Dream House 1968. Air Date June 18, 1968. ABC network.

In this fast moving Game show two couples compete for rooms in the Dream House. Questions are asked, the first to hit the buzzer with the correct answer wins the round. Once seven rooms are won, the couple wins the house, valued at $40,000. Watch for the section where some master switcher in the control room goofed, leaving the audio for Dream House, but airing the visuals of Wedding Party, another game show. The error is corrected, but that is live TV! Hosted by Mike Darrow. All commercials intact. Mastered from a 16mm b-w kinescope film. The next Dream House episode that aired June 19, 1968 can be viewed here: • Dream House 1968. Air ...

[@Lisa-di1wi]

Oh wow! This show originally aired exactly 56 years ago yesterday; which also fell on a Tuesday as well.

[@Neal_R]

These odd-ball game shows are the best!! Thank you!!

[@birdsfan57]

They WERE the BEST! Kept parents AND their kids entertained ... a time when families were intact units, kids had respect for themselves, their parents, and authority, and men had respect for women, because women respected themselves. What a disjointed, upside-down, sad, sick society we've devolved into...

[@Neal_R]

@@birdsfan57 Wow, heavy dude, heavy!

[@birdsfan57]

@@Neal_R Truth may be HEAVY but it's still THE TRUTH!

[@elainebenes5675]

@@birdsfan57 What gives you the impression that men no longer respect women?

[@birdsfan57]

@@elainebenes5675 Have you seen an episode of Euphoria lately (the pilot was not only disturbing, but stomach-churning for we who grew up in another time; a time in which we could have never imagined a society and its youth devolving so savagely)?!!! The current generation's acceptance and idolization of the likes of the Kardashians/Jenners and their dysfunctional (and yes, contrary to what the media will force down your throats, it IS DYSFUNCTIONAL) lifestyles, along with the glorification of rap and hip hop music and its accompanying lifestyle (pimps and hookers abound) and the desire for scores of today's generation to emulate that lifestyle...along with the sprinkling of numerous obscentities throughout conversations between females and males, and the sporting of numerous tattoos and piercings by both sexes, is a clear indication of what young women are presenting to the world and their partners and their partners, happily responding in kind. The incidences of domestic violence against women by their male partners have increased 1000 fold of what it was a generation or two ago. Women will tolerate and accept ANYTHING and will DO AND TOLERATE ANYTHING today, in order to have a " soulmate" to present to to their social media followers or in hopes that if "I screw him good enough" for as long and in all the ways he wants, he MAY, JUST MAY, decide to give me that engagement ring, to be presented during a staged, lavish professionally photo-enhanced "proposal", leading to the 200+ drunken party, also known as the modern-day wedding reception. Hey! I've lived long enough to actually KNOW what I'm talking about! There is no tenderness, no respect, no real care or love being presented by today's generation...it's all about "gittin' it" and "givin' it"...women are "down" with it and men (especially young men) are more than happy about it...SAD!

[@aarongreenberg3449]

Really enjoyed watching Dream House. Lots of fun.

[@rcruz4510]

I remember this show very well. It was an obvious attempt to compete with Jeopardy! - and I remember one male contestant answered Mike Darrow in the form of a question - and Mike corrected him with something like "No - you do not have to answer in the form of a question. That's another show." When I heard the couple on this episode name the model of the house they were playing for - the Kingsbury Franklin - it was like greeting an old friend! It only ran for a few years - and I only remember one couple (they were Armenian) getting up to the seventh room competition which, if they won, would have given them the Dream House. My friend and I were watching (it was during the summer when we were all home from school) and the couple lost. We really were rooting for them, so when Mike announced that the other couple won, my friend and I around the room throwing things, yelling "THEY LOST!!! NOT FAIR!!!" I do remember the very last show: Mike Darrow stood on a darkened set and cited the amounts of merchandise, cash and houses they had given away. I couldn't understand why it went off the air but NOW - reading all the comments here - it's obvious why, after a promising debut, it tanked.

[@tammylewis2408]

@3:31 Advertising the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City and of course Jim McKay (RIP), one of the greatest announcers for ABC Sports. Love the commercials on the video for ABC shows such as The Big Valley and It Takes a Thief.

