Game Show Host Mount Rushmore

[Monday Morning Sportswriter]

 

[Azrael]

Perhaps we should consider Don Francisco, then. Sabado Gigante lived up to its name in so many ways.d
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53 seasons?

Hosted.

Created.

You bet.

 

[exmediahack]

I'd usually be screaming at players who would turn down Perry's bribes. Take the money! Take the trip! Fill your pockets, dammit! If you were smart enough to be in the lead, you're smart enough to probably get it back with the easy questions. And if you don't, well, you're taking home something better than an Oster blender.

In 1985, if you didn't live near a Woolworth's, that Oster blender (or better yet, the handheld "neck" vibrator) would take 4-6 weeks to arrive from the Dolgin's catalog.

But, yes... take the money.

 

[Mngwa]

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heck to the no

 

[MileHigh]

That show had everything. True 80s excess. New cars. Vacations. Summer Bartholomew in a swimsuit. The confident, dashing Jim Perry. Some trivia -- above Press Your Luck but not at the level of Jeopardy!

There was also the level of poker-like gambling within the game as well. Perry would "bribe" the contestants if they were ahead. "Can I buy... 20 points... but I'll give you... one... thousand dollars?"

Vastly, vastly underrated show. Perry was awesome.

And, of course, take the damn money.

 

[Killick]

I humbly submit the original "Press Your Luck@ host Peter Tomarkin. Show was good, but he died (too soon) piloting his aircraft in a emergency medical flight. Special humanitarian consideration.

 

[MTM]

Tom Kennedy just passed away last month at 93.

Definitely not a Rushmore but we was the Charlie Batch of hosts. Could plug him in anywhere.

Throw in his brother Jack Narz. Another guy who was not great but very versatile.

 

[cyclingwriter2]

As good as place as any to post this video:

 

[Songbird]

I humbly submit the original "Press Your Luck@ host Peter Tomarkin. Show was good, but he died (too soon) piloting his aircraft in a emergency medical flight. Special humanitarian consideration.

The Clemente of game show hosts.

 

[apeman33]

Hall of 6, along with Vanna White, Carol Merrill, the Barker Babes and Summer Bartholomew.

I like watching her on Press Your Luck. She seems genuinely enthusiastic about the success of the players and also knows how to play up the drama. (And, yeah, the outfits.)

I don't know why ABC has Joel McHale hosting the Card Sharks revival. I didn't enjoy it even though I'll watch past versons on Buzzr whenever I find them.

 

[HanSenSE]

As good as place as any to post this video:

Drawing a blank on the name here, but it's a video like the actress who was interviewed by Costas and talked about losing her virginity the night Armstrong walked on the moon. Always welcome.

 

[DanOregon]

You think about the lifetime hours on TV lost this year between Trebek, Hugh Downs and Regis Philbin. Ginormous. Forget the election - if anything could unify this country it's our collective sense of loss with the passing of Trebek. He made us smarter. Took Art History and Shakespeare in college because I sucked at those Jeopardy categories.