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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. Desperate 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 (as a result, a special [[Christmas]] week of shows with children playing, which Tom even plugged on-air, was never seen).
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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