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.

Barris was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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.

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.

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 ).

Dubbed " Chuckie Baby " by his fans, Barris was a perfect fit with the show's goofy, sometimes wild amateur performers and its panel of three judges ( including regulars Jamie Farr, Jaye P. Morgan and Arte Johnson ).

Its storyline and approach, though including a number of GS segments, was a bit less " zany " ( another favorite Barris phrase ) than some audiences may have expected.

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 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 ).

Chuck Barris sold his shares of Barris Industries, Inc. in 1987 to Burt Sugarman and left to move back to France and was no longer directly involved in his media company.

On September 7, 1989, Barris Industries was renamed as the Guber-Peters Entertainment Company.

Barris ' uncle was singer / songwriter / actor Harry Barris.

Barris ' first wife was Lyn Levy, the niece of one of the founders of CBS.

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.

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

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.

For season one, Jamie Whitney was the director, and all 39 episodes were written by Kate Barris and Paddy Granleese.

In his first autobiography, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind ( 1988 ), Barris claimed that The Dating Game was a cover for his CIA activities, and was promoted by the CIA.

In his book, Barris says that at the height of the show's popularity in the late 1950s, the individual panelists became major celebrities in Canada.

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.

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 ).

The somewhat shy Barris rarely appeared on camera, though he once dashed onto the set of The New Treasure Hunt to throw a pie at emcee Geoff Edwards.

Barris scrapped Barbour at the last minute ; in order to save the show, Barris followed the advice of an NBC executive that he should host the show himself.

In a 2010 interview on NBC's The Today Show, Barris said he disagreed with the " tough love " philosophy of dealing with addicted children, and that he regretted having allowed Della to leave home at age 16.

* Chuck Barris Interview at Archive of American Television

O ' Donnell continued to announce through the end of the Paul Rodriguez-hosted season, then left Barris to return to his position at Wheel of Fortune.

Minutes before the song was to be presented on American Bandstand in 1962, ABC informed Rambeau that he couldn't sing the song ( because Chuck Barris was an ABC employee at the time ), and he performed the B-side of the record instead.

* Original Batmobile at Barris ' own website

In April 2010, the special George Barris design edition of the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro Spirit was introduced to the public for the first time at a VIP media event at Community Chevrolet, one of the largest Chevrolet dealerships in the nation.

* George Barris Interview at Archive of American Television

Earlier, Barris spent almost a decade at General Electric Company in a variety of management positions, including Vice President and General Manager at GE Information Services.

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

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

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.

Barris continued strongly until the mid-1970s, when ABC cancelled the Dating and Newlywed games.

After a week-long trial of The Newlywed Game on ABC in 1984 ( with Dating Game emcee Jim Lange ), Barris produced the daily Newlywed Game ( titled The New Newlywed Game ) in syndication from 1985 to 1989, with original host Eubanks ( and in 1988, comedian Paul Rodriguez ).

One unused but operational concept car that languished for years in the North Hollywood, California shop of car customizer George Barris, Ford Motor Company's " Lincoln Futura " from 1954, received a new lease on life as the Batmobile in the Batman series that debuted in 1966 on the ABC Television Network.

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.

) For years it was almost always aired in tandem with another Barris production, The Newlywed Game, which premiered on ABC the following year.

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.

In 1966, he received a phone call from Chuck Barris to host a new game show, The Newlywed Game, which premiered on ABC that same year.