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Six years later, with CBS' revival of ''Match Game'' bringing celebrity games back into vogue, Andrews managed to interest ABC in a similar revival of ''YDS!'' Kennedy, ten days after ending a three-year stint helming ABC's ''[[Split Second]],'' once again stepped up to the podium on [[July 7]]. However, the 4 p.m./3 Central timeslot, at which many affiliates either tape-delayed the network feed until the next morning or preempted entirely (despite the success of the likes of ''[[Dark Shadows]],'' ''Password,'' and ''[[The $10,000 Pyramid]]'' there), proved to render the revival stillborn, despite facing NBC's fast-fading soap opera ''[[Somerset (TV series)|Somerset]]'' and two low-rated CBS games, ''[[Musical Chairs (game show)|Musical Chairs]]'' and ''[[Give-n-Take]].''

Meanwhile, an old problem would prove to drive the nail in the ABC ''YDS!'' coffin. ''[[The Edge of Night]]'' had been CBS' lowest-rated soap since its [[1972]] move to 2:30 Eastern/1:30 Central. With ''[[As the World Turns]]'' set to expand to a full hour, CBS decided to get rid of the 19-year-old show (which debuted on the same day in [[1956 in television|1956]], and was packaged by the same company, [[Procter and Gamble Productions]], as ''ATWT''). In the first instance of a daytime serial moving to another network, P&G agreed to CBS' terms, and sold ''Edge'' to ABC, who decided that the only viable slot for that show, given its long history of attracting audiences other than housewives, was 4/3. DesparateDesperate to get some affiliates back on board, ABC banked on the show's instant familiarity. Therefore, on [[November 28]], ''YDS!'' ended its five-month run, ironically giving way to its old enemy ''Edge'' the next Monday.

The Peck version did not sell to many markets, probably because of the 1975 ABC disaster. The few stations which did buy it ran it in non-peak slots, never in proximity to primetime (save for [[WPIX]] in [[New York]], which aired it at 8:30 PM as part of a primetime syndicated game show block). With little if any promotion, the show folded up after about a half season.

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* Before its [[NBC]] premiere, ''You Don't Say!'' was given a trial run on [[Los Angeles]] station [[KTLA]] from November [[1962]] to early [[1963]], with [[Jack Barry]] as host; since Barry was still considered anathema to the networks in the wake of the 50s [[quiz show scandals]], he was replaced by Tom Kennedy when the show went national.

* [[Goodson-Todman Productions]] sued ''YDS!'' packager Ralph Andrews during the NBC run, because they thought that the format was too similar to G-T's ''Password''. Although Goodson-Todman did not win the case, they did win an unusual concession from Andrews: Kennedy's podium on ''You Don't Say!'' had to be moved to the end of the playing table, from the center where it originally stood, since the original set layout did indeed look very similar to that of ''Password.''

* ''You Don't Say!'''s replacements upon its cancellations on both networks was a [[soap opera]]: on [[NBC]], it was ''[[Bright Promise]]''; on [[ABC]], the defected-from-CBS ''[[The Edge of Night|Edge of Night]]''.

* Much like the original version, the [[1975]] revival was also given a trial run on [[KTLA]] in Los Angeles before its network premiere; it ran on Sunday nights from April to June of [[1975]], with [[Clark Race]] as host, though Tom Kennedy actually appeared as a panel celebrity.