Let's Make a Deal began in 1963 and the 1960s also marked the debut of Hollywood Squares, Password, The Dating Game and The Newlywed Game.

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.

ABC's daytime lineup became strong throughout the 1970s and 1980s with the soap operas General Hospital, One Life to Live, The Edge of Night ( which had moved to ABC from CBS in late 1975 ), All My Children, and Ryan's Hope, and the game shows The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, Let's Make a Deal, Split Second, The $ 20, 000 Pyramid and Family Feud.

GSN renewed The Newlywed Game with Sherri Shepherd for a sixth season.

Also in 2009, The Newlywed Game returned to the air on GSN, this time with Wilson Phillips singer Carnie Wilson as host.

* 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.

* The Newlywed Game, an American television game show

* The Newlywed Game ( 1966 – 1974 ).

* The Newlywed Game ( 1966 – 1974 ).

* The Newlywed Game ( 1966 – 1974 ).

* The Newlywed Game ( 1966 – 1974 ).

* The Newlywed Game ( 1966 – 1974 ).

* December 20 – The Newlywed Game ( 1966 – 1974 ).

* The Newlywed Game ( 1966 – 1974 ).

* January 7-A prime-time edition of The Newlywed Game premieres on ABC ( 1967 – 1971 ).

* The Newlywed Game ( 1966 – 1974 ).

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

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.

Gong Show and Dating Game also ended otherwise successful syndicated runs in 1980 because of the Three's a Crowd and Newlywed controversies, likely because stations were fearful of community and advertiser retribution on account of Barris ' reputation.

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 ).

So strong were the feelings of the Autrys that Newlywed came close to being expelled from the KTLA facilities, but the show was discontinued by the syndicator before any action occurred.

He appeared with his wife on The Newlywed Game hosted by Bob Eubanks on May 18, 2010.

She hosted GSN's new edition of The Newlywed Game, which premiered April 6, 2009, until late 2010 when she was replaced by Sherri Shepherd.

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 1988, Eubanks left The Newlywed Game to pursue other interests ( even though he was still hosting Card Sharks on CBS for another 7 months ) and was replaced by Paul Rodriguez.

It was originally created by Nick Nicholson and E. Roger Muir ( creators of The Newlywed Game, Spin-Off, Definition, Guess What, and others ).

It was originally created by Nick Nicholson and E. Roger Muir ( creators of The Newlywed Game and Definition ).

The name ' Whoopee ' was a reference to a sexual slang, popularized by the Gus Kahn-penned tune " Makin ' Whoopee " and the TV game show The Newlywed Game.

** The Newlywed Game ( 1977-1980 version ; currently owned by Sony Pictures Television )

Four of the most well-known game shows in television history were recorded at ABC Television Center: Family Feud ( 1976 – 85, hosted by Richard Dawson ), Let's Make a Deal ( 1968 – 76, hosted by Monty Hall ), The Dating Game ( 1965 – 74, hosted by Jim Lange ), and The Newlywed Game ( 1966 – 74, hosted by Bob Eubanks ).

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

In spring 2010, Eubanks hosted another episode of The Newlywed Game, subtitled the " Game Show Kings " episode.

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

DeLugg enjoyed a long association with Chuck Barris, beginning as arranger of the original theme to The Newlywed Game in 1966.

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.

Scott Beach, who was Barris ' first choice for host, was the announcer in the very early episodes of The Newlywed Game.

Not wanting the song to go to waste, Barris commissioned Milton DeLugg a few years later to arrange an instrumental version of " Summertime Guy " for use as the first theme to The Newlywed Game.

Featured as the third track on the LP album Chuck Barris Presents Themes from TV Game Shows, it was used on The Newlywed Game beginning with the syndicated version in 1977.

* Chuck Barris: The Dating Game, The Gong Show, The Newlywed Game, Treasure Hunt

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.

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.