[quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'Jun 2 2005, 01:02 PM\']The same question could be asked about some announcers, producers or directors dismissed early in their show's tenure.
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Bob Hastings on "Dealer's Choice" was (and still is) a fine actor but he had no idea how to host a game show. Constant hyperactivity burns viewers out as well. Jack Clark brought things down to earth and the show prospered under his watch.
There was a different director for the first episode of "What's My Line?", Paul Monroe, who was replaced two weeks later on the second episode with Franklin Heller, who directed most of the rest of the run (with the exception of a handful of Frank Satenstein and Paul Alter fill-ins).
Doug: yes, there was indeed a power struggle between Barris and Bearde, so much so that Barris eventually had all traces of Bearde removed from the program. It also explains why Gary Owens found himself out of the syndicated "Gong" hosting job at the end of the 1976-1977 syndicated season. According to an article I had read somewhere, Chuck had noted in the termination letter that Owens was at a disadvantage hosting a show that was destined to be hosted by its creator - namely Chuck Barris (which may also explain Barbour).