

Syndication/Samuel Goldwyn, 4-Point Entertainment/1989-1997 The first team to the finish line splits $1 million. The last team to check in at each “pit stop” is eliminated from the Race. Since the ’80s, the majority of syndicated shows aired 5 days/week.ġ1 teams of two compete in a race around the world, stopping along the way to complete a wide array of challenges. Generally, syndicated shows were weekly offerings (with some more popular shows airing twice weekly) until the very late ’70s, with “Family Feud” being one of the first to go to 5 days/week.


Please note that although I may consider a show culturally important, this does not necessarily mean that I enjoyed it.Ī note on syndication (for non-USA readers): The term means the shows were offered to individual local stations, rather than through a broadcast network. It’s available at better bookstores everywhere. These synopses are purposely somewhat vague so as not to compete with the true reference guide for the genre, The Encyclopedia of TV Game Shows, which you should reference for specifics, photos and great memories of these shows and hundreds more. What follows is a directory of the 115 most important American game shows of all time, as selected solely by your webmaster, along with airdate and host information and a very brief synopsis of each.
