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I just got done watching some of the new clips that Jamie put up, one of which being the intro to "Crosswits". Was David Sparks the only host that had his name on screen when he was intro'd?
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Really, really obscure, but the clips of busted GSN pilots John Ricci put up featured "Pictionary" where Graham Elwood's name was on screen. Jack Whittaker from "Face is Familiar" also had his name on the screen.
-Jason
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Am I dreaming, or did Password also do it with Allen?
[Edit] Oh could I forget this one: it was done upon introduction of Brent Gunts, the host of Shadow Stumpers.
Yeah yeah, I know. What the hell was Shadow Stumpers? I'll post a clip of that show...eventually.
--Jamie
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Despite objections, there's a locally-produced show in Michigan that does it.
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[quote name=\'Jimmy Fiono Coyne\' date=\'Apr 22 2005, 02:23 PM\']Am I dreaming, or did Password also do it with Allen?
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I forget which point in the run, but some of the black-and-white nighttime shows have Allen's name supered when he comes out (in the same type face as the word art cards).
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[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' date=\'Apr 22 2005, 11:26 AM\']Despite objections, there's a locally-produced show in Michigan that does it.
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Only after fielding thousands of calls from excited viewers desperate to know who that wonderful host is! ;-)
Randy
tvrandywest.com
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Add to that list "Street Smarts". Frank Nicotero's name is shown on screen.
More and more shows seem to be doing this in lieu of having an announcer.
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Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour had Gene Rayburn's and Jon Bauman's names on screen where they displayed the "logo" of the show as well as the other star players' names.
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I remember Geoff Edwards wearing a nametag for a while on Play the Percentages.
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Hello, I'm Ben Stein.
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I think Win Martindale (that's right, Win) had his name supered on "What's This Song?"
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Anybody wanna count the nameplates for Wally Bruner and Larry Blyden on syndie WML?
OK, so they're not superimposed or chyroned, but they're there.
One instance of a game show host whose name was superimposed upon entrance was Dick Clark, but it wasn't on a game show (it happened on BANDSTAND).
Doug
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Absolute coolest, by far: Regis on Millionaire. He's not identified AT ALL, not even "Hi, I'm Regis Philbin!" You just know.
Second coolest: Garry Moore on TTTT. The opening introduction is for HIM, ahead of the show itself.
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[quote name=\'jmangin\' date=\'Apr 22 2005, 03:12 PM\']I remember Geoff Edwards wearing a nametag for a while on Play the Percentages.
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That was only for one episode during the solo player format, no? Geoff had the judge calling him Gee-Off during that episode IIRC.
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Didn't Ludden have his name supered on the B/W Password?
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Apr 22 2005, 07:04 PM\']Didn't Ludden have his name supered on the B/W Password?
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As was said earlier in this thread, that was the case for part or all of the 60s primetime run.
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I knew I hadn't completed lost it when I thought Password did that.
I also believe that GSN's old interactive game shows like Super Decades showed the hosts name as well.
--Jamie
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[quote name=\'SRIV94\' date=\'Apr 22 2005, 04:58 PM\']Anybody wanna count the nameplates for Wally Bruner and Larry Blyden on syndie WML?
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Or maybe the nameplates for a certain "Mr. Daly" on the original CBS Sunday night version of same?
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How could everybody overlook Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak? :-)
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Wasn't "TOM KENNEDY" shown as one of the opening blue text graphics (I don't know what to call them!) on his nighttime TPiR'85?
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I'll have to re-rent the DVDs to be sure, but I'm almost positive that Groucho Marx's name was shown in the opening of "You Bet Your Life," at least at some point during the run...
--Sam
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[quote name=\'SamJ93\' date=\'Apr 22 2005, 08:16 PM\']I'll have to re-rent the DVDs to be sure, but I'm almost positive that Groucho Marx's name was shown in the opening of "You Bet Your Life," at least at some point during the run...
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As I recall, the opening had a cartoon drawing of a duck with a cigar in its bill standing next to an easel with a vaudeville-style show card with the titles on it.
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[quote name=\'chris319\' date=\'Apr 22 2005, 10:41 PM\'][quote name=\'SamJ93\' date=\'Apr 22 2005, 08:16 PM\']I'll have to re-rent the DVDs to be sure, but I'm almost positive that Groucho Marx's name was shown in the opening of "You Bet Your Life," at least at some point during the run...
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As I recall, the opening had a cartoon drawing of a duck with a cigar in its bill standing next to an easel with a vaudeville-style show card with the titles on it.
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I think they had a couple of different openings; his name might have been in one of them. Of course, some of us may know the show better from The Best of Groucho reruns.
I would think Joe Garagiola's Memory Game would qualify here. What about Name Droppers?
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In the end credits, Martindale's HR always showed the logo with "starring Wink Martindale" below it.
ITSBRY
itsbry@juno.com
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I think Win Martindale (that's right, Win) had his name supered on "What's This Song?"
Probably to keep viewers from wondering "Who the GONG SHOW OOPS! is that dude?" Don't forget, the Winkster was just getting his foot in the game show door back in 1964.
Cordially,
Tammy Warner--the 'Gina Hecht of the Big Board!'
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On "GE College Bowl", Allen Ludden and Robert Earle had their names on the top part of the podium.
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I am surprised that no one has yet to mention "Blank Check" w/ Art James. At least in the pilot ep, they switch between Art's name & BC on the big number screens.
When I first saw the heading of the thread, I was thinking you were talking about the host's name at the top of the closing credits, like "'Scrabble' Starring Chuck Woolery"..., etc....
