Bill hosted this
relationship show
(with a tiny game element) in which a panel of celebrities offered
advice
to lovelorn contestants. At the end of the show, the panel picked
the contestant who provided the most unusual problem, and that person
won
a small prize. Also featured was a question and answer segment
with
members of the studio audience.Problems tended to be
specific and
colorful, and the contestants were uniformly young and
attractive.
A woman's workaholic boyfriend was too tired to make love at night, and
she hated doing it in the morning. A tall woman found herself to
be too intimidating to her shorter dates. A sexy fashion designer
attracted her husband with her provocative outfits, but now that
they're
married he wants her to tone it down. Not exactly Dr. Phil
territory,
but relatively risqué by late-seventies TV standards. The
Los Angeles station that aired the show even preceded it with a
parental
warning. A fascinatingly diverse group of celebs appeared on the show over its single season run, including David Letterman, Jamie Lee Curtis, Peter Lawford and Soupy Sales. Contestants included a then-unknown Rhonda Shear, who would later make a name for herself as a sexpot actress and TV hostess. In her segment, she complained that she and her equally hot roommate always attracted the interest of the same guys. A pilot episode for this
version
was recorded on January 4, 1978 with panelists JoAnne Worley, Elaine
Joyce, Geoff Edwards and William Shatner. The
pilot
featured a different set and did not offer a prize to the most unusual
story. Jack Cassidy hosted another pilot shot years
earlier
on a very different set, with a three-person panel consisting of Totie
Fields, Bill Bixby and Alejandro Rey. ![]()
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FOR MORE INFORMATION The Love Experts page at Adam Nedeff's Bill Cullen's World The Love Experts page on Wikipedia Information about the pilot episode at Mike Burger's Game Show Pilot Light |