Game Show Host to Set New Record
Next week, game show host Bob Eubanks will do something no one else in television history has ever done before. And in case you couldn’t guess, it will involve newlyweds.
Eubanks, you will surely recall, was the original host of Chuck Barris’s tacky Newlywed Game, which aired on ABC from 1966 to 1974. It returned in syndication, airing from 1977 to 1980, and came back again from 1985 to 1988.
But the game couldn’t be kept down for too long, and returned once again for a two-year run from 1997 to 1999. Which brings us to the new record.
On January 7, GSN will have him temporarily replace current Newlywed Game host Carny Wilson so that she can play as a celebrity contestant. And when Eubanks steps up to the microphone, he will become the first game show host ever to host the same game show in five different decades.
This special episode airs on GSN next Thursday, Jan. 7th, at 6pm ET, with an encore airing at 9pm. If you’re a game show fan and you have GSN, be sure not to miss it!













And thus was born the truism: “old pop stars never die, they just move on to hosting shows on GSN…”
Dear God–he must be 80!!
I used to watch his show in reruns when I was a kid, not getting 90% of the innuendo, of course. I am amazed my parents didn’t mind; do you suppose they didn’t get the innuendo?? I watch those same reruns now and cringe if my teenage son is in the room….
Fairly close…he’s only 71.
I grew up with Match Game and The Hollywood Squares, and I had no concept at the time that characters like Paul Lynde and Charles Nelson Reilly were gay. I just thought, at the time, that they were weird in a very funny way.
Years later, watching a tape of a Match Game rerun, I marvel at how much I missed when I was a kid as well.
Leave your response!
About Me
Patrick is a television producer, writer, Mac lover, and Christian, though not necessarily in that order. He has a natural dislike of double standards and poor grammar.
Upcoming Posts
Polls
My Twitterstream
1 day ago from Patrick's Place
2 days ago from web
2 days ago from TweetDeck
2 days ago from TweetDeck
3 days ago from web
Browse By Popular Topics
Television Saturday Six Politics Sunday Seven Humor Blogging Religion News & Media Memes Personal Health Celebrities CBS Writing & Publishing Internet Mind Boggling Customer Service Children Out There Advertising Crime Holidays Double Standards Discrimination NBC Memorial Election 2008 YouTube Pet Peeves Government Technology Hot-Button Issues Diet Arch-a-thon God-time AOL Game Shows Language Homosexuality Racism Best Of Grammar Consumer Friends Patrick's Place Poll Schools Economy Dogs Speaking Out Photography Movies Spam Weather War in Iraq Books Monday's Morals ABC WordPress Decency Cable Religion Run Amok Comments Animals Pets Twitter Food & Drink The Price is Right Environment Military Money Reality Shows Breaking News Tuesday Two Anxiety & Depression 9/11 Telephone Facebook Conspiracy Theories Marriage Mac Election 2004 iPhone Random 10 Devotions Debt Newspapers Richmond Hurricanes Election Authors Fiction Patriotism Abortion 100 Days of Integrity Fox Blogger Terrorism CNN Relationships TV Land Charleston Drugs Health Care Charity Sports Soap Operas Music Upfronts Horror Fiction Hurricane Katrina Alcohol Photo Challenge Driving Porn GSN Digital Television Bob Barker Walter Cronkite Fox News War on Christmas Turning 40 South Bay Earthquakes Maymont Star Trek Charleston 9 Citizen Journalism Patrick's 100 Year in Review Syndication Copyright The Andy Griffith Show Breastfeeding Zesto Election 2012 The CW Better Blogging Immigration MSNBC Cemetery Confederacy Death Penalty Vivi Awards HBO PBS
-- Powered by Category Cloud
Archives
Meta
Subscribe via Feedblitz
Recent Comments
Month’s Top Commenters
Tags
Local Blogs
The Credits
Copyright ©2004-2010 Patrick K. Phillips
All Rights Reserved.
Some images, videos and excerpts appear through Fair Use and are not intended as a challenge to copyright or ownership. The inclusion of videos from YouTube are provided as Fair Use and within the terms of YouTube's copyright policies, which specify that the party uploading the content and authorizing embedding in other sites either holds the copyright for that material or has obtained permission to do so. Certain images have been licensed through iStockphoto.com, Stockfresh.com and the Hemera Clip Art Collection.