To this day I regret not having suggested Dick Gautier for Mindreaders. The game itself still would have sucked but the overall show would have sucked a little less sans Dick Martin. Dick did a fair job in office run-thrus but once in the studio he became a deer in the headlights.
I'm really surprised more episodes of
It's Your Bet (which Gautier hosted from 1970-71) haven't popped up somewhere. Those tapes were bicycled all over the country and continued airing after the show went out of production, so it's not like they all ended up in the East River. But since nobody's come forward to say they have a few in the basement, there's no evidence (and thus no real way of judging) if he could host a game show.
When people think of Gautier, the reaction is often, "Yeah, he was Hymie the Robot in
Get Smart." But he only appeared in six of the 138 episodes -- I'm not even sure you could call that recurring. He did have opening title credits in three sitcoms between 1967 and 1975, but none made it through one full season. I guess after that the phone stopped ringing as much.