Barry & Enright Productions

Barry & Enright Productions (also known as Jack Barry & Dan Enright Productions and formally known as Barry, Enright & Friendly Productions), was a United States television production company that was formed in 1947 by TV producers Jack Barry and Dan Enright.

Jack & Dan first met each other in New York while working at radio station WOR. Their first projects together were problem solving panel shows which were Juvenile Jury, Life Begins at Eighty & Wisdom of the Ages (the former was a kids show).

Jack & Dan also created another kids show called Winky Dink & You. A show that inspired children to use their imaginations and use a "magic slate" to draw along with Mr. Barry.

In 1953 Barry & Enright made the jump to game show life by creating their first show called Bank That Fact which was very short-lived lasting only two months. They continued producing failures for the next three years, but three years later in 1956, they produced & created three more game shows for NBC (two of which were answers to The $64,000 Question): Twenty One, Tic Tac Dough and the original version of Concentration which they created with Robert Noah & Buddy Piper. Then in 1958 they produced & created Dough Re Mi, a Name That Tune-like game show. Two of them were cancelled due to the Quiz Show Scandals, while two other were sold to NBC Productions. Shortly after, the company fell apart altogether.

For the next nine years, both Jack & Dan tried to make it on their own with no success. Until 1969 when Jack Barry returned as an emcee replacing Dennis Wholey on The Generation Gap. Two years later Jack reformed his company but ran it solo. The first show he created & hosted was The Reel Game for ABC. At the same time, former partner Dan Enright became executive producer for All About Faces with Richard Hayes. Then in 1972, a tremendous breakthrough occurred; The Joker's Wild came to our TV sets a was a hit series for the next three years on CBS. Dan became Jack's partner again when he was asked to executive produce the show in 1975 before the cancellation.

For the next eight years starting in 1976, Barry & Enright produced & created more game shows and other TV shows mostly in syndication with the help of Colbert Television Sales. They even revived The Joker's Wild & Tic Tac Dough also for the syndicated market. They did manage to find time to create two network shows Break the Bank (2) for ABC with a syndicated version premiering the following year & Hot Potato for NBC. All this came to a halt when Jack Barry on May 2, 1984 while jogging in Central Park; around that time he considered leaving his current hosting duties on Joker and passed the torch to Jim Peck who subbed for Barry on several occasions. But after he died, the torch was instead passed to Bill Cullen whom just finished hosting Hot Potato.

Dan Enright ran the company solo starting in 1984 and made several changes, much to the chagrin of its longtime staffers including director/producer Richard S. Kline and Jack Barry's two children Jon & Doug, so they quit and formed Kline & Friends which produced game shows of their own. Dan later married Vice President of Public Relations and former Wheel of Fortune (2) hostess Susan Stafford and renamed the company Stafford-Enright Productions. But the marriage & newly-renamed company didn't last long, as Dan Enright passed away himself due to cancer on May 22, 1992.

Owned by NBC Universal Television

 * Back That Fact (1953)
 * You're On Your Own (1956–1957, 1990–1991) (Formerly owned by Granada International through their acquisition of the ITC library.)
 * Tic Tac Dough (1956–1959)
 * Twenty One (1956–1958, 1982 unsold pilot)
 * High-Low (1957)
 * Concentration (1958–1973) (co-owned with FremantleMedia)
 * Dough Re Mi (1958–1960)
 * Pictionary (1) (1989)

Jack Barry Productions

 * The Joker's Wild (1968-1970 pilots and 1972-1975 Jack Barry Productions, 1977-1986 Barry & Enright Productions distributed by Colbert Television Sales) (This series was a property of Jack Barry Productions throughout the entire run)
 * The Honeymoon Game (1970 unsold pilot) (In association with Metromedia Producers Corporation)
 * The Reel Game (1971) (in association with Four Star International and ABC)
 * Hollywood's Talking (1973)
 * Countdown (1) (1974 unsold pilot)
 * Blank Check (1975)
 * We've Got Your Number (1975 unsold pilot)

Barry & Enright Productions
Note: Denotes series (*) distributed by Colbert Television Sales


 * Break the Bank (2) (1976–1977)* (served as both network and syndication)
 * Way Out Games (1976–1977) (In association with MGM Television) (co-owned by Warner Bros. Television and Turner Entertainment Co.)
 * Hollywood Connection (1977) (In association with Golden West Broadcasting)
 * Tic Tac Dough (1978-1986 only)*
 * Decisions Decisions (1979? unsold pilot)
 * Joker Joker Joker (1979–1981) (Children's edition of The Joker's Wild)*
 * Play the Percentages (1980)*
 * Bullseye (1980–1982)*
 * Hot Potato (1984)
 * Bumper Stumpers (1987–1990) (In association with the Global Television Network, Wink Martindale Enterprises, and the USA Network)
 * All About the Opposite Sex (1990)
 * Hold Everything! (1990)

Owned by CBS Television Distribution

 * The Joker's Wild (1990–1991) (A Kline and Friends Production in association with Jack Barry Productions.) (in partnership with StudioCanal)