The next year Barris began The Newlywed Game . Barris , by this time living in France , came back again in the mid-1980s . After a week-long trial of The Newlywed Game on ABC in 1984 ( with Dating Game emcee Jim Lange ) , Barris produced the daily Newlywed Game ( titled The New Newlywed Game ) in syndication from 1985 to 1989 , with original host Eubanks ( and in 1988 , comedian Paul Rodriguez ) .