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{{Short description|American TV producer (1915–1992)}}
{{Infobox person
|name = Mark Goodson
|caption = Goodson in 1948
|image = Mark goodson.jpg
|birth_name = Mark Leo Goodson
|birth_date  = January 14, 1915
|birth_place = [[Sacramento, California]], U.S.
|death_date  = {{death date and age|1992|12|18|1915|1|14}}
|death_place = New York City, U.S.
|occupation = Television producer
|years_active = 1937–1992
|alma_mater = [[University of California, Berkeley]] (B.S., Economics, 1937)
|known_for = Early television game shows and Goodson-Todman Productions
|spouse = {{Unbulleted list|{{marriage|Bluma Neveleff|1941|reason=divorced}}|{{marriage|Virginia McDavid|1956|reason=divorced}}|{{marriage|Suzanne Waddell|1972|1978|reason=divorced}}}}
|children = 3, including [[Jonathan Goodson]]
}}
'''Mark Leo Goodson''' (January 14, 1915 – December 18, 1992) was an American television producer who specialized in [[game show]]s, most frequently with his business partner [[Bill Todman]], with whom he created Goodson-Todman Productions.

==Early life and early career==
Goodson was born in Sacramento, California, on January 14, 1915.<ref name=MGoodsonBorn-LATimes>{{cite news|url=https://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/mark-goodson/|title=Hollywood Star Walk: Mark Goodson|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|access-date=July 20, 2013}}
*<sup>a</sup> "Born Jan. 14, 1915 in Sacramento, CA." — ¶ 1.</ref> His Jewish parents, Abraham Ellis (1875–1954) and Fannie Goodson (1887–1986), emigrated from Russia in the early 1900s. As a child, Goodson acted in amateur theater with the Plaza Stock Company. The family later moved to [[Hayward, California]]. Originally intending to become a lawyer, Goodson attended the [[University of California, Berkeley]]. He financed his education through scholarships and by working at the Lincoln Fish Market. He graduated [[Phi Beta Kappa]] in 1937 with a degree in economics.

That year, he began his broadcasting career in San Francisco, working as a disc jockey at radio station KJBS (now [[KFAX]]). In 1939, he joined radio station [[KFRC (defunct)|KFRC]], where he produced and hosted a radio quiz called ''Pop the Question'' in which contestants selected questions by throwing darts at multicolored balloons.

==Television production==
Goodson and long-time partner Bill Todman produced some of the longest-running game shows in American television history, and their names were well known at least to the large audiences for these shows. Their first television show, ''[[Winner Take All (game show)|Winner Take All]]'', debuted on CBS television on July 1, 1948. The long list of Goodson-Todman productions includes ''[[The Price Is Right]]'', ''[[Family Feud]]'', ''[[Classic Concentration]]'', ''[[Match Game]]'', ''[[Password (American game show)|Password]]'', ''[[Beat the Clock]]'', ''[[To Tell the Truth]]'' (Goodson's personal favorite show), ''[[I've Got a Secret]]'', ''[[What's My Line?]]'', ''[[Card Sharks]]'', and ''[[Tattletales]]''.  Goodson-Todman Productions/Mark Goodson Productions created content for American channels and other international channels. (including Talbot Television Ltd. and Fremantle UK Productions Ltd.). such as [[CBS]], [[NBC]], and [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] in the US, [[BBC1]], [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] ([[ITV Anglia|Anglia]], [[ITV Central|Central]], [[Granada Television|Granada]], [[LWT]], [[Television South|TVS]], [[Scottish Television]], and [[Yorkshire Television]]), [[Channel 4]], and [[Sky One]], (also Challenge TV). It licensed many of its shows to the [[Reg Grundy Organisation]] to be adapted in Australia and Europe.

Goodson and Todman's shows endured through the decades, many over multiple runs, because of Goodson's sharp eye for production and presentation, and their strict insistence on maintaining clean, honest contests, thus allowing their shows to survive the [[1950s quiz show scandals|quiz-show scandals of the late 1950s]]. After those scandals wiped out most of their competition, much of the newer game-show output of the 1960s and 1970s  came from either Goodson-Todman or companies launched by their former employees: [[Merv Griffin]], [[Bob Stewart (television producer)|Bob Stewart]], [[Monty Hall]], and later [[Jay Wolpert]]. Goodson-Todman was involved with [[Jack Barry (television personality)|Jack Barry's]] comeback vehicle ''[[The Joker's Wild]]'' for its 1969 pilot, but ended involvement with the show before it debuted in 1972.

