Mark Goodson Television Productions: Difference between revisions

The production company formerly known as "Goodson-Todman Productions" (a.k.a. "Goodson-Todman Associates" and "Goodson-Todman Telecasts") was founded in 1948, as a partnership between the television producers Mark Goodson and Bill Todman. A few years after Bill Todman's death in 1979, Mark Goodson acquired the Todman estate's shares of Goodson-Todman Productions, giving him full control. The first show to carry the Mark Goodson Television Productions name was Child's Play in 1982, Family Feud began using the logo the same year, and the remaining productions would carry the logo by late 1984. After Mark Goodson's death in 1992, his son Jonathan Goodson would control the company until 1995, when 50% of the company was acquired by [[All American Television]] (which became "[[Pearson Television (UK)|Pearson Television]]" after the British company Pearson, plc acquired All American Communications, now "[[Fremantle (UK)|FremantleMedia]]"). In April 1996, All American Communications acquired the remaining 50% of Mark Goodson Productions. In 2002, the Mark Goodson Productions name was phased out starting from the Richard Karn version of ''Family Feud'' and other new versions of Goodson library titles, but it was retained on ''The Price Is Right'' until Bob Barker's retirement in 2007, and was folded into FremantleMedia after that.