The Dating Game: Are you feeling lucky?

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By Jim Campbell

September 5th, 2021

The Dating Game was one of the many creations of Chuck Barris based on matching couples up to go on a date.

Chuck Barris had a problem.

As the creator and producer of a new ABC game show titled The Dating Game, Barris had thought it would be entertaining to see three men vie for the affections of a woman who quizzed them from behind a screen.

Because they’d be unable to rely on visual cues or physical attraction, the contestant and her would-be suitors would have to assess their chemistry based on verbal interplay, and wouldn’t see each other face-to-face until she selected a winner.

Unfortunately, early tapeings of the game in 1965 had not gone well.

Barris later recalled that both the men and women had tasteless responses, answering the contestant’s questions with profane remarks full of sexual innuendo that would be…

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