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A two-fold question here...
1. Who is your favorite one-shot host and why? (Hosts who did more than one version of the show in question (i.e. Art Fleming/"J!") are OK)
2. If you had your druthers, what other show(s) would you like to see said host host?
My pick...John O'Hurley, who was my favorite thing (with the theme song a close second) about the 2000 "To Tell the Truth." I'd love to see him try a straight Q&A show like "Sale," if only to hear his dulcet tones reading the questions...:-)
--Sam
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I'm not sure there are many strictly speaking but Pat Sajak comes to mind.
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[quote name=\'PaulD\' date=\'Mar 19 2005, 07:21 PM\']I'm not sure there are many strictly speaking but Pat Sajak comes to mind.
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Many strictly speaking? There's many guys that have only hosted one show.
I give the nod to Kevin O'Connell. Too bad he didn't get another shot after Go!
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[quote name=\'Modor\' date=\'Mar 19 2005, 07:55 PM\']
I give the nod to Kevin O'Connell. Too bad he didn't get another shot after Go!
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K-O for G-O did host another pilot of Bob Stewart, Money in the Blank in 1987 for CBS, but of course CBS didn't pick it up.
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Lew Schneider. His jokes were actually funny, he stayed out of the of the game, he looked like he wanted to be there, and he didn't talk down to the kids.
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You can laugh at me all you want, but my vote for fave 'one-show wonder' goes to Mark Richards of Starcade fame. I've actually gotten in touch with in a few times last year.
I might happen to be the only person in this group who actually LIKES Tom (Camouflage) Campbell, as well! If he ever needs a shoulder to cry on, I'm available!
Cordially,
Tammy Warner--[color=\"green\"]the 'Joanna Gleason of the Big Board!'[/color]
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Hands-down, it HAS to be Tom Bergeron. (Unless AFV counts as a game show...)
P.S.... if anybody votes for Elayne Boosler, they will be humiliated.
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[quote name=\'PaulD\' date=\'Mar 19 2005, 04:21 PM\']I'm not sure there are many strictly speaking but Pat Sajak comes to mind.
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He hosted the Simon PYL pilot.
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[quote name=\'WhammyPower\' date=\'Mar 19 2005, 09:23 PM\']P.S.... if anybody votes for Elayne Boosler, they will be humiliated.[/quote]
So I'm safe with my vote for Chris Wylde, then?
Seriously, assuming there wasn't some other game show he hosted that I don't know about (and also excluding the well-knowns), Greg Proops.
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[quote name=\'Robert Hutchinson\' date=\'Mar 19 2005, 06:41 PM\']So I'm safe with my vote for Chris Wylde, then?
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Chris Wylde was great for the show he hosted, IMO. Taboo was a pretty off-the-wall show, and Wylde fit the bill nicely. It's a shame the show didn't last longer.
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[quote name=\'WhammyPower\' date=\'Mar 19 2005, 09:23 PM\']Hands-down, it HAS to be Tom Bergeron. (Unless AFV counts as a game show...)
P.S.... if anybody votes for Elayne Boosler, they will be humiliated.
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Oh come on...She's not my favorite one-shot host, but I think she does ok.
my pick is also John O'Hurley.
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Nick Clooney. I thought he had great enthusiasm on Money Maze and seeing him on AMC and the series "On Trial," he showed a serious side. I think he could have handled a WML or TTTT quite well.
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No question about it: my choice is Vin Scully from the original NBC "It Takes Two". If it hadn't been for his taking the job, I'd never even have heard of him or known he was a legendary sportscaster, at least maybe until he hosted his own CBS daytime talk show in 1973. He *made* ITT, along with the music.
If he hadn't been dismissed as a "failure" because his two daytime assignments didn't last long and went unseen in a number of local markets, he could have made a great moderator for "What's My Line?" or "To Tell The Truth" in their syndie runs.
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[quote name=\'DjohnsonCB\' date=\'Mar 19 2005, 10:20 PM\']he could have made a great moderator for "What's My Line?" or "To Tell The Truth" in their syndie runs.
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Never woulda happened. They taped in NY, right? Vin had a day job that required frequent travel and for him to be in LA most of the time....still does. :)
(You LA types: TELL me Vin still does a few innings of the Dodger game, at least.)
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Mar 19 2005, 09:53 PM\'](You LA types: TELL me Vin still does a few innings of the Dodger game, at least.)
