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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: wdm1219inpenna on April 20, 2025, 07:52:49 AM
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This Easter Sunday 2025 while still reeling from the sudden death of Wink Martindale who did Gambit on CBS from 1972-1976, I was working on compiling a list of daytime game show hosts that are still with us who appeared on the three major network daytime game shows (not syndicated), and this is what my research has come up with. Please feel free to add to it or to offer any corrections.
Bob Eubanks ABC, CBS, NBC Many including The Newlywed Game, Card Sharks, Dream House
Kevin O'Connell NBC Go
Pat Sajak NBC Wheel Of Fortune
Jim McKrell NBC Celebrity Sweepstakes
Ross Shafer ABC Match Game '90
Jon "Bowser" Bauman NBC Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour
Jim Peck ABC The Big Showdown
Nick Clooney ABC The Moneymaze
Ahmad Rashad NBC Caesar's Challenge
John Davidson NBC Time Machine
Vicki Lawrence Shultz NBC Win, Lose or Draw
Chuck Henry CBS Now You See It
Bob Goen CBS, NBC Blackout, Wheel Of Fortune
Rolf Benirschke NBC Wheel Of Fortune
Johnny Gilbert ABC, NBC Music Bingo
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I believe Drew Carey and Wayne Brady are still with us.
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Bill Anderson and Sarah Purcell from The Better Sex are both still with us.
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Woody Woodbury of "Who Do You Trust" after Carson
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Woody Woodbury of "Who Do You Trust" after Carson
Yes. According to Wiki, he's 101, probably the oldest host still among us.
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Dick Van Dyke hosted Mother’s Day for ABC.
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Under fill-in hosts, you can add Jamie Farr when he filled in for Tom Kennedy on Wordplay.
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Bob Hilton is still going.
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From NBC'S 90S To Tell the truth. Gordon Elliott and Lynn Swann still alive according to Wikipefia.
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Paul Petersen, who hosted the last few months of "Dream Girl of '67" for ABC in 1967.
Al Hamel, who hosted "Wedding Party" for ABC in 1968.
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Marjorie Goodson is still living and in fact active on social media
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Vanna White NBC CBS Wheel still living
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Jamie Farr who subbed on Wordplay is still living
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Well as far as hosts, I know Vanna is deemed one of the "stars" of Wheel, but by that same token, you could also list a plethora of former Price is Right models too along with Carol Merrill from the early days of Let's Make A Deal.
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Jamie Farr who subbed on Wordplay is still living
Can you please put your thoughts in one post?
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Jamie Farr who subbed on Wordplay is still living
Can you please put your thoughts in one post?
Sure but sometimes things just get into my head. But ur right I should have modified it. I did not think of it
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Jamie Farr who subbed on Wordplay is still living
Can you please put your thoughts in one post?
Sure but sometimes things just get into my head. But ur right I should have modified it. I did not think of it
You also don’t read before you post either, because someone already mentioned Jamie Farr. Not the first time for that either.
I think Bill is right to want to contain this to hosts; if we don’t then the list just gets incredibly long and full of assistants and models. And while there’s nothing wrong with that, the idea was to drive home the point that there aren’t as many of the older school left still with us now that we’ve lost Wink Martindale on top of guys like Peter Marshall and Chuck Woolery.
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From NBC'S 90S To Tell the truth. Gordon Elliott and Lynn Swann still alive according to Wikipefia.
You can put an asterisk (*) next to Richard Kline for the "accidental" NBC pilot airing of To Tell The Truth.
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Someone I forgot earlier: Leslie Uggams, depending on how much you consider “Fantasy” a game show.
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Someone I forgot earlier: Leslie Uggams, depending on how much you consider “Fantasy” a game show.
She was terrific in American Fiction, a really good movie. I hadn’t seen her in anything for ages.
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Under fill-in hosts, you can add Jamie Farr when he filled in for Tom Kennedy on Wordplay.
Same goes for Sally Struthers who subbed for Vicki Lawrence on Daytime WLOD
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Marjorie Goodson is still living and in fact active on social media
I don't consider her a host, but she's definitely a Mark Goodson production. ;D (ducks)
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Also add to the "more of a co-host than model/assistant" -- Ruta Lee on High Rollers.