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I remember as a child two specific episodes of the Nickelodeon cartoon "Rugrats" that had game show ties. In one episode, the mother Didi Pickles goes on a quiz show called "Super Stumpers" to win fabulous prizes. She and her opponent both buzzed in to answer the host feverishly back and forth to the point where no parts of the questions were even being read, and both players were spewing answers before even hearing the questions and getting credit for correct answers. (Ken Jennings, eat your heart out.)
However, the host had a familiar voice. IIRC, it was Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek, dealing with a (fictional) situation that not even he knew could compare to one he might deal with in the future with a certain Jeopardy! wiz.
In the other episode, a character named Chuck opened his door to "Pat Sajak", with a voice sounding much like Pat's, holding a giant check as if in a PCH giveaway. I've yet to determine whether that was his true voice. Anyone know for sure? This has been many years.
I know of Vanna White's appearance on Full House, and the cast of Mama's Family made it on Family Feud, but what other appearances have game show hosts made in recent years on sitcoms and in cartoons?
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The Super Stumpers host was Trebek.
"Family Guy" had Bob Barker do a guest voice, and possibly a couple other hosts that escape me.
Tom Bergeron appeared as himself on "The Nanny", back during HSq's first season, and Richard Karn was on "Watching Ellie" (short-lived Julia-Louis Dreyfuss sitcom from about two yrs. ago), in a Feud-related episode.
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[quote name=\'CJBojangles\' date=\'Dec 29 2004, 06:54 PM\']
I know of Vanna White's appearance on Full House, and the cast of Mama's Family made it on Family Feud, but what other appearances have game show hosts made in recent years on sitcoms and in cartoons?
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Tom Kennedy played a host of Name that Tune on Cybill in 1997. Regis played a host of WWTBAM on Spin City in November 1999. Donny Osmond made a cameo on Friends as host of Pyramid last season.
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OK, so it's not "recent years," but I'll put in a plug for Chuck Barris playing himself on SANFORD & SON (as Fred and Lamont work up an act for GONG).
Doug -- and the countdown to 900 continues
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If this counts, John O'Hurley in UPN's "The Mullets"
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The actor who voiced the "Super Stumpers" champ? Charles Nelson Reilly.
And indeed, Pat Sajak appeared as himself on "Rugrats."
-Jason
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[quote name=\'CJBojangles\' date=\'Dec 29 2004, 06:54 PM\']I remember as a child two specific episodes of the Nickelodeon cartoon "Rugrats" that had game show ties. In one episode, the mother Didi Pickles goes on a quiz show called "Super Stumpers" to win fabulous prizes. She and her opponent both buzzed in to answer the host feverishly back and forth to the point where no parts of the questions were even being read, and both players were spewing answers before even hearing the questions and getting credit for correct answers. (Ken Jennings, eat your heart out.)
However, the host had a familiar voice. IIRC, it was Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek, dealing with a (fictional) situation that not even he knew could compare to one he might deal with in the future with a certain Jeopardy! wiz.
In the other episode, a character named Chuck opened his door to "Pat Sajak", with a voice sounding much like Pat's, holding a giant check as if in a PCH giveaway. I've yet to determine whether that was his true voice. Anyone know for sure? This has been many years.
I know of Vanna White's appearance on Full House, and the cast of Mama's Family made it on Family Feud, but what other appearances have game show hosts made in recent years on sitcoms and in cartoons?
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First things first, that Rugrats ep ("Game Show Didi") not only had Alex Trebek as "Alan Quebec",but also had Chrles Nelson Reilly as the defending champ! The other Rugrats ep you mentioned "Chuckie Is Rich" did indeed have Pat Sajak present Chuckie's father Chaz the top prize in the "American Dunderhead Sweepstakes".And one more Rugrats-GS connection: in the ep "Lady Luck",Ben stein was the voice of the bingo caller.
