Editing Family Feud (section)

=== Returning champions ===
When ''Family Feud'' premiered on ABC, network rules dictated how much a family could win. Once any family reached $25,000, they were retired as champions.<ref>{{Cite episode |series=Family Feud |network=ABC |date=28 May 1980 |quote=Explained by Richard Dawson at the beginning of the episode}}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=No accompanying quote or transcript.|date=November 2015}} The accompanying syndicated series that premiered in 1977 featured two new families each episode because of a then common [[television syndication]] practice known as "bicycling" (wherein individual stations sent an episode of a series they had already aired to another station, reducing the number of tapes a syndicator had to send out but also ensuring that stations did not air the same episode of a show the same day, nor were they assured of [[serial (radio and television)|airing in a proper sequence]]).

The CBS daytime and syndicated versions which began airing in 1988 also featured returning champions, who could appear for a maximum of five days.<ref>{{Cite episode |series=Family  |network=CBS |date=14 November 1988}}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=No accompanying quote or transcript.|date=November 2015}} For a brief period in the 1994–95 season which aired in syndication, there were no returning champions. For these episodes, two new families competed in this first half of each episode. The second half featured former champion families who appeared on ''Family Feud'' between 1976 and 1985, with the winner of the first half of the show playing one of these families in the second half. When the champion rule was reinstated, the winner of the first half faced the champion family in the second. Occasionally two families from the 1976-1985 version would play the first half and celebrities would play for charity in the second half.<ref>{{Cite episode |series=Family Feud |network=Syndicated |date=8 September 1994}}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=No accompanying quote or transcript.|date=November 2015}}

In some cases from 1992 to 1995, the returning champions continued until they were defeated. From 1999 to 2002, two new families appeared on each episode. In 2002, returning champions again appeared with the same five-day limit.<ref>{{Cite episode |series=Family Feud |network=Syndicated |date=September 2002}}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=No date for season premiere. No accompanying quote or transcript.|date=November 2015}} In 2009, a new car was announced for a family who wins five games in a row. This was first changed to a $30,000 cash bonus in May 2024, and then changed again in September 2024 to a vacation and a $10,000 cash bonus.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa04tQA3i5s |title=Win this round, win a $30K bonus!! (Never done before!) |date=2024-05-13 |last=Family Feud |access-date=2024-07-31 |via=YouTube}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Family Feud Substitutes Car Bonus with $30K |url=http://www.golden-road.net/index.php?topic=35883.0#:~:text=Towards%20the%20end%20of%20the,instead%20of%20the%20typical%20car. |access-date=2024-07-31 |website=www.golden-road.net}}</ref>