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beatlefreak84:
Hello all,

An interesting question occurred to me over the weekend (at least, I think it's an interesting question) as I was writing my rule page on "The Joker's Wild."

We all know that Jack Barry both hosted and produced the show, along with some shows from the '50s.  I think we all also know that Monty Hall both hosted and produced "Let's Make a Deal" for four decades.

If one looks at the production credits (and I'm not talking about "Executive Producer:  Bob Barker," I'm talking about "A Mark Goodson Production"), were there any other times in game show history that a producer took over as host as well, not counting substitute hosting gigs?

I'm interested to see if these were the only two!

Anthony

Jimmy Owen:
Ralph Edwards on "Truth or Consequences," Merv Griffin on "Word for Word," Chuck Barris on "Gong Show," Ralph Andrews on "Lingo," Scott Sternberg on "Let's Go Back." Jan Murray on "Charge Account," Mike Stokey on "Pantomime Quiz/Stump the Stars," etc.

The Ol' Guy:
Bert Convy comes to mind with Win, Lose or Draw and 3rd Degree. Chuck Barris took over The Gong Show. Merv Griffin did Word For Word, his first independent game venture. Ralph Edwards did the first TV Truth or Consequences. This may need to be checked, but I thought I read Dennis James was either the producer, creator, or both of the prime-time game High Finance.

Jimmy Owen:
I forgot Bob Eubanks "All-Star Secrets" Dick Clark on "Challengers" and Wink M. "Headline Chasers"

zachhoran:
[quote name=\'beatlefreak84\' date=\'Dec 1 2003, 10:36 PM\']

We all know that Jack Barry both hosted and produced the show, along with some shows from the '50s.  I think we all also know that Monty Hall both hosted and produced "Let's Make a Deal" for four decades.

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 Jack also hosted We've Got Your Number(pilot), and the syndicated Break the Bank as well as co-produced them. Monty also hosted-produced It's Anybody's Guess and Split Second 1986-87.

Peter Tomarken had a supervising producer role on Wipeout, though that probably counts in a similar category to Barker on TPIR.

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