As for other GS hosts doing guest voices on toons:
Alex Trebek: "Arthur" , "The Simpsons" ("Miracle on Evergreen Terrace")
Bob Barker:"Futurama"(as his own head hosting an intergalactic beauty pageant)
Regis Philbin: "The Simpsons"( actually a live action shot on "Treehouse of Horror IX")
Dick Clark:"The Simpsons" (Treehouse of Horror X)
Betty White:"The Simpsons" (Missionary Impossible)
Steve Allen:"The Simpsons" (Separate Vocations,Round Springfield)
Ryan Secrest:"Hey Arnold!"(forget the name of the ep, but hosted a "Family Feud"-"Double Dare" mix)
Hope this is a good start.
Travis D. McLemore,Jr.
"I think I'm in a deli...I'm on a roll!"
Mr. Baggy Pants,"Remote Control"
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Ben Stein also voices all of the Pixies on "The Fairly Odd Parents" in at least 2 episodes.
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Jeopardy:
-Blossom (Joey Lawrence beats Mayim Bialik and Albert Einstein to set a new one-day record of $13,000,000.)
-The Simpsons (Marge plays FJ with $-5200.)
-The Nanny (I think)
-The Golden Girls (Dorothy Zbornak loses to Rose Nylund, who becomes a 5-day champion with $92,100, after missing FJ, not knowing it is actually Cary Grant who is buried in Grant's Tomb.)
-Mama's Family (Thelma Harper comes in second place after missing FJ, not knowing that William Shakespeare's only som was named Hamnet. Thelma wins a trip to "Hawai-yuh" for 2nd place.)
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Geoff Edwards as an emcee in the comedic TV-movie Three On A Date.
Plus, Gene Rayburn and Jan Murray as game show hosts in a humorous episode of Fantasy Island.
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[quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'Dec 29 2004, 09:26 PM\']Geoff Edwards as an emcee in the TV-movie Three On A Date.
Plus, Gene Rayburn and Jan Murray as game show hosts in an episode of Fantasy Island.
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Tom Kennedy did a game show host role on a 1986 episode of Hardcastle and McCormick. Bob Goen did a game show host role on Perfect Strangers in 1988 or 1989. David RUprecht played a GS host on a mid-90s episode of Family Matters.
Pat and Vanna(or at least one of them on each show) did cameos on 227, Riptide, Santa Barbara, A-Team, and Gimme a Break in storylines featuring WOF contestants. L.A. Law had Doug Brackman appearing on the Goen WOF, with Goen doing a cameo. Dawson did a cameo on Angie when her family appeared on Feud, though it wasn't taped on the actual Feud set. The Combs Feud set was used when the 227 clan appeared on Feud on a November 1988 episode. Martial Law did part of an episode on the TPIR set, no? Besides Sanford and Son's Gong Show episode, What's Happening had a Gong SHow-themed episode. Lest we forget Odd Couple's two classic GS episodes: Oscar and Felix on Password and also on LMAD, Monty did a cameo on the latter. Eubanks did a cameo as Newlywed Game host on Days of our Lives, when a newlywed couple from that show appeared on the 80s era NG.
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[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Dec 29 2004, 08:34 PM\']Besides Sanford and Son's Gong Show episode, What's Happening had a Gong SHow-themed episode.
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Yes, they did, but none of the principals appeared (although WH used legit celebrities in the judges' roles--while S&S did not).
Doug -- and the countdown to 900 continues
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Eubanks appeared as the host of "The Honeymoon's Over" on an episode of "Kenan & Kel". The prize was house, IIRC.
I vaguely remember a commercial for that episode of Martial Law. I think I was 6 or 7. Anyone remember what happened on that episode?
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[quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Dec 29 2004, 07:55 PM\']-The Nanny (I think)
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Yes, Fran Drecher played Jeopardy! In fact, it was the only sitcom where The Daily Double was featured. She went into Final Jeopardy with $100. Her opponents missed out, she had the correct answer & became a one time champion with $200!
Also, how could you miss Cheers?
"Who are three people that never visited my kitchen?"
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[quote name=\'GSWitch\' date=\'Dec 29 2004, 07:22 PM\'][quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Dec 29 2004, 07:55 PM\']-The Nanny (I think)
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Also, how could you miss Cheers?
"Who are three people that never visited my kitchen?"
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Damn. I knew I forgot something!
