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Chuck Barris as host of âThe Gong Show,â which he created. It became a phenomenon after its 1976 debut. Credit NBC, via Everett Collection.
Cecil replies: 1  Ah, right, Chuck Barris. Barris is the showbiz entrepreneur who created The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, and The Gong Show (the last of which he hosted), hits in the late 1960s and '70s that were thought to represent the absolute low in schlock TV, at least until everybody got a load of Temptation Island.