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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: Don Howard on September 16, 2004, 11:50:22 PM
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It's an obscure information request for my 999th post.
How many different people served as announcer during Lt. Thom's monster winning streak on Tic Tac Dough? Jay Stewart and Art James for sure. Was Bob Hilton in this mix? And was Johnny Gilbert--which'd mean he bore live witness to two major wins in the making?
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Where did you watch TTD when Thom McKee was on?
Also, I heard that the cars Thom won were Buicks, but were they Skyhawks, Centurys, or Skylarks?
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Don: Sorry for the hijack, but I've gotta do this:
[quote name=\'tmq800\' date=\'Sep 16 2004, 10:53 PM\']... were they Skyhawks, Centurys, or Skylarks?[/quote]
Yes, they were.
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[quote name=\'tmq800\' date=\'Sep 16 2004, 10:53 PM\'] Where did you watch TTD when Thom McKee was on?
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In the living room, on the couch.
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[quote name=\'tmq800\' date=\'Sep 16 2004, 08:53 PM\'] Where did you watch TTD when Thom McKee was on?
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My TV set.
(Hey. Ask a stupid question.)
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IIRC, his Buicks were Skylarks, although they could've been Skyhawks. Definitely not Centurys I don't think.
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[quote name=\'tmq800\' date=\'Sep 16 2004, 10:53 PM\'] Where did you watch TTD when Thom McKee was on?
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On the roof. Nekkid.
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On the roof. Nekkid.
In a thunderstorm.
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[quote name=\'tmq800\' date=\'Sep 16 2004, 10:53 PM\'] Where did you watch TTD when Thom McKee was on?
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I was in my hot tub enjoying a bubble bath surrounded by beautiful topless babes, one of whom offered me "sex of a kind" to celebrate the winning of Thom's seventh automobile, but I said no, of course. I'd have missed Jay or Johnny or Bob or Art's description of the Beat The Dragon prizes.
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I was on a Commodore PET with a primitive modem, doing posts to a primitive newsgroup only one other person was reading at the time, weeknights at 7:24PM EST(during the final commercial break, as there was virtually never any gameplay after the final commercial)
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I'm confused how I should react to Zach's post...
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[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Sep 17 2004, 08:59 AM\'] I was on a Commodore PET with a primitive modem, doing posts to a primitive newsgroup only one other person was reading at the time, weeknights at 7:24PM EST(during the final commercial break, as there was virtually never any gameplay after the final commercial) [/quote]
And even then , everyone thought you were an obsessive know-it-all....
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[quote name=\'vtown7\' date=\'Sep 17 2004, 07:43 AM\'] I'm confused how I should react to Zach's post... [/quote]
Pity is the route I'm going. Great, great pity.
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Wait--has anything really changed for Zach?
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[quote name=\'tvwxman\' date=\'Sep 17 2004, 09:47 AM\'] [quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Sep 17 2004, 08:59 AM\'] I was on a Commodore PET with a primitive modem, doing posts to a primitive newsgroup only one other person was reading at the time, weeknights at 7:24PM EST(during the final commercial break, as there was virtually never any gameplay after the final commercial) [/quote]
And even then , everyone thought you were an obsessive know-it-all.... [/quote]
I was 10 at the time, and the only thing they thought I was a know-it-all about was game shows :)
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And whaddya know, I always wondered who that other person was!
Some things never change.
Tyshaun
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I remember watching some of the episodes at school while I was working as a summer janitor.
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I was barely a year old...may have caught a glimpse while playing w/the TV tuner dial some evening, LOL.
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")
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I remember seeing some of Thom's shows in first run, as well as reading some of the many newspaper articles about him. He was originally from Rochester so both WHEC and the now-defunct Times-Union newspaper played it up.
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OK. This is all good to know. Thanks to all of you who answered the question I asked in the original post. I had no idea there were so many announcers.
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The encyclopedia does not list Johnny Gilbert or Bob Hilton as ever working on Wink's TTD. They do mention Charlie O and Mike Darow.
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[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Sep 18 2004, 12:03 PM\'] The encyclopedia does not list Johnny Gilbert or Bob Hilton as ever working on Wink's TTD. They do mention Charlie O and Mike Darow. [/quote]
The encylopedia is then mistaken. Bob announced on TTD quite a bit. In fact, I have two such shows on tape. Interesting that the fabled tome doesn't list the name of someone who VO'd for at least a month while it does mention Mike Darrow, who was on for but a week. Or Darow, whatever it is. He seemed to like to switch spellings like Jim Mc/MacKrell.
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[quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'Sep 18 2004, 12:08 PM\']
The encylopedia is then mistaken. Bob announced on TTD quite a bit. In fact, I have two such shows on tape. [/quote]
Johnny G. did at least a couple weeks of fill-ins, in 1983 and 1984 IIRC.
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Johnny G. did at least a couple weeks of fill-ins, in 1983 and 1984 IIRC.
He did indeed, as well as the first few aired weeks back in 1978...Art James announced the first few wks of the 80-81 season (along w/TJW), while Hilton's stint took place earlier in 1980, as I recall, before Thom McKee's reign began near the tail end of the 79-80 season.
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")