A Kin to Win was a Canadian television game show initially produced in Montreal in 1961, then aired on the CTV network in 1962.
[2] The series was produced by a Canadian subsidiary of NBC, led by Nick Nicholson and E. Roger Muir.
Episodes were recorded in Montreal in the studios of CTV affiliate CFCF-TV at a cost of $2500 (CA$) apiece.
[11] According to Ross Bagwell, an NBC programme developer who worked on A Kin to Win, the series was a forerunner of the American-based game show Family Feud.
[12] Jeremy Brown, television critic for the Toronto Star, deemed the debut on CTV to be "boring, trite, badly paced, lacking in suspense and incredibly bland.