Quiz Show Hosts

[football_fan 41]

O - No. f**k that. 'The Price Is Right' could soon be officially scarred forever.

 

Read

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070616/ap_on_...v/people_barker

 

Rosie O'Donnell says she won't replace Bob Barker

[Banshees Scream 107]

Bob Barker is also getting up there from the price is right http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0054837/

 

Drew Carey now the host of the 'Price Is Right'

[harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy 1,447]

Well, why do shirtlifters pull that same face?

 

(Big Break was a quiz show of sorts, wasn't it? )

[Spade_Cooley 9,001]

So Bobby "Dazzler" George is on Twitter and in between his views on West End musicals and the observation that "All these people in the public eye having affairs! As my old mum used to say 'a stiff pricks got no conscious'! till you come your coco!" I also found him wishing former Bullseye host Jim Bowen well erlier this year. Apparently the erstwhile Bullseye host has had a series of strokes so far this year. Bowen also strikes me as the kind of guy you could get some good "build up material" before he goes, maybe an interview in The Sun or the Mail taking a wide-angle lens photo of him stumbling out of a hospital, so fuck it, give him a thread.

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'a stiff pricks got no conscious'! till you come your coco!"

 

I get the first bit (assuming it's a typo for conscience, spellcheck strikes again?). But what in the world does the other bit mean?

[Guest Guest]

what has happened to Bob Holness (however you spell his name) who used to host my favourite show of all time, Block Busters!!!!! He has dissapeared and so has Roy Walker from Catch Frase. What are they doing now and are they still well, which is the main question.

 

Good news is we found him.Bad news is, he just died http://www.bbc.co.uk...t-arts-16443263

[Guest Guest]

Right I am being stupid here (no surprise)

 

Are you talking about who is in my avatar ?

 

In my avatar is Damon Killian, from The Running Man (dunno why I chose him for my avatar ) AKA Richard Dawson

 

Family Feud host and Hogan's Heroes star Richard Dawson dies at 79 http://abcnews.go.co...ud-host-was-79/

[Spade_Cooley 9,001]

Right I am being stupid here (no surprise)

 

Are you talking about who is in my avatar ?

 

In my avatar is Damon Killian, from The Running Man (dunno why I chose him for my avatar ) AKA Richard Dawson

 

Family Feud host and Hogan's Heroes star Richard Dawson dies at 79 http://abcnews.go.co...ud-host-was-79/

 

I'm causin' more family feuds than Richard Dawson/And the survey says - you're dead.

[Guest Guest]

The host of Blockbusters and Card Sharks Bill Rafferty has died at 69 https://twitter.com/...354541640953856

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Mr & Mrs Host Derek Batey has

 

a. gone on holiday,

b. gone to work

or

c. gone to meet his maker?

[the_engineer 1,405]

Mr & Mrs Host Derek Batey has

 

a. gone on holiday,

b. gone to work

or

c. gone to meet his maker?

 

I know this one its A gone on holiday .

[Guest Guest]

R.I.P to the star of t his thread Derek Batey

[Guest Guest]

The host of tv quiz show Its Academic Mac McGarry has died at 87 http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/mac-mcgarry-its-academic-host-dies-at-87/2013/12/12/5f6f1ebe-2eee-11e0-a371-d2bf1122591b_story.html

[Guest Guest]

Dating Game host Jim Lange has died http://www.sfgate.co...ies-5271898.php

[CaptainChorizo 1,893]

A unique hit for Rotting Blood courtesy of Daily Mail http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2569056/Jim-Lange-popular-host-The-Dating-Game-featured-young-Michael-Jackson-Arnold-Schwarzenegger-Farrah-Fawcett-dies-aged-81.html

[Death Impends 7,360]

The team that picked him surely has to have the DDP distinction of the greatest slant towards the beginning of the alphabet whilst not being a terrorist theme team.

[the_engineer 1,405]

Don't know if this was posted anywhere i couldn't find it but chris tarrant if in a spot of Heart trouble on the plane back from Thailand, I think you treated yourself to one too many 18 year old thai escorts Chris .

 

http://www.dailymail...g-Thailand.html

 

Or maybe he had too many ladyboys

 

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Another old US game show host, Geoff Edwards, hits the jackpot.

