Family Feud
Season 7
4 listed hours · 1976–1985 · ABC
From the desk
How this season is filed
Richard Dawson kisses contestants, baits families, and turns survey answers into a national reflex. Fast Money is the sugar rush; the host is the brand. The original Feud as appointment flirting, before later emcees sanded the edges into a cleaner, safer smile for syndication.
TV Flash files Season 7 of Family Feud (1976–1985) on ABC as a mid listed season (7; 2 of 10) — 4 listed hours, 1983-05-10–1983-11-14 from “TV's All-Time Favorites Week 2 Game 2: Gilligan's Island vs. Hawaiian Eye” (S07E222) to “Battle of the Television Hosts Special” (S07E226). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Desk essentials in this season
- S07E222 TV's All-Time Favorites Week 2 Game 2: Gilligan's Island vs. Hawaiian Eye
TV's All-Time Favorites Week — Gilligan's Island vs. Hawaiian Eye — is the mega-run as a crossover stunt. Celebrity survey as brand: the kisses still the grammar, the names the bait.
- S07E222 TV's All-Time Favorites Week 2 Game 2: Gilligan's Island vs. Hawaiian Eye
- S07E224 Family Feud TV's All-Time Favorites Week 2 Game 4: Gilligan's Island vs. Batman
- S07E225 TV's All-Time Favorites Week 2 Championship Game: Gilligan's Island vs. Lost in Space
- S07E226 Battle of the Television Hosts Special
More from the 1970s.