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Mark Goodson
Born January 14, 1915
Sacramento, California, USA
Died December 18, 1992 (aged 77)
New York, New York, USA

Mark Goodson (January 14, 1915 – December 18, 1992) was an accomplished American television producer who specialized in game shows. Events 1129 - Formal approval of the Order of the Templar at the Council of Troyes. Year 1915 ( MCMXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Events 218 BC - Second Punic War: Battle of the Trebia - Hannibal 's Carthaginian forces defeat those of the Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) The City of New York The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Events 1129 - Formal approval of the Order of the Templar at the Council of Troyes. Year 1915 ( MCMXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Events 218 BC - Second Punic War: Battle of the Trebia - Hannibal 's Carthaginian forces defeat those of the Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The primary role of a television producer is to control all aspects of production ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking

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Life and early career

Mark Goodson was born in Sacramento, California on January 14, 1915 to Russian immigrant parents. The family later moved to Hayward, California. Hayward ( is a city located in the East Bay in Alameda County. Mark attended the University of California, Berkeley, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in economics in 1937. The University of California Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, Berkeley and UC Berkeley) is a major research university located in Berkeley That year he began his broadcasting career in San Francisco, working as a disc jockey at station KJBS. The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city In 1939 he joined station KFRC, where he produced and hosted a radio quiz called "Pop the Question" in which contestants selected questions by throwing darts at multicolored balloons. In 1941 Goodson married his first wife, Bluma Neveleff, and moved to New York City where he teamed up with partner Bill Todman. The City of New York The pair's first radio show, Winner Take All, premiered on CBS in 1946. Winner Take All is an American Television Game show that ran from 1948 through 1952 on CBS. Outside of television production, Goodson and Todman went on to own several newspapers in New England as well as radio station KOL in Seattle. In the early 1980s, after the passing of Bill Todman in July 1979, the Goodsons acquired the Todman heirs' portion of the company.

Goodson had a brother, Marvin (1918 - 2007), an attorney. He had two children, Jill and Jonathan (1945 - ) by his first wife Bluma. He had a daughter, Marjorie, by his second wife, Virginia McDavid. In the early 1970s he married his third wife, Suzanne Waddell, who had once been a guest on What's My Line?. What's My Line? is a weekly panel Game show which was produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman for CBS

Television production

Goodson and long-time partner Bill Todman produced some of the longest-running game shows in television history. William (Wilbur S "Bill" Todman ( July 31, 1916 &ndash July 29, 1979) was an American Their first television show, Winner Take All, debuted on CBS television on July 1, 1948. Winner Take All is an American Television Game show that ran from 1948 through 1952 on CBS. 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, What's My Line? and Card Sharks. Beat The Clock is also a song by Ghostface Killah from his album The Pretty Toney Album Beat the Clock is a Goodson-Todman Productions Family Feud is a popular Television Game show that pits two families against each other in a contest to name the most popular responses to a survey-type Match Game also called The Match Game was an American Television Game show that celebrities and contestants answering For other uses see Password and Password (disambiguation. Password is an American television Game show Widely Known Facts The Price Is Right is an American Television Game show that is currently owned by the FremantleMedia To Tell the Truth is an American Television Game show created by Bob Stewart and produced by Goodson - Todman For IGAS qua graphology organization see International Graphoanalysis Society I've Got a Secret is a weekly panel Game show produced What's My Line? is a weekly panel Game show which was produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman for CBS Card Sharks was an American Television Game show created by Mark Goodson - Bill Todman Productions 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 instincts for what made a successful game show work in terms of both format and presentation were pivotal to the longevity of the shows they produced.

Many of the actual formats were devised by producers working for Goodson-Todman. For example, Bob Bach co-created What's My Line?; Harry Salter created Name That Tune; Allan Sherman created I've Got a Secret; Frank Wayne created Match Game and Now You See It; Chester Feldman created Card Sharks; Bob Stewart created Password, The Price Is Right and To Tell the Truth; and Jay Wolpert created the short-lived Double Dare. What's My Line? is a weekly panel Game show which was produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman for CBS Name That Tune was a television Game show that put two contestants against each other to test their knowledge of Songs. Allan Sherman (November 30 1924 – November 20 1973 was an American Musician, parodist, satirist, and Television producer For IGAS qua graphology organization see International Graphoanalysis Society I've Got a Secret is a weekly panel Game show produced Frank Wayne (born Rocco Francis Rossi Jr) was an American game show producer and host Match Game also called The Match Game was an American Television Game show that celebrities and contestants answering Now You See It was an American Television Game show created by Frank Wayne for Mark Goodson - Bill Todman Chester Feldman ( January 8, 1926 - May 25, 1997) was an American television producer of game shows most frequently for Mark Goodson Card Sharks was an American Television Game show created by Mark Goodson - Bill Todman Productions Bob Stewart (born Robert Steinberg on August 27 1920 in Brooklyn New York) is a former American Television Game show For other uses see Password and Password (disambiguation. Password is an American television Game show Widely Known Facts The Price Is Right is an American Television Game show that is currently owned by the FremantleMedia To Tell the Truth is an American Television Game show created by Bob Stewart and produced by Goodson - Todman Jay Wolpert is an American Television producer and Screenwriter. 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 Joker's Wild was an American television Game show that aired at different times during the 1970s through the 1990s It billed itself as the game Jack Barry (born Jack Barasch March 20, 1918, Lindenhurst New York; died May 2, 1984, New York City) was an Allen Ludden ( October 5, 1917 - June 9, 1981) was an American Television presenter and Game show host

