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Post by Mandoli on Sept 4, 2014 15:28:49 GMT -5
Inspired by someone on my Twitter timeline posting a video of Dallas Stars PBP guy Ralph Strangis playing Press Your Luck (below is his first of two appearances on the show - obviously with that said, he won and returned)...
... Can we figure out some more sports and game show connections? Preferably not sports-related game shows, but either cameo appearances from athletes or other personalities as contestants.
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Post by thekid965 on Sept 4, 2014 18:38:25 GMT -5
Well, for starters, there's always the famous example of Brian Billick as a contestant on Match Game PM: Or Steve Garvey as a Gong Show judge -- this episode also features a young Paul "Pee Wee Herman" Reubens: And then, there was Jackie Robinson on I've Got a Secret in 1957, just after he announced his retirement from baseball, just so he could answer questions from fans about his decision: Finally, one of these three people was Tony LaRussa circa 1980: |
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Post by wildjackmonroe on Sept 4, 2014 23:31:22 GMT -5
Former MLB player Don Sutton appeared on Match Game (either '75 or '76) and Beat the Clock with Monty Hall.
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Post by tpirrules1972 on Sept 5, 2014 9:09:55 GMT -5
Former Brooklyn/LA Dodger Don Drysdale was a guest on two pilots: The Joker's Wild (1968) and The Honeymoon Game (1970 - essentially TJW under another name but on the same format tried in the former)
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Post by carpetcrawler on Sept 5, 2014 9:33:18 GMT -5
Rosey Grier did quite a few game show appearances, even a contestant shot on Celebrity Bullseye. For another sports figure that has participated in Barry-Enright games, Wilt Chamberlain did Tic-Tac-Dough (and he did All-Star Secrets for Bob Eubanks as well). I could swear there was more than that for Barry-Enright but I could be wrong. I know some famous athletes have done Peter Marshall's version of The Hollywood Squares, but it's been awhile since I've read Peter's book so I don't recall the names. I know it had to do with Peter's son, Pierre, being a professional baseball player at one point. They might not have even been contestants, but folks in squares.
Though more known for his sports reports (Sunday news featurettes and general freelance) than for his commentating, Heywood Hale Broun did a week with his wife on the Goodson-Todman game, He Said, She Said. An episode from said week is one of the few that was ever aired by GSN.
I am sure there's lots more, but there are the ones that came to mind after thinking about it a bit. These are all ones that I felt adequately fit the requirement of the sports figure being a contestant/participant on the game. Otherwise there's lots of general examples of sports figures hosting shows.
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Post by wildjackmonroe on Sept 5, 2014 9:49:42 GMT -5
Horse racing legend Willie Shoemaker appeared with his wife for a week on Tattletales in November 1975.
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Post by thekid965 on Sept 5, 2014 14:43:20 GMT -5
Here's an odd one, but it qualifies for certain definitions of the word "sport": Pro wrestler Ox Baker was a contestant on The Price is Right in February 1981. Here's the full episode. Speaking of wrestlers as game show contestants, there was a 1968 NBC primetime Hollywood Squares that featured Nick Bockwinkel as that night's "Mr. X," but I can't find it on YouTube at the moment. I'm sure someone will find it though, now that I've mentioned it. |
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Post by caseyabell on Sept 6, 2014 15:34:48 GMT -5
Why just one athlete? You can watch most of the Cincinnati Reds on What's My Line in 1956, including future Hall of Famer Frank Robinson and future (and long-time) Reds broadcaster Joe Nuxhall. Hulking - I met him once and I do mean hulking - first baseman Ted Kluszewski was the team spokesman. The Reds had a good day before their appearance, sweeping a doubleheader from the Dodgers in their second-last season in Brooklyn. Catcher Ed Bailey hit three homers in the first game, as Bennett Cerf mentions... |
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Post by ladykelsey on Sept 10, 2014 19:12:07 GMT -5
NFL star Tiki Barber appeared on Wheel Of Fortune during NFL Week where he played for charity. And another Wheel Of Fortune sports milestone. Former WNBA superstar Teresa Witherspoon also appeared on Wheel Of Fortune for Basketball Superstars Week as well,
Kelsey
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Post by phimat37 on Sept 11, 2014 10:26:20 GMT -5
Former MLB player Don Sutton appeared on Match Game (either '75 or '76) and Beat the Clock with Monty Hall. I definitely remember that, that's in GSN's current lease of episodes right now. Gene made a joke on one of the episodes he was on, he said "He's playing for the money", baseball that is. Or something along those lines is what Gene said. And, that's true today, really. I know there are baseball players who love to play the game though, who play to have fun, and even win. I can tell that on the Pittsburgh Pirates team, the camaraderie on that team. I'm a Pirates fan, so of course I mention that because I watch that team day in and day out during baseball season, and I really see the camaraderie on that team. |
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Post by WarioSajak on Sept 12, 2014 22:03:45 GMT -5
Speaking of wrestlers as game show contestants, there was a 1968 NBC primetime Hollywood Squares that featured Nick Bockwinkel as that night's "Mr. X," but I can't find it on YouTube at the moment. I'm sure someone will find it though, now that I've mentioned it. If it's online, I must have missed it while making a Video Archive for the Marshall Squares. The only '68 nighttime show I'm aware of with a player named Nick is July 5 or 26 (Gypsy Rose Lee, Jan Murray, Connie Stevens, Lorne Greene, Rose Marie, Charley Weaver, Vincent Price, Wally Cox, Buddy Hackett; Nick vs. Kris), but I have no idea if it's Bockwinkel. |
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Post by thekid965 on Sept 13, 2014 2:39:05 GMT -5
If it's online, I must have missed it while making a Video Archive for the Marshall Squares. The only '68 nighttime show I'm aware of with a player named Nick is July 5 or 26 (Gypsy Rose Lee, Jan Murray, Connie Stevens, Lorne Greene, Rose Marie, Charley Weaver, Vincent Price, Wally Cox, Buddy Hackett; Nick vs. Kris), but I have no idea if it's Bockwinkel. I believe that is the one, yes. The Bockwinkel episode did have Gypsy Rose Lee on the panel, I remember that quite clearly from the GSN airing. |
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Post by thekid965 on Sept 28, 2014 18:25:48 GMT -5
...I could kick myself. And I even mentioned the show in question myself, albeit a different version.
Only the most obvious connection of all -- Lynn Swann, NFL Hall of Famer, as the emergency replacement host of To Tell the Truth (on which he'd heretofore been a regular panelist) following Gordon Elliott's abrupt contractual snafu.
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Post by Kaos on Sept 28, 2014 23:39:12 GMT -5
Only the most obvious connection of all -- Lynn Swann, NFL Hall of Famer, as the emergency replacement host of To Tell the Truth. Let's not forget a former baseball player who hosted To Tell the Truth, Former Cardinal turned game show host Joe Garagiola, who took over for Garry Moore when he retired, as well as hosting the original $ale of the Century, and other game shows. Also, since you brought up Ox Baker, how about former WWE Undisputed Champion/Fozzy vocalist Chris Jericho, who hosted Downfall? |
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