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Mark Goodson (January 14, 1915 – December 18, 1992) was an accomplished American television producer who specialized in game shows.
Many of the actual formats were devised by producers working for Goodson-Todman. For example, Bob Bach co-created What's My Line?, Allan Sherman created I've Got a Secret, Frank Wayne created Now You See It, and The Match Game; Chester Feldman created Card Sharks; and Bob Stewart created Password, The Price is Right and To Tell the Truth. Goodson-Todman was involved with the 1969 pilot of The Joker's Wild along with creator Jack Barry and hosted by Allen Ludden. G-T had severed ties with Barry by the time he hosted the series in 1972.
The company was not very successful when they tried their hands at other types of TV shows, including the anthology-drama The Web, a talk-variety show for famed insult comic Don Rickles, and what was possibly the company's biggest failure, a sitcom titled One Happy Family. However, Goodson-Todman Productions was involved with two Westerns that, despite their relatively short runs, became TV classics: The Rebel (1959-61), starring Nick Adams as an ex-Confederate soldier who travelled West after the Civil War (Johnny Cash sang the theme); and Branded, starring Chuck Connors as a soldier who had been wrongly given a dishonorable discharge from the Army.
For many years, the company was headquartered in the Seagram Building at 375 Park Avenue, New York. Most of the company's production moved to Hollywood in the early seventies (as did many other production companies), starting with the ABC revival of Password in 1971. The company's last New York-based show, To Tell the Truth, pulled up stakes in 1981.
Following Bill Todman's death in 1979, Goodson acquired the Todman heirs' share of the company and the company was renamed Mark Goodson Productions in 1982. Traditionally, shows would sign off as "a Mark Goodson - Bill Todman production." By 1984, all shows signed off as "a Mark Goodson television production".
Announcers Johnny Olson and Gene Wood were frequently heard on Goodson-Todman shows. Many of the company's game shows were produced internationally, some under different titles, and were distributed by Reg Grundy Productions. Family Feud, for example, has run in the United Kingdom as Family Fortunes and in Mexico under the name of Cien Mexicanos Dijeron. Today, Mark Goodson Productions, along with Reg Grundy Productions, are part of Fremantle Media. From the early 1960s, most of the music for Goodson-Todman's game shows was composed by Bob Cobert, Bob Israel's Score Productions or Edd Kalehoff, a pioneer in the use of the MOOG synthesizer.
Mark Goodson died on December 18, 1992 from pancreatic cancer at the age of 77 in Los Angeles. He is buried at Hillside Memorial Park in Culver City, California, where the inscription on his gravestone is designed to resemble the famous Goodson-Todman Productions / Mark Goodson Productions logo.
Goodson's son, Jonathan, has continued with new game show concepts. He joined the company in 1973 as legal counsel, but began production work with the company's shows, including the original version of Card Sharks; eventually producing the 1990 version of Match Game. He stayed through corporate takeovers until 1998. He left to begin his own production company, Jonathan Goodson Productions, which produces both state lottery game shows and original game show concepts, with 2003's Dirty Rotten Cheater being the newest Goodson game, having already been sold internationally.
For the sake of tradition, and through special permission from FremantleMedia, certain revivals and/or continuances of the Goodson-Todman shows continued the Mark Goodson Productions name, logo, and announcement at the end of each episode, even though the original company no longer exists. This practice was ended in 2001 with two of the three programs still in production at the time, To Tell the Truth and Family Feud, and ultimately ended in June 2007 when The Price Is Right stopped using the logo with the retirement of host Bob Barker.
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Life and television career
Born in Sacramento, California, Goodson and long-time partner Bill Todman produced some of the longest-running game shows in television history. The long list of Goodson-Todman productions includes Beat the Clock, Family Feud, Match Game, Password, The Price is Right, To Tell the Truth, I've Got A Secret and What's My Line?. The shows endured through the decades, many over multiple runs, because of Goodson's sharp eye for production and presentation. While Todman primarily handled the company's business affairs in the early days, Goodson oversaw the creative end of the company. Goodson's knowledge of what made a successful game show work in terms of both format and presentation was pivotal to the longevity of the shows he produced.Many of the actual formats were devised by producers working for Goodson-Todman. For example, Bob Bach co-created What's My Line?, Allan Sherman created I've Got a Secret, Frank Wayne created Now You See It, and The Match Game; Chester Feldman created Card Sharks; and Bob Stewart created Password, The Price is Right and To Tell the Truth. Goodson-Todman was involved with the 1969 pilot of The Joker's Wild along with creator Jack Barry and hosted by Allen Ludden. G-T had severed ties with Barry by the time he hosted the series in 1972.
The company was not very successful when they tried their hands at other types of TV shows, including the anthology-drama The Web, a talk-variety show for famed insult comic Don Rickles, and what was possibly the company's biggest failure, a sitcom titled One Happy Family. However, Goodson-Todman Productions was involved with two Westerns that, despite their relatively short runs, became TV classics: The Rebel (1959-61), starring Nick Adams as an ex-Confederate soldier who travelled West after the Civil War (Johnny Cash sang the theme); and Branded, starring Chuck Connors as a soldier who had been wrongly given a dishonorable discharge from the Army.
For many years, the company was headquartered in the Seagram Building at 375 Park Avenue, New York. Most of the company's production moved to Hollywood in the early seventies (as did many other production companies), starting with the ABC revival of Password in 1971. The company's last New York-based show, To Tell the Truth, pulled up stakes in 1981.
Following Bill Todman's death in 1979, Goodson acquired the Todman heirs' share of the company and the company was renamed Mark Goodson Productions in 1982. Traditionally, shows would sign off as "a Mark Goodson - Bill Todman production." By 1984, all shows signed off as "a Mark Goodson television production".
