Couch Potatoes (game show)
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Couch Potatoes is an American game show which featured two teams competing in a television-centric quiz game. The program premiered in syndication on January 23, 1989. It aired in first-run until June 9, 1989, for a total of one hundred episodes, and reruns aired after that until September 8, 1989.
Couch Potatoes | |
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Created by | Ellen Levy David M. Greenfield |
Presented by | Marc Summers |
Narrated by | Joe Alaskey Jim McKrell |
Country of origin | United States |
No. of episodes | 100 |
Production | |
Production locations | Hollywood Center Studios Hollywood, California |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Production company | Saban Entertainment |
Original release | |
Network | Syndicated (daily) |
Release | January 23 (1989-01-23) ā June 9, 1989 (1989-06-09) |
Couch Potatoes was hosted by Marc Summers, who at the time was also hosting the children's game show Double Dare on both Nickelodeon and local stations.[1] Comedian and voice actor Joe Alaskey was also featured on the show,[2] serving as its announcer and also playing an on-camera role as Summers' next door neighbor. After Alaskey left the series toward the end of its run, his character was retired and Jim McKrell took over his announcer role (albeit off camera).
Couch Potatoes was taped at Hollywood Center Studios and was a production of Saban Entertainment with Westinghouse Broadcasting's Group W Productions as distributor. The series was created by Ellen Levy and the show's producer-writer David M. Greenfield.