User:Daniel Benfield/Family Feud Anderson Video Archive

Syndicated, Daily: September 20, 1999 - May 8 [September 13], 2002 (taped July 29? - December, 1999 at Television City, then moved to NBC Studios)

Yeah, I know the Louie Anderson era of Family Feud is generally considered to be the worst, and it's not hard to see why – no returning champs, a one-Strike Triple round that can sometimes end up bringing the game to an anticlimactic close, and an inane "most points wins" format (the latter two carried over into Richard Karn's first season). And frankly, I don't like it...so why am I doing this?

An interesting thing about the set is the entrance: Instead of entering from stage right or stage left like all other hosts, Louie entered from a rising/dropping wall that also housed the game board. Also, starting with this version of the set, the Face-Off podium was removed when it was time for Fast Money (although I really don't know why).

Mostly because there's no returning champs, and hence I think it'd be a bit of a challenge. Everything from Karn's first show onward is well-documented, but not the first three years.

As it turned out, as far as airdates go, this was also pretty much the last Goodson show outside of The Price Is Right to use the Mark Goodson Productions name and logo, albeit in this case without the spiel. All traces of Goodson were removed when Karn became host.

Another big issue is that a new theme was used which had a sample of the classic theme at the beginning before going into this repetitive "disco party"-style mess that had a habit of being looped repeatedly during the credits so it always ended when the show itself did. The Ray Combs-era classic theme returned for the second half of Season 4 (and alternated with the disco theme before we got 6 more disco years), then brought back permanently shortly into taping for Season 10. The new theme was also "backed" by the studio audience and onstage players clapping along to it, which for me got really annoying.

LEGAL STUFF SO I DON'T GET SUED: I'm only linking to these videos, none of which were uploaded by me, for the purposes of research and as a public record. Footage ©1999-2002 Mark Goodson Productions/FremantleMedia and associated entities.

$10,000 Fast Money (Seasons 1-2)
Originally, the Strikes were displayed at the bottom of the screen. Shortly into taping, the Strikes moved to the center. In both cases, and carrying over into the later eras, the Strike count was center-aligned at all times.

When the show began taping, the family names were in a very small typeface inside a complete oval, with intros by Burton that tended to include a "punny" comment that usually rhymed with the family name. Sometime after the above change, the family name typeface was enlarged; shortly after that (definitely by the end of Season 1), the dopey intros were dropped, with Burton now introducing the families normally.

In both cases, the family names were displayed on small TV monitors above each team that were extremely difficult to see with wide-shot views of the set. Prior to Fast Money, the winning family's celebration was replayed on their monitor before it flipped back over with the "clang" from the front game.

1999 copyright date

Strikes displayed at the bottom of the screen
 * October 1999 (DeGuardi vs. Blanton)
 * 1999 (Bregman vs. Allen)
 * 1999 (Dangaard vs. Bufkin; taped from WPWR {alternate copy})

Strike displays moved to center of screen
 * September 20, 1999 (Premiere: Dubra vs. Spoerri; taped from WWOR)
 * October 1999 (Pennington vs. French)
 * October 1999 (Tichy vs. Moreno {Part 3})


 * 1999 ("Beauty & The Beasts", Day 1?: Playboy Playmates vs. WCW Wrestlers {Part 3}, with Burton Richardson making several fun appearances {including the intro, doing it at center stage in a great tuxedo!} and Louie plugging the Tiger handheld game!)
 * 1999 (Soap Star Challenge, Day 1: The Young & The Restless {including Doug Davidson!} vs. General Hospital; taped from KNLC, really low audio, no last segment)
 * 1999 (Soap Star Challenge, Day 2: The Young & The Restless vs. General Hospital; taped from KNLC, really low audio, no last segment)


 * 1999 (McDonald vs. Slater)
 * 1999 (Sekiguchi vs. Boulanger, with a pretty rare outcome in Fast Money; taped from WPWR)
 * 1999 (King vs. Garletta?, with a really good example of why the one-Strike Triple round was a bad idea; Triple round segment only)


 * December 10, 1999 (#FF99-060: Milani vs. Benson {taped 9/25/99}; studio master with slate!)
 * [Airdate per episode number.]
 * January 2000 (Trapani vs. Jackson)

Normal-size family displays
 * 2000 (Kim vs. Ayala; taped from KUSI)
 * May 12, 2000 (Hollins vs. Baker, with Louie plugging the Tiger handheld game; taped from WXII, with commercials)
 * [Also includes the tail-end of a Dawson episode from GSN, including a promo for the Perry Card Sharks with their take on the opening poem.]

Dopey intros removed
 * 2000 (Noble vs. Saldana; taped from KCAL)
 * [Still has the Fast Money timers fading in.]

2000 copyright date Season 2 saw the show move taping from Television City to NBC Studios in Burbank. Most likely at the same time, the Fast Money timers began to quickly "pop" onscreen, rather than fading in.


 * 2000 (Hunter vs. Armstrong; ends shortly after last main-game segment)
 * [The uploader's description of Part 1 (uploaded 4/15/10) is "This is the 10th Anniversary of the Hunter's Appearance on the Familyt Fued Gameshow. Louie Anderson was the host."]


