Stefan Hatos-Monty Hall Productions

Stefan Hatos-Monty Hall Productions

Stefan Hatos-Monty Hall Productions was a television production company responsible for producing several American game shows in the 1970s and 1980s. The company is best known for its hit series "Let's Make a Deal", which aired in several company-produced iterations off and on between 1963 and 1986.

The company disbanded sometime in 1987.

History: "Let's Make a Deal"

Prior to meeting while working on the show Your First Impression in 1962, Stefan Hatos and Monty Hall had different career paths. Hatos was a writer and producer who had worked in both television and radio and had also been a producer for Bob Hope's early television specials. Hall's American media career began in 1955 when he became a contributor for the NBC Radio "Monitor" program. After five years of this he moved to Hollywood and became the host of the Merrill Heatter-produced "Video Village". While hosting the series in 1962, he sold his first production (the aforementioned "Your First Impression") to NBC and met Hatos, who was working on the show as a producer (Hall was executive producer).

The next year, the duo debuted the long running "Let's Make a Deal" on NBC, and the show was an instant success, running in daytime on NBC and later on ABC for 13 seasons. Two weekly network primetime versions also aired, one on NBC in 1967 and one on ABC from 1969-1971.

The show's popularity also spawned a syndicated version, which aired weekly from 1971-1977 and was one of the first network game shows to do so.

Other shows

In addition to "LMaD", Hatos-Hall also produced the 1970s hit "Split Second" for ABC. The series, which ran from 1972-1975, was the only other show the company produced that lasted more than one season.

Other game shows produced by the team included "Three For the Money" and "It's Anybody's Guess" for NBC and "Masquerade Party" in syndication. The last of those series was the hosting debut for Richard Dawson.

The 1980s

After a hiatus of several years, Hatos-Hall returned to production in the mid 1980s with a revival of "Let's Make a Deal," which ran in daily syndication from 1984-1986. (Another daily syndicated version, which aired from 1980-1981, while hosted by Hall was not produced with Hatos.) After that series ended its run, Hatos and Hall revived "Split Second" in syndication in the fall of 1986. The company broke up following the show's cancellation.

Afterwards

Although Hatos retired from writing and producing television shows after "Split Second" ended in 1987, he continued to oversee the licensing agreements and was involved with the foreign versions of "Let's Make a Deal" until his death in 1999.

Hall has been retired for the most part since the 1987 cancellation of "Split Second." He has appeared on both of the last two "Let's Make a Deal" series, taking over as host of the 1990-91 NBC version for its last few months and making a cameo appearance on the 2003 Billy Bush-hosted NBC primetime series.

ee also

Monty Hall

Let's Make a Deal

Split Second

External links

[http://www.letsmakeadeal.com/stefan.htm Stefan Hatos bio]


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