeffries, who had a paint shop next to Barris did the customizing work which consisted of: painting ' 130 ' in black non-permanent paint on the front hood, doors and rear deck lid.

He was replaced by Charlie O ' Donnell, who Barris had signed away from Barry & Enright Productions, in 1986.

Sam decided to leave the business in the 1950s, but George had married and he credited his wife Shirley with major assistance in promoting the company, which eventually became Barris Kustom Industries.

At the beginning of the decade, Barris, who loved extravagant design, had purchased the Lincoln Futura, a concept car of the mid-1950s which had been built by Ghia of Italy.

In 2005 The New York Times had Barris customize a Toyota Prius, one of the most popular cars in the U. S. yet according to the Times, one of the most unattractive.

Among the game show companies O ' Donnell had worked for as a primary announcer were Stefan Hatos-Monty Hall Productions ( 1973 – 1977 ), Merv Griffin Enterprises / Sony Pictures Television ( 1975 – 80 and 1989 – 2010 ), Barry & Enright Productions ( 1981 – 86 ), and Barris Industries ( 1986 – 89 and earlier on occasion ).

Just as AMT had hired George Barris and Darryl Starbird, Revell hired " Big Daddy " Ed Roth in about 1962 as their new stylist ( Funding Universe webpage ).

He had requested that O ' Donnell return to take his place, but since O ' Donnell was not available due to his prior obligations with Chuck Barris Productions, Los Angeles-area disc jockey M. G.

At the time, in addition to his game show announcing duties for Barris Industries and The $ 100, 000 Pyramid O ' Donnell was announcing for another weekend music program, ABC's American Bandstand, which Solid Gold had many similarities with except for Bandstand not having the dance crew Solid Gold employed.

Presley had it customized by George Barris after purchase.

Barris created several other short-lived game shows for ABC in the 1960s and for syndication in the 1970s, all of which revolved around a common theme: the game play normally derived its interest ( and oftentimes, humor ) from the excitement, vulnerability, embarrassment, or anger of the contestants or participants in the game.

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.

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

Barris got his start in television as a page and later staffer at NBC in New York City, and eventually worked backstage at the TV music show American Bandstand ( then filmed in Philadelphia ), originally as a standards-and-practices person for ABC.

In Barris's self-described " unauthorized autobiography " Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, originally published in 1984, Barris claimed to have worked for the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) as an assassin in the 1960s and the 1970s.

The CIA denies Barris ever worked for them in any capacity.

After the release of the movie, CIA spokesman Paul Nowack said Barris ' assertions that he worked for the spy agency " ridiculous.

However, his second memoir, The Game Show King: A Confession ( 1993 ), makes no mention of the CIA — or, for that matter, his previous book ; and a CIA spokesman has categorically denied that Barris ever worked for them in any capacity.

Jeffries worked on the design and initial fabrication for the Batmobile, using a 1959 Cadillac, but when the studio wanted the car faster than he could deliver, he turned it back to George Barris.

A customized 1969 American Motors AMX was built by George Barris for the second regular season episode.

However, Barron proved ill at ease in the moderator's seat, so both Fred Davis and panelist Alex Barris rotated as guest hosts in the early part of the fall before Davis was chosen to take over as host full-time ( a position he retained for the rest of the show's run ), though Barris continued to appear as a guest panelist occasionally.

Alex Barris says in his second book that the absence of non-Canadian guests after 1979 resulted from budget cuts for CBC Television that ruled out travel expenses.

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.

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

The combination of the newlywed couples ' humorous candor and host Bob Eubanks's sly questioning made the show another hit for Barris.

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 ).

Barris joined in with the eccentricity of the format, using unusual props, dressing in colorful and somewhat unusual clothing ( such as the occasional hat pulled over his head, if not his eyes ), he became yet another performer of the show, and for many, quite a cult hero.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.