What is “The Newlywed Game”?
A: The Newlywed Game is an American television game show.
The show puts newly married couples against each other
in a series of revealing question rounds to determine how well the spouses
what?
A: Know or do not know each other.
The program was originally created by whom?
A: Robert "Nick" Nicholson and E. Roger Muir (credited on-screen as Roger
E. Muir).
Who was it produced by?
A: Chuck Barris.
The show became famous for what?
A: Some of the arguments that couples had over incorrect answers in the form
of mistaken predictions.
Many of The Newlywed Game's questions dealt with
"making whoopee", the euphemism that producers used for “what” to circumvent
network censorship?
A: Sexual intercourse.
However, it became such a catchphrase of the show that
its original host, Bob Eubanks, continued to use the phrase throughout what?
A: The show's many runs, even in the 1980s and 1990s episodes and beyond,
when he could easily have said "make love" or "have sex" during these
periods without censorship.
In 2013, TV Guide ranked it where in its list of the 60
greatest game shows ever.?
A: No. 10.
When did the Newlywed Game debute on the ABC television
network?
A: On July 11, 1966, scheduled at 2 p.m. (1 Central).
On the day it debuted, CBS preempted its popular
Password to cover what?
A: A news conference held by then-Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, which
was delayed a half-hour, with the network "vamping" until he spoke.
ABC opted to wait until just as what?
A: The press conference began.
As a result The Newlywed Game was able to get what?
A: A slight head start in the head-to-head ratings battle with the
long-running Password.
Over the next few months more and more viewers were
tuning into The Newlywed Game and it became what?
A: A hit.
Password's ratings began to fall and eventually led to
what?
A: The series' cancellation fourteen months later.
NBC debuted Days of Our Lives in late 1965 at 2/1, a
soap opera that initially what?
A: Struggled to climb in the ratings.
But by the early 1970s, Days was winning the timeslot
regularly (though not always) over what?
A: Newlywed and CBS' Guiding Light.
Eventually, ABC determined that Newlywed had run its
course on daytime and on December 20, 1974, the show did what?
A: Concluded its initial run after nearly eight and a half years on the
network.
It was the longest-running game show in ABC daytime
history until 1985, when what happened?
A: Family Feud surpassed it, having run nine years at the time of its
cancellation that year.
A syndicated version of the show began airing in 1977,
with the same rules and set as what?
A: As the ABC original.
In fall 1979, creator Chuck Barris had debuted
something of a spin-off show, 3's a Crowd, in which who would compete?
A: A man, his wife and his secretary.
The controversy, driven by the implications of adultery
that came with such a concept, did what?
A: Ruined Barris's reputation.
It not only ended 3's a Crowd, but what three of
Barris's other shows that were airing at the time?
A: The Newlywed Game, The Dating Game and The Gong Show.
This was because most local stations did not want
anything to do with what?
A: The controversy, fearing potential boycotts and loss of advertising that
might result.
A special week-long series for Valentine's Day aired
when?
A: On ABC in February 1984 and was the last time the show aired on a
broadcast network.
The set for the week of specials would later be used
for Bob Eubanks' return to what?
A: The New Newlywed Game in syndication a year later.