MissMissyPhillly🎼🎹🎸 on Instagram: "KAREN CARPENTER `THE DATING GAME` 1970 This one is new to me- she looks very awkward.. The Dating Game is an ABC television show that first aired on December 20, 1965 and was the first of many shows created and packaged by Chuck Barris from the 1960s through the 1980s.ABC dropped the show on July 6, 1973, but it continued in syndication for another year (1973–1974) as The New Dating Game.The program was revived three additional times in syndication afterward