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uncamark:
[quote name=\'cmjb13\' date=\'Dec 4 2003, 05:25 PM\']
--- Quote ---And as I pointed out before, Tom didn't work with either cue cards or an IFB on "Breakfast Time"--just some note cards he occasionally looked at ("my ad libs, please," he'd always say before he made the daily walk down the hallway from the "ballroom" to the living room in the fX apartment) and his own instincts.  The only time he read from a prompter was in the early days when he and Laurie Hibberd did the news inserts before Jane Fergus took that over (and she then did the segments from her cubicle one floor above the apartment studio, so for a good portion of the run Tom never saw a prompter during the show).
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He uses cue cards on squares.[/quote]
So did Peter Marshall--even though at one point he was doing the "Object for the players..." spiel faster than the cue card guy could change the cards.

Very often, game show producers still have the cards out even if the host's done the show for years, just as a backup in case they have a brain freeze.  I still recall Chuck Woolery saying in amazement, "I've been doing this show for five years and you still show me a card saying 'good morning and welcome to "Wheel of Fortune?"'"

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