Wasn't Ron Ely's name shown on the screen at the beginning of "Face The Music" as well?
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Yes, the title of Namedroppers was displayed "Lohman and Barkley's Name Droppers."
Art James's name still flashed upon introduction during the series on Blank Check as well.
--Jamie
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[quote name=\'TimK2003\' date=\'Apr 23 2005, 02:42 PM\']I am surprised that no one has yet to mention "Blank Check" w/ Art James. At least in the pilot ep, they switch between Art's name & BC on the big number screens.
When I first saw the heading of the thread, I was thinking you were talking about the host's name at the top of the closing credits, like "'Scrabble' Starring Chuck Woolery"..., etc....
Wasn't Ron Ely's name shown on the screen at the beginning of "Face The Music" as well?
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AFAIK, it was just "Sandy Frank Productions".
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[quote name=\'ITSBRY\' date=\'Apr 23 2005, 12:00 PM\']In the end credits, Martindale's HR always showed the logo with "starring Wink Martindale" below it.
ITSBRY
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80s $otC and 80s Scrabble also had the host names during the end credits. Heck, most shows mention the host names during the end credits, even if it was to plug the maker of the host's wardrobe.
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[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Apr 23 2005, 06:34 PM\'][quote name=\'ITSBRY\' date=\'Apr 23 2005, 12:00 PM\']In the end credits, Martindale's HR always showed the logo with "starring Wink Martindale" below it.
ITSBRY
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80s $otC and 80s Scrabble also had the host names during the end credits. Heck, most shows mention the host names during the end credits, even if it was to plug the maker of the host's wardrobe.
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Well, if we're mentioning host's names during the end credits (not counting wardrobe mentions), there's also "Wipeout" and "TTD." I'm not sure about the other B&E properties (wouldn't know why they wouldn't), but I do remember TTD having that show's logo, then "with Wink Martindale".
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I do remember TTD having that show's logo, then "with Wink Martindale".
Though, on many occasions, TTD's closing credits often began with "with Wink Martindale", instead of the show logo. (Not counting the disclaimers that precede it.)
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[quote name=\'rugrats1\' date=\'Apr 23 2005, 10:33 PM\']Though, on many occasions, TTD's closing credits often began with "with Wink Martindale", instead of the show logo. (Not counting the disclaimers that precede it.)
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IIRC, the "with Wink Martindale" followed the logo on the full credit roll. The short credit roll had no logo (at the beginning) and opened with the "with Wink Martindale" (and different typefaces were used to distinguish the two credit rolls)--the short credit roll consisted of the "with Wink" graphic, B&E's logo, the wardrobe plug, the distributor and the TTD logo with copyright date.
Doug
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[quote name=\'TimK2003\' date=\'Apr 23 2005, 02:42 PM\']Wasn't Ron Ely's name shown on the screen at the beginning of "Face The Music" as well?
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Close.. Ron's name was shown in the end credits with a Starring credit.
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I know that a lot of U.K. Game Shows from the 70s and 80s did it too. I'm not exactly sure which ones though... I think there are clips at tv ark which have the hosts' names upfront.
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As was said earlier in this thread, that was the case for part or all of the 60s primetime run.
Only the first coupla mos or so, actually.
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")
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Close.. Ron's name was shown in the end credits with a Starring credit.
And later in the run, he was announced as such during the announcer's closing spiel as well, referring to it as "FtM starring Ron Ely".
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")
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I can't add any that haven't already been said, but there were a few times I wished the host's name was displayed on-screen. Take Hit Man, for instance. I was 7 when it debuted and the name "Tomarken" sounded like "Tobaggon" to my underdeveloped ears. It wasn't until I first discovered PYL a few months into the run when I learned the spelling of Peter's name. Granted, it does help when the host's name is seen in the "[host]'s wardrobe provided by..." credit (examples: Benirshke, Ruprecht)--but did NBC's keyed credits on HM seem illegible compared to PYL's chyroned credits or is it my faulty memory?
There's one more that was even worse: I'm Telling! With no closed captioning or hosted-by or wardrobe credit, I had no idea who this man Dean Goss was introducing us to was. I had been spelling it something like "Lorry Bosso" until I discovered all these game show pages in the late '90s. (In retrospect, after finding out, I've noticed the name Laurie Faso in a couple of 1980s cartoon series for Hanna-Barbera, and that he appeared in the "Tool Time" audience in an episode of Home Improvement.)
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[quote name=\'GS Warehouse\' date=\'Apr 26 2005, 11:45 PM\']I can't add any that haven't already been said, but there were a few times I wished the host's name was displayed on-screen. Take Hit Man, for instance. I was 7 when it debuted and the name "Tomarken" sounded like "Tobaggon" to my underdeveloped ears.[/quote]
For the longest time, when Supermarket Sweep first came on Lifetime, I thought David's last name was Lambert. Don't ask me how. :-)
I've noticed the name Laurie Faso in a couple of 1980s cartoon series for Hanna-Barbera, and that he appeared in the "Tool Time" audience in an episode of Home Improvement.)
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MARTIN: I'm about to open up a can of whoop-ass.
WAITER/FASO: Oh, no! Not the whoop-ass!
About the only funny line of the episode. :-P
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I've noticed the name Laurie Faso in a couple of 1980s cartoon series for Hanna-Barbera, and that he appeared in the "Tool Time" audience in an episode of Home Improvement.)
He was also in a later episode of Martin, playing a waiter.
Lest we forget his late-1970s kiddie series, "Marlo & The Magic Movie Machine".