Author Topic: 5 Oldest Hosts (Read 3241 times)

Jimmy Owen · « **on:** February 05, 2004, 01:03:04 PM »

I would guess Art Linkletter and Ralph Edwards are there but who else? Bob Elliott? Walter Cronkite? Mike Wallace? Would Barker be in the the top 5? top 10?

Neumms · « **Reply #1 on:** February 05, 2004, 01:53:40 PM »

Presuming you mean oldest now, not when they hosted. . . Jack Narz hosted "Dotto" in the 50s. He must be on the list, if not brother Tom Kennedy as well.

calliaume · « **Reply #2 on:** February 05, 2004, 03:33:01 PM »

[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Feb 5 2004, 01:03 PM\'] I would guess Art Linkletter and Ralph Edwards are there but who else? Bob Elliott? Walter Cronkite? Mike Wallace? Would Barker be in the the top 5? top 10? [/quote]
Monty Hall's 80 or older. Dick Clark's up there, of course. How old is Joe Garagiola?

It would be interesting to ask the five oldest hosts while they were hosting. I'm just taking guesses, but...

Barker, TPIR
Regis, Millionaire
Dick Clark, Winning Lines
Marshall, Reel to Reel Picture Show
Groucho, Tell It to Groucho

Neumms · « **Reply #3 on:** February 05, 2004, 04:12:59 PM »

[quote name=\'calliaume\' date=\'Feb 5 2004, 03:33 PM\']
It would be interesting to ask the five oldest hosts while they were hosting. I'm just taking guesses, but...

Barker, TPIR
Regis, Millionaire
Dick Clark, Winning Lines
Marshall, Reel to Reel Picture Show
Groucho, Tell It to Groucho [/quote]
Eubanks, on the newest of the new Newlywed Games

Wink on "Debt."

Perhaps John Daly or Bud Collyer (not sure if Collyer was that old when he passed away)

chris319 · « **Reply #4 on:** February 05, 2004, 05:52:33 PM »

We assume you mean oldest living emcees?

Monty Hall is up there.

calliaume · « **Reply #5 on:** February 05, 2004, 06:06:02 PM »

[quote name=\'chris319\' date=\'Feb 5 2004, 05:52 PM\'] We assume you mean oldest living emcees?

Monty Hall is up there. [/quote]
Monty's 82 now -- he was 69 when the 1990-91 version of LMaD closed shop.

Barker -- 80
Regis -- 72 (for the new version of Millionaire
Clark -- 70 (Winning Lines)
Marshall -- 68 (Reel to Reel Picture Show)
Groucho -- 71 (Tell It to Groucho)
Eubanks -- 61 (The Newlywed Game 1998-99 -- of course, I'm dubious he was 28 when the show started)
Daly -- 63
Wink -- 63 (Debt)
Collyer -- 60
Bill Cullen -- 66 (The Joker's Wild)
Tom Kennedy -- 60 (Wordplay)
Garry Moore -- 61 (To Tell the Truth)
Richard Dawson -- 63

All ages from IMDB. There are a couple of other folk I wanted to check whose names are escaping me (EDIT -- Gene Rayburn, 72 (The Movie Masters). Actually, isn't Alex Trebek 62 or so now?

Kevin Prather · « **Reply #6 on:** February 05, 2004, 06:12:06 PM »

Regis is 70 now. He'll be 71 in August.

Jimmy Owen · « **Reply #7 on:** February 05, 2004, 07:08:45 PM »

[quote name=\'chris319\' date=\'Feb 5 2004, 05:52 PM\'] We assume you mean oldest living emcees?

