Game Time: Child's Play (1982)

 I think I had this next item up before, but the previous video had been deleted from YouTube.

Anyway, Mark Goodson & Bill Todman took the general concept of Art Linkletter's Kids Say The Darndest Things, a component of House Party back in the day, and turned it into a game show for CBS in 1982.

Child's Play is, as host Bill Cullen explains, a game played by adults, who have to figure out what the children being interviewed are talking about. Two pilots were produced in 1982 before the series launched a year-long run in September of that year.

Future actors Breckin Meyer & Tara Reid were among the tots who appeared on the show, but you won't see them in this pilot.

CBS knew they were in trouble scheduling this show opposite Wheel of Fortune. I would think this kind of game would lend itself to airing 6 days a week instead of 5, so more children could watch. Another wasted opportunity.

Linkletter, though, would've been proud.

Rating: A-.