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Vin still does entire Dodger games -- home games, at least. And when I say "entire," I mean there's no color commentator in the booth with him. Every time I watch a Dodgers game, I keep expecting someone else to start talking when Vin finishes a sentence, but nobody ever does.
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[quote name=\'trainman\' date=\'Mar 19 2005, 10:57 PM\'][quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Mar 19 2005, 09:53 PM\'](You LA types: TELL me Vin still does a few innings of the Dodger game, at least.)
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Vin still does entire Dodger games -- home games, at least. And when I say "entire," I mean he's the only one who talks...there's no color commentator in the booth with him.
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I love it. I remember back in the day he used to split the radio and TV duties with Ross Porter and Don Drysdale. We are blessed to have Dave Niehaus here in Seattle, but he's not Vin.
To get this tenuously back on-topic, I know someone who used to do run the sound board at what is now Fox's studio's in LA who had the privlege of working with Vin on some kind of baseball TV special they were doing. Vin was to be on set, by himself, telling some baseball stories, and they needed Vin's segment to time out something like ten minutes, no more or less, they needed an exact time. So my friend asks Vin how he would like to be cued...usually you would keep the talent aware of how much time was left in the segment pretty coninuously, or at least enough so they can keep track. Vin simply asked to be signaled when there were 30 and 15 seconds left, and he'd take care of the rest. Um, ok.
The punch line: He nailed it with the first take. Fade up on Vin, he starts waxing poetic for nine and a half minutes, show him 30, he starts to wrap, show him 15, he wraps up neatly and throws it to break. Just perfect.
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[quote name=\'WhammyPower\' date=\'Mar 19 2005, 09:23 PM\']P.S.... if anybody votes for Elayne Boosler, they will be humiliated.
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Oh, please. Elayne was fine as a host. And one of the nicest people I've ever met. No, I'm not biased... :D
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Since we're talkin' sportscasters like Vin Scully, I'll go with Dick Enberg from Sports Challenge as far as "one-show wonder host" goes. Though I haven't seen a lot of that show, from what I did see, Dick was concise & straight-foward.
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Bergeron.
The Chamber.
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Memory's failing me - did Gordon Elliott do any games other than TTTT90?
He did an excellent job there.
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[quote name=\'DjohnsonCB\' date=\'Mar 20 2005, 12:20 AM\']If he hadn't been dismissed as a "failure" because his two daytime assignments didn't last long and went unseen in a number of local markets, he could have made a great moderator for "What's My Line?" or "To Tell The Truth" in their syndie runs.
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Beside the Dodger commitments, Scully also lost his first wife between the runs of these two shows; she died of an accidental overdose of medicine she was taking for a bronchial condition at age 35. He's since remarried, but during the run of the talk show he was a single father.
Scully was quoted 10 years after his two shows ran in daytime saying he was glad he did them, but he'd hate to have to do them again.
Clooney also had another opportunity to host a game show after The Money Maze died off, and turned it down (http://\"http://www.cincypost.com/living/1998/cloon072298.html\").
Not everyone wants a second chance.
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[quote name=\'DrBear\' date=\'Mar 20 2005, 10:09 AM\']Memory's failing me - did Gordon Elliott do any games other than TTTT90?
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Indeed he did. It's Your Chance Of A Lifetime for one week during the summer of 2000. The expectations were high, the ratings were low, so FOX cancelled the show PLUS Greed out of spite for the genre. Buttmunches.
Gordon was the best host 90s TTTT had, though. As far as the balloting for the OP's query, I'll second the motion for Kevin O'Connell. I gather pilots don't count--just shows that made it on the air. SO KO fo' GO it is.
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[quote name=\'calliaume\' date=\'Mar 20 2005, 10:24 AM\']
Not everyone wants a second chance.
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Jim Peck did. :)
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[quote name=\'Craig Karlberg\' date=\'Mar 20 2005, 03:52 AM\']Since we're talkin' sportscasters like Vin Scully, I'll go with Dick Enberg from Sports Challenge as far as "one-show wonder host" goes. Though I haven't seen a lot of that show, from what I did see, Dick was concise & straight-foward.[/quote]
Enberg also hosted Three for the Money and Baffle. Thanks for playing, Craig.
If we're talking about hosts who hosted only one show in the U.S., I'd pick Bruce Forsyth. If not, I'll put my vote in for K.O.
