Game Show History, September 12-25

SEPTEMBER 12:
1994: Richard Dawson returns to host Family Feud (Syn)
1994: The New Price Is Right (1994-95) debuts

SEPTEMBER 13:
1968: The Hollywood Squares (NBC nighttime) ends
1980: The Nighttime Price Is Right (1972-80) ends
1985: Family Feud (Nighttime Syn) ends

SEPTEMBER 14:
1998: Hollywood Squares (1998-2004 Syn) debuts

SEPTEMBER 15:
1967: Password (CBS daytime) ends
1986: The Dating Game (1986 Syn) debuts
1986: Hollywood Squares (1986-89 Syn) debuts
2007: Actress and Match Game panelist Brett Somers dies

SEPTEMBER 17:
1989: Game show announcer Jay Stewart dies
1999: Match Game (1998 Syn) ends
2001: Card Sharks debuts (2001 Syn)

SEPTEMBER 18:
1937: Game show announcer Rod Roddy (Press Your Luck, The Price Is Right) born
1978: Tic-Tac-Dough (Syn) debuts

SEPTEMBER 19:
1977: Family Feud debuts (Nighttime Syn)
1983: Press Your Luck debuts (CBS)
1988: Family Feud debuts (Ray Combs Syn)

SEPTEMBER 20:
1982: The New $25,000 Pyramid debuts (CBS)
1991: Classic Concentration (NBC) airs last original episode (reruns until 12/31/93)
1999: Family Feud debuts with host Louie Anderson (Syn)

SEPTEMBER 21:
1944: Fannie Flagg (Match Game ‘7x, Gong Show panelist) born
1998: Match Game debuts (1998 Syn)

SEPTEMBER 23:
1974: The Hollywood Squares panelist Cliff Arquette (a.k.a. Charley Weaver) dies

SEPTEMBER 24:
1984: Super Password debuts (NBC)

SEPTEMBER 25:
1949: Announcer Burton Richardson (Family Feud) born