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Winkfan:
While musing (sadly) over the loss of Wink Martindale, I mentioned that it happened the day after his most successful show (Tic Tac Dough) returned to GSN. And I was thinking, were there other "coincidences" or "ironies" (good or bad) in the game show biz?

The only one I can think of was one concerning Bud Collyer (The "Winkster" of his day, mind you). In 1969, Bud passed from Mother Earth on the same day his two biggest game show hits, Beat The Clock and To Tell The Truth, were "given new leases on life" in first-run syndication.

Any others?

Cordially,
Tammy

SuperMatch93:
Bob Barker dying at 99 got him as close as possible to 100 without going over.

Jamey Greek:
Merv Griifin died a month before his final  creation Merv Griffin’s Crosswords premiered

-Bert Convy died three days after the last episode of Match Gane 90 the show he was supposed to host before the brain tumor put him out of commission  aired its last episode.

BillCullen1:
The '78 CBS version of TTD with Wink ran for eight weeks. The syndie version ran for eight years with Wink.

JasonA1:
You were wise to use quotes in your title, and include both coincidence and irony in your post, because I know people have trouble differentiating those.

From the coincidence side: On the finale of the original Now You See It, I remember Jack Narz musing that the show started on April Fools Day (1974), and after 13 months and 13 days on the air, it came to end on Friday the 13th.

-Jason

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