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Game Show Host to Set New Record

29 December 2009 3 Comments
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!

 

3 Comments »

  • paul said:

    And thus was born the truism: “old pop stars never die, they just move on to hosting shows on GSN…”

    # 29 December 2009 at 8:51 pm
  • Cat. said:

    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….

    # 30 December 2009 at 6:13 pm
  • Patrick (author) said:

    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.

    # 30 December 2009 at 8:12 pm

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