Same show, different host

[snowpeck]

Check with David Gleason\'s Broadcasting archive, but Ray was named host of the syndie version by NATPE 1988, perhaps as early as December 1987 after NBC\'s O&O 7:30pm sitcom checkerboard totally flopped and FF was named the replacement.

 

Earliest mention of Combs I can find is pg.86 in the August 17, 1987 issue.  That\'s right August 17, 1987.

 

Although all I can access are the previews on the search page, Variety\'s earliest mention of Combs and Feud is at least August 5, 1987, and possibly as early as July 8. The August date definitely mentions Combs as \"Richard Dawson\'s replacement.\"  On the July date, there\'s a mention that a new version of Feud is being prepped for fall 1988, and the article does turn up when \"Combs\" and \"Feud\" are both in the search box, but Combs\' name isn\'t specifically in the article preview.

[calliaume]

 

 

Well, okay, I\'ll take his word for it, except that between Sept 75 and Jan 77, he was working not for Bob Stewart, but Chuck Barris.

 

 

What about http://www.usgameshows.net/x.php?show=ShootTheWorks&sort=0\'>Shoot the Works? It was a Stewart pilot, and it seems to roughly correspond with the time frame.

 

Loyalty is loyalty, but I would have gone with Goodson and the Feud and let Bill Cullen host StW.

 

That was the tail end of the Lin Bolen era (and then Madeline David) - it may be possible Bill was considered \"too old\" to host at that point.  (He did no NBC daytime games between Winning Streak and Chain Reaction, and only had two short-run games on ABC and CBS during that time.)

[colonial]

Regarding Combs vs. Namath as the host of Feud 88....

 

In author Mark Kriegel\'s Namath biography, \"Feud\" producer Howard Felsher says that he approached Namath about being Dawson\'s replacement, and he did a few trial runs.  According to Felsher, Namath was \"charming\" and \"brought such a feeling of innocence\" to hosting the show, and he was offered the job with a $25,000 signing bonus.  However, Felsher claims that Mark Goodson (who Kriegel refers to as \"Bill Goodson\") got \"cold feet\" and wanted a \"more erudite\" host, so Namath was dropped from consideration.

 

JD