Editing Chuck Barris (section)

===Comebacks and setbacks===
Barris continued strongly until the mid-1970s, when ABC canceled the ''Dating'' and ''Newlywed'' games. This left Barris with only one show, his weekly syndicated effort ''[[Treasure Hunt (American game show)|The New Treasure Hunt]]'', but the success of ''[[The Gong Show]]'' in 1976 encouraged him to revive the ''Dating'' and ''Newlywed'' games, as well as adding ''[[The $1.98 Beauty Show]]'' to his syndication empire. He also hosted a prime-time variety hour for NBC from February to April 1978 called ''The Chuck Barris Rah-Rah Show'', essentially a non-competitive knock-off of ''Gong''.

The empire crumbled again amid the burnout of another of his creations, the 1979–1980 ''[[Three's a Crowd (game show)|Three's a Crowd]]'', in which three sets of wives and secretaries competed to see who knew more about their husbands/bosses. This show provoked protests from both feminist and socially conservative groups, who charged that the show deliberately exploited adultery to advocate it as a social norm. Most stations dropped it months before the season was over as a response to those criticisms. At the same time, ''The Newlywed Game'' lost the sponsorships of [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]] and [[Procter & Gamble]] and earned the resentment of [[Jackie Autry]], whose husband and business partner [[Gene Autry]] owned the show's Los Angeles outlet and production base, [[KTLA]], because of its supposedly highly prurient content. So strong were the Autrys' feelings that ''The Newlywed Game'' was nearly expelled from the KTLA facilities, but the show was discontinued by the syndicator before any action occurred. ''The Gong Show'' and ''The Dating Game'' also ended otherwise successful syndicated runs in 1980.

During the winter of 1980, Barris attempted to rebuild by bringing back another game show that was not an original of his, ''[[Camouflage (game show)|Camouflage]]'', in which contestants answered questions for the chance to locate a "hidden object" (such as a toaster) concealed within a cartoon-type drawing. Although a noncontroversial format, it lasted only a short time in syndication. By September 1980, for the first time in his company's history, Barris had no shows in production.

After a year's inactivity, Barris revived ''Treasure Hunt'' again in 1981 in partnership with the original 1950s version's producer, Budd Granoff, who had become his business partner (the show itself was created by its original host, [[Jan Murray]]). Unlike with the 1970s version of ''Treasure Hunt'', Barris did not have direct involvement with the production of the show itself. This revival, a five-day-a-week strip, lasted only one year.

After briefly living in France, Barris returned in 1984 and formed [[Barris Industries]] and a distribution unit called Bel-Air Program Sales (later Barris Program Sales) and an ad-sales barter called Clarion Communications (later Barris Advertising Sales). After a week-long trial of ''The Newlywed Game'' on ABC in 1984 (with ''Dating Game'' emcee [[Jim Lange]]), Barris produced the daily ''Newlywed Game'' (titled ''The New Newlywed Game'') in syndication from 1985 to 1989, with original host Eubanks (and in 1988, comedian [[Paul Rodriguez (actor)|Paul Rodriguez]]). ''The Dating Game'' returned to syndication the next year for a three-year run (the first year hosted by [[Elaine Joyce]], and the next two hosted by Jeff MacGregor). ''The Gong Show'' also returned for one season in 1988, hosted by "True" Don Bleu. All those shows (except the one-week trial run of ''Newlywed'' on ABC) aired in syndication, not on the networks.

In 1987, Barris sold his shares of Barris Industries<ref name= maybe />to [[Burt Sugarman]] and returned to France, no longer directly involved in his company. In 1988, Barris Industries acquired the [[Peter Guber#PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and the Guber-Peters Company|Guber-Peters Company]]. On September 7, 1989, Barris Industries was renamed the Guber-Peters Entertainment Company.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-09-07-fi-2344-story.html|title=Barris Industries Has New Name: The Los...|date=September 7, 1989|website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref> After the shows' runs ended, [[Sony#Sony Corporation|Sony Corporation]] acquired Guber-Peters Entertainment (formerly Barris Industries) for $200 million on September 29, 1989, a day after Sony Corporation of Japan acquired [[Sony Pictures|Columbia Pictures Entertainment]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/29/business/company-news-sony-buys-guber-peters.html|title=COMPANY NEWS; Sony Buys Guber-Peters| agency= Reuters| date=September 29, 1989|website=The New York Times}}</ref> The sale was completed on November 9, 1989. Sony revived ''Dating'' and ''Newlywed'' from 1996 to 1999. It also revived ''The Gong Show'' in 1998, this time as ''Extreme Gong'', a [[Game Show Network]] (GSN) original production. ''Three's a Crowd'' was revived as ''All New Three's a Crowd'', which, like ''Extreme Gong'', was a GSN original. A few years after ''Extreme Gong'' ended, Sony planned to revive the show again under its classic name and format for [[The WB|The WB Television Network]], but this version was never realized. Sony and [[ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks|MTV Networks]]' [[Comedy Central]] collaborated on a fourth ''Gong Show'' revival as ''[[The Gong Show with Dave Attell]]'' in 2008; this did sell and aired on Comedy Central from July to September 2008.

One more attempt at reviving an old game show that was not his own originally resulted in an unsold pilot of the 1950s-era game ''Dollar a Second'', hosted by Eubanks. It had at least one showing on GSN and has become part of the collector/trader's circuit. Two more unsold pilots were called ''Bamboozle'' and ''Comedy Courtroom''.

In 2010, Barris published ''Della: A Memoir of My Daughter'', about the death of his only child, who died in 1998 after a long struggle with drug addiction.