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clemon79:
[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Jul 23 2003, 06:41 PM\'] We do have two long-running examples of hosts dying during the show's run: Jack Barry and TJW and Allen Ludden and P+(though Ludden left P+ due to health reasons eight months before his death). TJW pressed on two more years without him, and P+ went on 17 months without Ludden(and Super Password lasted 4.5 years without him) [/quote]
 I didn't really give Barry consideration because I didn't consider Barry's hosting the show for 10 years (less? About 10. Don't correct me if I'm wrong, I don't care.) to hold a candle to the 30 that Barker has, or the 30 that Rayburn would have (counting the original) if MG or HS (the shows mentioned by the OP) had run until today or until Rayburn's death.

Besides, are you going to seriously tell me that Joker's Wild was driven by Jack Barry's personality? Did he HAVE one? :)

Ludden, on the other had, you have a little more of a point, although I suggest that SP is to be considered a different animal because there WAS that time off the air to realize that Allen was no longer with us and that someone else would be hosting the new show. And I also think the fact that the show didn't last all that much longer under Kennedy is telling as well.

zachhoran:
Jack's personality came out most on Joker Joker Joker I think, but no, he didn't have an iota of Rayburn's persona.

As for Allen's personality(at least in 1979 and 1980), ask our czar :)

DrBear:
Oh, there would be tweaks, always tweaks. Pyramid is the same basic game it was on day one, with tweaks (6 instead of 7 items in the front game, different dollar amounts) but the only other difference is in staging, camera shots and host.

TPIR has managed to survive with no real changes, other than the color of Barker's hair. Still, there are tweaks going on - new pricing games over the years, changes in how prizes are shown. In fact, IMHO, one of the reasons for TPIR's longevity is the variety of the show; don't like one pricing game, another is coming in a few minutes.

Match Game? Well, from seeing Funny Money, I think Jimmy Pardo might have done a nice job with it. There, the game wasn't that strong - fun, but not strong - and blew up in the raunchy 90s.

Some games have staying power; some are part of their times. And every show gets cancelled, except for Meet The Press and Monday Night Football. And even those are far different from their early versions, or even from a few years ago.

Change is the only constant.

trainman:
I submit that, had \"Jeopardy!\" never been canceled, it would be very much like it is today.  I think it's fairly obvious they'd change from printed cards to computer monitors at some point.  Now, if we presume \"never been canceled\" means that it's still be on the NBC daytime lineup, I assume the clue dollar values would not be as high as they are now, but there would have been some inflation at some point.

GS Warehouse:
[quote name=\'DrBear\' date=\'Jul 23 2003, 09:21 PM\'] ... And every show gets cancelled, except for Meet The Press and Monday Night Football. ... [/quote]
 And 60 Minutes.  If you associate Barker with longevity, where does Mike Wallace belong?

ObGameShows: Twelve years the watch started ticking, Wallace hosted the TTTT pilot.

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