Host/Announcer parings

[Matt Ottinger]

[quote name=\'Don Howard\' post=\'178876\' date=\'Feb 25 2008, 11:40 AM\']
Don't forget to include their four years together on Who Do You Trust?[/quote]
Sorry, we cross posted.

Actually, I guess I never realized that Who Do You Trust? was four years of daily shows with Johnny & Ed.  Assuming best-case production, you could add up to a thousand more episodes for that, which does get us pretty close to Trebek and Gilbert, but I think the Jeopardy team still leads, and of course is adding to the total daily.

[Don Howard]

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'178878\' date=\'Feb 25 2008, 11:52 AM\']
Actually, I guess I never realized that Who Do You Trust? was four years of daily shows with Johnny & Ed.  Assuming best-case production, you could add up to a thousand more episodes for that, which does get us pretty close to Trebek and Gilbert, but I think the Jeopardy team still leads, and of course is adding to the total daily.
[/quote]
I take your point. So I'll concede the episodes taped together to Alex and Johnny.
Shifting this a little bit in another direction, Carson and McMahon would hold the record, though, for continuous association starting in 1958 when Ed replaced Bill Nimmo on Trust? to Johnny's final night hosting The Tonight Show in 1992.

[Matt Ottinger]

[quote name=\'Don Howard\' post=\'178879\' date=\'Feb 25 2008, 12:01 PM\']
Shifting this a little bit in another direction, Carson and McMahon would hold the record, though, for continuous association starting in 1958 when Ed replaced Bill Nimmo on Trust? to Johnny's final night hosting The Tonight Show in 1992.[/quote]
True dat.

And for the Trebek-Gilbert pairing to match THAT mark, they'd have to work together for another ten years, at which point Gilbert would be 94 years old!

[dale_grass]

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'178881\' date=\'Feb 25 2008, 01:08 PM\']
And for the Trebek-Gilbert pairing to match THAT mark, they'd have to work together for another ten years, at which point Gilbert would be 94 years old!
[/quote]

Don Pardo just turned 90, so anything's possible.

[mmb5]

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'178881\' date=\'Feb 25 2008, 12:08 PM\']
And for the Trebek-Gilbert pairing to match THAT mark, they'd have to work together for another ten years, at which point Gilbert would be 94 years old!
[/quote]
Would there have been a random time that Johnny and Alex may have worked?  If Kenny was unavailable, who was the sub?


--Mike

[Matt Ottinger]

[quote name=\'mmb5\' post=\'178888\' date=\'Feb 25 2008, 12:33 PM\']Would there have been a random time that Johnny and Alex may have worked?  If Kenny was unavailable, who was the sub?[/quote]
Maybe random subbing for a show or two, but unless I'm missing something, the two didn't work regularly together until Jeopardy.  Given both their nomadic roamings during the 70s and early 80s, that's a little surprising.