The Dating Game

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1965-1986
15 Seasons
ABC
Game Show, Drama
TV-PG

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One of the classic game shows created by Chuck Barris. In this show, a single woman would be given a choice of three bachelors whom she could talk with, but not see. After asking them a series of questions, she would chose which one to go on a date with. A number of noted celebrities, including Tom Selleck and Jim Carrey, have started out as bachelors on this show.

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Jim Lange

Self - Host

Johnny Jacobs

Self - Announcer

Kathy Garver

Self - Guest star contestant

Season 15 Episode Guide See All

Episode 2

Episode #15.2

Thu, Mar 20, 198030 mins

Generally the Bachelorette would ask questions written in advance on cards to each of the three hidden bachelors. The same question could be asked to multiple bachelors. This continued until time ran out. The Bachelorette would make her choice based solely on the answers to her questions. Occasionally, the contestant was a bachelor who would ask questions to three Bachelorettes. Certain kinds of questions were "off-limits", such as name, age, occupation, and income.

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Review: Thursday TV in the Silly Season

With new summer programming like what's on display tonight, it's enough to make you miss reruns. (Well, hello, CBS! We can always count on you to do things the traditional way — at least until Big Brother returns next month.) You could do worse than re-watching Leonard's date with Penny on The Big Bang Theory, or Person of Interest's Reese protecting Astro from last season's The X Factor or Cho's first meeting with Samaire Armstrong on The Mentalist. You could do far worse. You could, for example, watch your brain cells atrophy by tuning into Fox's hardly-fit-for-cable combo of goofy new meat-market dating shows. (The Dating Game's Jim Lange, I miss you.) In Take Me Out (8/7c), which might as well be called Date Or No Date, it's the guy on display, trying to charm a "flirty 30" bevy of bimbos before they turn out the light on their podium, signaling their disinterest.

Thu, Jun 7, 2012

Fox Orders Celebrity Dating Show The Choice, Featuring a Voice-Like Twist

Fox's dark prince of reality TV, Mike Darnell, is dusting off a few of his old tricks. The network has ordered new summer dating game show The Choice, which uses spinning chairs reminiscent of NBC's The Voice and applies it to romance — with celebrities thrown in for good measure. Hosted by Cat Deeley,  The Choice, which debuts Thursday, June 7 at 9/8c, is a mash-up of The Voice and The Dating Game. Four single celebrities (to be announced later) will sit in...

Thu, May 3, 2012

Fox Orders Celebrity Dating Show The Choice, Featuring a Voice-Like Twist

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