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kurtinrod62

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« on: May 06, 2004, 03:37:00 PM »
Besides Hugh Downs, Betty White, Robert Earle, Henry Polic III, and Elaine Joyce, how many people have hosted only one game show?
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Jimmy Owen

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« Reply #1 on: May 06, 2004, 03:43:47 PM »
Well over 100.  Plus Matt Ottinger.
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« Reply #2 on: May 06, 2004, 04:19:01 PM »
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'May 6 2004, 03:43 PM\'] Well over 100.  Plus Matt Ottinger. [/quote]
 For reasons that were never made clear to me, WKAR considers QuizBusters and QBJR to be two separate series.  So there.
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Ian Wallis

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« Reply #3 on: May 06, 2004, 04:20:04 PM »
Do pilots count?  If not, Pat Sajak's only hosted one - and what a success that's been!!
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« Reply #4 on: May 06, 2004, 05:24:48 PM »
[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' date=\'May 6 2004, 03:20 PM\'] Do pilots count?  If not, Pat Sajak's only hosted one - and what a success that's been!! [/quote]
 Not really...didn't he do College Bowl that one time in '84?

Still, we get your point :)
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Casey Buck

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« Reply #5 on: May 06, 2004, 05:42:40 PM »
Two that I can think of: Doug Davidson and Patrick Wayne (riiiggghhht?).
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« Reply #6 on: May 06, 2004, 05:49:00 PM »
Hmm...did that Steve Edwards guy ever do anything besides...uh...whatever that one unsold pilot was?  I seem to remember that back when GSN did that marathon, no one had the slightest clue who he was.
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Jimmy Owen

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« Reply #7 on: May 06, 2004, 07:02:04 PM »
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' date=\'May 6 2004, 03:19 PM\'] [quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'May 6 2004, 03:43 PM\'] Well over 100.  Plus Matt Ottinger. [/quote]
For reasons that were never made clear to me, WKAR considers QuizBusters and QBJR to be two separate series.  So there. [/quote]
 Well over 100.  Minus Matt Ottinger.
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zachhoran

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« Reply #8 on: May 06, 2004, 07:17:23 PM »
[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' date=\'May 6 2004, 04:49 PM\'] Hmm...did that Steve Edwards guy ever do anything besides...uh...whatever that one unsold pilot was?  I seem to remember that back when GSN did that marathon, no one had the slightest clue who he was. [/quote]
 Steve never hosted a non-pilot game show, and he has at least three pilots to his credit: Get Rich QUick(Stewart pilot GSN aired in 2000), Pandemonium(Wolpert pilot mentioned on Randy Amasia's Whew! page), and the pilot for a 1991 syndicated version of Scrabble which failed to sell at NATPE. He appeared on the one-time FOX special Since You've Been Gone in 2001, which Tom Bergeron hosted.
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PeterMarshallFan

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« Reply #9 on: May 06, 2004, 07:24:44 PM »
[quote name=\'Casey Buck\' date=\'May 6 2004, 05:42 PM\'] Two that I can think of: Doug Davidson and Patrick Wayne (riiiggghhht?). [/quote]
 Depends if you count pilots...Davidson hosted a lottery special called Scream for Millions in the late 90's [1997?] and Patrick Wayne hosted some kind of pilot in 1981 which was briefly mentioned on his Celebrity Bullseye episode.


Zach :-)
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Jimmy Owen

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« Reply #10 on: May 06, 2004, 07:30:35 PM »
I don't count pilots, but the encyclopedia (2nd edition; maybe more or fewer depending if the individual hosted a subsequent show) lists 350 people who had only one actual aired game show to their credit. Here they are: Willie Aames, Mike Adamle, Don Adams, Joey Adams, oh forget it!
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Winkfan

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« Reply #11 on: May 06, 2004, 07:49:25 PM »
Doesn't James Vipond have a page that lists all those 'one-show wonders' of the GS hosting fraternity/sorority? You could just as easily check it out for yourself.

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adamjk

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« Reply #12 on: May 06, 2004, 08:06:55 PM »
Don't forget Rolf Berniske who hosted Wheel for around 6 months in 89.
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adamjk

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« Reply #13 on: May 06, 2004, 08:07:41 PM »
Would Chuck Barris fit in this category too? To my knowledge all he hosted was the Gong show.
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zachhoran

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« Reply #14 on: May 06, 2004, 08:17:33 PM »
[quote name=\'adamjk\' date=\'May 6 2004, 07:07 PM\'] Would Chuck Barris fit in this category too? To my knowledge all he hosted was the Gong show. [/quote]
 He would if pilots are not counted. Since we're counting pilots, he did a pilot for NBC in the mid 80s called Comedy COurtroom(co-hosted by USA Up All Night co-hostess Rhonda Shear)
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