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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: Skynet74 on March 28, 2004, 03:34:47 AM
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Here is a new feature I'm bringing to you. It's Called "Where Are They Now?"
Let's start with that Beautiful female voice you may remember from the 1980's. She was the announcer for the New CrossWits. It's been 18 years since many have even given her a single thought. Well now it's time to think. Let's take a look at where Michelle Roth is today. http://www.lite927.com/docs/talent_michelle.html (http://\"http://www.lite927.com/docs/talent_michelle.html\")
John
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Thanks for the update on Michelle's whereabouts. A nice lady - we worked together briefly in the early 80s producing some of the very first hotel in-room promo channels ("Welcome to Hilton... while in town eat here... when you leave, stay at another Hilton...").
I'm sure someone will be confused by the fact that she shares the name Michelle Roth with another lady of similar age, one of the sweetest people in game shows. This MR grew up in the biz, waving audience applause as a teenager for Gene Wood at Dawson's first run of Feud. Last I saw her, this Michelle was working at Karn's Feud a season or two ago. She's done everything from wrangling contestants to stand-in to writing. And since she's Mark Goodson's niece (a fact she never mentions) she has every great story about all the people and things we love. A really lovely and good hearted pro.
Randy
tvrandywest.com
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Almost all the Nickelodeon Game Show hosts (save for Mike O'Malley and Marc Summers) could definitely classify as "Where are they now?", along with their announcers.
(Whatever happened to Henry J, the announcer for the Lackey era of Think Fast and GTP?)
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Almost all the Nickelodeon Game Show hosts (save for Mike O'Malley and Marc Summers) could definitely classify as "Where are they now?", along with their announcers.
Lew Schnieder: exec. producer of Everybody Loves Raymond
Phil Moore: Still a comedian, I guess
Michael Carrington: comedy writer
Wesley Eure: children's writer
Larry Toffler: actor, screenplay writer
Maria Milito: New York radio personality
Skip Lackey: still acting?? [I may have the opportunity to get in contact with him, so this stays a question until I know for sure]
Harvey: field reporter for Trading Spaces, last I heard
Doc Holliday: radio host in Florida
Joe Conklin: Pennsylvania-based comedian
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I'm sure someone will be confused by the fact that she shares the name Michelle Roth with another lady of similar age, one of the sweetest people in game shows.
And *that* Michele Roth (she has one less "L") can be seen on page 102 of Jefferson Graham's book "Come On Down". She is the Card Sharks staffer holding the sign "Look Here And Smile". She was also featured on one of the pilots for To Tell The Truth '90 in a One On One segment. She is a "screamer" for the movies, dubbing in screaming for Kate Capshaw in Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom, for example. I don't recall if they ever used her on an aired show. And I concur she is a wonderful person.
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>> Harvey: field reporter for Trading Spaces, last I heard
Senior producer, actually, just below Tom Farrell.
Seems we forgot Robb Edward Morris. I think I read that he's a theater actor somewhere? As for Larry Toffler, I'm surprised no one wrote "game show contestant" in there as well. And Joe Conklin....well, there's this site. (http://\"http://www.sportsjoker.com\")
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[quote name=\'Chief-O\' date=\'Mar 28 2004, 12:12 PM\'] Seems we forgot Robb Edward Morris. I think I read that he's a theater actor somewhere? [/quote]
Well, his last television/movie/whatever appearance was in a small role in the 1994 movie "China Moon", so his current whereabouts are unknown.
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[quote name=\'TonicBH\' date=\'Mar 28 2004, 10:49 PM\'] [quote name=\'Chief-O\' date=\'Mar 28 2004, 12:12 PM\'] Seems we forgot Robb Edward Morris. I think I read that he's a theater actor somewhere? [/quote]
Well, his last television/movie/whatever appearance was in a small role in the 1994 movie "China Moon", so his current whereabouts are unknown. [/quote]
His current whereabouts are unknown...TO YOU. And unless you work for the FBI or something, it really doesn't matter much whether you know where he is. AND if all you can be bothered to do is check the IMDB -- after being TOLD he has a theater career that the IMDB doesn't cover, I don't think the FBI will be looking to hire you any time soon.
