Personal Feud occurs as popular television game show in the USA that pits two families against every more around the contest to title the virtually all popular reactions to a survey-nature and severity wonder posed of C population.

Broadcast/show history
The Richard Dawson/ABC era
A yearn running off & virtually all popular version of Personal Feud, the Mark Goodson-Bill Todman production, was hosted by Richard Dawson. A daytime versiin debuted on ABC on July 12, 1976. The over night syndicated version debuted in September 1977; it originally aired as the weekly series prior to expanding to ii nights a week around January 1979 and to five nights the week within September 1980. Goodson originated a idea for Feud from either one of his more hit giveaway, CBS's Match Game. A 1st half of the "Super Match" around of Matched game involved a studio audience survey around which audience members gave their answers to the fill-in-the-blank sentence. the top ternary reactions thereto sentence were concealed on a board, & the contestant won supplementary money by finding a other popular guide. Personal Feud was spun off from either this survey construct. Dawson, a 1st unsuspecting hosts of Feud, was the regular panellist in Test match.

A 1st pilot in 1975 wwhen exactly a equivalent within gameplay format as the version that come to air. A placed was waste a equivalent colors & style than the final version, however it was great deal little & nigher together.

Personal Feud was a greatest-rated daytime giveaway for ii seasons (1977-78 & 1978-79) until CBS's The Price is Right surpassed it. It was too a greatest-rated syndicated giveaway from either 1978 until 1984, when Wheel of Fortune took over a top spot. Inside May 1978, during a height of the indicate's popularity, ABC aired the foremost around a series of 100%-Star Personal Feud prime time specials where teams of celebrities -- often a cast members of a television program -- played the game to raise money for various charities. A indicate won a Daytime Emmy Award for even Outstanding Television Game Indicate withwitharound 1977, when Dawson won the Daytime Emmy for Right Persons or Hostess in a Giveaway in 1978. Richard Dawson's hosting style was super unusual: for instance, he most universally kissed the female players, & gave a bit of of the women & their tikes lollipops from either a favorite "lollipop tree" at a prevent of both personal stump. This personable style mass produced him super popular as a game indicate persons.

A endure ABC daytime episode aired in June 14, 1985, with Dawson redeeming an emotional farewell speech at a prevent of the indicate. A syndicated overnight edition of Feud continued for trinity months when, prior to wrapping higher inside September after eight years. (Viacom, the indicate's syndicator, offered reruns to stations for one month fallowing that, packaged when A Right of Personal Feud.) Within its nine-seasin being, 2,311 network daylight shows, 976 syndicated evening half-30 minutes shows, & Xvii ABC primetime hour-long specials (1978-1984) experienced been produced, using $1,557,150 given away to charity on 170 celebrity specials on the daytime & overnight shows, & $14,833,000 won by contestants.

The CBS era
In July 4, 1988, CBS brought the indicate back by owning the fresh hikers, Ray Combs. The recently syndicated primetime edition premiered deuce months late. CBS expanded the indicate from either Half-hour to of these hour by having a addition of a "Bullseye" around to the indicate & renamed it A Future Personal Feud Challenge on June 29, 1992. (A "Bullseye" around was added to the syndicated version that fall, whenever it was renamed A Just released Personal Feud.) In Personal Feud Challenge, 2 freshly families competed in a 1st half of a indicate, sustaining the winner swimming the giving champions in the 2nd half. A CBS versiin went into reruns on March 29, 1993, and was canceled in September 10 of that year, while CBS decided to refund a hour to their local affiliates.

At a prevent of the 1993-1994 season, Combs was replaced by Richard Dawson in an effort to boost a syndicated version's declining ratings. the indicate besides expanded to a single hour & utilized a format similar thereto of the Personal Feud Challenge, by having families from either a original ABC version swimming in the 2nd half of the indicate. (A select few stations, nevertheless, opted to carry lone a last half-30 minutes.) A indicate merely lasted a single sir thomwhen more year by using Dawson as carrier, endwise September 8, 1995, after sise seasons. Fallowing numerous unhappy lives, Combs committed suicide within 1996 at age 40.

The current version
Around 1999 a third version premiered in syndication using unsuspecting hosts Louie Anderson. Within 2002 Anderson was replaced as hikers by Richard Karn. This version is however airing & is by FremantleMedia (formerly Pearson Television), world health organization presently owns a rights to the Goodson-Todman library of giveaway.

Host contenders
Additionally to the quatern regular hosts, there were extra competition for the hosting spot also.

Inside 1988, Joe Namath was slated to host a indicate, however after producers found Combs, Namath was presently replaced.

Around 1999, Dolly Parton was Anderson's main competition for the hosting job.

Around 2002. Marc Curry from ''Don't Forget Your Toothbrush'' auditioned for the job.