While Todman oversaw the company's lucrative businesses outside of television, Goodson handled the creative aspects of producing game shows. The people who worked for the company and created most of the Goodson-Todman shows were pivotal to the success of those shows. Goodson-Todman executives Bob Stewart, Bob Bach, [[Gil Fates]], [[Ira Skutch]], [[Frank Wayne]], [[Chester Feldman]], [[Paul Alter]], [[Howard Felsher]], [[Ted Cooper]], Mimi O'Brien, Jay Wolpert, and others were instrumental in making the shows successful.

The company proved itself to be masterful at games, but was not as successful when it tried other fields of television programs, including the anthology dramas ''[[The Web (1950 TV series)|The Web]]'' and ''[[The Richard Boone Show]]'', a talk-variety show for famed insult comic [[Don Rickles]] – and what was possibly the company's biggest failure, a sitcom titled ''[[One Happy Family]]''.<ref name="google">{{cite journal|title=Broadcasting|journal=Broadcasting & Cable |date=1961|publisher=Broadcasting Publications Incorporated|issn=0007-2028|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U-BDAQAAIAAJ|access-date=September 13, 2015}}</ref> Goodson-Todman Productions was also involved with three [[Westerns]]: ''[[Jefferson Drum]]'' (1958–59), starring [[Jeff Richards (baseball player/actor)|Jeff Richards]] as a newspaper editor in the Old West; ''[[The Rebel (American TV series)|The Rebel]]'' (1959–1961), starring [[Nick Adams (actor, born 1931)|Nick Adams]] as a former Confederate soldier who traveled to the West after the American Civil War ([[Johnny Cash]] sang the theme); and ''[[Branded (TV series)|Branded]]'', starring [[Chuck Connors]] as a soldier who had wrongly been given a dishonorable discharge from the Army.

For many years, the company was headquartered in the [[Seagram Building]] at 375 Park Avenue in New York City. Most of the company's production moved to Hollywood in the early 1970s (as did many other production companies), starting with the ABC revival of ''Password'' in 1971. The Los Angeles offices were based at 6430 Sunset Boulevard, moving to 5750 Wilshire Boulevard. The company's last New York-based show was the 1980 version of ''To Tell the Truth'', but the New York office remained open and was used for East Coast ''[[Child's Play (game show)|Child's Play]]'' auditions.

A few years after Bill Todman's death in 1979, Goodson acquired the Todman heirs' share of the company, and in 1982, the company was renamed Mark Goodson Productions. Traditionally, shows signed off with: "This is (announcer's name) speaking for (show name), A Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Production/A Mark Goodson Television Production." After Goodson's death, to pay off a massive inheritance tax, Goodson's family sold the rights (except for ''[[Concentration (game show)|Concentration/Classic Concentration]]'', which had been licensed from NBC) to [[All-American Television]], which was subsequently taken over by [[Pearson PLC]] (an educational publisher and communications company based in the United Kingdom), and, in turn, was acquired by [[RTL Group]] (a division of [[Bertelsmann]]), to form [[Fremantle (company)|Fremantle]], which now owns the rights to the library from Mark Goodson Productions. The Mark Goodson Productions name, logo, and announcement continued to be used for some shows until 2007, when [[Bob Barker]]'s last show of ''The Price Is Right'' aired. Afterward, at the close of each episode of ''The Price Is Right'', the announcer credits the show as "a FremantleMedia Production" until 2018; it is now credited simply as "a Fremantle Production", reflecting the name change of the company. However, for decades week kicking off season 44 in 2015 the Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions announcement was brought back for the throwback 1970s episode and Mark Goodson Productions announcement was brought back for the 1980s and 1990s episodes albeit the Fremantlemedia logo in place. 

Copyrights to many of the Goodson-Todman's game shows were assigned to its [[Special-purpose entity|specially formed companies]], named in ''The (program name) Company'' scheme, such as ''The Family Company'', ''The Password Company'' etc. They are currently in-name-only units of Fremantle North America.

