The original
Wild & Crazy Kids had different hosts for the 1989 pilot; not sure who, though. Also, I remember someone from
Jeopardy! (I think) posted very briefly on the Sony forums that Bob Hilton hosted a pilot in 1976.
Lemme see what I can find from my reference materials...
The Amateur\'s Guide to Love: Joe Flynn (Pilot), Gene Rayburn (Series)
Born Lucky: Mark Sweet (Pilot), Bob Goen (Series)
Chain Letter: Dennis James (Pilot), Jan Murray (Series)
Chain Reaction \'06: Tim Vincent (Pilot), Bil Dwyer (Series)
Choose Up Sides: Bob Kennedy (Pilot), Gene Rayburn (Series)
Classic Concentration: Orson Bean (
Concentration Pilots), Alex Trebek (Series)
The Face Is Familiar: Jack Clark (Pilot), Jack Whitaker (Series)
The Gong Show: Gary Owens (Pilot), John Barbour (Series, first taped week), Chuck Barris (Series, first aired week onward)
The Guinness Game: Bob Hilton (Pilot), Don Galloway (Series)
Home Shopping Game: Dean Goss (Pilot), Bob Goen (Series)
Hot Streak: Gene Rayburn (
Party Line Pilot), Bruce Forsyth (Series)
How Do You Like Your Eggs?: Howard Blumenthal (Pilot), Bill Cullen (Series)
The Love Experts: Jack Cassidy (Pilot), Bill Cullen (Series)
The New Newlywed Game: Jim Lange (Pilots), Bob Eubanks (Series)
Penny To A Million: Bud Collyer (Pilot), Bill Goodwin (Series)
Quick As A Flash: Bill Cullen (Pilot), Bobby Sherwood (Series)
Rodeo Drive: Peter Tomarken (Pilot), Louise Duart (Series)
Trivial Pursuit: America Plays: Mark L. Walberg (Pilot), Christopher Knight (Series)
WinTuition: Marc Cohen (Pilot), Marc Summers (Series)
You\'re On Your Own: Jack Barry (Pilot), Steve Dunne (Series)
You\'re Putting Me On: Ron Husmann (Pilot), Bill Leyden (Series)
The Joker\'s Wild: Allen Ludden (Pilot); Jack Barry (Actual Show)
Technically you could also list Jim McKrell as hosting a pilot, since
Joker was two-thirds of Barry\'s 1970 pilot
The Honeymoon Game and would likely have been the whole thing if it had sold.
3\'s a Crowd: Wink Martindale (Pilot); Jim Peck (Actual Show)
Talk about Wink dodging a bullet. I would guess this taped either before Tic Tac Dough was airing, or it might have been iffy for a second syndicated season.
I think Jamie Locklin brought this up: Wink\'s
3\'s A Crowd pilot taped in 1969.
-Peter Tomarken on Monopoly.
In 1989, yes. Before him, Marc Summers in 1987.
-Bert Parks hosted the Hollywood Squares pilot, and Dan Rowan was considered.
Sandy Baron apparently did a pilot in 1966.
Peter Tomarken hosted a \'Whammy\' pilot but the job of course went to Todd Newton.
Todd hosted a pilot the same day Peter did.
someone once mentioned others who hosted \'TPIR\' pilots in 1994 before the job going to Doug Davidson.
Mark Kriski hosted a pilot in 1993, as did Doug.
Mike Eruzione [...] was the host of one of the pilots of Starcade
The original pilot. Alex Trebek hosted the next three pilots, which were much closer to the program that debuted.