While crossover episodes on television have been rising to prominence in recent years, it’s important to remember that TV crossovers have been happening for decades. Cast members of one show used to invade other shows more often than you’d think. It’s just that today we make such a big deal out of it that it seems as though this never existed back in the 70s, 80s, and beyond. One place where crossovers happened all the time was on Family Feud. Whenever they’d have special episodes the show would take the cast of two shows and pit them against one another.
Add that and the classic hosting style of Richard Dawson and you’d get something incredibly funny. Speaking of which, check out this 1983 episode of Family Feud that pitted the original cast of Batman the television show vs. the Castaways from Gilligan’s Island.
This episode featured Adam West (Batman) at the helm of a team, which included Lee Meriwether (Catwoman) and Yvonne Craig (Batgirl), Burt Ward (Robin) and the great Vincent Price (Egghead). On the other side of the aisle, a captain’s cap wearing Alan Hale Jr. (The Skipper) sat the head of his team including Jim Backus (Thurston Howell III), Natalie Schafer (Lovey Howell), Dawn Wells (Mary Anne) and Russell Johnson (The Professor).
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