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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: chrispw1 on March 06, 2008, 02:02:53 PM
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Who were the regulars or semi-regulars of a game show who died durring their run? The ones I know of were Fred Allen and Dorothy Kilgallen on What's My Line? and Wally Cox and Charley Weaver on Hollywood Squares although with the bicycling their nighttime syndicated episodes continued airing well after their deaths.
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Johnny Olsen and Rod Roddy, both on TPIR (even though they weren't panelists)
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[quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'180284\' date=\'Mar 6 2008, 01:08 PM\']
Johnny Olsen and Rod Roddy, both on TPIR (even though they weren't panelists)
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if you're not talking just panelists, Allen Ludden P+
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[quote name=\'lobster\' post=\'180293\' date=\'Mar 6 2008, 02:30 PM\']
[quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'180284\' date=\'Mar 6 2008, 01:08 PM\']
Johnny Olsen and Rod Roddy, both on TPIR (even though they weren't panelists)
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if you're not talking just panelists, Allen Ludden P+
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As well as Jack Barry on TJW.
Honestly, I'd even say John Ritter, who appeared as a semi-regular on H^2, even after he started up on "8 Simple Rules..." I found Henry Winkler's tribute to Ritter very classy, with a close-up on John's empty square.
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Bennett Cerf on Bruner WML.
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Jack Clark on Wheel
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Continuing with announcers, Bob Clayton on Pyramid.
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Would Hal March on It's Your Bet count or had he already been officially replaced as emcee by that point?
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What about Merv Griffin, creaters of WOF, J!, and MGC?
Charles Atkins
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Merv Griffin's stretching it a bit; he hardly ever appeared on any of those shows.
Was Jay Stewart still announcer of Scrabble (or Sale, or both) when he died?
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[quote name=\'HYHYBT\' post=\'180462\' date=\'Mar 7 2008, 09:08 PM\']
Was Jay Stewart still announcer of Scrabble (or Sale, or both) when he died?
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No. He left Scrabble in 1985 and $ale of the Century in 1988. He passed away in 1989.
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Honestly, I'd even say John Ritter, who appeared as a semi-regular on H^2, even after he started up on "8 Simple Rules..." I found Henry Winkler's tribute to Ritter very classy, with a close-up on John's empty square.
That tribute was terrific. Henry Winkler should do that more often, regardless of game shows.
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Johnny Jacobs during 80's "Treasure hunt"
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[quote name=\'Don Howard\' post=\'180403\' date=\'Mar 7 2008, 12:25 PM\']
Would Hal March on It's Your Bet count or had he already been officially replaced as emcee by that point?
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Excellent question. IIRC, Hal was pretty much off the show before his death. But if the tapes were bicycled, it might have been an issue in some markets.
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[quote name=\'calliaume\' post=\'180570\' date=\'Mar 8 2008, 08:53 PM\']
[quote name=\'Don Howard\' post=\'180403\' date=\'Mar 7 2008, 12:25 PM\']
Would Hal March on It's Your Bet count or had he already been officially replaced as emcee by that point?
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Excellent question. IIRC, Hal was pretty much off the show before his death. But if the tapes were bicycled, it might have been an issue in some markets.
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If the listings in my back issues of TV Guide are correct, Channel 10 in Lansing, MI was showing Hal March episodes as late as 1973. They scheduled them haphazardly, one week Kennedy hosted, the next Gautier, etc.
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[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'180572\' date=\'Mar 8 2008, 09:17 PM\']
If the listings in my back issues of TV Guide are correct, Channel 10 in Lansing, MI was showing Hal March episodes as late as 1973. They scheduled them haphazardly, one week Kennedy hosted, the next Gautier, etc.
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I can vouch for that -- I have a Michigan State TV Guide from 1974, which had WILX ch.10 showing Hal March episodes of "It's Your Bet" for that particular week. Funny thing was, in that same issue, WILX had an ad for the game show, proudly mentioning the fact that Lyle Waggoner was the host.
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Nathan Cook did a number of SP and PYRAMID weeks (not sure you'd call him a regular or semi-regular, but he was booked quite often). He died 6/11/88 (about a week or so after what would be his final SP week aired).
ETA: Seemingly he also happened to be on PYRAMID the same week (5/30-6/3/88), if this episode guide (http://\"http://www.fortunecity.com/lavendar/westbridge/448/25kceleb.htm\") is accurate.
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Wally Cox & Charlie Weaver from the original Hollywood Squares.
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[quote name=\'TimK2003\' post=\'180607\' date=\'Mar 9 2008, 10:18 AM\']
Wally Cox & Charlie Weaver from the original Hollywood Squares.[/quote]
...as said by the OP. Don't you think in 18 posts over three days, somebody in this pretty smart forum would have already mentioned those two HUGE examples?
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[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'180615\' date=\'Mar 9 2008, 08:47 AM\']
...as said by the OP. Don't you think in 18 posts over three days, somebody in this pretty smart forum would have already mentioned those two HUGE examples?
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Or, for that matter, that it would have been a huge burden to check those eighteen posts first?
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[quote name=\'Don Howard\' post=\'180403\' date=\'Mar 7 2008, 12:25 PM\']
Would Hal March on It's Your Bet count or had he already been officially replaced as emcee by that point?
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Of the articles I checked, one says that he left the program in December 1969 (he died in January 1970), but the phrasing is somewhat confused, and no other articles addressed this question (several didn't even mention It's Your Bet)
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[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'180297\' date=\'Mar 6 2008, 02:48 PM\']
Honestly, I'd even say John Ritter, who appeared as a semi-regular on H^2, even after he started up on "8 Simple Rules..." I found Henry Winkler's tribute to Ritter very classy, with a close-up on John's empty square.
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Does anyone have a clip of this?