Substitute hosts include Sammy Davis, Jr., who guest hosted one round during the Richard Dawson era, and Caryn Lucas, the show's contestant coordinator, who temporarily replaced Dawson for part of one episode when he suffered broken ribs.

Announcers
Gene Wood was the original announcer of Personal Feud. Johnny Olson announced the pilot, Johnny Gilbert substituted once when you took a Dawson era, & Charlie O'Donnell, Bob Hilton, Art James, and Rod Roddy filled in on occasion during the Combs era. Burton Richardson has been the indicate's announcer since 1999.

Episode status
100% episodes come believed to survive. Reruns of the Dawsin & Combs versions presently air on GSN, while a i network (formerly PAX) reruns a former year of the todays version.

Rules of the game
Representatives of the personal come posed questions that use already been answered by Hundred souls. An guide is considered right whenever at least 2 population in a survey experienced answered the wonder in the equivalent way, by owning further points given for answers that got been from additional souls (of these point by the individual).

Sample questions come "Name a famous George" or "Tell me a popular family vacation spot."

A participants come non asked questions just about what is avowedly or even how else items really are. It is asked questions just about what more humans believe come admittedly. When so, a perfectly logical guide can be considered wrong because it failed to produce the survey (e.g., for the wonder just about Georges, George Jones was a popular united states singer, however however his title did non pop up on the survey).

Yet, a questions typically symptom around funny distortions by contestants, world health organization give off-a-wall answers. The classic case is, "What month does a pregnant woman begin to show?" to which contestant replied "September" (ensuant inside such uproarious laughter tape recording experienced to become stopped). In the British version of the show, the wonder was "Something you wouldn't try, not even once." to which the contestant replied "Sex on a train!" Around an episode when you took a Richard Karn-era, a wonder asked contestants to title characters on The Andy Griffith Show; it was clear that one personal – across their answers – experienced never seen a indicate. Person when commented that Personal Feud measures a social fitness of contestants.

Main game
2 personal members face off to understand which personal would benefit control of that particular wonder. Whoever guesses a more popular guide in a survey has a stock to play the wonder or even pass it to the other personal. (Whenever each answers come worth a equivalent total of points, control goes to the streaming video player that buzzed around number 1.) In case the personal estimated an guide that was non on the board (or even another time failed to respond), it would make their way the "strike"; leash "strikes" would induced a personal to relinquish control of the board.

A more personal so gets a risk to steal a points in a bank whenever it estimated one of the left over answers. Any left over answers come so revealed.

Questions come played for double & triple points toward a prevent of the game. A total of double- & triple-point questions in a game has varied above a years; Originally, once a goal was 200, there was there are no triple, & the Tertiary wonder in, everthing questions were doubled. In March Five, 1979, after 300 became a rule, there wwhen One-One-One-Two-Three (equivalent as virtually all of the Combs' era), however fortnight late, it changed to One-One-Two-Two-Three. In a todays version, a foremost both questions come for individual points, a third for double points, & the for for triple points. Whenever neither personal scores 300 points when quaternary cycles, the "sudden death" wonder is played. Point values come however tripled, & a 1st human to ring around & believe a first guide requires a points for their personal. In the uncommon experience that this doesn't give the babies 300, a second sudden dying wonder is played.

Fast Money round
A winner of a game goes in to play a Convenient Money spherical, in which a unsuspecting hosts asks deuce different personal members the equivalent 5 survey questions. 1 personal member leaves a stage, & a more run Twenty seconds (Xv seconds prior to 1994) to guide people questions. A total of humans yielding both guide is revealed it used to be that completely 5 answers come given or even period has expired (whichever comes number one). A streaming video player earns of these point per capita that a "survey says" gave that guide, & at least ii humans must keep close at hand given that guide to become valid.

When all a points for a 1st streaming video player come tallied, the 2nd personal member returns in stage & tend Xxv seconds (Twenty seconds prior to 1994) to guide the equivalent 5 questions. Duplicate answers are non allowed; a persons asks for an additional guide in case a contestant gives a single.

In case a single or even each personal members accumulate a number of at least 200 points, a personal wins the top prize; whenever it score less than 200, it earn $5 for each point (Lesson: 198 ten $5 = $990). From either a indicate's beginning until 1992, the top prize a personal may winside in Convenient Money was $5,000 on the daytime version & $10,000 on the syndicated version. A top prize has been $20,000 since 2001.

Rule changes
Originally, a foremost personal to score 200 or even other points advanced to Convenient Money. A winning score increased to 300 in March Five, 1979 (though a 300-point rule got been effectively for tons however a earliest syndicated episodes). When you took a 1984-1985 year (Richard Dawson's last), a target score was 400.

