| abstract | - Jack & Dan first met each other in New York while working at radio station WOR. Their first projects together were problem solving panel shows which were Juvenile Jury, Life Begins at Eighty & Wisdom of the Ages (the former was a kids show). Jack & Dan also created another kids show called Winky Dink & You. A show that inspired children to use their imaginations and use a "magic slate" to draw along with Mr. Barry. In 1953 Barry & Enright made the jump to game show life by creating their first adult show called Back That Fact which was very short-lived lasting only two months. They continued producing failures for the next three years, but three years later in 1956, they produced & created three more game shows for NBC (two of which were answers to The $64,000 Question): Twenty One, Tic Tac Dough and the original version of Concentration which they created with Robert Noah & Buddy Piper. Then in 1958 they produced & created Dough Re Mi, a Name That Tune-like game show. Two of them were cancelled due to the Quiz Show Scandals, while two other were sold to NBC Productions. Shortly after, the company fell apart altogether. For the next nine years, both Jack & Dan tried to make it on their own with no success until 1969 when Jack Barry returned as an emcee replacing Dennis Wholey on The Generation Gap. Two years later Jack reformed his company but ran it solo. The first show he created & hosted was The Reel Game for ABC. At the same time, former partner Dan Enright became executive producer for All About Faces with Richard Hayes. Then in 1972, a tremendous breakthrough occurred; The Joker's Wild came to our TV sets and was a hit series for the next three years on CBS. Dan became Jack's partner again when he was asked to executive produce the show in 1975 before the cancellation. Joker tried to become a series before that, first in 1968, then again in 1969, and in 1971 under the name The Honeymoon Game. For the next eight years starting in 1976, Barry & Enright produced & created more game shows and other TV shows mostly in syndication with the help of Colbert Television Sales. They even revived The Joker's Wild & Tic Tac Dough also for the syndicated market. In addition, they found time to produce movies in the early 80s. They did manage to find time to create two network shows Break the Bank (2) for ABC with a syndicated version premiering the following year & Hot Potato for NBC. All this came to a halt when Jack Barry (who was a life long smoker) died of a sudden heart attack on May 2, 1984, while jogging in Central Park; around that time he considered leaving his current hosting duties on Joker and passing the torch to Jim Peck, who subbed for Barry on several occasions. However, after he died, the torch was instead passed to Bill Cullen, who just finished hosting Hot Potato. Dan Enright ran the company solo starting in 1984 and made several changes in addition to the one above, much to the chagrin of its longtime staffers, including director/producer Richard S. Kline and Jack Barry's two children Jon & Doug, and so they quit and formed Kline & Friends which produced game shows of their own. Dan later married Vice President of Public Relations and former Wheel of Fortune hostess Susan Stafford and renamed the company Stafford-Enright Productions, but the marriage & newly-renamed company didn't last long, as Dan Enright himself passed away due to cancer on May 22, 1992, and the company renamed to The Susan Stafford Company. On December 7, 1992, Sony Pictures Entertainment acquired majority of the Barry & Enright game show library except those owned by NBC.
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