The most BASIC Google search shows references to stage work on such shows as Cats, Saturday Night Fever and Miss Saigon in the last decade. Further, when you drop the "Edward", the very first hit gives a pretty useful bio that, if up-to-date, tells us he's currently in Germany.
http://www.sandiford.de/RobbMorrisBio.htm (http://\"http://www.sandiford.de/RobbMorrisBio.htm\")
And look, pictures!
http://mitglied.lycos.de/musicalgirl86/die_casts.htm (http://\"http://mitglied.lycos.de/musicalgirl86/die_casts.htm\")
I guess my point is that I've never even HEARD of the guy, and it took me about five minutes to find this stuff out. If you're not even going to bother checking, don't bother posting either.
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Two others still not mentioned: Summer Sanders, last seen on NBA Inside Stuff (did she survive the transition from NBC to ESPN?) and Kirk Fogg. I got reminded of him when I found a couple eps of Legends of the Hidden Temple on a Beta tape I just transferred to VHS.
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[quote name=\'GS Warehouse\' date=\'Mar 28 2004, 10:02 PM\'] Two others still not mentioned: Summer Sanders, last seen on NBA Inside Stuff (did she survive the transition from NBC to ESPN?) [/quote]
Following up on Matt's very astute comments about doing yer freakin' legwork, if you'd taken the twelve seconds it takes to load up NBA.COM, then the four more it takes to click the "Inside Stuff" link on the front page, you'd know that it's still her and Ahmad.
(What I wouldn't expect you to know is that Inside Stuff is produced entirely by the NBA, they use no network resources, and I believe the timeslot provided for it is part of the negotiated deal for the TV contract, so from Summer's side of things, there WAS no transition of note.)
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in Reply to Matt's post:
Well, I wasn't expecting to do massive detective work anyways. But yeah, I should've checked my facts and done some Googling. My mistake.
(Unlike some people, I can at least admit my mistakes.)
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[quote name=\'TonicBH\' date=\'Mar 29 2004, 09:46 AM\'] Well, I wasn't expecting to do massive detective work anyways. But yeah, I should've checked my facts and done some Googling. My mistake.
(Unlike some people, I can at least admit my mistakes.) [/quote]
Very honorable of you. It probably looks to many as though I overreacted, but I've just got a thing about research and getting correct information out there.
My one piece of advice -- worded more politely -- is to be careful about making blanket statements like "his current whereabouts are unknown" without checking first. (It hardly took a "massive" amount of effort.) You could say something like "I don't know anything more about him", but that gets into an entirely different issue of whether to bother to post at all.
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[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' date=\'Mar 29 2004, 10:58 AM\']
Very honorable of you. It probably looks to many as though I overreacted, but I've just got a thing about research and getting correct information out there.
My one piece of advice -- worded more politely -- is to be careful about making blanket statements like "his current whereabouts are unknown" without checking first. (It hardly took a "massive" amount of effort.) You could say something like "I don't know anything more about him", but that gets into an entirely different issue of whether to bother to post at all. [/quote]
Doing a Google Advanced Groups Search using ATGS can be a big help to find out game show information, certainly. But I believe there is no archive for our six month stay on Ezboard, correct?
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Mar 29 2004, 01:45 AM\'] [quote name=\'GS Warehouse\' date=\'Mar 28 2004, 10:02 PM\'] Two others still not mentioned: Summer Sanders, last seen on NBA Inside Stuff (did she survive the transition from NBC to ESPN?) [/quote]
Following up on Matt's very astute comments about doing yer freakin' legwork, if you'd taken the twelve seconds it takes to load up NBA.COM, then the four more it takes to click the "Inside Stuff" link on the front page, you'd know that it's still her and Ahmad. [/quote]
Oh sure, lord it over those of us on dialup that you've got a nice fast Internet connection. :-p
(For the record, it took about 1:20 before I could find the link to "Inside Stuff" on NBA.com, and another 25 seconds before the caption of the picture with Summer and Ahmad showed up. And that's using Opera, not bloatware like IE.)