[@kingporter67]

Super nice Dream House game show from 1968!

[@MoviecraftInc]

Thanks for the visit

[@jimwoods2180]

"SUZAN" looks so angry but this was fun to watch :)

[@KrakenMan5853]

I'm glad to see an episode that includes the closing credits. Nice to know the music was by creator/executive producer Don Reid and some guy named Peter Dino.

[@zacharydunlap-tunnage2220]

Same here, but do they know they misspelled the host's name? There are two "Rs" in Darrow.

[@bkman222]

I remember attending a NYC taping of the series back in the day. Mike Darow was accessible after the taping session. This was around the time ABC was also taping Money Maze in the same NYC studio.

[@kurttoy5035]

The Money Maze debuted in late 1974, long after this show ended. Miss those old school NYC based game shows.

[@howtube61]

The show's announcer Chet Gould, who worked on 10 New York based game shows, including the syndicated version of What's My Line after Johnny Olson was hired to announce The Price is Right to me sounds a lot like the man Olson replaced Rod Roddy.

[@rhsharp]

That is an interesting blooper when the playback engineer at the network cued up Wedding Party, which was the show that followed Dream House. I remember once that happened during Dark Shadows. It was a very serious scene going on between Barnabas and Dr. Woodard, and then we hear, "From Hollywood...it's the Dating Game!" That was the show that followed Shadows at the time. I died laughing.

[@rogererickson2309]

Interesting what replaced it on abc daytime all my children

[@zacharydunlap-tunnage2220]

That's news to me. 😮 The more you know...

[@brianarbenz1329]

I was vaguely familiar with the name of this show, but didn't know a thing about it until watching this. Interesting that they combined some pretty deep questions with the ultimate bourgeois prize.

[@foxmccloud7055]

I remember Mike Darrow from the Canadian game show "Jackpot!".

[@fredmckinney8933]

I couldn't help but notice that when Mike or Sue rang in, that buzzer sounded like the strike sound in the Super Jeopardy! round from the 1978 edition of Jeopardy! NASTY! BTW, I think NBC also used that exact same buzzer on Scrabble whenever a player incorrectly guessed a word or time ran out in the Scrabble sprint round.

[@molinalong3468]

This one return with bob Eubanks

[@devares2006]

​@Nunofurdambiznez actually, Dream House did return with Eubanks hosting in 1983.

[@MrMenefrego1]

Aww... I wanted Mike and Sue to win so badly! (even though this was aired when I was 8 lol)

[@MMB18abel]

Would love for ABC to reboot this for their Fun and Games lineup, either this version or the Eubanks version would work, we can only hope that the building of the homes don't fall through.

[@heidifedor]

I didn’t realize the 80’s show was a reboot.

[@ssbn6175]

Great show! Thank you for posting! I've watched two of these thus far, and it seems that a majority of the advertising comes from ABC. Not a whole lot of revenue coming in, perhaps?

[@marcpower4167]

ABC was trying to use the show as a promotional device. But there were problems, in addition to the house they would give couples $7,000 to purchase land but turns out the $7,000 wasn't enough and many couples ran into financial trouble having to get loans for the rest and it was taking longer than expected in many cases to build their houses. Once that leaked out. They started offering couples the choice of $20,000 cash instead of the house but it was too late, the show lost it's credibility by then.

[@TheProfessorpat]

$40,000 couldn’t buy a dog house today in the Bay Area.

[@Zorn76]

$332,000 today was 40k in 1968. Still a million short to buy most in bay area.

[@gnirolnamlerf593]

@@Zorn76 Perhaps Baffin Bay.

[@dougghiz8339]

R.I.P. Mike Darrow

[@docadams7099]

I thought the announcer said "Mike Farrell", so I was looking for the then-future B.J. Hunnicutt. Farrell was already in TV back then, appearing on shows like "The Monkees" and "I Dream of Jeannie".

[@Bigbadwhitecracker]

@@docadams7099 Yeah me too.

[@dougghiz8339]

@@docadams7099 What you're talking about is the actor on M.A.S.H. from the mid 1970s to the mid 80s. Mike Darrow was on shows like The $ 128,000 question, an unsold game show called Moneywords. What I mean is that show was never sold. Dream House, & Jackpot (1985-1987).

