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Child's Play was an American television game show in which adult contestants tried to guess words based on definitions given by children. The Mark Goodson-produced series, his first since the death of production partner Bill Todman in 1979, debuted on CBS from September 20, 1982 at 10:30 AM Eastern/9:30 AM Central (immediately following The New $25,000 Pyramid, which debuted on the same day). That timeslot was held by Alice for a little over two years. Child's Play was never able to make ratings headway against either Wheel of Fortune or Sale of the Century, two hit game shows that NBC aired opposite it; CBS ended the series on September 16, 1983 and replaced it with Press Your Luck, which performed much better for CBS.