Announcers Johnny Olson and Gene Wood were frequently heard on Goodson-Todman shows. Many of the company's game shows were produced internationally, some under different titles, and were distributed by Reg Grundy Productions. Family Feud, for example, has run in the United Kingdom as Family Fortunes and in Mexico under the name of Cien Mexicanos Dijeron. Today, Mark Goodson Productions, along with Reg Grundy Productions, are part of Fremantle Media. From the early 1960s, most of the music for Goodson-Todman's game shows was composed by Bob Cobert, Bob Israel's Score Productions or Edd Kalehoff, a pioneer in the use of the MOOG synthesizer.
Mark Goodson died on December 18, 1992 from pancreatic cancer at the age of 77 in Los Angeles. He is buried at Hillside Memorial Park in Culver City, California, where the inscription on his gravestone is designed to resemble the famous Goodson-Todman Productions / Mark Goodson Productions logo.
Post Mark Goodson
Three years after Mark Goodson's death, his family sold the rights to the library of shows in order to pay a hefty estate tax. In 1995, a company called All American Television was the purchaser. AATV acquired 50% of the company that year, and acquired the rest a year later. AATV was bought out by rival communications company Pearson Television in 1997, which, in turn, was acquired by RTL Group subsidiary FremantleMedia four years later (at one time, one of the company's predecessors, Fremantle International, was the distributor of Goodson-Todman game shows internationally). FremantleMedia now owns the rights to the Goodson-Todman library of game shows. While The Price is Right and Family Feud continue in production to this day, other classic Goodson-Todman shows have found a new life and a new audience in reruns on cable TV's Game Show Network.Goodson's son, Jonathan, has continued with new game show concepts. He joined the company in 1973 as legal counsel, but began production work with the company's shows, including the original version of Card Sharks; eventually producing the 1990 version of Match Game. He stayed through corporate takeovers until 1998. He left to begin his own production company, Jonathan Goodson Productions, which produces both state lottery game shows and original game show concepts, with 2003's Dirty Rotten Cheater being the newest Goodson game, having already been sold internationally.
For the sake of tradition, and through special permission from FremantleMedia, certain revivals and/or continuances of the Goodson-Todman shows continued the Mark Goodson Productions name, logo, and announcement at the end of each episode, even though the original company no longer exists. This practice was ended in 2001 with two of the three programs still in production at the time, To Tell the Truth and Family Feud, and ultimately ended in June 2007 when The Price Is Right stopped using the logo with the retirement of host Bob Barker.
- The Price Is Right used the Mark Goodson Production name, logo, and announcement until Bob Barker retired in 2007. The first episode of the 2007-2008 season (15-Oct-2007) features the FremantleMedia name, logo, and announcement.
- The 1998 Match Game revival used the Mark Goodson Productions name and logo, but used an alternate announcement: "This has been a Mark Goodson Television Production for...", followed by the Pearson logo.
- The current production of Family Feud did initially use the logo and name, but not the announcement; this practice was ultimately abandoned in 2002.
- The 2000 revival of To Tell the Truth also used the logo and name, but not the announcement.
- The 2001 revival of Card Sharks did used the traditional name, logo and announcement at the end of its show, followed by the Pearson logo.
- Newer versions of other Goodson-Todman properties such as Beat the Clock (2002) and I've Got a Secret (2001 and 2006), however, did not incorporate elements of the logo, name or announcement.
List of Mark Goodson-Bill Todman productions
Game Shows
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Other
- Branded (1965-1966) -Western
- The Don Rickles Show (1968-1969)-Comedy/talk show
- Jefferson Drum -Western (1958)
- One Happy Family (1960) -Situation Comedy
- The Rebel (1959-1961) -Western
- That's My Line (summers of 1980 and 1981) - Reality/Audience-participation show
- The Web (1950) -anthology drama
- Wally's Workshop (1970s) - home improvement
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William S. "Bill" Todman (July 31, 1916 - July 29, 1979) was an American television producer born in New York City.
In the 1940s Todman (original first name Wilbur), teamed up with Mark Goodson for radio shows. According to radio historian J.
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Password was an American television game show produced by Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions. The show was hosted by Allen Ludden and was created by Bob Stewart for Goodson-Todman Productions.
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The Price Is Right is a television game show format currently owned by the FremantleMedia wing of the RTL Group, originally created by Bob Stewart, former employee of Goodson-Todman Productions in the United States.
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I've Got a Secret is a weekly panel game show that was produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman for CBS television. It was created by comedy writers Allan Sherman and Howard Merrill as a derivative of Goodson-Todman's own panel show What's My Line?.
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What's My Line? is a weekly panel game show originally produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman for CBS television. The series debuted on Thursday, February 2, 1950 at 8:00 p.m. EST and aired on alternating weeks.
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What's My Line? is a weekly panel game show originally produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman for CBS television. The series debuted on Thursday, February 2, 1950 at 8:00 p.m. EST and aired on alternating weeks.
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I've Got a Secret is a weekly panel game show that was produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman for CBS television. It was created by comedy writers Allan Sherman and Howard Merrill as a derivative of Goodson-Todman's own panel show What's My Line?.
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Now You See It is an American television game show in which contestants try to find words hidden within a jumble of letters. The series ran in two incarnations from 1974-75, and in 1989.
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Chester Feldman (January 8, 1926-May 25, 1997) was an American Television producer of game shows, normally for Mark Goodson Productions, eg Card Sharks, Classic Concentration etc.
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Card Sharks is an American television game show in which contestants guessed whether a playing card was higher or lower than the card that preceded it. The show was a Mark Goodson-Bill Todman production, later packaged by FremantleMedia.
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Password was an American television game show produced by Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions. The show was hosted by Allen Ludden and was created by Bob Stewart for Goodson-Todman Productions.
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