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Tattletales was a game show which first aired on the CBS daytime schedule on February 18, 1974. It was hosted by Bert Convy.
The show's premise was around personal questions asked about celebrity couple's personal or love lives.
Programming History
- February 18, 1974-June 13, 1975 CBS-TV Monday-Friday at 4:00-4:30PM (Acomplished over The Secret Storm & CBS Daytime 90)
- June 16-August 15, 1975 CBS-TV Monday-Friday at 11:00-11:30AM (Acomplished over Now You See It)
- August 18-November 28, 1975 CBS-TV Monday-Friday at 3:30-4:00PM (Took over for Match Game 75)
- December 1, 1975-December 16, 1977 CBS-TV Monday-Friday at 4:00-4:30PM (Acomplished over Give-N-Take)
- September 12, 1977-September 10, 1978 Syndicated Weekly by Viacom International
- December 19, 1977-March 31, 1978 CBS-TV Monday-Friday at 10:00-10:30AM (Took over for The Price is Right)
- January 18, 1982-June 1, 1984 CBS-TV Monday-Friday at 4:00-4:30PM (Early as 12Noon-12:30PM for certain CBS-TV stations)
{Acomplished over CBS NEWS "Up to the Minute."}
Gameplay
The show went through two formats throughout its run.
Format 1
In round one while the husbands (sometimes the wives) are isolated, their wives were asked two questions (usually they started with "It happened at..." and then Convy would complete the question). After each question was read, a wife would buzz in to answer the question. Then after answering the question, the wife who had buzzed in would then give a one- or two-word clue that her husband would recognize. Then the isolated husbands appeared on monitors in front of their wives. Host Convy would then ask the question to the husbands followed by the clue after which the husband who buzzed in first (with buzzers of their own) got to answer. Then if the husband's answer matched his wife's they won money for their rooting section based on how long the clue is ($100 for a one-word clue and $50 for a two-word). After the questions, host Convy would then ask another question to the couples called a Tattletale Quickie (it was usually multiple-choice) in which all couples participated. On his/her turn each wife/husband would answer the question, and then his/her spouse appeared and answered the same question. Each match on the quickie was worth $100. The roles were reversed in round two.
Format 2
Later in the run, they changed formats to have all Tattletale Quickies in one half hour (because of this they didn't need to call them Tattletale Quickies anymore). In addition, the scoring format changed; each question had a pot of $150. If two or all three matched they split the pot ($75 for two couples & $50 for all three); but if only one matched, they got the whole pot. If nobody matched, the money was carried over to the next question, making the next question worth $300 (or $450). Again the roles were reversed in round two. The final question was worth double meaning $300 went to the one couple who matched, $150 for two and $100 for all three.
Money for Rooting Sections
In all versions all rooting sections got to divide the money the couple won for them. The couple with the most money won the game and the rooting section got a bonus of $1000. If the game ended in a tie between two or all three couples, the bonus was split ($500 for two rooting sections, $334 for all three).
Notes
- The show was based on a Goodson-Todman show of the late 1960s, He Said, She Said.
- In 1972, a TV pilot was produced for what eventually become Tattletales. The pilot was named Celebrity Matchmates and was emceed by Gene Rayburn, who at the time was hosting CBS's Amateur's Guide to Love. By the time the pilot was successfully sold to the network, Rayburn was already hosting Match Game, which in the mid-1970s preceded Tattletales on the CBS afternoon lineup, and thus the job was given to Bert Convy.
- Tattletales ran for 1075 episodes until it ended on March 31, 1978. Convy was awarded a Daytime Emmy for hosting in 1977.
- A syndicated version of the show ran from 1977 to 1978. A revival of the show in daytime on CBS started broadcasts on January 18, 1982 and ran until June 1, 1984.
- Occasionally during the 70s run, Bert Convy and his wife, Anne, would play the game, most often during weeks in which the panel was comprised entirely of other game show hosts and their spouses; among the hosts who filled in for Bert during these episodes were Gene Rayburn, Bob Barker, Bobby Van, Jack Narz and Richard Dawson.
- The 80s version didn't always use married couples, occasionally having special weeks with teams consisting of best friends, parent-child, etc.
- For the first few years, Tattletales was occasionally sponsored by products from American Home Products (owners of American Home Foods, Boyle-Midway, and Whitehall Labratories), which previously sponsored the soap opera The Secret Storm that was in the 4 p.m. time slot taken over by Tattletales.