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[quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'Mar 20 2005, 10:29 AM\'][quote name=\'DrBear\' date=\'Mar 20 2005, 10:09 AM\']Memory's failing me - did Gordon Elliott do any games other than TTTT90?
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Indeed he did. It's Your Chance Of A Lifetime for one week during the summer of 2000. The expectations were high, the ratings were low, so FOX cancelled the show PLUS Greed out of spite for the genre. Buttmunches.
Gordon was the best host 90s TTTT had, though.[/quote]
Follow up Q for those in the know (Stay out of it Horan).
The show that got Gordo in trouble was called "Get the Picture"....he had a deal with Fox to host this, and it died when he left (and broke the contract) to host TTTT...
Soon after, Get the Picture on Nickelodeon shows up....
Same show (but with kids)? Does anyone out there know the format?
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[quote name=\'tvwxman\' date=\'Mar 20 2005, 01:26 PM\']Same show (but with kids)? Does anyone out there know the format?
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From what I remember reading in Broadcasting & Cable magazine many moons ago, the format was very similar to what made it to Nick in '91, except it was two couples. I believe it was even created by one of the producers of the series who worked at Nickelodeon (not Geoffrey Darby, Marjorie.....something...) when they were co-producing Double Dare and Finders Keepers for syndication.
Tyshaun
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K.O. was good, but I gotta throw some support for Chuckie Willie Barris (I think that's the epitome of a one-shot).
Doug -- and the countdown to 1100 conitnues
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What about Kenny Mayne on "Two Minute Drill?" (If there's not another show I don't know about) I also will give a vote for Lew Schneider on "Make the Grade," but maybe that's a little skewed because of what we saw take over after he left.
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[quote name=\'tyshaun1\' date=\'Mar 20 2005, 03:04 PM\']... I believe [Get the Picture] was even created by one of the producers of the series who worked at Nickelodeon (not Geoffrey Darby, Marjorie.....something...) when they were co-producing Double Dare and Finders Keepers for syndication.
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[/quote]From someone who overdosed on Nickelodeon as a teenager, you're thinking of Marjorie Cohn. (BTW, happy belated 14th anniversary to GtP. :-) )
[quote name=\'HairMetalLives\' date=\'sig file\']"Boy would I like to go to Vegas with HER!" Laurie Faso speaking about a female contestant on I'm Telling! taken out of context.[/quote]That reminds me...no votes for Laurie Faso yet?! :-D Nah, I'm on the KO-for-GO bandwagon too.
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[quote name=\'SRIV94\' date=\'Mar 20 2005, 03:16 PM\']K.O. was good, but I gotta throw some support for Chuckie Willie Barris (I think that's the epitome of a one-shot).
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Not that Chuckie Baby didn't try again--with the pilot "The $1 Million Talent Show" in 1981 (yes, he was going to play it straight) and in the related department, "Comedy Court" in 1985 or so (well, he was the judge, but close enough).
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Enberg also hosted Three for the Money and Baffle.
As well as The Perfect Match.
Back on topic, I'd go w/O'Connell (gotta love that "K-O for G-O" sign-off!), Elliott, and Bergeron, myself.
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")
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[quote name=\'ChuckNet\' date=\'Mar 21 2005, 08:20 PM\']
Enberg also hosted Three for the Money and Baffle.
As well as The Perfect Match.
Back on topic, I'd go w/O'Connell (gotta love that "K-O for G-O" sign-off!), Elliott, and Bergeron, myself.
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")
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Elliott is not a one-shot host, remember. Although given his two GS hosting gigs lasted a grand total of nine or ten weeks, it feels like a one-shot.
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Neither is Tom Bergeron; he hosted a one-episode test run thing of a show named "Since You've Been Gone." Four people are socked away at a California resort for a week, then they come back to the studio and try to guess what things have happened in the world of current events. I enjoyed it, mostly for Bergeron than anything else.
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[quote name=\'TLEberle\' date=\'Mar 21 2005, 08:55 PM\']Neither is Tom Bergeron; he hosted a one-episode test run thing of a show named "Since You've Been Gone."
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Bergeron is a three-shot host(maybe 2.5-shot), as he co-hosted last September's Pepsi Play for a Billion 2 special.
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Chuck Barris in the Gong Show of course!!
