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Television game show pioneer Chuck Barris died Tuesday at age 87 in his Palisades, N.Y., home, leaving behind his third wife, Mary, and a legacy that includes classics such as The Gong Show, The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, and other notable entries into the game-show canon.
A CIA rep later called Barris’ assertion “Absurd.”
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“I think The Dating Game and The Newlywed Game began the momentum for what eventually became Fear Factor, The Jerry Springer Show, Joe Millionaire, and so on. But if I wasn’t t, somebody else would have been.”
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As the Notable Names Data Base reports, Reubens was a huge Gong Show fan, and would appear on the show 15 times throughout its run.
Two years before the conviction that got him t, Alcala appeared on The Dating Game as Bachelor Number One despite being convicted of raping an eight-year-old girl in 1972.
The pair appeared on The Newlywed Game in 1979, and while they appear a little gruff and indifferent to one another, they actually go on to win the game and share an overwhelming kiss on-air.
TV censors let the act through for the airing on the show in the Eastern time zone, but pulled the clip from subsequent Pacific, Central, and Mountain time airings.