In 1990, Goodson received the [[Emmy Award]] "Lifetime Achievement Award for Daytime Television", which was presented to him by [[Betty White]].<ref name="Emmy">{{cite news | url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CSTB&p_theme=cstb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB372F1663C277D&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM | title=Chicago Sun-Times: Emmy loser Lucci to skip awards show | access-date=March 20, 2011 | author=Feder, Robert | date=June 28, 1990 | work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] | page=47}}</ref> Two years later, in 1992, Goodson earned induction into the [[Television Hall of Fame]].

===Foreign versions===
Many Goodson-Todman games were produced internationally, some under different titles, and were distributed by [[Reg Grundy]] Productions. ''Family Feud'' was known in the United Kingdom as ''[[Family Fortunes]]'', and ''Card Sharks'' went under the title ''[[Play Your Cards Right]]''. In Germany, ''Match Game'' was known  as ''[[:de:Schnickschnack|Schnickschnack]]'' (loosely translated, "something, anything" and used as a counterpart for the word "blank", for which German has no direct word). In the United Kingdom, it was known as ''[[Blankety Blank]]'', while in Australia, it was known as ''[[Blankety Blanks (Australian game show)|Blankety Blanks]]'' (which, coincidentally, was the title of an unrelated American game show, created by former Goodson-Todman staffer Bob Stewart).

==Shows==
Of the numerous shows Goodson produced in his lifetime, four are currently on the air: ''The Price Is Right'', which has run continuously since 1972; ''Family Feud'', which ran in two different iterations during 1976–1985 and 1988–1995, and was revived in its current form in 1999;  ''[[Password (American game show)|Password]]'', which was revived in 2022 after a lengthy stint off the air; and ''Match Game'', which returned in 2025. All revivals since 1994 have been produced by successor companies (All-American Television from 1994 to 1998, Pearson Television from 1998 to 2002, FremantleMedia from 2002 to 2018, and Fremantle since 2018).

