Author Topic: Your favorite one-shot host (Read 11010 times)

SamJ93 · « **on:** March 19, 2005, 07:15:57 PM »

A two-fold question here...

1. Who is your favorite one-shot host and why? (Hosts who did more than one version of the show in question (i.e. Art Fleming/"J!") are OK)

2. If you had your druthers, what other show(s) would you like to see said host host?

My pick...John O'Hurley, who was my favorite thing (with the theme song a close second) about the 2000 "To Tell the Truth." I'd love to see him try a straight Q&A show like "Sale," if only to hear his dulcet tones reading the questions...:-)

--Sam

The Pyramids · « **Reply #1 on:** March 19, 2005, 07:21:38 PM »

I'm not sure there are many strictly speaking but Pat Sajak comes to mind.

Dbacksfan12 · « **Reply #2 on:** March 19, 2005, 07:55:17 PM »

[quote name=\'PaulD\' date=\'Mar 19 2005, 07:21 PM\']I'm not sure there are many strictly speaking but Pat Sajak comes to mind.

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Many strictly speaking? There's many guys that have only hosted one show.

I give the nod to Kevin O'Connell. Too bad he didn't get another shot after Go!

zachhoran · « **Reply #3 on:** March 19, 2005, 08:10:09 PM »

[quote name=\'Modor\' date=\'Mar 19 2005, 07:55 PM\']

I give the nod to Kevin O'Connell. Too bad he didn't get another shot after Go!

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K-O for G-O did host another pilot of Bob Stewart, Money in the Blank in 1987 for CBS, but of course CBS didn't pick it up.

Adam Nedeff · « **Reply #4 on:** March 19, 2005, 08:13:11 PM »

Lew Schneider. His jokes were actually funny, he stayed out of the of the game, he looked like he wanted to be there, and he didn't talk down to the kids.

Winkfan · « **Reply #5 on:** March 19, 2005, 08:29:06 PM »

You can laugh at me all you want, but my vote for fave 'one-show wonder' goes to Mark Richards of Starcade fame. I've actually gotten in touch with in a few times last year.

I might happen to be the only person in this group who actually LIKES Tom (Camouflage) Campbell, as well! If he ever needs a shoulder to cry on, I'm available!

Cordially,
Tammy Warner--[color=\"green\"]the 'Joanna Gleason of the Big Board!'[/color]

WhammyPower · « **Reply #6 on:** March 19, 2005, 09:23:34 PM »

Hands-down, it HAS to be Tom Bergeron. (Unless AFV counts as a game show...)

P.S.... if anybody votes for Elayne Boosler, they will be humiliated.

Kevin Prather · « **Reply #7 on:** March 19, 2005, 09:33:27 PM »

[quote name=\'PaulD\' date=\'Mar 19 2005, 04:21 PM\']I'm not sure there are many strictly speaking but Pat Sajak comes to mind.

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He hosted the Simon PYL pilot.

Robert Hutchinson · « **Reply #8 on:** March 19, 2005, 09:41:30 PM »

[quote name=\'WhammyPower\' date=\'Mar 19 2005, 09:23 PM\']P.S.... if anybody votes for Elayne Boosler, they will be humiliated.[/quote]

So I'm safe with my vote for Chris Wylde, then?

Seriously, assuming there wasn't some other game show he hosted that I don't know about (and also excluding the well-knowns), Greg Proops.

Kevin Prather · « **Reply #9 on:** March 19, 2005, 09:45:05 PM »

[quote name=\'Robert Hutchinson\' date=\'Mar 19 2005, 06:41 PM\']So I'm safe with my vote for Chris Wylde, then?

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Chris Wylde was great for the show he hosted, IMO. Taboo was a pretty off-the-wall show, and Wylde fit the bill nicely. It's a shame the show didn't last longer.

urbanpreppie05 · « **Reply #10 on:** March 19, 2005, 09:57:52 PM »

[quote name=\'WhammyPower\' date=\'Mar 19 2005, 09:23 PM\']Hands-down, it HAS to be Tom Bergeron. (Unless AFV counts as a game show...)

P.S.... if anybody votes for Elayne Boosler, they will be humiliated.

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Oh come on...She's not my favorite one-shot host, but I think she does ok.

my pick is also John O'Hurley.

Jimmy Owen · « **Reply #11 on:** March 19, 2005, 11:59:46 PM »

Nick Clooney. I thought he had great enthusiasm on Money Maze and seeing him on AMC and the series "On Trial," he showed a serious side. I think he could have handled a WML or TTTT quite well.

DjohnsonCB · « **Reply #12 on:** March 20, 2005, 12:20:25 AM »

No question about it: my choice is Vin Scully from the original NBC "It Takes Two". If it hadn't been for his taking the job, I'd never even have heard of him or known he was a legendary sportscaster, at least maybe until he hosted his own CBS daytime talk show in 1973. He *made* ITT, along with the music.

If he hadn't been dismissed as a "failure" because his two daytime assignments didn't last long and went unseen in a number of local markets, he could have made a great moderator for "What's My Line?" or "To Tell The Truth" in their syndie runs.

clemon79 · « **Reply #13 on:** March 20, 2005, 12:53:26 AM »

[quote name=\'DjohnsonCB\' date=\'Mar 19 2005, 10:20 PM\']he could have made a great moderator for "What's My Line?" or "To Tell The Truth" in their syndie runs.

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Never woulda happened. They taped in NY, right? Vin had a day job that required frequent travel and for him to be in LA most of the time....still does.

(You LA types: TELL me Vin still does a few innings of the Dodger game, at least.)

trainman · « **Reply #14 on:** March 20, 2005, 12:57:29 AM »

[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Mar 19 2005, 09:53 PM\'](You LA types: TELL me Vin still does a few innings of the Dodger game, at least.)

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Vin still does entire Dodger games -- home games, at least. And when I say "entire," I mean there's no color commentator in the booth with him. Every time I watch a Dodgers game, I keep expecting someone else to start talking when Vin finishes a sentence, but nobody ever does.