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Jimmy Owen:
Fan service.
calliaume:
--- Quote from: Bob Zager on February 11, 2021, 12:56:16 PM ---
--- Quote from: calliaume on February 09, 2021, 08:25:20 PM ---Dick Gautier did a year hosting It's Your Bet after Hal March died. That show had a very confusing host history, due to March being diagnosed with lung cancer a few months into the run. I believe it went from March to Tom Kennedy, to Gautier, then back to Kennedy, and finally to Hal Waggoner. I have no idea whether that was because Gautier did a lousy job or because Ralph Andrews preferred Tom.
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You meant to say Lyle Waggoner.
I think because of his move to IYB, Gautier was dropped as the regular joke teller on Can You Top This? and succeeded by Richard Dawson. Judging by air dates in the EOTVGS, it seems to coincide!
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Weird that I found this years later, but I just saw an interview Gautier did with Kliph Nesteroff that gave the actual reason he left Can You Top This--and it's not what anyone would expect.
--- Quote ---Kliph Nesteroff: You hosted a game show remake of Can You Top This.
Dick Gautier: No, Wink Martindale was the host. I was the joke-teller. That's my forte. I tell stories very well and can embellish with shtick and dialects. That is my strength, so that's why I was on the show. They had seen me do that on The Merv Griffin Show. It was very lucrative and was going very well when my niece gave me the mumps. I couldn't go on with the show. Richard Dawson took over and replaced me. I took Polaroids of myself because I looked like George Hamilton had f***** a chipmunk.
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Matt Ottinger:
That is fabulous. And it's not unreasonable to connect the dots between his niece's mumps and the ascendancy of Richard Dawson as a game show personality.
chris319:
To this day I regret not having suggested Dick Gautier for Mindreaders. The game itself still would have sucked but the overall show would have sucked a little less sans Dick Martin. Dick did a fair job in office run-thrus but once in the studio he became a deer in the headlights.
I do remember Jim Perry emceeing some office run-thrus, I think for the Puzzlers pilot. He was not being considered as the series MC; he was brought in just for a few office run-thrus, then Sajak was brought in as the real MC. Once in a while Bobby Sherman would MC an office run-thru. We also did office run-thrus of TTTT with Goodson himself as MC. I remember Bill Cullen, Gene Rayburn and Kathy Cronkite on the panel; can't remember who the fourth panelist was (it wasn't Kitty).
BrandonFG:
--- Quote from: calliaume on October 28, 2023, 05:02:25 PM ---Dick Gautier: No, Wink Martindale was the host. I was the joke-teller. That's my forte. I tell stories very well and can embellish with shtick and dialects. That is my strength, so that's why I was on the show. They had seen me do that on The Merv Griffin Show. It was very lucrative and was going very well when my niece gave me the mumps. I couldn't go on with the show. Richard Dawson took over and replaced me. I took Polaroids of myself because I looked like George Hamilton had f***** a chipmunk.
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I’m intrigued in the alternate universe where Dick Gautier doesn’t get the mumps and hosts “Feud”…
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