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Host of The Dating Game. Heart attack. 81 years old.

ne1410s wrote:Host of The Dating Game. Heart attack. 81 years old.

This begs the question -- who's left from the "classic" days of game shows (pre-1980)? I think Tom Kennedy is still around, and I know Hugh Downs, Peter Marshall, Wink Martindale, and Bob Eubanks are. And I suppose you can count Vin Scully and Joe Gargiola (Sr.) in that group, since they did game shows back in the day.

Who am I missing here?

Don't forget Bob Barker.

Still alive:

Chuck Barris
Jim Perry
Monty Hall
Geoff Edwards

Duh---I forgot two obvious ones from the era -- Chuck Woolery and Alex Trebek (High Rollers)

Vandal wrote:Still alive:

Chuck Barris
Jim Perry
Monty Hall
Geoff Edwards

Don't forget Hugh Downs, who hosted Concentration and gave away lovely matched sets of American Tourister luggage.

He's not a host, but you can't mention a list of old timers without Don Pardo, who announced the original Jeopardy and is still active on Saturday Night Live at age 96.

silvercamaro wrote:

Vandal wrote:Still alive:

Chuck Barris
Jim Perry
Monty Hall
Geoff Edwards

Don't forget Hugh Downs, who hosted Concentration and gave away lovely matched sets of American Tourister luggage.

He's in my first message; I can't forget the man who taught me how to count to 30, and a one-time head of the National Space Society.

silverscreenselect wrote:He's not a host, but you can't mention a list of old timers without Don Pardo, who announced the original Jeopardy and is still active on Saturday Night Live at age 96.

And now that I think of it, the current Jeopardy announcer Johnny Gilbert has been around a long, long time as well. Working on Jeopardy must be good for your health.

SpacemanSpiff wrote:

silvercamaro wrote:

Vandal wrote:Still alive:

Chuck Barris
Jim Perry
Monty Hall
Geoff Edwards

Don't forget Hugh Downs, who hosted Concentration and gave away lovely matched sets of American Tourister luggage.

He's in my first message; I can't forget the man who taught me how to count to 30, and a one-time head of the National Space Society.

So you did! Sorry about that. Maybe I subconsciously just wanted to say "American Tourister luggage."

silverscreenselect wrote:He's not a host, but you can't mention a list of old timers without Don Pardo, who announced the original Jeopardy and is still active on Saturday Night Live at age 96.

And don't forget Randy West.

Randy West is an old school guy game show wise, but only about 60 years old, 15-30 years younger than the people talked about in this thread. I think the only hosts of Chuck Barris shows(which aired from 1965-1989) deceased are Lange and Clark Race(Parent Game). ALso still alive among announcers is John Harlan from 70s-80s Name that Tune.

Don Morrow is another old-school host and announcer from game shows and other TV shows. He celebrated his 87th birthday last month and is still announcing today.

Another old-school announcer, Bern Bennett, is still alive and well at age 92... although he retired from announcing a decade ago.

zachhoran1 wrote:Randy West is an old school guy game show wise, but only about 60 years old, 15-30 years younger than the people talked about in this thread. I think the only hosts of Chuck Barris shows(which aired from 1965-1989) deceased are Lange and Clark Race(Parent Game). ALso still alive among announcers is John Harlan from 70s-80s Name that Tune.

And don't forget that Chuck Barris is alive and kicking at 84.