According to Dawson's goodbye speech in his final episode of Feud in 1985, they'd apparently received a handful of especially pointed complaints from people who didn't like him kissing women of color. I kissed her on the cheek, and I said, 'that's for luck.' " The woman provided an answer, her family went on to win the game, and kissing became a Dawson tradition.Įxecutives, however, found it unseemly and tried to get him to stop.
"She didn't want to let her family down but she had no idea at all what to say." And so he did what he said his "mom would do to me whenever I had a problem of any kind. "Here was the rather darling lady about 50 or so and she was so nervous, she was a basket case," he explained. Dawson started doing it in one of the first weeks the show started taping in 1976 to help soothe a nervous contestant. For Richard Dawson on Family Feud, it was kissing nearly every female contestant, either on the mouth or on the cheek. For Alex Trebek on Jeopardy!, it was his iconic mustache.
For Bob Barker on The Price is Right, it was that skinny microphone.
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