Game 2: Welcome Back, Kotter (Ron Palillo, Charles Fleischer, Marcia Strassman, Stephen Shortridge, and John Sylvester White) Vs. Game 1: Eight Is Enough (Dick Van Patten, Susan Richardson, Willie Aames, Laurie Walters, and Dianne Kay) Vs.įamily (John Rubinstein, Meredith Baxter Birney, David Birney, Quinn Cummings, and Louise Foley) What's Happening!! (Haywood Nelson, Ernest Lee Thomas, Fred Berry, Shirley Hemphill, and Danielle Spencer) Game 2: Family (James Broderick, Meredith Baxter Birney, Gary Frank, John Rubinstein, and Quinn Cummings) Vs. Game 1: The Love Boat (Gavin MacLeod, Fred Grandy, Ted Lange, Lauren Tewes, and Bernie Kopell) Vs.Įight Is Enough (Dick Van Patten, Lani O'Grady, Laurie Walters, Susan Richardson, and Willie Aames)
Soap (Diana Canova, Jay Johnson, Robert Mandan, Dinah Manoff, and Jimmy Baio) Game 2: Welcome Back, Kotter (Ron Palillo, Marcia Strassman, Charles Fleischer, Stephen Shortridge, and John Sylvester White) Vs. Game 1: Barney Miller (Hal Linden, Ron Carey, Ron Glass, Steve Landesberg, and Jack Soo) Vs.Įight Is Enough (Lani O'Grady, Susan Richardson, Dianne Kay, Laurie Walters, and Grant Goodeve) Soap (Sal Viscuso, Dinah Manoff, Diana Canova, Jay Johnson, and Jennifer Salt) Game 2: Three's Company (Norman Fell, Joyce DeWitt, John Ritter, Audra Lindley, and Richard Kline) Vs. Game 1: The Love Boat (Gavin MacLeod, Fred Grandy, Lauren Tewes, Ted Lange, and Bernie Kopell) Vs.Įight Is Enough (Dick Van Patten, Lani O'Grady, Susan Richardson, Grant Goodeve, and Laurie Walters) His attitude seemed to be, ‘I’m just going to be that person and people can like it or lump it, but this is who I am.’ He wasn’t afraid to be that person.Unlike the ABC Daytime and Syndicated episodes, these Specials all used the Single-Single-Double-Double/$200 format, likely so that there would be enough time for three games in an hour-long show. I think he was trying to get past a lot of that pain. Before he met his second wife, Gretchen, Diana was always in the background and one of the reasons he lived the way he did, trying to be funny and smarmy to the contestants. “ That was probably the hardest part of Richard’s life,” David comments, “and the part that actually put a shadow over him for several years. Photographs of Diana still decorate the walls of Dawson’s home and he dutifully remembers her birthday each year.” I absolutely wallowed in self-pity.” Commented the paper, “Dawson’s personal family feud and it perhaps helps explain why he is so defensive today. As he told The Hanford Sentinel in 1979, “When Diana told me she was leaving, I went into a 14-month funk. He lived much of his life the way he wanted to and didn’t seem to be a person consumed with regrets, though if you were to point to one, it would be what happened to his marriage with Diana Dors. Richard Dawson, a former four-pack-a-day smoker, who was convinced to quit by his daughter, died on Jfrom complications of esophageal cancer. So Howard was made executive producer, gaining control of the show, but he wouldn’t have to actually be on the set. This put producer Mark Goodson in a tough spot, because Howard had been with Goodson-Todman Productions for 20 years and, of course, they didn’t want to lose Richard, because he was so popular. Their fighting got to the point where, in 1983, Richard had Howard barred from the set. That’s not something you usually see game show hosts do most of the time they’ll defer to the producer.
Oftentimes when there was a ruling on an answer on Family Feud, Howard Felsher would make a ruling and Richard would actually overrule him on camera. He just developed this attitude of ‘King Richard, I’m the star’ and he became more difficult to work with. He even said, after that that he could do no wrong. On top of that, in 1978 he won the Emmy for Best Daytime Game Show Host. “In the meantime on Family Feud,” adds David, “he was just his old self, because that was his show.
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