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No doubt, it's gotta br Larry Toffler with syndicated Finder's Keepers. All of the Nick hosts back then just seemed to wanna be another Marc Summers, so they modeled their hosting style after his. Larry Toffler had his own hosting style, and I happened to like it. He should've hosted more kids' games after FK left the air.
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Lew Schnieder is one of my candidates, for sure. I'd suggest Kevin O'Connell but I haven't seen an episode of Go yet.
(I also haven't seen an episode of Chain Reaction, either. go figure.)
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Uncamark brought up something in another thread that made this one come to mind:
My pick, assuming we're gonna be hardass about Bergeron not counting because he did a pilot and Play For A Billion (and the pilot issue would disqualify Kevin O'Connell as well): Pat Kiernan from "Studio 7." I wouldn't put him on LMAD or anything, but for a show that required fast reading or a lot of hard knowledge, he proved himself very adept, while still bringing a razor-sharp wit to the party.
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Mar 22 2005, 12:32 PM\']Uncamark brought up something in another thread that made this one come to mind:
My pick, assuming we're gonna be hardass about Bergeron not counting because he did a pilot and Play For A Billion (and the pilot issue would disqualify Kevin O'Connell as well): Pat Kiernan from "Studio 7." I wouldn't put him on LMAD or anything, but for a show that required fast reading or a lot of hard knowledge, he proved himself very adept, while still bringing a razor-sharp wit to the party.
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Especially if he would be doing something more mainstream and not "Studio 7"'s "game show from the viewpoint of the contestant" conceit and letting him talk to the viewers when hosts usually talk to the viewers.
Hey, I was a little ticked when last time in New York, my hotel had DirecTV in the rooms, meaning no NY1 and no Pat in the morning. He provides a great alternative to the other wink-wink-nudge-nudge local morning shows (and the network shows, for that matter).
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Mar 22 2005, 12:32 PM\']Uncamark brought up something in another thread that made this one come to mind:
My pick, assuming we're gonna be hardass about Bergeron not counting because he did a pilot and Play For A Billion (and the pilot issue would disqualify Kevin O'Connell as well): Pat Kiernan from "Studio 7." I wouldn't put him on LMAD or anything, but for a show that required fast reading or a lot of hard knowledge, he proved himself very adept, while still bringing a razor-sharp wit to the party.
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I think you bring up an excellent point here, without realizing it (or do you?)
What do the three names above have in common? They're all from Local TV News. Years of practice on the local circuit , I think, gives them an ability to understand broadcasting...guide viewers through the half hour, and more importantly, get the hell out of the way and let the players be the real stars of the show....Folks with backgrounds in tv and radio have gone on to big success hosting game shows
Which is EXACTLY what many young comics/actors never learn. Patrick Wayne? Wil Shriner? Amazing Johnathan? Johnathan Prince? Nothing. Hell, even Bill Cosby didn't light tv on fire with YBYL.
Of course , there are notable exceptions. Let us never speak of Chuck Henry again (though he got a few shots at the pilot circuit, didn't he?)
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Elyane Boosler
Honorable Mention: Stubby Kaye
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Rich Fields
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One I remember posting from back in the A.T.G.S. days...
Bobcat Goldthwaite hosting "Password."
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On a similar tack....
"And here's the host and STAR of Match Game...Andrew "Dice" Clay!"
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Hey, I was a little ticked when last time in New York, my hotel had DirecTV in the rooms, meaning no NY1 and no Pat in the morning. He provides a great alternative to the other wink-wink-nudge-nudge local morning shows (and the network shows, for that matter).
I dunno...being up at 5 AM most of the wk for my radio station, we've got CNN Headline News fed into the studio TV, and Robin Meade seems to be quite good at giving me a much-needed jolt to get through the day. :-)
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")
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[quote name=\'alfonzos\' date=\'Mar 22 2005, 02:30 PM\']Elyane Boosler Honorable Mention: Stubby Kaye
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After some thought (I have no life) Mike Stokey
Honorable Mention: Elayne Boosler
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TonicBH already brought it up, but Lew Schnieder was one of the few bright spots of "Make the Grade". When he left for his short-lived show "Wish You Were Here" on CBS, "Make the Grade" went down the crapper. Seriously. The name "Robb Edward Morris" induces vomiting.
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[quote name=\'davewalls\' date=\'Mar 23 2005, 02:24 PM\']TonicBH already brought it up, but Lew Schnieder was one of the few bright spots of "Make the Grade". When he left for his short-lived show "Wish You Were Here" on CBS, "Make the Grade" went down the crapper. Seriously. The name "Robb Edward Morris" induces vomiting.