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Where are they now, huh? Can I Play?, I got a good one! :-).
As we already known Donald Trump is the host of "The Apprentince" ("Your'e Fired!" [oh, were gonna have to pay royalities for that one now, are we?) but 14 years earlier he put on the air a game show called "Trump Card". The host of that show was not "The Trumpster" rather a former NFL player named Jimmy Cefalo. For my friends who live in Broward, Dade, or Monroe county here in Florida you already know what happened to him. Although for those who aren't, check out this link...
http://html.click10.com/mia/insidewplg/per...718-143120.html (http://\"http://html.click10.com/mia/insidewplg/personalities/stories/personalities-20000718-143120.html\")
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[quote name=\'Fedya\' date=\'Mar 29 2004, 12:23 PM\'] [quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Mar 29 2004, 01:45 AM\'] [quote name=\'GS Warehouse\' date=\'Mar 28 2004, 10:02 PM\'] Two others still not mentioned: Summer Sanders, last seen on NBA Inside Stuff (did she survive the transition from NBC to ESPN?) [/quote]
Following up on Matt's very astute comments about doing yer freakin' legwork, if you'd taken the twelve seconds it takes to load up NBA.COM, then the four more it takes to click the "Inside Stuff" link on the front page, you'd know that it's still her and Ahmad. [/quote]
Oh sure, lord it over those of us on dialup that you've got a nice fast Internet connection. :-p
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Actually I was converting loosely to 56K dialup times. Page came up for me in about four. :)
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She was also featured on one of the pilots for To Tell The Truth '90 in a One On One segment. She is a "screamer" for the movies, dubbing in screaming for Kate Capshaw in Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom, for example. I don't recall if they ever used her on an aired show.
In case anyone cares, she was.
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[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Mar 29 2004, 11:02 AM\'] [quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' date=\'Mar 29 2004, 10:58 AM\']
Very honorable of you. It probably looks to many as though I overreacted, but I've just got a thing about research and getting correct information out there.
My one piece of advice -- worded more politely -- is to be careful about making blanket statements like "his current whereabouts are unknown" without checking first. (It hardly took a "massive" amount of effort.) You could say something like "I don't know anything more about him", but that gets into an entirely different issue of whether to bother to post at all. [/quote]
Doing a Google Advanced Groups Search using ATGS can be a big help to find out game show information, certainly. But I believe there is no archive for our six month stay on Ezboard, correct? [/quote]
Well...you can still access the board itself and read old posts if you would want to.
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[quote name=\'PeterMarshallFan\' date=\'Mar 28 2004, 12:04 PM\'] Larry Toffler: actor, screenplay writer
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Is this the same Larry Toffler that showed up on Russian Roulette as a fitness instructor?
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[quote name=\'tommycharles\' date=\'Apr 4 2004, 12:59 AM\'] [quote name=\'PeterMarshallFan\' date=\'Mar 28 2004, 12:04 PM\'] Larry Toffler: actor, screenplay writer
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Is this the same Larry Toffler that showed up on Russian Roulette as a fitness instructor? [/quote]
I haven't seen the episode, but I've heard that it was him....
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[quote name=\'gamed121683\' date=\'Mar 29 2004, 03:09 PM\'] Where are they now, huh? Can I Play?, I got a good one! :-).
As we already known Donald Trump is the host of "The Apprentince" ("Your'e Fired!" [oh, were gonna have to pay royalities for that one now, are we?) but 14 years earlier he put on the air a game show called "Trump Card". The host of that show was not "The Trumpster" rather a former NFL player named Jimmy Cefalo. For my friends who live in Broward, Dade, or Monroe county here in Florida you already know what happened to him. Although for those who aren't, check out this link...
http://html.click10.com/mia/insidewplg/per...718-143120.html (http://\"http://html.click10.com/mia/insidewplg/personalities/stories/personalities-20000718-143120.html\") [/quote]
Not to mention that Cefalo hails from the same area this year's GSC is coming from....