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Sorry if I missed someone else posting this: Peter Marshall plays a game show host on the Sledge Hammer! episode "To Live and Die on T.V." A contestant on his show dies in an automobile accident just before he is supposed to try for the show's top prize of $1,000,000.
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In 1999, the Reeginator appeared on Spin City as the host of some million-dollar quiz show whose title escapes me. :-) Also, David Ruprecht made a guest appearance on Joan of Arcadia earlier this season.
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[quote name=\'GS Warehouse\' date=\'Dec 30 2004, 12:15 AM\']In 1999, the Reeginator appeared on Spin City as the host of some million-dollar quiz show whose title escapes me. :-) Also, David Ruprecht made a guest appearance on Joan of Arcadia earlier this season.
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Yeah, I remember said episode of "Spin City" aired just ahead of that certain episode of certain show.... ;) ;)
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Geoff Edwards guested on Sliders as the host of a lottery show whose prize wasn't what it was caracked up to be.
And no one's mentioned The Odd Couple yet? Monty Hall hosted Let's Make A Deal on one episode late in the series, and of course, Betty White and Allen Ludden were in the classic Password episode (Written by Get The Message host Frank Buxton).
Aristophanes...
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[quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Dec 29 2004, 09:49 PM\']Eubanks appeared as the host of "The Honeymoon's Over" on an episode of "Kenan & Kel". The prize was house, IIRC.
I vaguely remember a commercial for that episode of Martial Law. I think I was 6 or 7. Anyone remember what happened on that episode?
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All I remember was Sammo Hung somehow got in Studio 33 for TPiR. IIRC he was chasing a criminal and ended up in the studio. It was like the first episode, which was c. 1998.
Also, this year Betty White guest starred as a cantankerous neighbor on "Complete Savages."
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[quote name=\'mystery7\' date=\'Dec 30 2004, 12:43 AM\']And no one's mentioned The Odd Couple yet? Monty Hall hosted Let's Make A Deal on one episode late in the series, and of course, Betty White and Allen Ludden were in the classic Password episode (Written by Get The Message host Frank Buxton).
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Actually, someone did mention THE ODD COUPLE. But that message might've been invisible to you. :)
Doug -- and the countdown to 900 continues
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Should've known it was Zach. There was so much other stuff in that post I read right past it. But at least you know there's another game show connection to the Password episode.
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[quote name=\'GS Warehouse\' date=\'Dec 30 2004, 12:15 AM\']Also, David Ruprecht made a guest appearance on Joan of Arcadia earlier this season.[/quote]
Ruprecht was also on some of the final Three's Company eps. from 1984, plus he played a mall manager on a holiday episode of Married...with Children, a few years before he ran the store on Supermarket Sweep.
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[quote name=\'hmtriplecrown\' date=\'Dec 30 2004, 01:19 PM\'][quote name=\'GS Warehouse\' date=\'Dec 30 2004, 12:15 AM\']Also, David Ruprecht made a guest appearance on Joan of Arcadia earlier this season.[/quote]
Ruprecht was also on some of the final Three's Company eps. from 1984, plus he played a mall manager on a holiday episode of Married...with Children, a few years before he ran the store on Supermarket Sweep.
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He also played the host of a Dating Game-type show on "Punky Brewster."
Not that I ever watched "Punky Brewster." :-P
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Tom Kennedy and Geoff Edwards were both on "That Girl" in the '60s, and I believe Geoff was also on "Petticoat Junction" a couple of times.
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[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' date=\'Dec 30 2004, 02:04 PM\']Tom Kennedy and Geoff Edwards were both on "That Girl" in the '60s, and I believe Geoff was also on "Petticoat Junction" a couple of times.
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In addition, Tom appeared in an episode of The Ghost And Mrs. Muir. He also had a small role in the ABC TV-movie Having Babies. Or perhaps it was Having Babies II. Geoff guested as a news reporter on Diff'rent Strokes.
And for you David Ruprecht fans, he had recurring role as a news director on Days Of Our Lives.
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In addition, Tom appeared in an episode of The Ghost And Mrs. Muir. He also had a small role in the ABC TV-movie Having Babies. Or perhaps it was Having Babies II. Geoff guested as a news reporter on Diff'rent Strokes.