=== Mark Goodson–Bill Todman Productions (1948–1982)===
{{div col|colwidth=22em}}
*''[[Family Feud|All-Star Family Feud Special]]'' (ABC 1978–1984)
*''About Last Night'' (HBO Max 2022; a remake of ''Tattletales'') produced by Sweet July Productions and Unanimous Media
*''[[Beat the Clock]]'' (CBS, ABC 1950–1961, 1969–1974, CBS 1979–1980 copyrighted as The Clock Co., 2002–2003 copyrighted as Tick Tock Productions, Ltd., 2018–2019)
*''[[The Better Sex]]'' (ABC 1977–1978)
*''Blade Rider, Revenge of the Indian Nations'' (1966)
*''[[Blockbusters (American game show)|Blockbusters]]'' (NBC 1980–1982, 1987); [[Blockbusters (British game show)|UK version]] produced from 1983 to 1995
*''[[Branded (TV series)|Branded]]'' (NBC 1965–1967)
*''[[Broken Sabre]]'' (1965)
*''By Popular Demand'' (CBS 1950)
*''[[Call My Bluff (American game show)|Call My Bluff]]'' (NBC 1965)
*''[[Card Sharks]]'' (NBC 1978–1981, CBS/Syn 1986–1989, Syn 2001–2002, ABC 2019–2021) copyrighted as Suzanne Productions (later MG Productions), and The Card Sharks Company.
*''[[Celebrity Family Feud]]'' (2008, 2015–present)
*''[[Choose Up Sides]]'' (NBC 1956)
*[[Concentration (game show)|''Concentration'' and ''Classic Concentration'']] (Syn 1973–1978, NBC 1987–1991) copyrighted as G-T Enterprises and The Concentration Company
*''[[The Don Rickles Show]]'' (ABC 1968–1969)
*''[[Double Dare (CBS game show)|Double Dare]]'' (CBS 1976–1977)
*''(The New) [[Family Feud]] (Challenge)'' (ABC 1976–1985, CBS 1988–1995, Syn 1999–present) copyrighted by The Family Company, The New Family Company, Feudin' Productions, and Wanderlust Productions
*''[[Get the Message (game show)|Get the Message]]'' (ABC 1964)
*''[[Goodyear Theatre]]'' (NBC 1957–1960)
*''[[He Said, She Said (game show)|He Said, She Said]]'' (Syn 1969–1970)
*''[[It's News to Me]]'' (CBS 1951–1953, 1954)
*''[[I've Got a Secret]]'' (CBS 1952–1967, Syn 1972–1973, 1976, 2000–2001, GSN 2006)  produced by Oxygen Media LLC in the 2000–01 version and Burt DuBrow Productions in association with Get Real Entertainment in the 2006 version
*''[[Jefferson Drum]]'' (1958–1959)
*''Judge for Yourself'' (NBC 1953–1954)
*''Las Vegas Beat'' (1961)
*''[[Make the Connection]]'' (1955)
*''[[Match Game]]'' (NBC 1962–1969, CBS 1973–1982, ABC 1990–1991, Syn 1998–1999, ABC 2016–2021, 2025-present) copyrighted as Sojourn Productions, Celebrity Productions, The Match Game Company, and others.
*''[[Million Dollar Password]]'' (2008–09)
*''[[Mindreaders]]'' (NBC 1979–80, unrelated to the 1975 pilot)
*''[[Missing Links (game show)|Missing Links]]'' (NBC, ABC 1963–1964)
*''[[The Name's the Same]]'' (ABC 1951–1954, 1954–1955)
*''[[Now You See It (U.S. game show)|Now You See It]]'' (CBS 1974–1975, 1989) copyrighted as Suzanne Productions and The Now You See It Company
*''[[Number Please (game show)|Number Please]]'' (ABC 1961)
*''One Happy Family'' (1961)
*''[[Password (American game show)|Password]]'' (CBS 1961–1967, ABC 1971–1975, NBC 2022–present) copyrighted as Peak Productions.
*''[[Password Plus and Super Password]]'' (NBC 1979–1982, NBC 1984–1989) copyrighted as The Password Company and The Super Password Company.
*''[[Philip Marlowe (TV series)|Philip Marlowe]]'' (1959–60)
*''[[Play Your Hunch]]'' (CBS, ABC, NBC 1958–1963)
*''[[The Price Is Right]]'' (NBC, ABC 1956–1965, Syn 1972–1980, 1985–86, 1994–95, CBS 1972–present) copyrighted as Marbil Productions, Price Productions and The Price Is Right Productions. 
*''[[The Rebel (American TV series)|The Rebel]]'' (1959–1961)
*''[[The Richard Boone Show]]'' (1963–1964)
*''[[Ride Beyond Vengeance]]'' (1966)
*''[[Say When!!]]'' (NBC 1961–1965)
*''[[Showoffs]]'' (ABC 1975)
*''[[Snap Judgment (game show)|Snap Judgment]]'' (NBC 1967–1969)
*''Split Personality'' (NBC 1959–60)
*''[[Stop the Music (American TV series)|Stop the Music]]'' (ABC 1948–1952, ABC 1954–1956) produced in association with [[Louis G. Cowan|Louis Cowan]] Productions
*''[[Tattletales]]'' (CBS, Syn 1974–1978, CBS 1982–1984) copyrighted as Panel Productions and The Tattletales Company.
*''[[That's My Line]]'' (CBS 1980–1981)
*''[[To Tell the Truth]]'' (CBS 1956–1968, Syn 1969–1978, Syn 1980–81, NBC 1990–91, Syn 2000–2002, ABC 2016–2022)
*''[[Two for the Money (game show)|Two for the Money]]'' (CBS 1952–1956, NBC 1957)
*''[[What's Going On (TV series)|What's Going On]]?'' (ABC 1954)
*''[[What's My Line?]]'' (CBS 1950–1967, Syn 1968–1975)
*''[[What's My Line?|What's My Line? at 25]]'' (ABC 1975)
*''[[The Web (1950 TV series)|The Web]]'' (CBS 1950–1954)
*''[[The Web (1957 TV series)|The Web]]'' (NBC 1957)
*''[[Winner Take All (game show)|Winner Take All]]'' (CBS, NBC 1948–1950, 1951, 1952){{div col end}}

===Mark Goodson Productions (1982–1996)===
*''[[Body Language (game show)|Body Language]]'' (CBS 1984–86)
*''Bonus Bonanza'' (1995)
*''[[Child's Play (game show)|Child's Play]]'' (CBS 1982–83)
*''[[Classic Concentration]]'' (NBC 1987–91) copyrighted as The Concentration Company, a subsidiary of NBC.
*''[[Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (film)|Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean]]'' (1982)
*''Flamingo Fortune'' (1995)
*''TV's Funniest Game Show Moments'' (1984)
*''TV's Funniest Game Show Moments #2'' (1985)
*''[[Illinois Instant Riches]]'' (1994–96)
*''[[Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour|The Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour]]'' (NBC 1983–1984)
*''[[Trivia Trap]]'' (ABC 1984–1985)