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[quote name=\'PeterMarshallFan\' date=\'Apr 4 2004, 08:49 AM\'] [quote name=\'tommycharles\' date=\'Apr 4 2004, 12:59 AM\'] [quote name=\'PeterMarshallFan\' date=\'Mar 28 2004, 12:04 PM\'] Larry Toffler: actor, screenplay writer
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Is this the same Larry Toffler that showed up on Russian Roulette as a fitness instructor? [/quote]
I haven't seen the episode, but I've heard that it was him.... [/quote]
He was also a contestant on Greed, wasn't he?
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[quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Apr 4 2004, 12:44 PM\'] [quote name=\'PeterMarshallFan\' date=\'Apr 4 2004, 08:49 AM\'] [quote name=\'tommycharles\' date=\'Apr 4 2004, 12:59 AM\'] [quote name=\'PeterMarshallFan\' date=\'Mar 28 2004, 12:04 PM\'] Larry Toffler: actor, screenplay writer
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Is this the same Larry Toffler that showed up on Russian Roulette as a fitness instructor? [/quote]
I haven't seen the episode, but I've heard that it was him.... [/quote]
He was also a contestant on Greed, wasn't he? [/quote]
Warning: Useless Trivia Alert! Toffler was the captain of the only group in Greed history to pass on two Terminator challenges. He and four other men went on to take home $100,000 each.
Toffler was also a contestant on Debt.
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Concerning the original post: Wasn't Michelle Roth later on one of the shopping channels. I keep thinking QVC (but then again, we also had HSN and FNN's Telshop.)
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[quote name=\'sshuffield70\' date=\'Apr 4 2004, 05:58 PM\'] Concerning the original post: Wasn't Michelle Roth later on one of the shopping channels. I keep thinking QVC (but then again, we also had HSN and FNN's Telshop.) [/quote]
She was announcing FNN/Score's game show Time Out for Trivia, around the same time she did Crosswits.
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Wesley Eure
He's got something to do with Dragon Tales on PBS, I presume.
Brian
Iowa is the North Star State?
We want some more pro wrestling (STILL) and NASCAR questions - and the Rock was there today!
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That was it! So it was Score. I knew it was one of those.
(BTW, FNN merged into CNBC in the 90s. And that's when CNBC took off.)
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[quote name=\'sshuffield70\' date=\'Apr 4 2004, 05:58 PM\']Concerning the original post: Wasn't Michelle Roth later on one of the shopping channels. I keep thinking QVC (but then again, we also had HSN and FNN's Telshop.)[/quote]
'twas TelShop.
TelShop was my introduction to shopping programming, since it was on overnights on one of the UHF stations in Chicago before I got cable and before HSN took over channel 60. In retrospect, it was much quirkier in presentation and outlook then HSN and most of the other shopping shows--Michelle was extremely soft-sell much of the time (which made for a great late-night soundtrack, if you get my drift), and Todd Donaho and the other guy on the show whose full name I forget (he was John) did a *lot* of winking at the camera about the quality of what they were selling. Quite a difference from HSN's stridency when they came into Chicago broadcast.
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You're thinking about John Darin, who was a frequent sight in infomercials as well (not always as Darin).
Speaking of GS connections, one Pirie Jones was a TelShop host. IIRC, she was one of the models on the disaster that was Bargain Hunters. And, of course, Todd was the "Commissioner of Sports Trivia" when it was good to take Time Out for Trivia.