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Geoff played a game show host on Small Wonder in the mid 80s. CNR co-starred in the Ghost and Mrs. Muir. On an MG7x episode, Ghost of ______ was the audience match, and Ghost OF Mrs. Muir(as opposed to And) was among the top three responses
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[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Dec 30 2004, 07:40 PM\']Geoff played a game show host on Small Wonder in the mid 80s. ...
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Hmm, no one's mentioned Petticoat Junction yet. Also, Zach's mention of Small Wonder reminded me, David Ruprecht guest-starred in one episode of said show and co-wrote another.
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Unless my eyes are failing me, no one has mentioned Monty Hall's cameo appearance as the host of LMAD during a dream sequence on FOX's That 70s Show 3 or four years ago.
The Inquisitive One
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[quote name=\'GS Warehouse\' date=\'Dec 30 2004, 09:36 PM\'][quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Dec 30 2004, 07:40 PM\']Geoff played a game show host on Small Wonder in the mid 80s. ...
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Ian Wallis mentioned it five posts ago.
Allen Ludden and Betty White had bit parts in an episode of O'Hara, U.S. Treasury, a Jack Webb Production starring David Janssen. But that wasn't a sitcom. The Love Boat was--or so the laugh track would indicate. Allen and Betty both appeared on the 1980-81 season premiere of that show.
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Two Richard Dawson appearances come to mind...one as the host of "Family Food" on "Sesame Street" in the early 80's, and the other was on "The Tonight Show" as host of "International Family Feud" with Johnny playing Reagan.
I haven't seen either clip in years!
-Sam
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In addition, Tom appeared in an episode of The Ghost And Mrs. Muir. He also had a small role in the ABC TV-movie Having Babies. Or perhaps it was Having Babies II. Geoff guested as a news reporter on Diff'rent Strokes.
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Geoff played a game show host on Small Wonder in the mid 80s. CNR co-starred in the Ghost and Mrs. Muir. On an MG7x episode, Ghost of ______ was the audience match, and Ghost OF Mrs. Muir(as opposed to And) was among the top three responses
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Also, Hope Lange, who was the star of G&MM, also was the assistant on "Back That Fact" and the Gene Rayburn version of "The Sky's the Limit." When Monty Hall took over STL, Hope was let go.
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Unless my eyes are failing me, no one has mentioned Monty Hall's cameo appearance as the host of LMAD during a dream sequence on FOX's That 70s Show 3 or four years ago.
He also made similar appearances on The Wonder Years and The Nanny.
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")
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Jim McKrell played himself in an episode of The ABC Afterschool Special. It was one of the few that didn't deal with divorce or a kid dying. I believe it was about a teenager who won a million dollars in a lottery drawing.
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[quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'Jan 1 2005, 10:06 PM\']Jim McKrell played himself in an episode of The ABC Afterschool Special. It was one of the few that didn't deal with divorce or a kid dying. I believe it was about a teenager who won a million dollars in a lottery drawing.[/quote]
McKrell also played host of the game show Grab That Dough on an episode of The Golden Girls.
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Don't forget Peter Marshall's multiple appearances on In Living Color hosting East Hollywood Squares.
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[quote name=\'Game Show Man\' date=\'Jan 1 2005, 11:35 PM\']Don't forget Peter Marshall's multiple appearances on In Living Color hosting East Hollywood Squares.
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Plus, his turn as an emcee in a Mad TV sketch where he hosted First To A Million. The first player to 1,000,000 points was the winner. Each question was worth......one point.
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Tom Kennedy and Geoff Edwards were both on "That Girl" in the '60s, and I believe Geoff was also on "Petticoat Junction" a couple of times.
Forgot about Monty Hall - he also appeared once on "That Girl", playing either a doctor or a dentist. (Why do I remember so much about that show when I haven't seen it in 25 years? It just isn't repeated anywhere...)
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[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' date=\'Jan 2 2005, 10:19 AM\'](Monty) also appeared once on "That Girl", playing either a doctor or a dentist.
