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(AP Photo/File) SAN FRANCISCO -- Jim Lange, the first host of the popular game show "The Dating Game," has died at his home in Mill Valley, Calif. He died Tuesday morning after suffering a heart attack, his wife Nancy told The Associated Press Wednesday. file photo shows host Jim Lange, left, congratulating Connie and Steve Rutenbar of Mission Viejo, Calif., after they won

(AP Photo/File) SAN FRANCISCO -- Jim Lange, the first host of the popular game show "The Dating Game," has died at his home in Mill Valley, Calif. He died Tuesday morning after suffering a heart attack, his wife Nancy told The Associated Press Wednesday. file photo shows host Jim Lange, left, congratulating Connie and Steve Rutenbar of Mission Viejo, Calif., after they won $1 million on the TV show " The $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime".PHOTOS: Notable deaths of 2014Does the onetime self-proclaimed King of Pop surprise you?Michael Jackson was a guest on "The Dating Game" in 1972 when he was a member of the Jackson 5 and his biggest hit was "Rockin' Robin." Jackson's date, La Tonya Simmons, won tickets to a Jackson 5 concert in New York City. But at least in 1972, they wouldn't be hounded by the press.Among them: Farrah Fawcett, Suzanne Sommers, Lindsay Wagner, Tom Selleck, Andy Kaufman, Steve Martin, Burt Reynolds, John Ritter, Phil Hartman and Arnold Schwarzenegger.One episode actually featured California serial killer Rodney Alcala among the eligible bachelors looking for a match or, perhaps, victim.

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(AP Photo/File) SAN FRANCISCO -- Jim Lange, the first host of the popular game show "The Dating Game," has died at his home in Mill Valley, Calif. He died Tuesday morning after suffering a heart attack, his wife Nancy told The Associated Press Wednesday.

file photo shows host Jim Lange, left, congratulating Connie and Steve Rutenbar of Mission Viejo, Calif., after they won $1 million on the TV show " The $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime".

PHOTOS: Notable deaths of 2014Does the onetime self-proclaimed King of Pop surprise you?

Michael Jackson was a guest on "The Dating Game" in 1972 when he was a member of the Jackson 5 and his biggest hit was "Rockin' Robin." Jackson's date, La Tonya Simmons, won tickets to a Jackson 5 concert in New York City. But at least in 1972, they wouldn't be hounded by the press.

Among them: Farrah Fawcett, Suzanne Sommers, Lindsay Wagner, Tom Selleck, Andy Kaufman, Steve Martin, Burt Reynolds, John Ritter, Phil Hartman and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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(AP Photo/File) SAN FRANCISCO -- Jim Lange, the first host of the popular game show "The Dating Game," has died at his home in Mill Valley, Calif. He died Tuesday morning after suffering a heart attack, his wife Nancy told The Associated Press Wednesday. file photo shows host Jim Lange, left, congratulating Connie and Steve Rutenbar of Mission Viejo, Calif., after they won $1 million on the TV show " The $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime".PHOTOS: Notable deaths of 2014Does the onetime self-proclaimed King of Pop surprise you?Michael Jackson was a guest on "The Dating Game" in 1972 when he was a member of the Jackson 5 and his biggest hit was "Rockin' Robin." Jackson's date, La Tonya Simmons, won tickets to a Jackson 5 concert in New York City. But at least in 1972, they wouldn't be hounded by the press.Among them: Farrah Fawcett, Suzanne Sommers, Lindsay Wagner, Tom Selleck, Andy Kaufman, Steve Martin, Burt Reynolds, John Ritter, Phil Hartman and Arnold Schwarzenegger.One episode actually featured California serial killer Rodney Alcala among the eligible bachelors looking for a match or, perhaps, victim.

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(AP Photo/File) SAN FRANCISCO -- Jim Lange, the first host of the popular game show "The Dating Game," has died at his home in Mill Valley, Calif. He died Tuesday morning after suffering a heart attack, his wife Nancy told The Associated Press Wednesday.

file photo shows host Jim Lange, left, congratulating Connie and Steve Rutenbar of Mission Viejo, Calif., after they won $1 million on the TV show " The $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime".

PHOTOS: Notable deaths of 2014Does the onetime self-proclaimed King of Pop surprise you?

Michael Jackson was a guest on "The Dating Game" in 1972 when he was a member of the Jackson 5 and his biggest hit was "Rockin' Robin." Jackson's date, La Tonya Simmons, won tickets to a Jackson 5 concert in New York City. But at least in 1972, they wouldn't be hounded by the press.

Among them: Farrah Fawcett, Suzanne Sommers, Lindsay Wagner, Tom Selleck, Andy Kaufman, Steve Martin, Burt Reynolds, John Ritter, Phil Hartman and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime".PHOTOS: Notable deaths of 2014Does the onetime self-proclaimed King of Pop surprise you?Michael Jackson was a guest on "The Dating Game" in 1972 when he was a member of the Jackson 5 and his biggest hit was "Rockin' Robin." Jackson's date, La Tonya Simmons, won tickets to a Jackson 5 concert in New York City. But at least in 1972, they wouldn't be hounded by the press.Among them: Farrah Fawcett, Suzanne Sommers, Lindsay Wagner, Tom Selleck, Andy Kaufman, Steve Martin, Burt Reynolds, John Ritter, Phil Hartman and Arnold Schwarzenegger.One episode actually featured California serial killer Rodney Alcala among the eligible bachelors looking for a match or, perhaps, victim.

The questions were designed by the show's writers to elicit sexy answers. "They wanted a boy and a girl," he said in a 1992 interview with the Bay Area Radio Digest.

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In this show, a single woman would be given a choice of three bachelors whom she could talk with, but not see.

Composed of 2 Teams of 3 Members (2 In-Studio team members and 1 Star Team Captain) are writing answers to an question {e.g.: Name a part of a ...

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