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[quote name=\'joe_capitano\' date=\'Apr 6 2004, 12:04 AM\']Speaking of GS connections, one Pirie Jones was a TelShop host. IIRC, she was one of the models on the disaster that was Bargain Hunters. [/quote]
Pirie Jones used to be *all over* cable. If she wasn't doing "TelShop" (I still remember that "finger snap" promo that ran on FNN), she was hosting on MovieTime, the predecessor to E! (along with some guy named Greg Kinnear), she was one of the first hosts of Encore in their early days (along with some guy named Mark DeCarlo), hosting on the Fashion Channel (or style. 15 years ahead of its time) or doing an infomercial.
And while Googling Pirie, I just happen to uncover this article (http://\"http://www.futurethunder.com/RES7-04-02e.pdf\") (WARNING: PDF file) that discloses that Pirie introduced one of our least favorite hosts to his wife. Aw.
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I remember 5 years after Trump Card came off, I found Jimmy Cefalo on a Sea-doo instruction tape, my aunt and uncle gave me, and Christmas 1995, I got a Primestar (Remember them? Directv bought them out in 2000) to keep at my grandmothers because for one thing she lived in the boondocks in Southeastern Alabama, and I wanted GSN, but didn't get it until 1997. But anyhow, I subscribed to local channels, and the ABC that I recieved was WPLG in Miami, and I saw Jimmy Cefalo on Miami news!
Dean Muccio: He was a DJ on MAGIC 107.7 IN Orlando, he's not there anymore wonder where he is now?
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[quote name=\'Jamey Greek\' date=\'Apr 6 2004, 03:49 PM\'] I remember 5 years after Trump Card came off, I found Jimmy Cefalo on a Sea-doo instruction tape, my aunt and uncle gave me, and Christmas 1995, I got a Primestar (Remember them? Directv bought them out in 2000) to keep at my grandmothers because for one thing she lived in the boondocks in Southeastern Alabama, and I wanted GSN, but didn't get it until 1997. But anyhow, I subscribed to local channels, and the ABC that I recieved was WPLG in Miami, and I saw Jimmy Cefalo on Miami news!
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In 1994, Jimmy Cefalo did a game show/home shopping show whose title escapes me...I want to say "Touchdown Trivia," but I think that was a fake game show on Married...With Children lol. All I remember was that three contestants would answer trivia questions, and throughout the show, they'd do home shopping bits on sports paraphenilia.
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[quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Apr 6 2004, 05:17 PM\'] In 1994, Jimmy Cefalo did a game show/home shopping show whose title escapes me...I want to say "Touchdown Trivia," but I think that was a fake game show on Married...With Children lol. [/quote]
Sports Snapshot was the show, it aired in syndication in the 1993-94 season, usually on weekends(when it didn't face preemption for sports coverage)
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[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Apr 6 2004, 03:37 PM\'] Sports Snapshot was the show, it aired in syndication in the 1993-94 season, usually on weekends(when it didn't face preemption for sports coverage) [/quote]
Where I came from, it aired as one of those filler shows AFTER sports coverage, designed to carry people through from whatever game was on to the 5:00P early news.
Same deal with Randall Cunningham's "Scramble". That piss-poor "Go For It!" show fills the same function in Seattle today.
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I remember Sports Snapshot. It appeared after Cubs Games on WGN. I forgot who the model's name is but It was produced and packaged by Grant Tinker's company GTG.
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[quote name=\'GS Warehouse\' date=\'Apr 4 2004, 02:12 PM\'] [quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Apr 4 2004, 12:44 PM\'] [quote name=\'PeterMarshallFan\' date=\'Apr 4 2004, 08:49 AM\'] [quote name=\'tommycharles\' date=\'Apr 4 2004, 12:59 AM\'] [quote name=\'PeterMarshallFan\' date=\'Mar 28 2004, 12:04 PM\'] Larry Toffler: actor, screenplay writer
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Is this the same Larry Toffler that showed up on Russian Roulette as a fitness instructor? [/quote]
I haven't seen the episode, but I've heard that it was him.... [/quote]
He was also a contestant on Greed, wasn't he? [/quote]
Warning: Useless Trivia Alert! Toffler was the captain of the only group in Greed history to pass on two Terminator challenges. He and four other men went on to take home $100,000 each.
