Of all the weird and wonderful things that came out of the 1970s, the fact that Chuck Barris had a hit with "The Gong Show" may have topped them all. The TV producer and pop songwriter — who ...

UNIDENTIFIED ANNOUNCER: From Hollywood, the dating capital of the world, it's "The Dating Game." DAVIES: Chuck Barris, the creator of "The Dating Game," "The Newlywed Game" and "The Gong Show ...

Airing at 10 p.m. and 1 a.m. Fridays and Saturdays, it's the cable channel's No. 2 show behind Emeril ... moustache and slicked back hair. The announcer calls him "the West Coast's top man." ...

Chuck Barris, the man who gave us game shows like The Newlywed Game and The Gong Show, has died at 87. Publicist Paul Shefrin, speaking on behalf of Barris' family, confirmed to the Associated ...

The Gong Show is one of television history's most delightful oddities — here are 10 clips to celebrate Chuck Barris' finest moment Chuck Barris, one of the most influential figures in American ...

Chuck Barris, the creator of television’s long-running “The Dating Game” and “The Newlywed Game” who later hosted the offbeat cult classic “The Gong Show” — and who claimed in a ...

The revival of “The Gong Show” on ABC (10 p.m. Thursdays) would seem to be about as low-brow as TV can go. Like the original version from the 1970s, the 21st century edition has a smarmy host ...

Hosted by Chuck Barris, “The Gong Show” (1976-1980) was a circus sideshow with some of the weirdest acts of the day. Though the series lived on with other hosts, it is most closely identified ...

Long before “America’s Got Talent,” America had the bizarro talent of “The Gong Show.” That ’70s show, hosted by creator Chuck Barris, celebrated the quirky and outlandish from a ...

Now the network is reviving the "The Gong Show." “ABC has tapped into the nostalgia and excitement of prime-time game shows,” said Rob Mills, senior vice president, Alternative Series ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — He starred on TV's "The Gong Show" for years but few people could probably tell you his real name. Berkely-born Gene Patton died Monday in Pasadena at the age of 82.