Debuting on this day on ABC station affiliates with host British actor and comedian Richard Dawson, Family Feud quickly became one the most popular day time television game shows in America, enduring in syndication until the present. The format pits two groups of competing, extended families, against each other, asking contestants to guess the most popular results of audience polls. Contractually obligated to make Dawson the MC of the programme, his run lasting until 1985, the show’s producers had originally wanted William Shatner, Star Trek having been discontinued a few years earlier (see previously here and here), to host. Watching the family dynamics of the panelist was always fun and the questions and responses pushed the envelope of what was fit to air with low-brow entendre.
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one year ago: Mimolette (with synchronoptica), a Jaws text-based game, more on the Carnac Stones and other megaliths plus more on optical telegraphy
two years ago: plural forms of compound expressions, assorted links to revisit plus Disco Demolition Night (1979)
three years ago: the Golden Spike of the Anthropocene Era, a crowd-pirated movie plus more links to enjoy
four years ago: St Veronica plus even more links worth the revisit
five years ago: In the Year 2525
six years ago: Trump ally Roger Stone plus a smart facial covering
