Tattletales

Tattletales is an American game show produced by Goodson-Todman Productions in association with Fremantle.

[2] It was hosted by Bert Convy, with several announcers including Jack Clark, Gene Wood, Johnny Olson and John Harlan providing the voiceover at various times.

The show's premise involved questions asked about celebrity couples' personal lives and was based on He Said, She Said, a syndicated Goodson-Todman show hosted by Joe Garagiola that aired during the 1969–70 season, which in itself was based on an unsold 1966 pilot called It Had to Be You that was hosted by Ed McMahon, which featured four regular couples who were not celebrities.

Among the hosts who filled in for Convy during these episodes were Gene Rayburn, Bob Barker, Bobby Van, Jack Narz and Richard Dawson.

The other was a small seating area in the upstage right corner of the stage, which was used to keep the players not in the game isolated; a sliding wall covered the seating area during game play and each player had a set of headphones to block out any noise from the other side of the wall.

Convy then repeated the question to the offstage players, appearing on the monitors in front of their spouses, followed by the clue.

Convy then asked another question, usually multiple choice, called a "Tattletale Quickie," to each couple in-turn.

In addition to the same scoring format, on syndicated episodes one member of the winning rooting sections chosen at random received six different parting gifts.

Tattletales gradually began to lose viewers and ran its 1,075th and final show of the original version on March 31, 1978.

On March 12, 2021, the streaming service HBO Max[4] announced that it had ordered a reboot of Tattletales, which would be produced by Ayesha and Stephen "Steph" Curry,[5] and feature celebrity couples playing for charity.

Two episodes of the nighttime syndicated version aired on Buzzr on February 9, 2020, as part of their "Love at First Sight" marathon.

An Australian version of Tattletales aired on the Seven Network as Celebrity Tattle Tales, hosted by Ugly Dave Gray for a brief time in 1980, and was produced by Reg Grundy.

A spoof of the show aired on a 1977 episode of SCTV; called 'Celebrity TattleTales', the segment (a commercial for the show) featured Prince Philip (Joe Flaherty) and Queen Elizabeth (Catherine O'Hara) being asked a question by Bert Convy (played by Eugene Levy).