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He portrayed a dentist who used hypnosis to lessen patients' fear of pain. While Anne-Marie was asleep in the dentist's chair, he was interrupted by a phone call from his free-spending wife. His spousal accusation - "You'll buy anything at the drop of a hat!" - was misinterpreted by Anne-Marie as a post-hypnotic suggestion. Comedy ensued.
Esoteric Eric... one more thing...
[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' date=\'Jan 2 2005, 10:19 AM\'](Why do I remember so much about that show when I haven't seen it in 25 years? It just isn't repeated anywhere...)
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Indeed not (although TV Land's debut night included the pilot, where Ted Bessell's character was Anne-Marie's agent, Donald Blue Sky, rather than her boyfriend, Donald Hollinger)
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[quote name=\'Esoteric Eric\' date=\'Jan 2 2005, 02:21 PM\']TV Land's debut night included the pilot, where Ted Bessell's character was Anne-Marie's agent, Donald Blue Sky, rather than her boyfriend, Donald Hollinger)
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Marlo's character's first name was Ann. Last name Marie. So for the sake of accuracy, we must drop the "e" and the "-". The preceding announcement was courtesy of The Zach Horan Society For Historical Accuracy Preservation.
TV Land did have That Girl on its regular schedule until 1998, right around the time the channel dropped Room 222 (featuring Hollywood Squares semiregular Karen Valentine) and Love, American Style (where Monty Hall and Peter Marshall appeared at least once) and Cannon.
ObGameShows: William Conrad, the star of Cannon--but NOT!! the announcer; that was Hank Sims--was a celebrity player in the mid 1970s on Break The Bank.
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[quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'Jan 2 2005, 02:34 PM\'][quote name=\'Esoteric Eric\' date=\'Jan 2 2005, 02:21 PM\']TV Land's debut night included the pilot, where Ted Bessell's character was Anne-Marie's agent, Donald Blue Sky, rather than her boyfriend, Donald Hollinger)
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Marlo's character's first name was Ann. Last name Marie. So for the sake of accuracy, we must drop the "e" and the "-". The preceding announcement was courtesy of The Zach Horan Society For Historical Accuracy Preservation.
TV Land did have That Girl on its regular schedule until 1998, right around the time the channel dropped Room 222 (featuring Hollywood Squares semiregular Karen Valentine) and Love, American Style (where Monty Hall and Peter Marshall appeared at least once) and Cannon.
ObGameShows: William Conrad, the star of Cannon--but NOT!! the announcer; that was Hank Sims--was a celebrity player in the mid 1970s on Break The Bank.
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You just reminded me how Conrad was the subject of one or two Match Game questions. ("TV Guide said: 'Tonight, Cannon eats his BLANK!' ") Richard Dawson once joked that William Conrad once fell down, and then rocked himself to sleep.
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I'm gonna pitch in to this thread.
Charles Nelson Reilly appeared on an episode of The Drew Carey Show, portraying the head of a pharmecutical company.
Also, Peter Marshall appeared once on Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, to host a dating-type show to discover if Harvey is really her true love. (I know there was another epsiode, from what looks like season 3, where Sabrina sets up a game show to help her solve the family secret. Does anybody know who hosted this?)
(By the way, if anybody wants a clip of the Sledge Hammer episode mentioned earlier in the thread, I have it in RM form.)
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[quote name=\'WhammyPower\' date=\'Jan 2 2005, 04:49 PM\']Also, Peter Marshall appeared once on Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, to host a dating-type show to discover if Harvey is really her true love. (I know there was another epsiode, from what looks like season 3, where Sabrina sets up a game show to help her solve the family secret. Does anybody know who hosted this?)
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I remember reading something about the Sabrina episode, and I think it was Monty Hall. Did this setup have podiums which resembled the ones from TTD90?
http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/Perso.../personid-20219 (http://\"http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/PersonDetail/personid-20219\")
There's a screencap of Monty in the episode.
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ObGameShows: William Conrad, the star of Cannon--but NOT!! the announcer; that was Hank Sims--was a celebrity player in the mid 1970s on Break The Bank.
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COnrad also made at least a couple of Marshall HS appearances, he's on a couple of shows in the GSN package.