E. Roger Muir (Creator)

The Newlywed Game

The Newlywed Game is an American television dating game show that pits newly married couples against each other in a series of revealing question rounds to determine how well the spouses know or do not know each other. The program, originally created by Robert "Nick" Nicholson and E. Roger Muir and produced by Chuck Barris, has appeared in many different versions since its 1966 debut. The show became famous for some of the arguments that couples had over incorrect answers in the form of mistaken predictions, and it even led to some divorces. Many of The Newlywed Game's questions dealt with "making whoopee", the euphemism that producers used for sexual intercourse to circumvent network censorship. However, it became such a catchphrase of the show that its founding host, Bob Eubanks, continued to use the word throughout the show's many runs, even in the 1980s and 1990s episodes and beyond, when he could easily have said "make love" or "have sex" without censorship. GSN's version of The Newlywed Game airs reruns throughout the week. Network Bounce TV has acquired the reruns from GSN. In 2013, TV Guide ranked it #10 in its list of the 60 greatest game shows ever.

Release Date:1966-07-11

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:5

Pay Cards!

Pay Cards! was an American syndicated game show created and produced by Nick Nicholson and E. Roger Muir that first aired from 1968–1969 and a revival, titled Super Pay Cards!, ran from 1981–1982. Both series were hosted by Art James. The original Pay Cards! taped in both New York City and Cincinnati, while Super Pay Cards! was taped in Montreal. A Canadian version, hosted by Paul Hanover and also recorded in Montreal, aired in 1973.

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Howdy Doody

Howdy Doody is an American children's television program that was created and produced by E. Roger Muir and telecast on the NBC network in the United States from December 27, 1947 until September 24, 1960. It was a pioneer in children's television programming and set the pattern for many similar shows. One of the first television series produced at NBC in Rockefeller Center, in Studio 3A, it was also a pioneer in early color production as NBC used the show in part to sell color television sets in the 1950s.

Release Date:1947-12-27

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:2

Spin-Off

Spin-Off is an American game show created and produced by Nick Nicholson and E. Roger Muir for CBS in 1975 that was based on the dice game Yahtzee. The series was hosted by Jim Lange and announced by Johnny Jacobs. The show replaced The Joker's Wild on CBS' daytime schedule and debuted on June 16, 1975, but was cancelled on September 5, 1975. Spin-Off originated in Stages 31, 33 and 41 at CBS Television City in Los Angeles, California.

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Definition

Definition is a Canadian television game show, which aired on CTV from September 9, 1974 to March 10, 1989, and filmed at its flagship studio of CFTO-TV, Scarborough, Ontario. For most of its run, it was hosted by Jim Perry.

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:1

Guess What

Guess What is a Canadian game show that aired on the CTV Television Network from 1983 to 1987. It was originally created by Nick Nicholson and E. Roger Muir. It was a Glen-Warren Production for the CTV Television Network. Robin Ward hosted and Nick Hollenreich announced the series. It was originally produced and directed by Sidney M. Cohen at CFCF-TV in Montreal, Quebec, where Hollenreich was a staff announcer, and later moved to CFTO-TV in Toronto, Ontario.

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Matches ’n Mates

Matches 'n Mates was an American syndicated game show created and produced by Nick Nicholson and E. Roger Muir that aired from 1967-1968, and was taped at both WJW-TV in Cleveland, Ohio and WAGA-TV in Atlanta, Georgia. It was a Nicholson-Muir Production in association with 20th Century Fox Television. The show was hosted by Art James, with Dave Michaels and Bob McClain announcing. Matches 'n Mates was a word game in which two Husband and Wife teams attempted to match questions to answers in order to reveal letters of a mystery word called the "Hidden Item".

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Les Z'amours

Release Date:1995-02-20

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:2