[@gnirolnamlerf593]

Doug: Yeah, he died very young, at age 63.

[@dougghiz8339]

@@gnirolnamlerf593 Would you know what the death date was & the cause of his death?

[@blockcl]

Everybody needs a breakfast nook.

[@olive3700]

Well they didn't have bars in the kitchens then so they would have had to have breakfast in the formal dining room without the nook.

[@Bigbadwhitecracker]

I miss Breakfast nooks. '60s kitchens were freaking amazing. My grandparents had the first generation of the Amana Radar Range. That thing was still working 40 years later. It outlived them.

[@PREGO1966]

Message to Original Poster, In 1968 there was no more Live TV. You'll have to find another excuse for your audio goof.

[@MoviecraftInc]

You are mistaken. This is a 16mm kinescope of the live broadcast of the show. It is exactly what aired June 18, 1968.

[@PREGO1966]

@@MoviecraftInc It may be a kinescope backup of a "live on tape" show. Case in point, Dark Shadows was "taped live" but did NOT air live. The shows were taped anywhere from a day to 2 weeks before airing,

[@MoviecraftInc]

That was not the case for this show. This was the original airing. For purposes of dating we only list the first broadcast airing. If a subsequent airing occurred due to time zone changes that does not negate the original date of airing with all the commercials intact. Dream House was still aired live. Live shows went well into the 1970's.@@PREGO1966​

[@PREGO1966]

@@MoviecraftInc ABC recorded several shows "Live On Tape" because of budget constraints. They would tell everyone there would be only one take, so perform as if it were live. But the show aired later (weeks sometimes days) AFTER taping. You are right that these are kinescope backups, which were shot at taping time. But like Dark Shadows which aired in the same era as this, they were only TAPED live, they did not AIR live. Read the article on this show in Wikipedia and how they talk about the TAPES being destroyed. With few exceptions (and this was not one of them), Live TV went the way of the dodo bird in the early 60s. I was born in 1966, so I should know something about this era.

[@MoviecraftInc]

Live television is a television production broadcast in real-time, as events happen, in the present. What you see in this upload is what was filmed "live". If you want to call it "live on tape" and aired later then so be it. It seems we are splitting hairs here. Your input is appreciated and I hope you enjoyed the rare kinescope we offer here.

[@rentslave]

Wasn't Oakbrook,IL Ferris Bueller's area?

[@SW-ck3pm]

Oak Park, IL

[@Bigbadwhitecracker]

He'll be on the show next week with his fourth wife.

[@davidellis5141]

The Contestants are pretty knowledgeable ! 😆 - Grandpa 👴 with bad breath.

[@Patrick-hm4eg]

40000 might get you a tool shed

[@MoviecraftInc]

very true.

[@robertb1157]

Randall Smith started his first investment fund using money he and his wife won on Dream House, which means that this show is at least partly responsible for the depredations of one of America's most loathsome vulture capitalists.

[@Bigbadwhitecracker]

If you read the wiki page this show about about as honest as the $64,000 Question in the previous decade. Few people actually got a house out of it. Couples even had to borrow money to complete the homes in some cases. Really disgusting.

[@rentslave]

They really stereotyped old people in those days.I'll be dead for 10 years and I'll still look better than did that guy.

[@Bigbadwhitecracker]

40 was pushing up daisy back then.

[@gnirolnamlerf593]

@@Bigbadwhitecracker A bit of an exaggeration, but when I was a little kid in the 1950's, 65 was OLD. Not just to me, to whom everyone over 40 looked old, but to my parents and their siblings. "Look at Astaire. Isn't it amazing he's 70!" (when he danced a few steps and turns at the Oscars) Now Dick Van Dyke is doing a bit of "Step in Time" at age 92 for some Disney live show and dancing in the _Mary Poppins_ remake as Mr. Dawes, Jr. The answer to "What is old?" has happily changed significantly, at least in developed countries. Today, life expectancy in a place like Gabon is what it was in the USA sixty years ago, though much improved from what it was 60 years ago, which was just about 40.

[@sjp6341]

Rigged!