All About Faces

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Not to be confused with the 1960 ABC game show About Faces, which had a completely different format.

All About Faces
Genre	Game show
Presented by	Richard Hayes
Country of origin	United States  Canada
No. of seasons	1
Production
Producer(s)	Screen Gems Television
Location(s)	Toronto, Ontario, Canada; CFTO-TV
Broadcast
Original channel	Syndicated/CTV
Original run	August 30, 1971 – September, 1972

All About Faces was a game show which ran from August 30, 1971 to September 1972; The series incorporated a "hidden camera" format similar to Candid Camera and Punk'd. The program was produced in Toronto by Screen Gems, at the studios of CFTO-TV. Richard Hayes was host, and the show's producer was Dan Enright. The show was short-lived, lasting only one season in US television syndication and on Canada's CTV.

[edit] Format

Two teams, each consisting of a celebrity and a friend or relative, would be shown a clip of an unsuspecting person placed in an embarrassing situation, recorded by a hidden camera, and as the film was frozen on a closeup of the person's face, the contestants had to wager on how the person would react. For example, a person in a cab is told by the driver that he is nearsighted and color blind; the contestants would guess whether the passenger would exit the cab or not. Each team started with $50 and could bet up to that amount in each round; the team with the most money after four rounds won the game, with their winnings donated to their favorite charity.

[edit] Broadcast history

This was one of several Canadian game shows Dan Enright worked on following his post-quiz show scandals exile; he would later make a comeback to American game shows when former partner Jack Barry brought him in to produce the final network season of Barry's own successful comeback series, The Joker's Wild.

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