===Other shows based on Mark Goodson formats===
*''[[100 Latinos Dijeron]]'' (MundoFox/[[MundoMax]] 2013–2015, [[Estrella TV]] 2019–present - 2nd Spanish version of ''Family Feud'') 
*''[[¿Qué dice la gente?|¿Qué Dice la Gente?]]'' ([[Telefutura]] 2006–2008 - 1st Spanish version of ''Family Feud'')
*''[[Dame la Pista]]'' ([[Telefutura]] 2008 – Spanish version of ''Child's Play'')
*''[[¿Qué dicen los famosos?|¿Qué Dicen los Famosos?]]'' ([[Telemundo]] 2022–present - Spanish version of ''Celebrity Family Feud {2015 version}'')
*''[[You Lie Like a Dog]]'' ([[Animal Planet]] 2000 – Animal themed version of ''To Tell the Truth'')
*''Philly Pheud'' (WPHL-TV 2013–present - local Philadelphia version of ''Family Feud'')

===''Claim to Fame''===
In 1982, the [[CTV Television Network]] in Canada aired the short-lived Goodson-Todman creation ''Claim to Fame''<ref>{{cite web|last1=Jafarnejad |first1=Diba  |url=https://broadcasting-history.ca/claim-to-fame/ |title=Claim To Fame - The History of Canadian Broadcasting |website=broadcasting-history.ca |access-date=2021-03-31 |date=March 31, 2021}}</ref>hosted by Mike McManus, the show invited a celebrity panel to interview guests and discover what had made them famous in their field. The panelists varied from [[Lois Maxwell]], [[Valerie Pringle]], Don Dickerson, [[Brian Linehan]], Deborah Burgess and [[Harvey Atkin]]. The series started the 1982–83 season on Tuesdays at 9:30pm but had gone from the schedule verly early in 1983. [[Gil Fates]] supervised the production in the studio of CTV affliate station [[CJOH-DT|CJOH-TV]] Ottawa. Some say the show played very similar to the unsold Bob Stewart pilot creation called ''Strictly Confidential''<ref>[https://www.billcullen.net/copy-of-punch-lines Strictly Confidential | Bill Cullen Archive]</ref>hosted by [[Dick Clark]] in 1980.

==Personal life and death==
In 1941, Goodson married Bluma Neveleff and moved to New York City, where he teamed up with partner Bill Todman. Todman died from a heart condition on July 29, 1979, two days before his 63rd birthday. In 1982, the Goodsons acquired the Todman heirs' portion of the company.

Goodson and Neveleff had two children, Jill (1942) and [[Jonathan Goodson|Jonathan]] (1945). They divorced and he married Virginia McDavid, a former [[Miss Alabama]]. In 1962, Goodson and McDavid had a daughter, Marjorie, who was a prize model on ''[[Concentration (game show)#Classic Concentration (1987–1991)|Classic Concentration]]'' from July 1987 until its finale in September 1991. In 1972, he married Suzanne Waddell, who had once been a guest on ''[[What's My Line?]]'' They divorced in 1978.<ref name="people840514">{{cite news |first=Kristin |last=McMurran |work=[[People (magazine)|People]] |title=Mark Goodson Wizard of Games |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20087811,00.html |date=May 14, 1984 |access-date=July 21, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170823074005/https://people.com/archive/mark-goodson-wizard-of-games-vol-21-no-19/ |archive-date=23 August 2017}}</ref>

Goodson died of [[pancreatic cancer]] on December 18, 1992, in New York City at the age of 77. He is interred at [[Hillside Memorial Park]] in [[Culver City, California]], along with his parents Fannie Goodson and A.E. Goodson. After his death, Bob Barker gave him a small tribute that aired after an episode of ''The Price Is Right'', as an attached segment that followed the end credits:

{{Blockquote
|text=This is a very sad time for ''The Price Is Right'' family. We've lost Mr. Mark Goodson, the creator of our show. Mr. Goodson, a legendary figure in television, was respected throughout the industry and we shall miss his guidance in the years to come.
|author=Bob Barker
}}

Following was a portrait of Goodson and a message saying, "Mark Goodson 1915–1992".