[YoungWillz 18,926]

American game show host of Sale of the Century and Card Sharks, Jim Perry, dies at 82, cancer. http://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/jim-perry-game-show-king-dies-at-82-1.2668049

[CaptainChorizo 1,893]

Sad to hear. One of my earliest tv memories are Card Shark reruns on the Usa Network.

[Sir Creep 7,011]

American game show host of Sale of the Century and Card Sharks, Jim Perry, dies at 82, cancer. http://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/jim-perry-game-show-king-dies-at-82-1.2668049

lol wtg Y-Dub you holding this trump card thread waiting to use it. Well done!

SC

[Bibliogryphon 8,599]

With the deaths of Terry Wogan and Paul Daniels I began to think that hosts of the classic British quiz shows are getting thin on the ground

 

Here are the obvious ones:

 

• Nicholas Parsons - Sale of the Century
• Bruce Forsyth - Play Your Cards Right
• Roy Walker - Catchphrase
• Bamber Gasgoine - University Challenge
• Jim Bowen - Bullseye
• Tom O' Connor - Crosswits
• Lionel Blair - Name That Tune
• Michael Aspel - Give Us A Clue
• William G Stewart - 15 to 1
• Michael Barrymore - Strike it Lucky

[RoverAndOut 3,384]

 

With the deaths of Terry Wogan and Paul Daniels I began to think that hosts of the classic British quiz shows are getting thin on the ground

 

Here are the obvious ones:

 

• Nicholas Parsons - Sale of the Century
• Bruce Forsyth - Play Your Cards Right
• Roy Walker - Catchphrase
• Bamber Gasgoine - University Challenge
• Jim Bowen - Bullseye
• Tom O' Connor - Crosswits
• Lionel Blair - Name That Tune
• Michael Aspel - Give Us A Clue
• William G Stewart - 15 to 1
• Michael Barrymore - Strike it Lucky

 

 

Well some of those are only loosely quiz shows, more game shows, which come in all shapes and sizes. Widening your net slightly in that case, I can think of a few more aged 60+:

 

Dale Winton - Supermarket Sweep (60)

Gordon Burns - Krypton Factor (73)

Jim Davidson - Big Break/Generation Game (62)

Les Dennis - Family Fortunes (62)

Noel Edmonds - Telly Addicts/Deal or No Deal (67)

Clive Anderson - Whose Line Is It Anyway (63)

Richard O'Brien - Crystal Maze (73)

Ed Tudor-Pole - Crystal Maze (60)

Chris Tarrant - Who Wants to be a Millionaire (69)

Jasper Carrott - Golden Balls (I know, I know...) (71)

And Paxman's 65 now too...

 

Admittedly, of these, I would say only Gordon Burns and Richard O'Brien (maybe Les Dennis and Chris Tarrant) deserve entry into your pantheon of classic game show hosts. And you've made me sad now when I thought about all the ones no longer with us. No Wogan, no Bob, no Robert Robinson, no Bob Holness, no Richard Whiteley...

 

Oh, and then there's the bloke what presented It's a Knockout! I wonder what happened to him...?

[Grim Up North 3,565]

Paul O'Grady (Blankety Blank) - 2 heart attacks behind him (60)

Anne Robinson (Weakest Link) - former alcoholic and has had skin cancer (71)

Henry Kelly (Going for Gold) (69)

 

and pushing it a bit

 

Prof Heinz Wolff (Great Egg Race) - 87

 

Bibliogryphon - I didn't realise Bamber was still above ground until reading your post (81). Bing Bong Bamber, Bamber Gascoigne.

[Bibliogryphon 8,599]

Paul O'Grady (Blankety Blank) - 2 heart attacks behind him (60)

Anne Robinson (Weakest Link) - former alcoholic and has had skin cancer (71)

Henry Kelly (Going for Gold) (69)

 

and pushing it a bit

 

Prof Heinz Wolff (Great Egg Race) - 87

 

Bibliogryphon - I didn't realise Bamber was still above ground until reading your post (81). Bing Bong Bamber, Bamber Gascoigne.

 

Another pretty obscure one that I didn't include

 

Steve Jones - The Pyramid Game now aged 72.