Tuesday, October 25, 2011

The Newlywed Game

The Newlywed Game was an American television game show where newly-married couples answered questions to find out how well the husband and wife knew each other.

Produced by Chuck Barris, the show became famous for some of the arguments that couples had over incorrect answers and even led to some divorces.
Bob Eubanks is the host that is most often associated with The Newlywed Game. Eubanks was, at the time the show signed on in 1966, the youngest emcee to host a game show at age 28. Johnny Jacobs was the announcer of The Newlywed Game during its entire 1966-74 run.

For the first round, the wives were taken off the stage while the husbands were asked three questions. (Many of The Newlywed Game's questions dealt with "making whoopee", the euphemism that producers used for sexual intercourse in order to get around network censors.

(Originally, in the first year of the first ABC version, the husbands went off-stage first while the wives had to predict what their husbands would say. Each correct match was worth 5 points. Then the wives would go off-stage as the husbands would be asked 10-point questions with a bonus question worth 25 points (which usually decided the game). The maximum possible score was 70 points.

The grand prize was never a car, but it could include just about anything else: appliances, furniture, home entertainment systems, a trailer or motorcycles, trips (complete with luggage and camera).
From: Wikipedia.org


The Newlywed Game opening video


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