# Am I imagining this '60s game show?

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**Created:** [November 1, 2007, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-imagining-this-60s-game-show/424899 "2007-11-01T18:32:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-imagining-this-60s-game-show/424899/1 "2007-11-01T18:32:27Z")

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If it was on at all, it wasn’t on very long …

Back in the late '60s or early '70s, roughly in the same era as _The Newlywed Game_ or _The Dating Game_, was there a game show that involved three-person teams: a guy and his wife and his secretary. The wife and the secretary had to try to match the guy’s answers to various (open to double-entendre) questions.

Does anyone else remember this?

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**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-imagining-this-60s-game-show/424899/2 "2007-11-01T18:39:58Z")

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[Three’s a Crowd](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three's_a_Crowd_(game_show)). But it was 1979–1980.

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**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-imagining-this-60s-game-show/424899/3 "2007-11-01T18:40:05Z")

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[Three’s a Crowd](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three%27s_a_Crowd_%28game_show%29) asking the questions “Who knows a man better, his wife or his secretary?”

(Google is my friend.)

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**Author:** ![Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f0a364/32.png) [@Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rube_E.Tewesday)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-imagining-this-60s-game-show/424899/4 "2007-11-01T18:43:37Z")

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Oh, oh, I know, it’s _Three’s_ … oh crap.

Interesting, though, how mentally you moved it from late seventies, early eighties, to late sixties, early seventies, when it _should_ have been on.

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**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-imagining-this-60s-game-show/424899/5 "2007-11-01T18:48:32Z")

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[QUOTE=Walloon]  
[Three’s a Crowd](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three's_a_Crowd_(game_show)). But it was 1979–1980.  
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And was revived in the 90s with Alan Thicke as host.

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**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-imagining-this-60s-game-show/424899/6 "2007-11-01T18:49:43Z")

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Yes! **Three’s a Crowd**. I caught this on the Game Show Network a few years ago and it’s great! I forgot the host’s name, but he looks like Gary Cole in his role as Mike Brady.

ETA: Aw, crap, I couldn’t preview on Quick Reply.

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-imagining-this-60s-game-show/424899/7 "2007-11-01T18:51:39Z")

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Well, Chuck Barris – you can see why I’d be confused.

Thanks for the quick responses, all!