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Hot Seat is an American game show which aired on ABC from July 12 to October 22, 1976. The series was created by Merrill Heatter and Robert Quigley, who were known at this point for their hit game shows Gambit and The Hollywood Squares among others. Jim Peck was the host, with Kenny Williams as the announcer.
The show's first episode debuted at 7:30 p.m. on a Saturday night, a move intended to interest parents. The second episode aired in its regular Sunday morning 8:00 a.m. time slot the following day. That same night, a compilation episode of segments from the first two episodes aired at 6:30 p.m. [ 1 ] The show moved to the 7:30 a.m. time slot a ...
1979–1981: Michael Young served as host of the series for two seasons. 1981–1984: Willie Tyler and his dummy Lester took over as the new hosts of the series, appearing in an opening segment introducing that week's episode as well as an ending segment wrapping up the show and often recommending the book that that week's episode had been based on.
Also in 1976 CBS' Match Game is the #1 rated game show on daytime television for the fourth consecutive year. The Olympics, broadcast from Montreal, Quebec, Canada, draw an estimated one billion viewers worldwide. Matsushita introduces the VHS home video cassette recorder to compete with Sony's Betamax system.
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That's My Mama was never a ratings success, having always been beaten by NBC's Little House on the Prairie among other competing programs, and was not among the 30 most-watched U.S. programs in the Nielsen ratings for either the 1974–1975 or 1975–1976 television seasons. As a result, the series ended on Christmas Eve 1975.