Author Topic: Rate-A-Canadian-Host (Read 2114 times)

The Ol' Guy · « **on:** May 08, 2012, 03:45:58 PM »

Not that long ago, I found a clip of Alex Trebek doing a bi-lingual quiz show. I can't believe what I just found. You might not, either. Trebek shares another career mark with Dick Clark, Wink Martindale, and Lloyd Thaxton.

http://www.cbc.ca/75/2011/08/who-is-alex-trebek.html

The inspiration for Rockin' Mel Slirrup?? Maybe he could have combined a couple of his early shows. A high schooler quiz on pop music - "Reach For The Hop"? (Never mind...)
and there's this in the article: "For one season in 1969, Trebek also hosted CBC's Strategy, a U.S.-style game show in which competing couples were the life-sized pawns on a floor-sized game board."
Something else to look up. Ahh...there we go. http://www.tvarchive.ca/database/18614/strategy/details/

DoItRockapella · « **Reply #1 on:** May 08, 2012, 04:06:04 PM »

Beat me to the punch - I was going to post that one.

My jaw dropped...but then again, this is the guy who was supposedly drunk on the final episode of High Rollers...

Kevin Prather · « **Reply #2 on:** May 08, 2012, 04:07:34 PM »

Quote from: DoItRockapella on May 08, 2012, 04:06:04 PM

My jaw dropped...but then again, this is the guy who was supposedly drunk on the final episode of High Rollers...

Aww...

TLEberle · « **Reply #3 on:** May 08, 2012, 04:15:00 PM »

Strategy seems to be an amalgam of Mad Dash and Parcheesi.

The Ol' Guy · « **Reply #4 on:** May 08, 2012, 04:54:18 PM »

By the way - just inserting the name Enright in the Canadian tv archives gives us at least a tiny bit more information on some of his post-scandal projects. Looks like elements of Joker, Make A Face and Double Exposure made their way into his stuff, apart from All About Faces.

http://www.tvarchive.ca/database/search-database/?q=Enright