During this time she was spotted by a producer during a brief appearance on TV's The Gong Show.

Other forerunners of modern reality television were the 1970s productions of Chuck Barris: The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, and The Gong Show, all of which featured participants who were eager to sacrifice some of their privacy and dignity in a televised competition.

Bob Eubanks returned as a panelist and was joined by hosts Monty Hall and Tom Kennedy, frequent Gong Show contributors Jaye P. Morgan and Jamie Farr ( who shared a square ), original Hollywood Squares regular Rose Marie, and frequent game show panel members Betty White, Jo Anne Worley, and Nipsey Russell, who performed a poem in his guise of " The Poet Laureate of Television ".

After six years without a regular television show in the United Kingdom ( though he had hosted a one-off UK version of The Gong Show for Channel 4, which was critically panned and was not commissioned for a full series ), Howerd returned to TV screens in 1987 in the Channel 4 show Superfrank !, scripted by Miles Tredinnick and Vince Powell.

They also created original shows Extreme Gong ( a remake of the classic Gong Show ) and Burt Luddin's Love Buffet, starring John Cervenka.

Later, the channel attempted a Gong Show remake called Extreme Gong ( hosted by George Gray, in which the viewers could phone in their votes as to whether to " gong " acts off the air ) and Throut And Neck ( hosted by Rebecca Grant ) ( where viewers controlled video game characters with their phones ).

* Barris Industries / The Guber-Peters Entertainment Company: The Newlywed Game, The Dating Game, The Gong Show ( except the Gary Owens version ), 3's a Crowd, and Quiz Kids Challenge.

It began in October 1984 with reruns of The Gong Show and Make Me Laugh.

Farr appeared as a panelist on several game shows, including: The $ 25, 000 Pyramid, Super Password, The Gong Show, Body Language, Match Game, Hollywood Squares, Wordplay, The $ 1. 98 Beauty Show, The Magnificent Marble Machine, Tattletales and others.

He was a regular judge, with Arte Johnson and Jaye P. Morgan, on The Gong Show.

Laugh-In writer Chris Bearde liked the " New Talent " concept and later developed it into The Gong Show.

The show featured a stock company of zany comedians, including Freeman King, Ted Ziegler, and Murray Langston ( later The Unknown Comic on The Gong Show ).

One of the show's signature segments, six contestants are given the chance to sing a song, with the bad performers being eliminated mid-song by El Chacal, a ghostlike character who blows an old trumpet to end such acts ( similar to The Gong Show ).

Unlike The Gong Show, el chacal does not have to wait a specific amount of time before eliminating someone ( on many occasions, players have been eliminated almost immediately after beginning ).

They gained a following in Los Angeles, and appeared as contestants on The Gong Show in 1976, winning the episode they appeared on with 24 points out of a possible 30 ( and without getting gonged ).

The Gong Show presentation included an accordion, a purple dragon, and a gaseous rocket-man.

* 1976 Gong Show performance by the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo-video

Now sometimes appearing as " Patti " ( but still signing autographs as " Patty ") she re-emerged in the late 1970s as a regular panelist on The Gong Show.

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.

Chuck Barris on The Gong Show, 1976

Barris became a public figure in 1976, when he produced and served as the host of the talent contest spoof The Gong Show, which he packaged in partnership with TV producer Chris Bearde.

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.

On Kublai's orders, carried out by his commander Bayan, the rest of the former imperial family of Song were unharmed ; the deposed Emperor Gong was demoted, being given the title ' Duke of Ying ', but was eventually exiled to Tibet where he took up a monastic life.

Through thievery, Spicer eventually possesses enough Shen Gong Wu to form Mala Mala Jong, an ancient monster that Wuya uses to help her gain control of the world.

A newspaper article denouncing " teenagers practicing Qi Gong ," with some parts specifically targeting Falun Gong, in Tianjin in April triggered a series of events which eventually led to over 10, 000 practitioners silently protesting outside the Beijing Zhongnanhai Compound, near China's Central Appeals Office, to appeal for the release of detained practitioners.

This plan eventually changed with Gong Li's character becoming more important and the story's viewpoint shifting to that of the young boy, Tang Shuisheng.

Using the title of " Great Chancellor " ( 大丞相 ), Li Yuan installed a puppet child emperor, Emperor Gong, but eventually removed him altogether and established the Tang Dynasty in 618 as Emperor.

Yong Gong eventually fell in love with Hee-won, who doted on his son.

His and his two brothers ' poetry, which focused on clarity and sincerity, produced a following eventually known as the Gong ' an school, the central belief of which was that good writing was a result of genuine emotions and personal experience.

Li presented Falun Gong as part of a " centuries-old tradition of cultivation ", and in effect sought to revive the religious and spiritual elements of qigong practice that had been discarded in the earlier Communist era.

Moreover, if Falun Gong had described itself as a religion in China, it likely would have invited immediate suppression.

Non-Chinese adherents of Falun Gong tend to fit the profile of " spiritual seekers "— people who had tried a variety of qigong, yoga, or religious practices before finding Falun Gong.

Falun Gong had differentiated itself from other qigong groups in its emphasis on morality, low cost, and health benefits.

Until this juncture, Falun Gong had successfully negotiated the space between science and native tradition in the public representation of its teachings, avoiding any suggestion of superstition.

By the late 1990s, the Communist Party's relationship to the growing Falun Gong movement had become increasingly tense.

For instance, Ye Xiaowen, Director of the Bureau of Religious Affairs of the State Council ( government ), said at a news conference on 4 November 1999 " Falun Gong had brainwashed and bilked followers, caused more than 1, 400 deaths, and threatened both social and political stability ".

Time reported that prior to the self-immolation incident, many Chinese had felt that Falun Gong posed no real threat, and that the state's crackdown had gone too far.

Adam Frank writes that in reporting on the Falun Gong, the Western tradition of casting the Chinese as " exotic " took dominance, and that " the facts were generally correct, but the normalcy that millions of Chinese practitioners associated with the practice had all but disappeared.

By the latter half of 2001, however, the volume of media reports declined precipitously, and by 2002, major news organizations like the New York Times and Washington Post had almost completely ceased their coverage of Falun Gong from China.

Thus, Falun Gong practitioners have largely had to rely on their own resources in responding to suppression.

Tong asserts that among the main features of Jiang ’ s domestic policy was his campaign against the Falun Gong, which once had tens of millions of followers in China.

By that time, a regular line-up had been established, and Gong released their Flying Teapot album in May 1973.

Drummer Pierre Moerlen, who had been persuaded by Virgin to rejoin Gong as a co-leader with Malherbe ( after his spell with the French contemporary ensemble Les Percussions De Strasbourg ) in 1975, gradually took over the band's leadership ( with the original band dissolving in 1976 ).

This morphed into GongMaison and by 1991, the name Gong was again in use, by which time early drummer Pip Pyle had also rejoined.

Together they had a daughter, Della, who sometimes appeared on The Gong Show during its run from 1976-1980.

Secret Saucer combines members of Quarkspace and Architectural Metaphor with members who have had affiliations with some of the original space rock bands ( such as Hawkwind, Nik Turner and Gong ).

The human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, often referred to as the ' conscience of China ' and who had previously been arrested and allegedly tortured by the Chinese regime for defending members of the Falun Gong, was abducted by Chinese security agents on 4 February 2009 and has not been seen since.

With the support of the emperor, he established an institute at Yuhua Gong ( Palace of the Lustre of Jade ) monastery dedicated to translating into Chinese the scriptures he had brought back.

Although Russia had not been a belligerent, Prince Gong also signed a treaty with Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky.