Tattletales

Saw an episode & looked up that all 3 couples later divorced.

Perhaps these are not the best television shows to have Hollywood couples speak about their marriages, but I noticed the following this afternoon:

-Bill Bixby and his 1st wife named Brenda Benet;

-Juliet Mills and her 2nd husband Michael Miklenda;

-Dick Martin and his 2nd/3rd wife Dolly. *

Note: All three couples would later divorced, actually NOT too long after their appearances aired.

Maybe it had to do with some of the answers?

* Dick Martin and Dolly were married then divorced in 1974 but remarried in 1979 until Dick's death.

Funny, I had forgotten about this little gem from my early adult years when it appeared again recently on one of the oldies TV cable channels which have sprouted up. Hosted by Bert Convy, the perfect man for this job, the show featured three celebrity couples competing on behalf of their slice of the studio audience. There were two types of questions used, in retrospect the ones that worked best were asked to each couple. The guys might answer while the wives off stage were turned off, then the wives came in on little TVs below their husbands and answered - if they matched they won money for their audience. It plays better than it sounds, I mean, where else can you find out whether Abe Vigoda thinks that the attractiveness of your partner adds to your romantic pleasure? (So bizarre and traumatic a TV moment that I recall it vividly some 40 years later) The review here that talks about washed up stars is off, at the time these were generally legit celebrities, including Stiller & Meara, always great. It probably won't work for someone under 40 but I have enjoyed tuning in.

Watching today and it made me very angry. The bit about sooooooooooo many husbands who cheat on their wives. Well I have 4 things to point out! 1) I have been married twice. The first one lasted only 4 years and I will give you three guesses why!!!!!! 2) My second marraige has lasted 35 as of last July 18thwith NOBODY cheating! 3) Between marraiges I had someone I thought was specaisl till I found out she was married. 4) When a married man does cheat does he turn homosexual? I highly doubt it! So it is women the men cheat with so why aren't the women partly responcible as I would doubt none of knew! And if all these women who cheat with married men get pregnant so what they can just murder the HELPLESS humman, and this bullsh.. about ot not being human show me one time when a woman goes full term and produces a toaster!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love the 70's I can't say enough about it. I am a 1975 baby and I started watching these at a young age with my mom. I was excited to see they are on stream. I just love how you get to know the actors life and what they looked like back then and now most of them sadly have gotten divorced but they sure appear so happy and I love that.

The late Burt Convy hosted this pitiful 'game show' where no actual 'every day contestants' are featured. Three panelists comprised of 'has-been' celebrities would sit behind a podium with a television set built into it that would screen their spouse's face from a room off to the side of the set. Their spouse would wear a set of headphones as Burt Convy would ask the panelists ridiculous questions regarding their personal lives, such as their likes, dislikes and of course their sex life.

The object of the game was to have the panelist match their spouse's response to the question, much like the format in "THE NEWLYWED GAME". While that show pitted everyday strangers against one another in the hope of making a 'love connection', "TATTLETALES" relies on its washed-up celebrities to make the most of their time on the show to make fools out of themselves by asking them ludicrous questions followed by some sort of claptrap response. Regular panelists would include Zsa Zsa Gabor, Joan Collins and Phyllis Diller - ALL of whom would go on to divorce their 'spouses' featured on the show.

The audience members were split into three separate colors - red, yellow and blue. Whichever panelist and spouse answered the most correct questions would ultimately win a small amount of money which would be distributed among members of the audience, depending on what color they happened to be wearing.

Overall, of the rare times I did happen to catch this show, the panelists always appeared to look quite bored or angry at themselves for agreeing to participate in the antics of this muddled game show (think of Richard Dawson on "MATCH GAME PM"). I was quite surprised that "TATTLETALES" lasted four seasons... but then again, it WAS the 70's.