A "play or pass" stock was eliminated while a indicate was revived inside 1988, & a target score to win a game reverted to 300 points.

Within 1992, the "Bullseye" spherical was added, where contestants tried to build higher a total of money it can waround in Convenient Money from either an initial bank. the single at once & starting sustaining a team captain, a players were asked a series of 5 Personal Feud-nature and severity questions; simply a first guide was accepted. In a period of the 1st half of the Personal Feud Challenge, families began by using the $2,500 bank. A number 1 wonder was worth $500, a 2nd $1,000 then in as much as $2,500 for a fifth wonder; so, the maximal jackpot for any a single team was $10,000. When you took a 2nd half of Challenge & under the half-30 minutes syndicated format, wonder values were doubled & families built in the $5,000 bank for a imaginable jackpot of $20,000. A "Bullseye" around was played before a number one wonder.

In the period of Dawson's link to inside 1994, a "Bullseye" around was renamed a "Bankroll" spherical. Each families lean banks of $2,500 & simply tierce questions worth $500; $1,500; & $2,500 were invite the top jackpot of $7,000. Wonder values were doubled in the 2nd half of the hour-long format, building in the $5,000 bank for the conceivable jackpot of $14,000. Whilst a indicate was revived inside 1999 by having Louie Anderson hosting, the "bullseye" around was eliminated & a "play or pass" stock was reinstated. 3 regular cycles were played, & a 4th spherical was played for triple points -- however the personal within control would sole make their way of these strike prior to it wasted control in the triple spherical. Occasionally felt that this rule was unfair, as a personal world health organization won a foremost 3 cycles may however lose a game in the quaternary around when rendering simply a single wrong guide. Likewise, therein version, the personal didn't necessarily use to win 300 points to win a game. Fallowing 4 cycles were played, a personal world health organization got a virtually all points won a game.

A of these-strike rule was eliminated at a beginning of Richard Karn's second year when hikers in the fall of 2003, and a format of a game reverted to it of the former versions, in which the foremost personal to score 300 points wins. "Sudden death" cycles, which are then played whenever neither personal reaches 300 points fallowing 4 cycles, were besides added that season.

Versions outside the USA
A Australian version aired on the Nine Network from 1977-1984 and was hosted by Tony Barber, Daryl Somers, and Sandy Scott. It was revived on the Seven Network in 1989 and aired until 1996. It was hosted by Rob Brough. The celebrity version aired around primetime in 1990-1991.

The Brazilian version of Family Feud, hosted by Silvio Santos, began in June 2005.

A British version of the show, which ran from either 1980 to 2002 on ITV, was called Personal Fortunes. A producers reportedly claimed that it considered a word "feud" as well confrontational. It was hosted by Bob Monkhouse (until 1983), Max Bygraves (until 1985) and Les Dennis when it returned two years late, prior to a indicate was moved to day (around 2002) with Andy Collins as host. Peter Dickson replaced Stephen Rhodes as the indicate's announcer shortly prior to its move to the "daytime" schedule. It was cancelled when this series.

A French-Canadian version is called La Guerre des kindred ("War of the clans").

The version around Colombia is called Century Colombianos Dicen, which means "100 Colombians Say".

A title of the French version, Une famille en or even, means (literally) "a golden family" & (figuratively) "a family to treasure".

A German version is called Familienduell ("Family Duel"). A persons was Werner Schulze-Erdel. A indicate was cancelled within 2003 because of low ratings.

Within Greece a show has experienced ii incarnations; the number 1, broadcast in the beginning of the '90s decade was referred to as Kondres (Clashings) & was presented by Vlassis Bonatsos. A 2nd, which aired at a prevent of the equivalent decade, went per title of Kondra Plake (the wordplay in "Kondres" & the inexpensive nature & severity of wood) and its hikers was Spyros Papadopoulos.

A Indonesian version is called Famili 100. Shown beginning from either mid-1990s, it has went on to get one of a virtually all popular giveaway inside Indonesia.

The Mexican version of this show is known as 100 Mexicanos Dijeron, which means "100 Mexicans Say", & is shown in Telefutura in the USA. These are by Televisa, the dominant network inside Mexico. These are hosted per square-jawed & ever-smiling Marco Antonio Regil.

A Polish version is called Familiada (the merging of the words familia & olimpiada, we.e. "Family Olympics"). A carrier is Karol Strasburger, a popular actor.

The version of Personal Feud has aired within Switzerland as of 2005. These are known as Little phoebe Gegen Five, meaning "5 Against 5", & is hosted by Sven Epiney.

The version around Venezuela is called Que Dice la Gente?, which asks "What Say the People?"

When of 2005, a version of Personal Feud has aired around Vietnam. Thailand has had its have version since 2003.