[1] The original Dream House was hosted by Mike Darow[1] with Chet Gould announcing.

The ABC version was recorded in New York City,[1] while the NBC run was staged at the network's studios in Burbank, California.

Two teams of two (usually married couples), one of them a returning champion, competed to win a house worth approximately $100,000.

A correct answer awarded that couple $50 and their choice of four categories, while a miss gave the money and control to their opponents.

The couple in control was required to hit their plunger to determine the question value displayed on a "money machine", a random light which stopped at $50, $100, or $150.

In the bonus round, the couple tried to open a set of "Golden Doors" by programming the correct three-digit combination into an electronic lock that secured them.

Originally, each day that a couple reached the bonus round, one incorrect digit was automatically removed from the lock, following the sequence of top-middle-bottom.

A later rule change removed one digit for each time the couple returned, thus depriving them of having one eliminated on their first day.

Once the Money Machine format was introduced into the main game, the couple could have one extra digit removed if they had correctly answered a "Number Off" question.

After making their guess, the couple pressed a button referred to as a "time release bar," which caused a series of four lights built into the frame of the Golden Doors to activate from the bottom up.

If not, the topmost section remained dark, a buzzer sounded, and the host revealed the correct combination.

In a match where a couple was in a position to win the house if they won the main game, a plunger alternately called a "Golden Circuit Breaker" and a "Hotline Switch" was brought out at the beginning of the second round.

Replacing reruns of the cult crime drama The Fugitive, Dream House began broadcasting on April 1, 1968, at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time.

They may have been erased by ABC as this was standard procedure for its daytime programs until 1978, although the controversies surrounding the show may also have played a role.

[3][4][5] In 2013, the Museum of Television Production Music reported that the studio master tapes of the 1983–84 version, which had been in the possession of series creator Don Reid, were destroyed by a flood.