Beginning the following week, he was replaced by Jack Barry in his first national hosting job since the quiz show scandals forced him and his company out of the business more than a decade earlier.

Despite this, Barry's game show career was successfully revived, and he thanked ABC for the opportunity during his goodbyes on the last episode.

Despite its title, The Generation Game which originally ran for 11 highly successful series in the United Kingdom between 1971 and 1981, was based on a 1969 Dutch show entitled Een van de acht ("One of the Eight"), which used a stunt-based format much like that of Beat the Clock and Truth or Consequences.

The 1998 VH1 series My Generation could be considered a revival due to a similar format and emphasis on music, which featured two teams of two people representing different years.

Canadian youth channel YTV produced a game show of their own called Generation Gap hosted by Jeff Rechner which ran for a single season in 1989.