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Title: ??? Oldest Game Show Personality...
Post by: TimK2003 on March 30, 2019, 06:22:14 PM
...To host a new game show?

I'm gonna take a stab with Peter Marshall and the Reel to Reel Picture Show.   When he hosted that show, he had to be around 70 +/-.  Would Pete hold that title?



Title: Re: ??? Oldest Game Show Personality...
Post by: chrisholland03 on March 30, 2019, 06:29:54 PM
It depends on whether you count "Betty White's Off Their Rockers" as a game show.  The Emmy categories make it kinda muddy. 
Title: Re: ??? Oldest Game Show Personality...
Post by: Allstar87 on March 30, 2019, 06:33:48 PM
Peter was 72 when Reel to Reel debuted. Wink Martindale has him beat though; he was 76 when he hosted In$tant Recall. Too bad neither show was any good, despite Peter and Wink's valiant efforts.

(If one-offs count, Peter was 76 when he hosted one episode of H2's Game Show Week in 2002.)
Title: Re: ??? Oldest Game Show Personality...
Post by: gromit82 on March 30, 2019, 08:23:29 PM
I think Regis Philbin may have Wink Martindale beat by a few months. Regis was 76 years, 9 months, 7 days old when Million Dollar Password debuted.
Title: Re: ??? Oldest Game Show Personality...
Post by: Mr. Matté on March 31, 2019, 07:17:29 AM
(If one-offs count, Peter was 76 when he hosted one episode of H2's Game Show Week in 2002.)

In terms of one-offs, Barker's got him beat for the April Fool's 2015 PIR (91 at the time).
Title: Re: ??? Oldest Game Show Personality...
Post by: Jimmy Owen on March 31, 2019, 08:56:36 AM
How old was Monty Hall when he filled in on CBS LMAD?
Title: Re: ??? Oldest Game Show Personality...
Post by: jjman920 on April 01, 2019, 01:00:29 AM
How old was Monty Hall when he filled in on CBS LMAD?
He was 88 when he came back the first time to do those daily deals one week. I think he came back a second time to do deals, but I forgot when.
Title: Re: ??? Oldest Game Show Personality...
Post by: TheInquisitiveOne on April 01, 2019, 11:40:22 PM
How old was Monty Hall when he filled in on CBS LMAD?
He was 88 when he came back the first time to do those daily deals one week. I think he came back a second time to do deals, but I forgot when.

I don’t have the exact dates, but I know it was sometime in 2013 for LMAD’s 50th Anniversary Week. So, that would put him at 90-91 (since the week mentioned above was March 2010).

The Inquisitive One