Deceased quiz show hosts for 80

[Hot Pepsi]

The first shows I watched were Tic-Tac-Dough, Joker's Wild and that one with "NO WHAMMIES, NO WHAMMIES!!!" I forget what that was called. The Price is Right was popular in college because it was on the only channel our hall TV got and it was on right as everyone was coming back from morning classes.

[ursus arctos]

[Hot Pepsi]

Exactly. I think it was rebooted with CGI whammies at some point.

[Diable Rouge]

That's the one where the contestant gamed the system, because he figured out the sequence that gave him maximum returns:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Larson

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

That's the one where the contestant gamed the system, because he figured out the sequence that gave him maximum returns:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Larson

Yikes, seems like he pressed his luck a bit too much:

Larson used his cash winnings for taxes and real estate investments. As a result, Larson lost all of his winnings within two years of the show's taping and moved to Florida, where he later died of throat cancer at the age of 49.

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

....and.....

In November 1984, Larson learned about a local radio show promotion promising a $30,000 prize for matching a $1 bill's serial number with a random number read out on the air. Over several days, he withdrew his remaining winnings in $1 bills, examined each dollar, and (upon discovering that he did not have the winning number) re-deposited roughly half of the money. Larson left about $50,000 in his house, which was stolen in a burglary while he was attending a Christmas party.

[Jah Womble]

I remember watching Password (which was also briefly a daytime game show over here), Match Game (aka Blankety Blank in the UK) and one called Eye Guess from the early seventies.

Can't imagine anyone else would remember the latter.

[Sporting]

Not me for one.

[Jah Womble]

Eye Guess exists on Wikipedia - who describe it as having ended in 1969, which means I’d have been super-young when I saw it. (Obviously it never made it to the UK.)

Des O’Connor briefly presented Countdown, so his passing yesterday means that he qualifies for the header here...

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

Des O’Connor briefly presented Countdown, so his passing yesterday means that he qualifies for the header here...

He presented another quiz show, so in terms of how he qualifies for this thread, you can take your pick.

[Jah Womble]

I was just reminded of this by a friend who also employed the gag in the same way!

Rich pickings today, methinks.

[Diable Rouge]

So, the original American inspiration for University Challenge is being revived after 50 years, but will be hosted by Peyton Manning - hmm.

[MsD]

For 4 points, I've met two dead quiz show hosts (that I can think of) done sulphate with the daughter of another, and had drinks with the grand-daughter of yet another.

[Amor de Cosmos]

Hughie Green? I'm guessing none of the right answers is Michael Miles.

[MsD]

Yes, he's one. One point for you. I have never knowingly met anyone with a connection to Michael Miles.

[MsD]

Michael Miles is another of those people (like Harold Wilson) who looked far older than his years in the 1960s. He was in his early 40s presenting Take Your Pick.

[MsD]

Karen, Des O'Connor's daughter, is in the middle here.

[Amor de Cosmos]

Michael Miles is another of those people (like Harold Wilson) who looked far older than his years in the 1960s. He was in his early 40s presenting Take Your Pick.

Yeah. He was an odd-looking duck, and had disconcerting snuffle when he talked. Definitely would never have got to introduce a prime-time TV show these days. MM and "Alec with the gong" were a strange couple indeed.