[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Jan 8 2004, 07:27 AM\'] [quote name=\'gsgalaxy82\' date=\'Jan 8 2004, 02:13 AM\'] For anyone interested,
Celebrity Sweepstakes host Jim McKrell will do a two episode guest apperance on reruns of
Dallas on Soapnet, ABC's 24 hour soap opera network, Thursday and Friday, at 1 pm and 6 pm (same episode at both times). The episodes aired in January of 1982, quite awhile after his last game show gig I believe. He did try and start a acting career sometime after that, from what I've heard.
Thought I'd pass it along!
David [/quote]
Later in the 80s, he did a small role in Michael J. Fox's Teen WOlf movie and as a game show host on an episode of the GOlden Girls, as well as doing a few unsold GS pilots and his Sweethearts and Couch POtatoes announcing gigs. [/quote]
Here's his
IMDB list.
I've been lucky enough to have occasional contact with Jim (although we haven't touched base in awhile) -- he got in touch with me after finding my
Celebrity Sweepstakes page and had some contributions and corrections. (That page has been a magnet; Ralph Andrews and a Burt Sugarman representative found it, too!)
The reason he didn't do as much hosting after
Celebrity Sweepstakes ended was because he wanted to give acting a whirl, and NBC wouldn't let him do both. (He doesn't know why, either.) He actually got a hint the show would end sooner than anyone else; not long after buying a new house in 1976, NBC contacted him about hosting a new pilot -- never a good sign.
Anyway, last I heard he was still living and working in Houston. Good guy.
And on to the question everyone asks: he doesn't have any more
Celebrity Sweepstakes episodes than the rest of us do.