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Broadcast History: September 1979 to January 1980, Five-a-Week Syndication
Main Game: At the beginning of the show, only the husbands are on stage. They are each asked four questions. Then the secretaries are brought back. Their objective is to try to match their boss' answers. Later on, the wives appear and try to match their husband's answer. Whichever group, the wives or the secretaries, matched the most times, they split $1000. If the score is tied, all six women divide $1000, which amounts to about $166.67 apiece.
INTERESTING FACTS AND TRIVIA
Game Show Network launched a new and different version of Three's a Crowd in 1999 and first-run episodes ran until the fall of 2000.
Jim Peck's first game show was The Big Showdown (ABC, 1974-75). His next two ABC games were also short-lived: Hot Seat (1976) and Second Chance (1977). He later hosted the short-lived syndicated You Don't Say in 1978 and sub-hosted for Jack Barry on the long-running The Joker's Wild. He retired from television in the early 1990s and is working at a university in Wisconsin.
Three's a Crowd was considerded by many viewers as one of the worst ever game shows produced for television.
Home Games: None.
Episode Existence: All episodes are assumed to exist. Three's a Crowd reran on Game Show Network from August 2000 to July 2001. Currently, this show is not running on GSN (and some could say they're glad it's not being rerun).
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Three's a Crowd is ©1979-1980 Chuck Barris Productions. No challenge to ownership is implied.
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