Best TV game show host?

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Poll question: Best TV game show host?

If your favorite isn't listed, please reply with your choice.

[ThatsMyBarack]

1. Geoff Edwards

I used to love seeing him on Treasure Hunt, Play the Percentages, and Starcade. I thought he was so cute!

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2. I can barely remember him... thanks for bringing him up.

[Nicole]

3. Bob Barker from that list.

My favorite though is Bob Eubanks on The Newlywed game.

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6. Ohhhh! Good call... he's a great one. Why didn't I think of him...

[pokerfan]

12. Bob Eubanks

Bob: Here's the last of our five-point questions. Girls, tell me where, specifically, is the weirdest place that you personally, girls, have ever gotten the urge the make whoopee. The weirdest place. Olga?

Olga: Umm . . . (audience laughter)

Bob: Yes, Olga?

Olga: Uh . . .

Henry: Go ahead.

Bob: Yes, Olga.

Olga: I'm trying to think. Umm . . . (Turns to husband.) Gee Henry, what did you say?

Bob: Hey, don't ask him. He can't help you out at all.

Olga: Is it in the ass? (Last three words bleeped)

Bob: No no no . . . no . . . what I'm talking about is the weirdest location, the weirdest place . . .


True story according to snopes:
http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/newlywed.asp

[Qanisqineq]

14. Bob Eubanks is my fave

He cracks me up

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20. Didja know that he was the producer of the Beatles concerts at the Hollywood Bowl?

True factoid.

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24. I've seen the clip of that. Here's another cute exchange...

(paraphrased because I can't remember the exact wording)

Eubanks: Girls, would you say that your husband is urban or rural?
Contestant: Is he what?
Eubanks: Is he urban or rural?
Contestant: I think he might be urban?
Eubanks: What makes you think that?
Contestant: He went to the doctor for that.
Eubanks: Well, did the doctor give him anything for it?
Contestant: No, but he gave ME something for it.

[blockhead]

4. duh

Alex Trebek of course.

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5. Fine... but what do you like about him?

[blockhead]

8. suave,

intelligent,polished etc.

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9. OK, fair enough

[HuffleClaw]

7. you forgot alex trebek

and just who the hell ARE all those other guys? i've heard of like three of 'em.

[grannylib]

13. 'nother Jeopardy fan weighing in on that one. eom

[terrya]

17. I third Alex Trebek

He's the best.

[sakabatou]

28. Another vote for Trebek

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36. I'll take Alex Trebek for 800! nt

[Broken_Hero]

10. Dick Dawson, nt

[Left Is Write]

30. I'm not quite sure...

how Pat Sajak and Regis Philbin made it onto the poll, but Richard Dawson was left off.

I love Dawson.

[Reverend_Smitty]

32. Sajak sucks...Richard Dawson was a stone cold pimp back in the day!

:)

[Left Is Write]

33. Got that right.

[njdemocrat106]

11. I went with Mr. Barker (nt)

[Rabrrrrrr]

15. Alex Trabek. And then Gene Rayburn - he was perfect for Match Game.

And Alex is perfect for Jeopardy.

They should bring back Don Pardo for Jeopardy, though.

[Left Is Write]

34. Don Pardo must live forever.

I'm serious.

I can't imagine a world without him. He's starting to sound his age on SNL, though.

[mitchum]

16. Gene Rayburn the master of affable sleaze

[jpgray]

22. Yep. And bizarrely colored suits.

[hellbound-liberal]

18. I really appreciated Bill Cullen's subtle humor over the years. For those of you who do not know

who he was, here's a short bio:



After moving to New York City he hosted several radio programs, including game shows, in the late 1940s and 1950s. His first TV game show was Winner Take All, a Mark Goodson-Bill Todman production that aired on CBS in 1952. He hosted the daytime and prime-time versions of The Price is Right, another Goodson-Todman production, from 1956 to 1965. He was also a panelist on I've Got a Secret from 1952 until 1967 and then on To Tell the Truth from 1969 until 1978, where he would also guest host on occasion. Cullen also guest-hosted the late-1970s revival of Password on NBC, known as Password Plus.
Cullen hosted 23 different game shows over the years, making him host of more game shows than anyone in television history. These shows include Eye Guess in the 1960s, Three on a Match and the nighttime version of The $25,000 Pyramid in the 1970s, and Blockbusters, Child's Play, Hot Potato and The Joker's Wild in the 1980s.

[Left Is Write]

23. He was one of my favorites. I used to watch TTTT when I was a kid...

I knew who Garry Moore, Bill Cullen, and Peggy Cass were when I was just a tyke. :)

[hellbound-liberal]

25. And who can forget this American Icon from TTTT, still going strong at 95:

[Oeditpus Rex]

27. Me too

Loved that logo they had with the dude holding up his hand, too. :7

Y'know what else was cool? How the panelists on "What's My Line" were always dressed like it was opening night on Broadway. John Daly, the host, was a classy dude, but when he got to laughing he could get pretty silly.

And just look at those fabulous prizes!

[Left Is Write]

29. I have many, many episodes of What's My Line on tape...

When GSN was still "Game Show Network" and they ran their Sunday Night in Black and White, I often taped the whole shebang.

I love What's My Line - I love the way they dressed, the sense of humor, the elegance of John Daly. I also loved that they introduced each other as Miss or Mister.

[Redbear]

35. Bill was the man.

He hosted the show. He didn't make himself the show.

[Vidar]

19. Alex Trebeck.

[Left Is Write]

21. Garry Moore.

[dajoki]

26. Bob Barker; anyone who can...

beat the crap out of Happy Gilmore is allright with me.:rofl:

[Left Is Write]

31. I must also add that I preferred Wheel Of Fortune as hosted by Chuck Woolery.

Chuck Woolery, Susan Stafford, and the "shopping sprees" offered after each puzzle was solved.

That was good TV.