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The Dating Game was a television game show that ran from the 60’s through the 80’s. In each episode, a woman would select a date from three men merely by the answers they gave to her questions. Over the years, several celebrities appeared on the show, often years before they’d made names for themselves: including Adam West, Sally Field, Robert Vaughn, John Ritter, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Mumy, Paul Lynde, Richard Dawson, Steve Martin, Bill Bixby (who appeared four times but was never selected), McLean Stevenson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ron Howard, Vincent Price, Andy Kaufman, Kenny Rogers and Michael Jackson. Farrah Fawcett was on The Dating Game in 1969. She selected Joey Hooker, a movie stuntman who staged a “fistfight” with the other two bachelors after he’d won. Their “date” was a ski trip to Austria. But Farrah’s career took off right after her Dating Game appearance, and she never got to take that trip.