Monty Hall is up there. [/quote]
Yes, emcees who are still alive. Otherwise, Warren Hull would probably be tops. Regis looks good for 70.

zachhoran · « **Reply #8 on:** February 05, 2004, 07:42:05 PM »

[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Feb 5 2004, 07:08 PM\']
Yes, emcees who are still alive. Otherwise, Warren Hull would probably be tops. [/quote]
Groucho was born several years before Warren Hull.

zachhoran · « **Reply #9 on:** February 05, 2004, 07:43:13 PM »

[quote name=\'calliaume\' date=\'Feb 5 2004, 06:06 PM\'] Actually, isn't Alex Trebek 62 or so now? [/quote]
He's 63, Chuck Woolery is 62 or 63, and Maury Povich was 61 when he did Twenty One in 2000.

zachhoran · « **Reply #10 on:** February 05, 2004, 07:45:21 PM »

[quote name=\'calliaume\' date=\'Feb 5 2004, 03:33 PM\'] How old is Joe Garagiola?

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I think he was 60 or 61 at the time he did Strike it Rich in 1986-87, which means he's 77 or 78. Will he be doing commentary on the Westminster Kennel Dog Show coverage on USA as he has in recent years, or have they gone for a younger voice on that too?

clemon79 · « **Reply #11 on:** February 05, 2004, 09:05:54 PM »

[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Feb 5 2004, 05:45 PM\'] [quote name=\'calliaume\' date=\'Feb 5 2004, 03:33 PM\'] How old is Joe Garagiola?

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I think he was 60 or 61 at the time he did Strike it Rich in 1986-87, which means he's 77 or 78. Will he be doing commentary on the Westminster Kennel Dog Show coverage on USA as he has in recent years, or have they gone for a younger voice on that too? [/quote]
His birthday is in exactly one week, February 12, 1926, upon which he will turn 78 years old. So he's 77 now.

Anyone opening a silly Happy Birthday thread for him at that time will be beaten with a hammer.

Don Howard · « **Reply #12 on:** February 05, 2004, 11:26:39 PM »

[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Feb 5 2004, 09:05 PM\'] [quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Feb 5 2004, 05:45 PM\'] [quote name=\'calliaume\' date=\'Feb 5 2004, 03:33 PM\'] How old is Joe Garagiola?

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I think he was 60 or 61 at the time he did Strike it Rich in 1986-87, which means he's 77 or 78. Will he be doing commentary on the Westminster Kennel Dog Show coverage on USA as he has in recent years, or have they gone for a younger voice on that too? [/quote]
His birthday is in exactly one week, February 12, 1926, upon which he will turn 78 years old. So he's 77 now.

Anyone opening a silly Happy Birthday thread for him at that time will be beaten with a hammer. [/quote]
Get the hammer ready. I know you'll need it.

Esoteric Eric · « **Reply #13 on:** February 06, 2004, 12:16:48 AM »

[quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'Feb 5 2004, 08:26 PM\'][quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Feb 5 2004, 09:05 PM\'] [quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Feb 5 2004, 05:45 PM\'] [quote name=\'calliaume\' date=\'Feb 5 2004, 03:33 PM\'] How old is Joe Garagiola?

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I think he was 60 or 61 at the time he did Strike it Rich in 1986-87, which means he's 77 or 78. Will he be doing commentary on the Westminster Kennel Dog Show coverage on USA as he has in recent years, or have they gone for a younger voice on that too? [/quote]
His birthday is in exactly one week, February 12, 1926, upon which he will turn 78 years old. So he's 77 now.

Anyone opening a silly Happy Birthday thread for him at that time will be beaten with a hammer. [/quote]
Get the hammer ready. I know you'll need it.[/quote]
As the guy who started the HB thread for Dick Clark on 11/30 of last year, you all have my solemn promise that I won't repeat the process for Joe G., Sr.

Esoteric Eric... Besides, I pay tribute to Joe every day... with my hairstyle ((8=D))*

*[Keith Olbermann] "(I)f you're scoring at home, or even if you're all by yourself..." [/KO] it's bald head, eyebrows (almost touching), eyeglasses, nose, smile, chin, and chin v2.0...

ChrisLambert! · « **Reply #14 on:** February 06, 2004, 08:20:11 AM »

At the risk of invoking a reality game, Rudy Boesch was the figurehead "host" of USA's "Combat Missions" at the age of 73 or 74.