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Chuck Barris' sole purpose in life through his teenage years in Philadelphia only concerns promiscuity, but he is unsuccessful. Inspired by a television advertisement he moves to Manhattan to become a tour guide at NBC. He dreams of becoming famous in television, but is eventually fired from his job. Chuck moves back to Philadelphia and is able to become Dick Clark's personal assistant on American Bandstand in 1961. There, he writes the successful "Palisades Park" song with Freddy Cannon and falls in love with a woman named Penny Pacino. Chuck is given permission to pitch the concept for The Dating Game at the American Broadcasting Company (ABC); he receives $7,500 to create a television pilot for the studio. However, ABC abandons The Dating Game in favor of Hootenanny. Chuck then struggles with his life and succumbs to unsuccessful bar fights. He is noticed by a man named Jim Byrd, a CIA agent who recruits Chuck as an assassin. Returning from a mission in Mexico, Chuck finds that Penny has conformed to the hippie movement. ABC decides to greenlight The Dating Game, and by 1967 the TV show is a phenomenon. Chuck takes another mission for the CIA in Helsinki, Finland, where he meets gorgeous agent operative Patricia Watson. Chuck finds even more success when The Newlywed Game goes on air. He and Penny decide to move into a house together, but Chuck is cautious of marriage, much to the dismay of Penny. In 1970 Jim convinces Chuck to go on another mission in West Berlin to assassinate communist Hans Colbert. There, Chuck is introduced to German-American agent Keeler and is held captured by the KGB for weeks. In 1976 Los Angeles, California, Chuck creates The Gong Show and becomes even more famous as its host, but is criticized for being instrumental in the decline of quality television. Meanwhile, Keeler is murdered and Jim warns Chuck of a mole in the Agency...More Chuck Barris' sole purpose in life through his teenage years in Philadelphia only concerns promiscuity, but he is unsuccessful. Inspired by a television advertisement he moves to Manhattan to become a tour guide at NBC. He dreams of becoming famous in television, but is eventually fired from his job. Chuck moves back to Philadelphia and is able to become Dick Clark's personal assistant on American Bandstand in 1961. There, he writes the successful "Palisades Park" song with Freddy Cannon and falls in love with a woman named Penny Pacino. Chuck is given permission to pitch the concept for The Dating Game at the American Broadcasting Company (ABC); he receives $7,500 to create a television pilot for the studio. However, ABC abandons The Dating Game in favor of Hootenanny. Chuck then struggles with his life and succumbs to unsuccessful bar fights. He is noticed by a man named Jim Byrd, a CIA agent who recruits Chuck as an assassin. Returning from a mission in Mexico, Chuck finds that Penny has conformed to the hippie movement. ABC decides to greenlight The Dating Game, and by 1967 the TV show is a phenomenon. Chuck takes another mission for the CIA in Helsinki, Finland, where he meets gorgeous agent operative Patricia Watson. Chuck finds even more success when The Newlywed Game goes on air. He and Penny decide to move into a house together, but Chuck is cautious of marriage, much to the dismay of Penny. In 1970 Jim convinces Chuck to go on another mission in West Berlin to assassinate communist Hans Colbert. There, Chuck is introduced to German-American agent Keeler and is held captured by the KGB for weeks. In 1976 Los Angeles, California, Chuck creates The Gong Show and becomes even more famous as its host, but is criticized for being instrumental in the decline of quality television. Meanwhile, Keeler is murdered and Jim warns Chuck of a mole in the Agency. Chuck's TV shows are canceled due to poor ratings and his relationship with Penny becomes complex. One night, Chuck finds Jim in his backyard pool, sitting atop the diving board. Jim reveals to Chuck why "he fit the profile" for the CIA's recruitment policy of assassins. Jim tells Chuck that his twin sister died in child birth because Chuck strangled her using his umbilical cord, which is considered his first murder. His mother always wanted a daughter and blamed Chuck for his sister's death. Until his sister Phoebe was born, Chuck's mother raised him as a girl. Jim also tells Chuck that his biological father was a serial killer named Edmund James Windsor; conceived during in an affair in 1938. During the conversation Jim mysteriously dies, which leads to Chuck becoming traumatized with past reflections of his CIA and television career. In 1981 he recluses himself in a New York City hotel; Penny tries to convince him to return to California and get married. Chuck leaves his hotel room and confronts Patricia in Boston. There, he finds that she is the mole Jim warned him about. Chuck kills Patricia and begins to write his autobiography, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. Chuck finally decides to marry Penny. In 2002 he prepares for an interview for the film adaptation of his autobiography. Less