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whampyl03:

--- Quote ---Leaving Barker off? That takes balls. What's your reasoning?
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Well, please don't get me wrong, I think ol' Bob is great. (Actually if this was a top 10 list, he'd be number 6.) However, I think there were a few better hosts than Bob Barker. I don't hate his hosting style, I just think there were 5 hosts that were better than him. I grade purely on who's hosting style I like better; Longevity (Something that Bob has a lot of; Case in point, 3 decades on "Price".) doesn't make much of a dent in my final list.

Jimmy Owen:
My choices are the same as the original poster.  However, Mt. Rushmore has the curious choice of Theodore Roosevelt, perhaps as a nod to his recency, when they could have had  Madison, Monroe, Jackson or McKinley.  So I would consider the Roosevelt spot a wild card slot.  The faces on the mount don't necessarily have to be the four best game show hosts.

Starkman:
Cullen (The overall Dean of game shows)

Ludden (The one who made game shows out of discarded quiz shows)

Barker (over 30 seasons on TPIR, nuff said)

Tom Kennedy (Mr. Versatility, from celeb games, to NTT, To hard quizzers he handled it all)

Winkfan:
I'd also go with Geno; my other three choices are.....

Wink Martindale (need you ask why?)
Alex Trebek
Dick Clark

Alternates: Richard Dawson, Jim Lange, Bob Eubanks, Bud Collyer, and 'the two Peters' -- Marshall and Tomarken. Oh, and George DeWitt, too!

Cordially,
Tammy Warner--the 'Rita Hayes of the Big Board!'

Dbacksfan12:
[quote name=\'edholland83\' date=\'Dec 23 2003, 10:02 PM\'] Sometimes it seems that everyone has an opinion on who the best game show host ever was or is, so if you were to pick the four best game show hosts, who would they be and why?


Here's mine:

Bob Barker - Of course, his longevity in television in an age where Johnny Carson was forced into early retirement before he even reached 70.

Bill Cullen - He was able to carry a clunker past 13 weeks, and he was able adapt to any format ranging from TPIR to Password to Joker's Wild.

Allen Ludden - From what I have watched of him which was mainly Password, he added an intelligent spin to the shows he hosted without be condescending on camera like Trebek is.

Gene Rayburn - His abilty to control what could have been thought of as uncontrollable celebs while being able to still have fun and play a game is what makes him one of my four choices. [/quote]
 Very interesting question.

My four would be:
Tom Kennedy, Bob Barker, Mike Stokey, and Jim Peck...

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