Has anyone here seen this one...

[gamed121683]

"Mr. 2 & 2" himself Chuck Woolery is now doing informericals (I'm not sure if I should call this "selling out"). I know there's that one he's doing about a diet pill in the form of a talk show ("The Not That Late Show", ha!) now there's this new one I've see about e-power Profits. Which is about how to make a goldmine on Ebay. Any insomniacs out there seen this one?

[adamjk]

I've seen some of these. I have also seen a ad for absopure water.

[irismason42]

And also, years ago Jim Caldwell also did some informercials with the tools.

[rugrats1]

For more examples of game show hosts doing infomercials, see these earlier threads:

http://gameshow.ipbhost.com/index.php?show...hl=infomercials

http://gameshow.ipbhost.com/index.php?show...hl=infomercials

[adamjk]

I know Bob Barker did a few commercials in the 80's, not unlike the one seen in I love the 80's strikes back: 1985

[Dbacksfan12]

[quote name=\'gamed121683\' date=\'Mar 11 2004, 05:14 AM\'] "Mr. 2 & 2" himself Chuck Woolery is now doing informericals (I'm not sure if I should call this "selling out"). I know there's that one he's doing about a diet pill in the form of a talk show ("The Not That Late Show", ha!) now there's this new one I've see about e-power Profits. Which is about how to make a goldmine on Ebay. Any insomniacs out there seen this one? [/quote]
Mariann Curan, host of "Super Decades" was seen in the "60s Gold" collection by Time Life music with Davy Jones of the Monkees.

But if you didn't know that game show hosts were hosts of infomercails...uhh...Woolery left Wheel.

[BrandonFG]

C. 1998, Bob Eubanks did an infomercial for some kind of motor oil.

From time to time, you can catch Dick Clark doing infomercials for Time Life music CDs...music from the 60s or so.

Then there's Monty Hall's LMAD infomercials from the early-90s.

[Craig Karlberg]

I saw the LMAD one where he was promoting the phone game.  Naturally, I fell for it.  Didn't quite get very far on that one.  Kindof a lame idea at that time.

[whewfan]

[quote name=\'gamed121683\' date=\'Mar 11 2004, 05:14 AM\'] "Mr. 2 & 2" himself Chuck Woolery is now doing informericals (I'm not sure if I should call this "selling out"). I know there's that one he's doing about a diet pill in the form of a talk show ("The Not That Late Show", ha!) [/quote]
 Chuck was likely paid in cash.... and cash is as good as money.

[adamjk]

Ah, the great Yogi Berra is among us.

[Chelsea Thrasher]

Are you sure that Mr. Woolery wasn't paid in Chuck bucks? :-P

(ducking)

[Jim]

1.) Art Fleming did an infomercial for a "buy real estate with no money down" system a few years before he died.  Art sat in a TV control room and discussed the wonderful benefits of his sponsor's system and introduced testimonials.
2.) Joe "stop calling me Gene" Farago of Break the Bank fame has done infomercials for cleaning products and broiler ovens.

[ChuckNet]

Pat Finn also did infomercials for a travel company in the mid-90s, and we all know about Jim Caldwell's gigs hawking Rotozip tools and other not-sold-in-stores products.

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")

[irismason42]

And Regis Philbin did an informercial for Time Life Records devoted to the '50s and '60s tunes.

[mystery7]

Pat Finn and Jim Caldwell actually own marketing companies that produce infomercials. Pat's is called In-Finn-ity Direct (his hyphens, not mine), and Jim's is called Future Thunder. I've run a few of their infomercials on my station. I remember one 'mercial where Caldwell got burnt with a laser as they demonstrated how tough some kind of car wax was.

Last time I saw a host do an infomercial, it was Bob Eubanks on a Red Skelton video collection, around the early part of '04.