The Dating Range

The Dating Game is a Jeu televised American putting in the high-speed motorboat Célibataire S. the emission was diffused during eight seasons, of 1965 with 1973, with the network ABC.

Presentation

Created by Chuck Barris, The Dating Game was diffused in first the December 20th 1965. The emission was withdrawn from the antenna of ABC the July 6th 1973, but several other incarnations of the series were produced and diffused in Syndication (in 1973 - 1974 under the title The New Dating Game , of 1978 with 1980, of 1986 with 1989 and of 1996 with 1999).

A typical episode of the series put in the high-speed motorboat an unmarried young woman who puts questions with three men that she does not see; at the end of this period of questions, it chooses of them one which it will accompany with a amorous meeting with the expenses by the producers by the emission. On the occasion, the roles were reversed, with a man and three women; another alternative put in scene a personality questioning three participants with in the key, an appointment for the personality itself, a colleague or a close relation. Several personalities of the entertainment world lent themselves to the play in order to find the soul mate for themselves.

Certain participants, unknown at the time of their passage in the emission, became celebrities: Suzanne Somers, Farrah Fawcett, Andy Kaufman, Burt Reynolds, Michael Jackson, Sally Field, John Ritter, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Tom Selleck - which paradoxically lost at the time of its two presences. On the other hand, Alex Kozinski, now judge with the Court of Appeal of the United States of America for the ninth circuit were more success at the time of his passage to the emission.

Adaptations

The Dating Game is the precursor of several other television games of the same kind (although a play entitled Blind Date made in the same way 20 years earlier, but in a way much more prudish). The version of the emission diffused at the end of the Années 1970 was sexually much more explicit (and of a more humorous tone) than the other versions.

The emission was animated by Jim Lange, a Disc jockey of San Francisco during the Années 1960 and 1970. It then put in the high-speed motorboat Elaine Joyce and Jeff MacGregor in the years 1980 (Cuba Gooding Jr., Oprah Winfrey and Jim Carrey appeared in this series as participants) and by Brad Sherwood and Chuck Woolery in the years 1990. Woolery animated previously Love Connection , a play questionnaire inspired by the success of Dating Game .

In France, the emission Tournez horse-gear was inspired by The Dating Game , and Z' loves is an adaptation of The Newlywed Game .

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