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edholland83

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Who's the best host?
« on: July 15, 2003, 06:59:51 PM »
This was a question in which, you could use your own judgement, most of the game show hosts that we speak of on these boards have one-time or another held the hosting reigns of at least one Goodson-Todman game show, and I wanted to get everybody's opinion, I myself am unsure of who I would choose, so I will say Peter Marshall.

If someone could, correct me if Marshall has hosted a G/T game
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CherryPizza

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« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2003, 07:01:13 PM »
That's easy...

GUY SMILEY!
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Jimmy Owen

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« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2003, 07:04:15 PM »
My favorite non-GT host is Jim Peck.
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MCArroyo1

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« Reply #3 on: July 15, 2003, 07:08:45 PM »
I'll catch some heat for this, but after seeing Nick Clooney on one episode of \"The Money Maze,\" I thought he did a terrific job.  But all of the above were great, too.
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clemon79

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« Reply #4 on: July 15, 2003, 07:12:47 PM »
Jim Perry and Chuck Woolery are the two names that came immediately to my mind, but then I remembered Card Sharks, which of course disqualifies Perry. Peter Tomarken is a third.

Ultimately I'd have to go with Woolery, then Tomarken, that order.
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Steve_Bier

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« Reply #5 on: July 15, 2003, 07:28:26 PM »
You know...this is going to sound crazy, but if I never paid attention to the credits, I'd swear that Press Your Luck could come off as being a G/T production.

Just an extremely random thought, since we're on the topic of untapped G/T hosts...
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zachhoran

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« Reply #6 on: July 15, 2003, 07:32:16 PM »
Woolery, Marshall, Peck, et al are up on there on the best non-GT host scale, but we've forgotten our newsgroup friend Geoff Edwards(though he was among the considerations for Feud before Dawson got the gig), and Wink Martindale, who I believe with 33 years between the premiere of What's This Song on NBC and the ending of Debt on Lifetime, has the longest hosting career without ever doing anything G-T.


Tom Bergeron among the more recent stable of hosts.
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Brandon Brooks

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« Reply #7 on: July 15, 2003, 07:48:49 PM »
[quote name=\'Steve_Bier\' date=\'Jul 15 2003, 06:28 PM\'] You know...this is going to sound crazy, but if I never paid attention to the credits, I'd swear that Press Your Luck could come off as being a G/T production.
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 I'd agree.  It had a decent amount of quality to it.  I love Pyramid, but I couldn't say it had the same quality, most notably in the beginning of the run.

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Kevin Prather

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« Reply #8 on: July 15, 2003, 08:12:10 PM »
did Dick Clark host any G-T shows?
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PeterMarshallFan

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« Reply #9 on: July 15, 2003, 08:15:46 PM »
[quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Jul 15 2003, 07:12 PM\'] did Dick Clark host any G-T shows? [/quote]
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Grant78898

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« Reply #10 on: July 15, 2003, 10:17:34 PM »
Peter Tomarken!
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SplitSecond

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« Reply #11 on: July 15, 2003, 10:27:01 PM »
Grant, to the viewing public, you are right.

However, Peter hosted a pilot for Goodson around 1990 called \"TKO\", that involved contestants answering Blockbusters Gold Run-style questions in order to get the right to knock money out of their opponents' scores.  There was a piece done on the pilot either as part of a segment or one of a series of segments about game shows for an L.A.-area TV magazine show.
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PeterMarshallFan

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« Reply #12 on: July 15, 2003, 10:28:28 PM »
[quote name=\'Grant78898\' date=\'Jul 15 2003, 09:17 PM\'] Peter Tomarken! [/quote]


I agree with you, Grant.

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zachhoran

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« Reply #13 on: July 15, 2003, 11:02:34 PM »
\"Splitsecond\", whomever this person is, seems really to know their stuff. The person seems to want to go incognito around here, but is this person someone who actually worked on one of the versions of SS or any other game shows?
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SplitSecond

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« Reply #14 on: July 15, 2003, 11:51:52 PM »
I've worked in game shows, but not on Split Second.  I am merely a big fan of that show.
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