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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: TimK2003 on September 15, 2018, 04:25:18 PM
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A friend of mine was doing a back-and-forth naming of former game-show hosts who ended their careers in other game-show-related positions and came up with a laundry list of people, mostly hosts becoming announcers.
Some of which include:
Gene Wood -- Hosted Beat The Clock, and An6thing You Can Do, but finished as an announcer for G-T (was Combs Feud his last gig?)
Jack Clark -- Hosted Cross-Wits, finished as a rotating announcer on $xxx,000 Pyramid (?)
Jack Narz -- Hosted Dotto and Beat The Clock, finished as an announcer on All-Star Beat The Clock.
Others?
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Jack Clark -- Hosted Cross-Wits, finished as a rotating announcer on $xxx,000 Pyramid (?)
Actually, finished as full-time announcer on Wheel of Fortune, only left that when he became too ill to continue with the job.
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Johnny Gilbert.
Art James announced Feud and Classic Concentration in the early-90s.
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Larry Toffler went from hosting Finders Keepers to appearing as a standard contestant on several game shows in the 1990s-2000s (most recently Catch 21).
Johnny Olson hosted some game shows on the radio (and a few early TV ones) before ending his career announcing The Price Is Right.
Gene Wood -- Hosted Beat The Clock, and An6thing You Can Do, but finished as an announcer for G-T (was Combs Feud his last gig?)
I think his last gig was doing some replacement Contestants Not Appearing On Stage plugs for Price in 1998.
Jack Narz -- Hosted Dotto and Beat The Clock, finished as an announcer on All-Star Beat The Clock.
Not sure if his coming out of retirement to host KDOC's You've Got To Be Kidding in 1987-88 would count, but there you go.
[EDIT 9/27/18: Fixed above station name (I'd originally written "KCOP").]
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Bob Clayton went from announcer (Concentration) to host (Concentration) to announcer ($10,000 Pyramid, Shoot for the Stars, other Stewart stuff).
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A friend of mine was doing a back-and-forth naming of former game-show hosts who ended their careers in other game-show-related positions and came up with a laundry list of people, mostly hosts becoming announcers.
Some of which include:
Gene Wood -- Hosted Beat The Clock, and An6thing You Can Do, but finished as an announcer for G-T (was Combs Feud his last gig?)
Jack Clark -- Hosted Cross-Wits, finished as a rotating announcer on $xxx,000 Pyramid (?)
Jack Narz -- Hosted Dotto and Beat The Clock, finished as an announcer on All-Star Beat The Clock.
Others?
Could have sworn Gene Wood last true announcing gig was The Family Challenge w/ Ray Combs and Michael Burger.
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According to Wiki, Gene Wood's last job before retiring was doing voice over work for GSN.
Not sure if Bob Hilton started out as a host and ended up as an announcer. Gary Kroeger might also be in the same boat, so to speak.
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Hopefully this person hasn't had his last hosting gig but for now, it works. Frank Nicotero is the warm-up act for Millionaire.
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Does Mark Goodson count? IIRC, he attempted a career as a radio announcer before moving into producing.
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How about Merv Griffin? He hosted Play Your Hunch, then went on to produce some other shows that ran for a couple years. In addition, Merv Griffin's Crosswords had just started production when he died.
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Not sure if Bob Hilton started out as a host and ended up as an announcer. Gary Kroeger might also be in the same boat, so to speak.
Hilton hosted the weekly '70s syndicated New Truth or Consequences.
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Steve Dunne hosted You're On Your Own (1956), Truth Or Consequences (1957...maybe?) and Double Exposure (1961); his last GS gig was announcer on What's This Song (1964-65).
Don Morrow hosted Camouflage and Let's Play Post Office before his GS career ended announcing The Challengers (1990-91).
Cordially,
Tammy
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Larry Toffler went from hosting Finders Keepers to appearing as a standard contestant on several game shows in the 1990s-2000s (most recently Catch 21).
Johnny Olson hosted some game shows on the radio (and a few early TV ones) before ending his career announcing The Price Is Right.
Gene Wood -- Hosted Beat The Clock, and An6thing You Can Do, but finished as an announcer for G-T (was Combs Feud his last gig?)
I think his last gig was doing some replacement Contestants Not Appearing On Stage plugs for Price in 1998.
Jack Narz -- Hosted Dotto and Beat The Clock, finished as an announcer on All-Star Beat The Clock.
Not sure if his coming out of retirement to host KCOP's You've Got To Be Kidding in 1987-88 would count, but there you go.
Actually, you’ve got to be kidding was on KDOC TV
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Bob Hilton's last hosting gig was LMAD '90, and we all know how that turned out.
"Last"? He only had 3.
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John Reed King hosted several network game shows in the early days of TV and in the 70s produced Anniversary Game.
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A friend of mine was doing a back-and-forth naming of former game-show hosts who ended their careers in other game-show-related positions and came up with a laundry list of people, mostly hosts becoming announcers.
Some of which include:
Gene Wood -- Hosted Beat The Clock, and An6thing You Can Do, but finished as an announcer for G-T (was Combs Feud his last gig?)
Jack Clark -- Hosted Cross-Wits, finished as a rotating announcer on $xxx,000 Pyramid (?)
Jack Narz -- Hosted Dotto and Beat The Clock, finished as an announcer on All-Star Beat The Clock.
Others?
Could have sworn Gene Wood last true announcing gig was The Family Challenge w/ Ray Combs and Michael Burger.
Gene Wood announced for the Ray Combs version, and was his last regular gig. I believe Randy West announced for the Michael Berger version.
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I believe Randy West announced for the Michael Berger version.
Charlie Glaize was the regular announcer for the Michael Burger version. Randy announced a Family Challenge Ice Capades special that was hosted by Ray Combs.
-Jason
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Ralph Edwards went from T or C host, to game show producer.
Jim McKrell went from host to announcer, replacing Joe Alaskey on Couch Potatoes.