Peter Tomarken On Yet Another Infomercial

[Don Howard]

I tend to think of Jim Caldwell and Joe Farago as infomercial hosts who happened to host a game show once.

[Radiofreewill]

[quote name=\'cmjb13\' date=\'Sep 28 2003, 06:50 AM\'] [quote name=\'Mike Tennant\' date=\'Sep 27 2003, 09:09 PM\'] I seem to recall reading that one Jim Caldwell also made some (Tic Tac) Dough doing infomercials in recent years. [/quote]
He did.

For Durashine (car wax) and some handheld drill. [/quote]
 I remember the Durashine one (poor Jim got a little too close to a laser used to prove the product's durability IIRC). It used to run on Speed Channel Sunday mornings.

[zachhoran]

[quote name=\'rugrats1\' date=\'Sep 27 2003, 06:03 PM\'] We shouldn't forget Dick Clark either -- I've seen him on at least 2 different infomercials, plugging rechargable alkaline batteries (made by Buddy L -- the toy car people) in one, and selling a greatest rock & roll hits collection (by Time-Life, of course) in another. [/quote]
 Dick also did an infomercial on a self-help relationship course with lecturer Gary Smalley in the early 90s.

[zachhoran]

[quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'Sep 27 2003, 03:01 PM\']
Peter Marshall also hosted one with Carleton. And let me say this about that one. If someone had knocked Peter's script pages to the ground, he would have been hopelessly lost. While watching that, I thought, "So that's why he got kicked off 3rd Degree".
 [/quote]
 Peter also did an infomercial for the $50K Phone Trivia game in 1990, Wink Martindale did an infomercial for a $25K Phone trivia contest around the same time.

Alex(Worldvision charitable organization) Trebek drank some Molsons while taping a Phone Jeopardy! infomercial in 1990(or was it just a two minute commercial)

[rugrats1]

Alex(Worldvision charitable organization) Trebek...

He wasn't the first game show host to do TV specials for religious organisations (they were alot of them on the dial in the 1970s and 1980s); I have a 1/24/1981 San Diego \"Tv Guide\" that had an ad for \"Battle For Africa\", which deals with the effort to promote Christianity in Africa. I don't know the organisation responsible (neither ad nor listings say), but the ad said the special was hosted by Jim McKrell (\"Celebrity Sweepstakes\").

Of course, McKrell was also the host of the busted \"Genesis\" pilot on Pax.

[PeterTomarkensGal]

Here's page 1 of the pix....

http://www.geocities.com/tapgirl111/alphacalm1.html

[TimK2003]

[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Sep 30 2003, 05:34 PM\'] [quote name=\'rugrats1\' date=\'Sep 27 2003, 06:03 PM\'] We shouldn't forget Dick Clark either -- I've seen him on at least 2 different infomercials, plugging rechargable alkaline batteries (made by Buddy L -- the toy car people) in one, and selling a greatest rock & roll hits collection (by Time-Life, of course) in another. [/quote]
Dick also did an infomercial on a self-help relationship course with lecturer Gary Smalley in the early 90s. [/quote]
 Dick has been doing a lot of radio spots lately as well.  

In the So. Cal. area, he is spokesperson for a new gambling casino near San Diego (no word if this place has an abundance of Pyramid, American Bandstand & New Year's Rockin Eve slots), while nationwide he is endorsing one of those adjustable mattress beds.

Has anyone else hawked products on the radio airwaves outside of doing spots on their radio shows?

Not sure if this was already mentioned, but Regis has done an infomercial for Time-Life hawking big-band era songs from the 40s & 50s.

[ChuckNet]

Also, Pat Finn did an infomercial around 95-96 for some travel company.

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")