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Title: Bob's retroactively-expanding career
Post by: dzinkin on June 16, 2007, 10:37:54 AM

Bob Barker hosted Match Game?  Hollywood Squares?  Family Feud?  The Tonight Show?

Bob Bids Goodbye to "Price" (http://\"http://www.nypost.com/seven/06162007/news/columnists/bob_bids_goodbye_to_price_columnists_adam_buckman.htm\")

Title: Bob's retroactively-expanding career
Post by: SamJ93 on June 16, 2007, 10:51:41 AM

Laughably typical of the Post's "reporting," as usual...he did appear as guests on all of those shows at some point, though, right? (MG, FF, Tattletales I'm sure of, and I imagine he was a guest on Carson at some point...was he ever on HS?)

--Sam

EDIT: And according to IMDb (admittedly not always the most reliable source), Barker guest-hosted one episode of "Tonight" on Feb. 25, 1966.

Title: Bob's retroactively-expanding career
Post by: aaron sica on June 16, 2007, 10:56:45 AM

[quote name=\'SamJ93\' post=\'155295\' date=\'Jun 16 2007, 10:51 AM\']
Laughably typical of the Post's "reporting," as usual...he did appear as guests on all of those shows at some point, though, right? (MG, FF, Tattletales I'm sure of, and I imagine he was a guest on Carson at some point...was he ever on HS?)

--Sam
[/quote]

TT I can credit the author for a small bit....I believe he hosted an episode or two when Bert and his wife played the game..

Title: Bob's retroactively-expanding career
Post by: dzinkin on June 16, 2007, 10:56:46 AM

[quote name=\'SamJ93\' post=\'155295\' date=\'Jun 16 2007, 10:51 AM\']
Laughably typical of the Post's "reporting," as usual...he did appear as guests on all of those shows at some point, though, right? (MG, FF, Tattletales I'm sure of, and I imagine he was a guest on Carson at some point...was he ever on HS?)
[/quote]
He was a guest on the Davidson HS for sure -- Janice and Dian were in another square the same week -- and GSN has rerun most if not all of the MG episodes that had him as a panelist.  I deliberately left out Tattletales because I knew he'd hosted at least one day while Bert Convy played (not that I think that occurred to Buckman).

Yeah, it's the Post, but I love it anyway.  (Heck, they published my letter yesterday... can't be all bad. ;-)

Title: Bob's retroactively-expanding career
Post by: mmb5 on June 16, 2007, 12:16:04 PM

[quote name=\'SamJ93\' post=\'155295\' date=\'Jun 16 2007, 10:51 AM\']
EDIT: And according to IMDb (admittedly not always the most reliable source), Barker guest-hosted one episode of "Tonight" on Feb. 25, 1966.
[/quote]
Yes, the IMDB does have its issues.

Anyway, I have a TV listing that confirms.  Guests were Cliff Arquette (aka Charley Weaver), Joe Garagiola, Early Brothers and Macdonald Carey.


--Mike

Title: Bob's retroactively-expanding career
Post by: Card Shark on June 16, 2007, 05:30:03 PM

Yes, he did. He also tried out for the infamous 1982 version of Card Sharks; the one in which polls of 100 people were suddenly introduced.