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And "Make the Grade" was a show where Nick didn't trust their instincts. Why do a show that pretended to be a serious Q&A where a player's *score* could be stolen by someone doing better at tossing balls at targets? It just seemed like that there was a rule at Nick where contestants had to cross from one end of the set to the other at least once a show and that physical elements had to be added whether necessary or not. And of course, Morris didn't help things, either.
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Yeah, put in another one for Lew Schneider. I thought he was pretty decent.
Another one would be Michael Carrington from "Think Fast"---not too wild [unlike his replacement], but not too droll either. IMO, kinda along the same lines of Schneider.
And I personally thought Elayne Boosler was pretty good on "Balderdash", too.
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I'm surprised nobody's mentioned the ULTIMATE one-shot host...
Jackie Gleason, "You're In The Picture."
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Well, since my pick (Tom Bergeron) went down the crapper like Twisters (Haha, there's a side joke on that), I'd have to go with Betty White.
Dishonorable mention: Rolf Benirschke
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[quote name=\'WhammyPower\' date=\'Mar 23 2005, 08:42 PM\']Well, since my pick (Tom Bergeron) went down the crapper like Twisters (Haha, there's a side joke on that), I'd have to go with Ahmad Rashad. (Second choice is Betty White, if Ahmad hosted something other than Celebrity Mole.)
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Caesar's Challenge. Thanks for playing; we have a case of Veg-All and a $25 Service Merchandise gift certificate for you...
I guess Nick Clooney's gone if we're counting pilots; he did one a year before The Money Maze. I guess I have to go with Bob and Ray.
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The guy who hosted [mouths the word "Peer"] Pressure.
Seriously though, I'll say Greg Lee from Carmen Sandiego. I could've swore he hosted something else, but I'm not sure if it was a game show.
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[quote name=\'Speedy G\' date=\'Mar 24 2005, 12:37 AM\']The guy who hosted [mouths the word "Peer"] Pressure.
Seriously though, I'll say Greg Lee from Carmen Sandiego. I could've swore he hosted something else, but I'm not sure if it was a game show.
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He certainly did: it was a variety show that ran on Nickelodeon called "Total Panic".
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[quote name=\'davemackey\' date=\'Mar 23 2005, 11:40 PM\'][quote name=\'Speedy G\' date=\'Mar 24 2005, 12:37 AM\']The guy who hosted [mouths the word "Peer"] Pressure.
Seriously though, I'll say Greg Lee from Carmen Sandiego. I could've swore he hosted something else, but I'm not sure if it was a game show.
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He certainly did: it was a variety show that ran on Nickelodeon called "Total Panic".
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AND he also did another game show, can't remember the title at the moment, but there was a page about it on [IIRC] Chuck Donegan's page.
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[quote name=\'Chief-O\' date=\'Mar 24 2005, 07:27 AM\'][quote name=\'davemackey\' date=\'Mar 23 2005, 11:40 PM\'][quote name=\'Speedy G\' date=\'Mar 24 2005, 12:37 AM\']The guy who hosted [mouths the word "Peer"] Pressure.
Seriously though, I'll say Greg Lee from Carmen Sandiego. I could've swore he hosted something else, but I'm not sure if it was a game show.
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He certainly did: it was a variety show that ran on Nickelodeon called "Total Panic".
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AND he also did another game show, can't remember the title at the moment, but there was a page about it on [IIRC] Chuck Donegan's page.
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Greg Lee also hosted the short-lived game show Nitro! c. 1995-96 on the now defunct(?) tv! Network.
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[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Mar 24 2005, 07:46 AM\']
Greg Lee also hosted the short-lived game show Nitro! c. 1995-96 on the now defunct(?) tv! Network.
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tv! is indeed history. It eventually changed its name to Intro TV, then went dark at the end of some year during the '90s. It was generally available on some cable systems like mine back in the days of 40-channel lineups, and provided a means for we viewers not fortunate enough to have a 70-something channel lineup, to experience two or three-hour block samplings of Disney, Cartoon Network and other niche channels we'd otherwise have zero access to.
Ah, those memories of Friday night prime time on Intro with pre-ubiquitous CN, the perfect place on their schedule for vintage Hanna-Barbera.