[quote name=\'calliaume\' post=\'237207\' date=\'Mar 9 2010, 12:13 PM\'][quote name=\'Dan88\' post=\'237187\' date=\'Mar 8 2010, 09:03 PM\']3) Shouldn't they have found out this guy did what he did in 1968 before they taped this episode?[/quote]
That was my first thought -- somebody didn't vet the contestants particularly well that day.
By 1978, The Dating Game was no longer under ABC Standards & Practices -- would that have made a difference in how the contestants were reviewed. (The contestants in that version were definitely less inhibited, from what I remember.)
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At that time, syndicated shows were required to have a "network of record", meaning one of the three networks would be responsible for S&P compliance. By the time "The Gong Show" went exclusively into syndicated first-run (1978-1979 season), its network of record was ABC, as it aired on the ABC O&O's (hence the change in Johnny Jacobs' contestant spiel to "Employees of ABC and the production company..."). I would assume that given Barris' past relationships with ABC, that they would have been network of record for Dating and Newlywed, even though those shows were taped at KTLA (?) and aired mostly on independent market stations.