==Legacy==
Reruns of Goodson's shows have continued to dominate both the schedules of [[Game Show Network]] and [[Buzzr]] because his company saved most of the episodes of the shows, while other companies wiped theirs to reuse the tapes. The [[Lost television broadcast#Wiping|practice of wiping]] was stopped by the start of the 1980s.

===Biography===
On June 3, 2000, an episode of ''[[Biography (TV program)|Biography]]'' called ''Mark Goodson: Will the Real Mark Goodson Please Stand Up?''<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI4dyp-fVeU A&E Biography - Mark Goodson - 6.3.00]</ref>aired on [[A&E Network|A&E]] hosted by [[Harry Smith (American journalist)|Harry Smith]] and narrated by Russell Buchanan, where it profiled his life and career. This features many interviews of the hosts, panelists, and co-workers such as [[Betty White]], [[Bob Barker]], [[Gene Rayburn]], [[Kitty Carlisle]], Marjorie Goodson, and Suzanne Goodson.

===2009 Game Show Awards===
On June 6, 2009, an awards special that aired on [[Game Show Network|GSN]] called ''2009 Game Show Awards'' presented by [[Alex Trebek]], featured a brief tribute to Goodson as his daughter Marjorie held the Innovator Award herself.

===''Game Show Marathon''===
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The series was based on the British format called ''[[Gameshow Marathon (UK game show)|Ant & Dec's/Vernon Kay's Gameshow Marathon]]'' and ran on CBS from May 31 until June 29, 2006, hosted by former actress/talk show host [[Ricki Lake]], announced by [[Rich Fields]] (who formerly announced for ''The Price is Right'' from 2004 until 2010), and [[Todd Newton]] as the prize deliverer in which six celebrities ([[Lance Bass]], [[Paige Davis]], [[Tim Meadows]], [[Kathy Najimy]], [[Leslie Nielsen]], and [[Brande Roderick]]) played seven classic game shows for their favorite charities and the home viewer featured five formats based on Goodson-Todman/Goodson shows along with the recreation of their original sets such as ''The Price is Right (1972 version)'', ''Beat the Clock'', ''Card Sharks'', ''[[Match Game]]'' and ''Family Feud''.

===Buzzr (YouTube)===
From 2014 until 2016, the Buzzr brand was first used by its parent company FremantleMedia (now Fremantle) for its YouTube channel created by its digital-content studio Tiny Riot. The online channel features mostly classic clips along with its short-form reboots of its classic game-show properties using various internet celebrities as contestants. Four of the Goodson-Todman/Goodson shows that were rebooted are ''Family Feud'', ''Password'', ''Beat the Clock'', and ''Body Language''.

==References==
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==External links==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20020302162330/http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/G/htmlG/goodsonmark/goodsonmark.htm Museum of Broadcast Communications: Mark Goodson and Bill Todman]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071121101831/http://www.j-shea.com/TPIR/bonus/MGTP.html MGTP Marketing Brochure]
* [https://blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/2020/10/this-is-a-mark-goodson-bill-todman-production/#comment-111839 This is a Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Production]
* [https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1NTKCXrgzziG_zJacbWPc8UkJAbGGYB_y Goodson Collection]
* [https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/474357/mark-goodson-will-the-real-mark-goodson-please-stand-up Mark Goodson: Will the Real Mark Goodson Please Stand Up?]
* [http://www.si.com/vault/1963/06/24/594278/lords-of-fun-and-games Lords of Fun and Games|Sports Illustrated.com] 
* [http://www.legacy.com/news/celebrity-deaths/article/a-mark-goodson-production A Mark Goodson Productions | Legacy.com]
* [https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/13/magazine/if-i-stood-up-earlier.html 'If I Stood Up Earlier...' By Mark Goodson January 13, 1991]
* [https://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/mark-goodson/ Myrna Oliver in the Los Angeles Times article about Mark Goodson from December 19, 1992]
* {{IMDb name|329382}}
* {{YouTube|S45ePCidseg|Goodson's Emmy acceptance speech}} on the Emmy channel
* {{Find a Grave|1394}}
* {{Internet Archive film clip|id=openmind_ep579|description="The Open Mind - Taking A Stand. . . In Time? (1991)"}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20121222045527/http://www.biography.com/people/mark-goodson-9542303 Mark Goodson's Profile]
* [https://www.marjoriegoodson.com/bio/mark-goodson-in-memory/ Mark Goodson in Memory]

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