The company was not as successful when they tried their hand 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. For the radio and television announcer see Donald Rickles (announcer. However, Goodson-Todman Productions were 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 wrongly been given a dishonorable discharge from the Army. The Western is a fiction Genre seen in Film, Television, Radio, Literature, Painting and other Visual arts. The Rebel is an American Western television series that ran originally on the ABC network from 1959 to 1961. Nick Adams may refer to Nick Adams (actor (1931&ndash1968 appeared in Hollywood films and on US television during the 1950s and 1960s Causes of the war See also Origins of the American Civil War, Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War The coexistence of a slave-owning South Johnny Cash (born J R Cash; February 26 1932 - September 12 2003 was a Grammy Award -winning American country Singer-songwriter. Branded is a Western series which aired on NBC from 1965 through 1966 and starred Chuck Connors as Jason McCord Chuck Connors ( April 10 1921 – November 10 1992) was an American Actor and a professional Basketball and

For many years the company was headquartered in the Seagram Building at 375 Park Avenue, New York. The Seagram Building is a Skyscraper in New York City, located at 375 Park Avenue, between 52nd Street and 53rd Street in New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous 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 Los Angeles offices were based first at 6430 Sunset Boulevard and later at 5750 Wilshire Boulevard. The company's last New York-based show was the 1980 - 1981 version of To Tell the Truth, but the New York office remained open and was used for East coast Child's Play auditions. Child's Play was an American Television Game show in which adult contestants tried to guess words based on definitions given by children

A few years after Bill Todman's death in 1979, Goodson acquired the Todman heirs' share of the company and in 1982 the company was renamed Mark Goodson Productions. Traditionally, shows would sign off with "This is (announcer's name) speaking for (show name). A Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Production/A Mark Goodson Television Production. "

Announcers Johnny Olson and Gene Wood were frequently heard on Goodson-Todman shows. John Leonard "Johnny" Olson ( May 22, 1910 &ndash October 12, 1985) was an American Radio personality and Gene Wood (born Eugene Edward Wood, October 20, 1925 in Quincy Massachusetts; died May 21, 2004 in Boston Massachusetts 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 100 mexicanos dijeron. Family Feud is a popular Television Game show that pits two families against each other in a contest to name the most popular responses to a survey-type The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Family Fortunes is a long-running British Game show, based on the American game show Family Feud. The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. Today, Mark Goodson Productions, along with Reg Grundy Productions, are part of FremantleMedia. FremantleMedia (previously known as All American Television, LBS Communications, and Pearson Television) is the content

The music for several Goodson-Todman shows was composed by Bob Cobert. Robert Cobert ( October 26, 1924 - is a Composer who has written extensively for television and movies Throughout the 1970s and '80s the bulk of the music for G-T shows was created by Bob Israel's Score Productions or by Edd Kalehoff, a pioneer in the use of the MOOG synthesizer. Score Productions is an American musical production company specializing in background Music and themes for television programs. Edward Woodley "Edd" Kalehoff (born 1946 is a music composer who specializes in compositions for television

Post Mark Goodson

Mark Goodson died on December 18, 1992 from pancreatic cancer at the age of 77 in New York City. Pancreatic cancer is a malignant tumor of the Pancreas. Each year about 37680 individuals in the United States are diagnosed with this condition and 34290 The City of New York He is buried at Hillside Memorial Park in Culver City, California, where the inscription on his gravestone is designed to resemble the Goodson-Todman/Mark Goodson Productions logo. Culver City is a city in western Los Angeles County California.

Three years after Mark Goodson's death, his estate sold the rights to the library of shows. In 1995, a company called All American Television was the purchaser. Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 All American Television (an All American Communications company was a Television syndication company active from 1981 to 1997 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 (previously known as All American Television, LBS Communications, and Pearson Television) is the content Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar RTL Group ( is Europe's largest TV radio and production company and is majority-owned by German media conglomerate Bertelsmann. FremantleMedia (previously known as All American Television, LBS Communications, and Pearson Television) is the content 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. Widely Known Facts The Price Is Right is an American Television Game show that is currently owned by the FremantleMedia Family Feud is a popular Television Game show that pits two families against each other in a contest to name the most popular responses to a survey-type The only omissions from the library are I've Got a Secret, the rights to which were sold to Garry Moore in 1959, and the 1973 and 1987 versions of Concentration. For IGAS qua graphology organization see International Graphoanalysis Society I've Got a Secret is a weekly panel Game show produced Concentration was a TV Game show based on the children's memory game of the same name

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. Card Sharks was an American Television Game show created by Mark Goodson - Bill Todman Productions Match Game also called The Match Game was an American Television Game show that celebrities and contestants answering 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. Dirty Rotten Cheater was a short lived Game show that appeared on PAX in 2003

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 existed. FremantleMedia (previously known as All American Television, LBS Communications, and Pearson Television) is the content This practice was ended in 2002 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. Robert William Barker (Born December 12 1923) is a nineteen-time Emmy Award -winning former American Television Game show

List of Mark Goodson-Bill Todman productions

Game Shows

Other

External links

Branded is a Western series which aired on NBC from 1965 through 1966 and starred Chuck Connors as Jason McCord Jefferson Drum is a Western Television series starring Jeff Richards and Eugene Martin on the NBC Television network The Rebel is an American Western television series that ran originally on the ABC network from 1959 to 1961. That's My Line ( August 9, 1980 -Summer of 1981) was a summer CBS Reality show developed by Mark Goodson, one of the creators Find A Grave is a Website allowing its users to access maintain and expand an online Database of Burial records
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