The Joker's Wild - Two "Chain Reaction" hosts

[WhatsAYak]

Blake was a much better contestant than he was a host!

[artytoons]

The game where one Joker may lead to another...and another.

[Feisty1967]

Canadian.

[BenJabituya]

RIP Charlie O'Donnell :'(

[Golbez1991]

Blake... why didnt you keep this excitement on to Chain Reaction?

[luvthoseclips]

I still remember the days when Bill Cullen hosted the original "Price Is Right" on daytime TV, (NBC). Game was played much differently back then, & it was only a 30 min. program.  Mr. Cullen passed away in 1990.

[lowellriggsiam]

Bill Cullen was a great gameshow host, he wasn't loverly condenscending like many of the others.

[Simpsonssince90]

Those were the days when hosts had Benjamins in their pockets.

Remember those bonus rounds with the phone contestant. They pushed a button on their touchtone phones and the lever was pulled. That was pretty cool.

[BenJabituya]

Anybody got any more Joker's Wild episodes with Bill Cullen?

[gamshwfan]

Blake seemed liked a lucky and smart contestant here. His knowledge and luck really payed of here to take the game and go on to face the devil. As for his personality; he seemed very excitable for a Canadian and very bubly too. Since there are no Chain Reaction clips here with him i'll just say this; Blake was passsionate but a little to excited for the show that he hosted. Geoff Edwards was his usual self & didn't seem that bad. A 5 star job for him on TJW & 1.5 stars on CR.

[toonguy85]

I remember "Funny Farm" too. I'd love to see a clip of that also!

[RonRaddio]

His hair was a lot curlier on Funny Farm!!

[ChairmanChico]

Hey, Blake, I think you can stand to be a little more excited. :)

[WSBT960]

JOKERS! ALRIGHT!

[MrEd30]

Blake is annoying with all the damn yelling.

[animfan1]

I don't blame Blake Emmons one bit when he said "Well we're from the mountains and you have to yell."

[WSBT960]

Blake Emmons: JOKERS!!!

[animfan1]

Steven got only one joker, he needed two more for a total of three.

[joadhenry]

Hey does anyone remember the show Blake was on the seventies called Funny Farm...kind of like a Canadian version of Grand Ole Opry? I'd love to find a clip of that...

[JMFabianoRPL]

Some people might think if Bill had a symbolic torch, he should have done something else with it :-)

[gameshowguy2000]

Oh, and before I get, the music being played as Blake walks over to Face The Devil, is the winner's music from Bullseye (so this had to be from 1980-1982 at the very least).

[gameshowguy2000]

*forget (I apologize)

[freewaydan]

They cut off the last note of the Bullseye music during the 1985-1986 season.

[johnissoevil]

Bill didn't take over until 1984. They used another cue for Face the Devil from 1983 to 1985, then brought this one back for Cullen's last season.

[JMFabianoRPL]

Yes I wish someone had an MP3 or something of that...someone once said it was a Hot Potato-like cue.

[BenJabituya]

That was from "Bullseye" when a contestant won the bonus island game!

[gameshowguy2000]

Wait, wasn't this one of the clips from the now defunct Page O'Clips?

[AdamNedeff]

It might have been but I ripped it from my own DVD and made the file myself.

[johnissoevil]

At least Bill didn't jump the gun and make the assumption about Blake that Jim Lange did for Patrick Wayne. :-)

[SuperGamer7]

Indeed!

[scottof83]

Too bad Mr. "Lucky Suit" Al wasn't there to spin three jokers for Steven.

[pkentwilson70]

How funny, I thought about "Lucky Suit" Al at that same moment. Al's 3-joker spin was awesome.

[gameshowguy2000]

Hal is his name..and thank goodness he rubbed that suit for luck and it paid off with that 3-joker spin. I mean, what are the odds of winning with only a 3-joker spin (let alone GETTING a 3-joker spin)?

[pkentwilson70]

That's right, his name was Hal. Too bad when he lost after trying to answer all those consecutive $50 fast-forward questions with the one joker. I think he was one or two away from winning.

[GS47363]

The full episode with Hal is on TheGSTemple channel and Veoh.

[quincyhughes]

Hey, Blake was fun here, the personality that got him the TV gig later was obvious.

[thejazzenigma]

Blake was too vocal.

[gameshowluvr86]

Uh-uh! Blake's awesome! Steven could put a cup of coffee to sleep.