The Generation Gap

A game about how much people know about other people's generations.

Broadcast
ABC - February 7, 1969-May 23, 1969

Packagers
Castle-Drive Productions for Norton-Simon/Talent Associates

Hosts
Dennis Wholey Jack Barry

Announcer
Fred Foy

Gameplay
Two teams of three contestants competed in this 16 week primetime program. One team consisted of older people dubbed "The Older Generation", and the other consisted of younger people "The Younger Generation".

Individual questions were asked to each member of each team. The questions were about the opposing generation ("The Younger Generation" was asked about old times, and "The Older Generation" was asked about something for the youngins). Each correct answer was worth 25 points (20 sometime in the series). For a brief period, the opposing team was asked to predict whether the player on the team in control will or won't be able to answer the question with a correct prediction earning five points. At the end of each round, all six players played the "Cross Generation" round in which all questions were toss-ups and were under a specific category. Each correct answer was worth 10 points (added when the buzz-in player was right & subtracted when the buzz-in player was wrong). Only one player can answer each question, so the first player to buzz-in was the only one who can win lose.

Three rounds were played, and the team with the most points at the end of the game, gave each member of the winning team their winning score in dollars.

Trivia
Dennis Wholey hosted the show for the first ten episodes; then starting with the 11th episode, burned quiz show host Jack Barry took over the helm. It was his first show since the quiz show scandals, which turned out to be successful. Following his time on The Generation Gap less than two years later, Barry revived his company but without his longtime partner Dan Enright, and produced & hosted The Reel Game for the same network, for the next 13 weeks.

Link
The Generation Gap @ The Game Show Vault