Everybody's Talking was a game show

Game show

A game show is a type of radio or television program in which members of the public, television personalities or celebrities, sometimes as part of a team, play a game which involves answering questions or solving puzzles usually for money and/or prizes...

 which aired on ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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 from February 6 to December 29, 1967. Former dance-party host Lloyd Thaxton

Lloyd Thaxton

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 was the host; Wink Martindale

Wink Martindale

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 and Charlie O'Donnell

Charlie O'Donnell

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 were the announcers. Thaxton typically closed each episode by saying, "Keep watching, and keep listening, because everybody's talking!"

Veteran producer Jack Barry created this show during a brief period working for Goodson-Todman. Due to lingering bad publicity concerning his possible involvement in the rigging of Twenty One

Twenty One (game show)

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and Tic-Tac-Dough

Tic-Tac-Dough

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in the late 1950s, he asked that his name be kept off the credits. Jerome Schnur Productions packaged the show instead.

Gameplay

The object of the game was for three contestants to watch a film of people on the street making short descriptions of a person, place, or object. The point value of each round started at 100, then counted down one point approximately every second. The first player to buzz in with a guess as to what "everybody's talking" about froze the point value of the round. If the other two players had a guess, they had to buzz in and make it before the subject was revealed (and with the point value frozen, they didn't know when this would be). The player with the correct guess (if any) got the points, and subsequent rounds were played in the same manner until one player scored at least 100 points. That player received $1 for every point earned and went on to play the bonus round, in which a correct guess tripled the player's earnings.

By Summer, the contestants were replaced by three celebrities playing for viewers at home; the program opened with each drawing a postcard backstage before entering the studio. The object remained the same, with the first to reach 100 points also winning a prize for that home viewer (the other two home viewers received a consolation prize).

Revival

In 1973, Barry revived the show as Hollywood's Talking

Hollywood's Talking

Hollywood's Talking is a short lived American game show based the 60s quizzer, Everybody's Talking, and produced by Jack Barry. It ran on CBS for three months in 1973, debuting on March 26 and ending on June 22 to make room for a new version of Match Game.It was hosted by Geoff Edwards, with...

with three contestants trying to guess what a number of celebrities were talking about. If a player made a correct guess during the first one-third of the film, s/he won $150; during the second third, $100; during the last third, $50. The first player to score $200 went on to a bonus round, identifying short descriptions for additional cash.

This show is notable as the first national hosting job for Geoff Edwards

Geoff Edwards

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, later host of Jackpot!

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and The New Treasure Hunt. It aired on CBS from March 26 to June 22, 1973 and was replaced by one of the most popular game shows of the 1970s – Match Game

Match Game

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.

Episode status

Everybody's Talking is believed to have been wiped

Wiping

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as per network practices. The premiere and the June 2 episode are known to exist.