Celebrity regulars who died durring their runs

[rugrats1]

[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.

[SRIV94]

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 is accurate.

[TimK2003]

Wally Cox & Charlie Weaver from the original Hollywood Squares.

[Matt Ottinger]

[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?

[clemon79]

[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?

[RMF]

[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)

[AZAndrewG]

[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?