 * 2000 (Lucaj vs. Hicks; watermark covers up Fast Money score during second half, no last segment)
 * 2000 (Sanabria vs. Brown; first segment missing, ends after Louie signs off)
 * 2000 (Bokano vs. Brooks {Part 3, Part 4}; 8/6/01 repeat)


 * 2000 (Walker vs. Madrid {Part 3}; taped from WPWR)
 * 2000 (Thomas vs. Brown {Part 3}; taped from WPWR, video issues for last 25 seconds {alternate copy})
 * 2000 (Banks vs. VanderHoeven; Burton's family intros missing)


 * 2000 (Soap Star Challenge, Day ?: Days of Our Lives vs. Passions; montage of Days-relevant portions, ends just into third segment)
 * [Louie notes before the second question that "the Feud handshake" is a "good luck" thing they've been doing for 300-and-some shows.]
 * 2000 (Soap Star Challenge, Day ?: Days of Our Lives vs. Passions; montage of Days-relevant portions, no video from 2:50-3:03 and 5:09-7:56, ends just intro Triple question)
 * 2000 (Circus Spectacular: Big Top All-Stars vs. Ringling Bros. Circus Clowns, with Burton doing the intro onstage {dressed as, appropriately, a ringmaster}; begins during intro)


 * November 2000 (Filipovic vs. Dotson; various clips, including a couple of full rounds)
 * Spring 2001 (#FF00-166/"Battle of the Beach", Day 1: Baywatch Hawaii vs. L.A. Lifeguards; taped from GSN on 11/28/13, one of only two episodes they've aired!)

$20,000 Fast Money (Season 3)
Distinguishable by the new top prize, plus the presence of the logo on the floor. In addition, the show switched syndicators from Pearson themselves to Tribune Entertainment; this would remain until 2007, when 20th Television and Debmar-Mercury took over. All episodes of this season have a 2001 copyright date, to my knowledge.

Early episodes of this season still had a commercial break after the first question. Shortly into taping, they began going straight into the second question.

Following 9/11, the show taped a special week with the NYPD and FDNY where all winnings went towards relief efforts; the pot started at $75,000, and all the money came from Louie himself. Say what you will about him, but that's an awesome thing to do.

Commercial break after first question
 * December 21, 2001 (Friend vs. Hill {Part 3, Part 4}, with the first question being about the show!; taped from KTVU)
 * 2002 (Irwin vs. Gardner; PAX repeat {alternate copy of some portions, most likely from original broadcast})
 * [Date comes from the alternate copy, posted by one of the contestants.]

No commercial break after first question
 * 2001 (Burgess vs. Burt; begins during logo animation)


 * 2001 (Kipp vs. Williams {Part 3}; WGCL repeat from 6/12/02)
 * 2001 (Lewis vs. Freeman; 6/19/02 repeat)


 * 2001 (Lee vs. Watson; montage including intro and most of first, third, and fourth questions, "shaky-cam" upload, "tinny" audio with scratching noises at times, ends after front-game outcome)
 * 2001 (Whitacre vs. Washington {Part 3, Part 4}; no last segment)


 * 2001 (The Muppets vs. Dixie Chicks and Friends, Day ?; uploader's watermark in bottom-right corner throughout, no last segment)
 * [For this week, special "extensions" were added to the family podiums and Face-Off Podium. This was done to hide those who were working the Muppets, and they were presumably added to both sides so this wasn't made as obvious (and credit where it's due: the extensions don't look out-of-place at all).]
 * 2001 (The Muppets vs. Dixie Chicks & Friends, Day ?; uploader's watermark in bottom-right corner throughout, no last segment)


 * December 2001 (Boxley vs. Blackwell; PAX repeat)
 * December 19, 2001 (Smith vs. Cordova {Part 3, Part 4}; taped from KTVU)


 * May 2002 (Family Circle Invitational Tournament of Champions, Finals: Klein vs. Reno, with $112,230 on the line!; taped from WTTV with commercials, including a brief promo for Hoosier Millionaire!)
 * [Louie notes that the Tournament began with eight families and later says this was a week-long event (apparently, this was actually seven episodes), although I have no idea how they determined who would be playing since this era was always one-and-done. The jackpot started at $50,000, growing by whatever was earned in Fast Money ($20,000 for a win, $5/point for a loss); the Finals were played first-to-500 (the others were first-to-300), with the Double round returning. The winners of the Finals got the money plus tickets to the Family Circle Tennis Tournament in Charleston, South Carolina; the losers got a trip to Jamaica.]
 * [Also, and this isn't really related to anything, but that big number's a mouthful for both Burton and Louie. Couldn't they have rounded it up to, say, $115,000?]

Uncertain placement
 * 2001 (Wells vs. Hart, with a Hart family member showing a picture of her family on the Dawson set in '77!; Fast Money segment only)
 * 2001 (Gorham vs. Hatch; Fast Money segment only)
 * 2001 (Winkler vs. Shergill; Fast Money segment only)

Skits and Cameos
Normally I don't include parodies, but given I'm doing a not-particularly-well-documented era of the show's run, I might as well throw in these.

Using the actual set
 * October 2001 (Scrubs: Brief cutaway to the male cast members on Feud, with Louie making a cameo)
 * 2002 (Someday {music video}...with Richard Karn hosting?! {Feud-related stuff begins at :55})
 * [Evidently, this was after Karn became host but before the set changed.]

Parodies

Pookie Poo (obscure Flash series)
 * 2000? ("Nutty Family Fools", with some ugly animation and disturbing imagery)

MADtv (some listings of these parodies don't include the family names)
 * April 29, 2000 (Soprano vs. Benedict, with things skewed heavily in favor of...well, guess)
 * May 12, 2001 (Dicter vs. Carlson, with Louie being terminally depressed...and I know it's not real, but boy is it hard to watch {alternate copy, with foreign subtitles})
 * September 22, 2001 (Cragger vs. Meiger, with Louie making the family names sound racist; has foreign subtitles {alternate copy, lower quality but no subtitles})
 * [This and the below have an announcer who sounds remarkably like that "Sparky Whitmore" guy Ludia used in the 2010 Feud game. The first two use a deep-voiced guy who sounds a bit more like Burton.]
 * February 16, 2002 (Austin vs. Tyson, with "Stone Cold" Steve Austin as himself!)