Hot Potato - Game show hosts question

[AdamNedeff]

@bachelordan0470 No they shouldn't, because Peter wasn't hosting anything at the time and Allen had been dead for three years.

[bachelordan0470]

@AdamNedeff

Yeah. I understand that:)

[landrykkb]

If game shows should ever make a full fledged comeback,the networks will know better now than to air them in the 12:00 PM slot,,much like Hot Potato did in 1984.

[tpir1972]

Peter gave the whammy to Bill with Child's Play.

[tpir1972]

But is this the only NBC network show by B&E to air folloowing the scandals?

[tpir1972]

And Jeopardy didn't premiere until September.

[tpir1972]

Tattletales would end on CBS not long after.

[ReVxBoNeZ]

Hoe did i get here?

[sweiland75]

this must have been before Alex Trebek became the king of game shows

[bluebear1985]

@sweiland75 It was. Besides, "Jeopardy!" is in syndication, and "The New Battlestars" had been off of NBC's schedule for about a year at the time.

[landrykkb]

@sweiland75 That wouldn`t be saying much,considering there`s maybe only 5 on the air,not counting GSN.

[tvman323]

Was Richard Dawson A Movie Star Or Did He Meant To Say Tv Actor?

[bluebear1985]

@tvman323 Probably tv actor. I've seen him in "Hogan's Heroes".

[tpir1972]

Is this B&E's only NBC show following the quiz show scandals?

[joebradio]

If that category were used today.. you would only have two answers... Drew Carey and Wayne Brady.. but, hey whose category is it anyway?

[landrykkb]

@joebradio Then again,there wouldn`t be a question like that asked today.I would love a full fledged daytime game show revival,even though I wouldn`t get to watch them anyway.Not all would be lost though because I could watch them online as opposed to then.

[Woohoo5241]

Wow, Bill Cullen finds a lot of dudes good looking.

[johnissoevil]

In NYC, TTD and TJW directly preceeded the CBS daytime game show lineup of Pyramid, PYL, and Price at the time, so I would've said both Martindale and Barry.

[domirules28]

i had jim perry and peter tomarken, but the network part would've got me on wink martindale...

[JMFabianoRPL]

Gene is there but Jon Bauman wasn't included in the final list? (Some of you wouldn't count him either, though...)

[Jnelson09Returns]

You might want to double check at 4:14 or so.

[JMFabianoRPL]

Ah, my mistake.

[bluebear1985]

I would go out of my way not to count Jon Bauman. In my opinion he wasn't really good looking either. Also, according to the blog on Game Show Central, he isn't today either, as it mentions about him being in a late night infomercial, and according to the blog, he "hasn't aged well".

[AdamNedeff]

It's almost as if the passage of time adversely affects a person's physical appearance or something.

[JMFabianoRPL]

Who knew? 

It's as if everyone else got some kind of...surgery or something. Nah, that's too far-fetched.

[JMFabianoRPL]

Oh GOD...those Oldies But Goodies infomercials. That's ALWAYS on in this area!

[VeRTiGo9191]

And No Alex Trebek! Wow!!

[sommerssmith]

This was after Alex did High Rollers and before he hosted Classic Concentration.

[BenJabituya]

Plus, Jeopardy was syndicated.

[smashwhammy]

@VeRTiGo9191 this was post high rollers, pre classic concentration, and jeopardy was syndicated

[tvman19]

Keith and Bill are right it was on both network and syn.

[pylprincess]

I'm so happy they mentioned Peter Tomarken!!!! Darn right he sure was good looking, boy I miss him so much.

[tvtimetravel]

@pylprincess And now we'll miss announcer Charlie O'Donnell.

[gamshwfan]

An easy question for those that watched television in daytime. Having been narrowed to daytime network programing is the trick here. Since game shows were still hot & many people would know this. The passing seemed to be a good strategy because caterers clearly spend too much time in the kitchen. Bill's sense of humor when describing the hosts is humorous; not bad for a 64 year old. His best friend of all of them is probably Geoff Edwards; they were employees under Bob Stewart. 4 stars.

[DENo1MatchGameFan]

LOVE them departing contestant tags - too bad GSN doesn't still show them today!

[BenJabituya]

Was that announcer Charlie O.?

[freewaydan]

Yep! Charlie O. was the B&E announcer at the time.

[trent100100]

ah fee plugs

[gameshowfreak2007]

Hot Potato was also Bill Cullen's last network show, his last show (the Joker's Wild) was syndicated,

and in reply to Ben Groucho apparently once called Bill "the second wittiest man on TV"

[nextbarker]

But Hot Potato was Jack Barry's last game show before his tragic death, right?

[glickmam]

Yup, that's correct, this was Jack Barry's final collaboration with Dan Enright

[nextbarker]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but was Hot Potato the only B&E show to air on NBC?

[AdamNedeff]

No, they had a little show called "Twenty-One" in the 50s on NBC, you might have heard of that one. :-)

There was also the original version of "Tic Tac Dough," and just plain Jack Barry Productions had "Blank Check" in the 70s.

[Jnelson09Returns]

As a matter of fact, B&E shows of the 50s were exclusively on NBC.

[gshowguy]

If I'm not mistaken, Hot Potato was the only B&E show on NBC in color, seeing as it only aired from January-May 1984.

[Jnelson09Returns]

Well, yeah.

[AdamNedeff]

Unless you count "Blank Check."

[tvtimetravel]

It aired from January 23 to June 29, 1984.

[bluebear1985]

@AdamNedeff They also were the original creators of Concentration. Early on in the run, they ended up selling the rights to NBC, and that's why the show wasn't cancelled like all their other shows at the time were.

[AdamNedeff]

@bluebear1985 Eh...Okay, I'm writing a book, so all this stuff is really fresh in my head. Barry & Enright actually sold their entire company to NBC well before the scandal hit, some time in the first year of "Twenty One," with a deal that NBC would retain them to continue acting as producers for the shows they just sold (the same kind of deal Goodson-Todman made when they sold the rights to "What's My Line?" to CBS). So B&E created "Concentration," but never owned it.

[AdamNedeff]

@AdamNedeff And actually, the B&E shows weren't really wiped out by the scandal. In addition to "Concentration," "Tic Tac Dough" stayed on the air for about a year after the scandal broke, and "Dough Re Mi" stayed for a little more than two years after.

My point is, buy my book when it gets published. Please. Please?

[storrs19]

Great to see this again. Bill was a perfect host and always had something nice to say and a great sense of humor.

[BenJabituya]

He was the epitome of wittiness (just like Groucho Marx).

[flokatirug]

This was the episode with the false start, right? Poor Keith.

Hot Potato had the best outro theme, or close.

[SuperGamer7]

I'm sure you know this already but, Wink was incorrect because his show (Tic Tac Dough) was in syndication, not a network.

[gameshowguy2000]

And I was told the CBS version wasn't on when this question was asked..I thought it was.

[SuperGamer7]

The CBS version of TTD only lasted a few months in mid-1978.

[devares2006]

@SuperGamer7 Actually, he was correct. Tic Tac Dough was on CBS in 1978 right before it went to syndication.

[SuperGamer7]

@devares2006 Yes, I know! BUT, pay attention to the context of the question. Bill says "currently" (as in 1984 at the time). So, if it were 1978, yes Wink would have been correct, but not in '84.