The series, sold to many ABC affiliates ( including the network's owned and operated stations such as WABC in New York ), was produced by Goodson-Todman and distributed by Jim Victory Television, G-T's syndication partner for Concentration.

After the cancellation of Match Game 79, there was still enough interest in the series for Goodson-Todman and Jim Victory Television to consider a continuation of the daily series in syndication as the weekly Match Game PM was still airing and had not stopped production.

had a regular spot on the schedule, late Sunday / early Monday at 3: 00 AM Eastern ; it was followed by a selection from various 1950s-1970s Goodson-Todman shows, usually another panel game.

It was used as the closing theme for the popular Goodson-Todman panel show " What's My Line?

After Goodson-Todman announcer Johnny Olson died in October 1985, Roddy was chosen as one of several substitute announcers ( along with Rich Jeffries, Bob Hilton, and Gene Wood ) to announce The Price Is Right.

The theme for the NBC version was previously used on the Goodson-Todman series Double Dare with host Alex Trebek that aired in 1976 on CBS.

Many Goodson-Todman games were produced internationally, some under different titles, and were distributed by Reg Grundy Productions – Family Feud was known in the United Kingdom as Family Fortunes, and Card Sharks went under the title Play Your Cards Right.

In the United Kingdom, it was known as Blankety Blank, while in Australia, it was known as Blankety Blanks ( which, coincidentally, was the title of an unrelated American game show, created by former Goodson-Todman staffer, Bob Stewart ).

AATV was bought out by rival communications company Pearson Television in 1998, which, in turn, was acquired by RTL Group subsidiary FremantleMedia four years later ( at one time, one of the company's predecessors, Fremantle International, was the distributor of Goodson-Todman game shows internationally ).

Todman's brother Howard was Vice President and Treasurer for Goodson-Todman Productions.

Todman was the genius behind diversifying Goodson-Todman into the newspaper, radio and real estate businesses.

For a few years in the early 1950s, Willson was a regular panelist on the Goodson-Todman game show The Name's the Same.

* On February 2, 1950, Rizzuto was the very first mystery guest on the 1950 – 67 Goodson-Todman Productions game show What's My Line?

This was the only time Goodson-Todman taped a series in Canada that was not for a Canadian-specific audience.

Password is an American television game show which was created by Bob Stewart for Goodson-Todman Productions.

On February 24, 1975, Goodson-Todman abandoned the format ( but changed the contestant configuration in order to avoid another set redesign ) in a last-ditch effort to save the program, but it was too late – although Password was given another eighteen weeks, ABC had all but given up on the show.

All was not lost for Goodson-Todman, however, as Password was replaced with a new game — their ill-fated Showoffs, which lasted six months.

Goodson-Todman Productions were also involved with three westerns: Jefferson Drum ( 1958 – 1959 ), starring Jeff Richards as a newspaper editor in the Old West ; The Rebel ( 1959 – 1961 ), starring Nick Adams as an ex-Confederate soldier who traveled to the West after the Civil War ( Johnny Cash sang the theme ); and Branded, starring Chuck Connors as a soldier who had wrongly been given a dishonorable discharge from the Army.

Though both men created the programs, Todman gradually became less involved with the day-to-day operations of the game show business and moved Goodson-Todman into a bigger business strategy.

The chemistry between Somers and Reilly prompted Goodson-Todman and CBS to hire them as regular panelists ; Somers, who occupied the top center seat, remained on the show until 1982, while Reilly ( top right ) continued appearing through the 1983 – 1984 and 1990 – 1991 revivals, with a brief break from 1974 – 1975 when Gary Burghoff, Nipsey Russell, and Rip Taylor substituted for him.

In 1976, the show's success, and celebrity panelist Richard Dawson's popularity, prompted Goodson-Todman to develop a new show for ABC entitled Family Feud with Dawson hosting.

From October 11, 1997 to April 18, 1998 the network's Goodson-Todman library rights expired, with the exceptions of The Price Is Right and the 1994-1995 season of Family Feud, which were both on a separate contract.

CBS abandoned the wiping process by September 1972, largely as a result of their collaboration with Goodson-Todman ; as a result, even the network's shorter-lived games ( such as Spin-Off ) still exist in their entirety.

During the 1970s and early 1980s, while going strong with his announcing duties on Price and Match, he announced nine other shorter-lived game shows, including Now You See It, Mindreaders, Double Dare, and a revival of Tattletales, all of which shows were Goodson-Todman productions.

Most Grundy-produced counterparts of Goodson-Todman games had low payouts, but made up for it with almost identical sets ( e. g., Blankety Blanks ) or unique sets of their own ( e. g., Family Fortunes ).

Stewart, a former producer for Goodson-Todman Productions, created this series and packaged it with Filmways.

After the celebrity format modification proved unpopular with fans, Goodson-Todman made Password All-Stars simply Password again, but the show carried over elements of All-Stars mainly in order to use the set that had been redesigned for the all-celebrity period.

Although Goodson-Todman had success with celebrity-driven formats such as Match Game ( which debuted in 1973 ) and Tattletales ( which began earlier in the year ) through the late 1970s, the lack of civilian contestants and significantly altered rules on Password drove even more viewers away.

As with several other Goodson-Todman game shows, Password has been adapted into a slot machine by WMS Gaming.

Created by Larry Cohen, the show was co-produced for most of its run by Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions in association with Sentinel Productions, Inc. Goodson-Todman was primarily known not for Westerns or dramatic shows, but almost exclusively for game and panel shows such as What's My Line?

The networks " acted as mere conduits ", with Warner, Talent Associates, Revue Studios, Ziv, Screen Gems, 20th Century-Fox, Goodson-Todman, and Desilu Studios producing nearly everything on the networks ; with rare exceptions, only network news and sports were still produced in-house.

This version aired occasionally on Game Show Network during the 1990s and 2000s until the network chose not to renew its contract with FremantleMedia ( which now owns the Goodson-Todman library ).

FremantleMedia previously leased the entire Goodson-Todman library ( with The Price is Right and the 1994 season of Feud on separate contracts ) and Press Your Luck to GSN until March 31, 2009.

RTL Group, which includes the former Goodson-Todman and has merged it with FremantleMedia

He developed and produced two pilots for The Joker's Wild in association with Goodson-Todman Productions, emceed by Allen Ludden.

Before the cancellation of the Goodson-Todman game show Snap Judgment on NBC in 1969, they changed their set in order to make it resemble the look of the CBS Password.

The show was based on He Said, She Said, a syndicated Goodson-Todman show that aired during the 1969 — 1970 season.

The pilot for the original version of The Match Game, created by Goodson-Todman staffer Frank Wayne, bore little resemblance to its more famous descendant.

The company is now a part of FremantleMedia along with Goodson-Todman Productions.

In the late 1960s, Jack Barry pitched the concept of Joker to Goodson-Todman Productions.

Also notable by their absence were the Jack Narz and Alex Trebek versions of Concentration, despite being produced by Goodson-Todman.