Toffler was also a contestant on Debt. [/quote]
Why was Larry in Debt when he was on that show?
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Oh, and one more thing Robb Weller the host of the later seasons of WLOD, and The 1990 Split Second Pilot, and The Blackout Pilot is now doing spots for The Biography Channel now!
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Not sure if I'm following the same "WATN?" links as everyone else, but 'famed' Eight is Enough/American Graffiti star and MATCH GAME panelist Susan Richardson (http://\"http://mywebpages.comcast.net/matchgame/3x5pictures/SusanRichardson1.jpg\") can be seen on a weekly basis in my lovely hometown driving around with the same haircut as seen in the circa 1978 picture, and cashing her $14 royalty checks at a local market. ;-)
Always nice to see her when I stop to pick up a pizza and then 10 minutes later see her on GSN.
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A few "where are they now" items from the TNN game show "Top Card"...
\ Jim Caldwell, original TC host (who succeeded the Winker on TTD): Still in the infomercial biz; runs Future Thunder productions; www.futurethunder.com
\ Blake Pickett, original TC dealer (came over from "Fandango" when that ceased production to make way for TC): Uhhh... the less said about her nowadays, the better. She went from dealing queens to becoming a B-movie queen.
\ Dan Miller, hosted third season of TC 'til the end: Last I saw, he was hosting rodeo coverage.
\ Paige Brown, dealer on TC from 3rd season 'til the end: Last I heard, she was working as a TV news producer in Nashville.
\ Don Dashiell (sp?), announcer for most of the show: Don't know -- anyone?
\ Brad Skaggs (sp?), announcer for part of the 3rd season: Also don't know -- but worth mentioning he was a cast member in the waning days of "Hee Haw" (back when there was an Opryland and a TNN).
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Kevin O' Connell: Weatherman for the NBC Affiliate in Buffalo.
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Rockapella (from WITWICS?) : Still performing (they were in the area recently), and I think there's been a member change or two since they last appeared on WITWICS?
Brian
Iowa is the North Star State?
We want some more pro wrestling (STILL) and NASCAR questions!
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[quote name=\'brianhenke\' date=\'May 8 2004, 05:18 PM\'] Rockapella (from WITWICS?) : Still performing (they were in the area recently), and I think there's been a member change or two since they last appeared on WITWICS? [/quote]
Two for sure. Sean Altman left in 1996 to go solo (one of the things--I think the thing--that prompted the switch from WitWiCS? to WiTiCS?), and Barry Carl retired in 2002.
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[quote name=\'dmota104\' date=\'May 8 2004, 06:37 AM\'] \ Dan Miller, hosted third season of TC 'til the end: Last I saw, he was hosting rodeo coverage.
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Dan's back anchoring at WSMV, Channel 4 in Nashville.
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Nick Clooney: Running for office in Kentucky.
Alan Hamel: Still married to Suzanne Somers.
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Dan's back anchoring at WSMV, Channel 4 in Nashville.
Eeek! I was afraid someone would get confused!
The Dan Miller at WSMV News is *not* the Dan Miller who hosted TC as well as TNN's "You Can Be A Star" (country version of "Star Search", basically), "American Magazine" (daily talk show, which oddly enough, profiled TC as it was starting its second season with Jim Caldwell still at the helm) and "10 Seconds" (a NTT-esque show that replaced TC).
Strangely enough, WSMV's Dan Miller hosted "Miller and Company" for TNN -- sort of "Larry King Live" with country stars as guests. And WSMV's Dan Miller was the announcer/sidekick on Pat Sajak's late night talker on CBS.
Bottom line: WSMV's Dan Miller and TC's Dan Miller are two completely different Dan Millers who just happened to be working in Nashville on the air at some points in time.
Make sense now?
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And while Googling Pirie, I just happen to uncover this article (WARNING: PDF file) that discloses that Pirie introduced one of our least favorite hosts to his wife. Aw.
And his photo appears again on the table of contents page, directly above a red box! :-D
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")