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Lange's network television career began in San Francisco with The Ford Show in 1962, where he was the announcer for, and sidekick to, host Tennessee Ernie Ford. Three years later he would sign on to host The Dating Game (1965–1980). [8] While still on-air at KSFO, he commuted to Los Angeles to tape the TV program.
The Dating Game is an American television game show that first aired on December 20, 1965, and was the first of many shows created and packaged by Chuck Barris from the 1960s through the 1980s. ABC dropped the show on July 6, 1973, but it continued in syndication for another year (1973–1974) as The New Dating Game .
Barris told his bosses the game show concepts being pitched were worse than his own ideas. They suggested that Barris quit his programming job and become a producer. [citation needed] Barris formed his production company, Chuck Barris Productions, on June 14, 1965. [7] His first success came in 1965 with The Dating Game, which aired
1970s: Dating doldrums. Despite the success of "The Dating Game" throughout the '60s and into the '70s, there wasn't an immediate surge of dating reality shows hitting networks.
The longtime announcer for Chuck Barris Productions was Johnny Jacobs, who served from 1965 until his death in 1982. Jacobs announced for such Barris game shows as The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, Treasure Hunt, and The Gong Show. Tony McClay is Barris' secondary announcer, as he was sub for Jacobs, most often in 1980 and 1982.
Tony Hale as Ed, fictional version of the host of the '70s TV show "The Dating Game," and Anna Kendrick as Sheryl in "Woman of the Hour," a true-to-life story about a serial killer who winds up on ...
Known as The Dating Game Killer for his appearance on the hit TV game show in 1978, Alcala is suspected to have murdered as many as 130 victims throughout the 1960s and 1970s before finally being ...
December 20 – game shows Supermarket Sweep (1965–1967) and The Dating Game (1965–1973) on ABC daytime; Quentin Durgens, M.P. (1965–1969) United! on BBC1 in the UK (1965–1967) The White Horses as Počitnice v Lipici on RTV Ljubljana in Yugoslavia and as Ferien in Lipizza on Südwestfunk in West Germany (c.1965–1967)