This Week's Game Show TV Milestone

[AaronHandy3]

JANUARY 18, 1982

TattleTales, Goodson-Todman's old 1974-78 CBS daytime Game Of Celebrity Gossip hosted by Bert Convy, returned to The Eye Network @ 4 p.m. Eastern, with Convy returning to his old position as emcee and Johnny Olsen announcing. CBS revived the game show in their dire need of a break for its 4:00 p.m. afternoon slot.

Save for new main title theme music, nothing about the game really changed. The set was a slapdash reworking of the 1970s original, and the game play remained the same: Convy would ask celebrity couples questions, sometimes very personal ones, and each couple represented one-third of the studio audience. In round one the wives appeared on stage while the husbands were secluded back stage listening to music through headphones to block out any noise they might have heard from the stage.

It is one of many G-T games to switch from "A Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Production" to "A Mark Goodson Production" (Todman having passed away in 1979), a transition first exhibited in Child's Play, which debuted on CBS in fall of 1982. CBS affilliates in New York and several other cities slotted TattleTales @ 12 noon. This new edition lasted 2 1/2 seasons until Friday, June 1, 1984, replaced the following Monday by Mark Goodson’s Body Language, hosted by Tom Kennedy. Host Convy would move on to host Goodson’s Super Password, which debuted on NBC that very fall, and became his best-remembered game show and his last project for Mark Goodson Productions.

(Source Of Info: Game Shows '75: TattleTales @ http://www.curtalliaume.com/tattleta.html, The Unofficial TattleTales Site @ http://www.bertconvy.net/tales.html)