RIP Peter Marshall

[MTM]

He was the perfect host for Hollywood Squares. And the father of former Cub Pete LaCock.

‘Hollywood Squares’ host and Broadway star Peter Marshall dies at 98 (msn.com)

 

[Typist Clerk]

And a big-band singer way back.

 

[HanSenSE]

In the end, X got the square.

 

[MileHigh]

Loved Hollywood Squares growing up. Paul Lynde in the center. As mentioned, Marshall was perfect for that show just as Gene Rayburn was for Match Game.

 

[maumann]

My first reaction was "he was still alive?" Television game show hosts seem to have a good lifespan. Hugh Downs of Concentration fame lived to be 99. So did Bob Barker.

Wink Martindale is 90.

One of those guys who will be forever linked to the show he hosted during the heyday of 1960s game shows, much like Art Fleming and Jeopardy! (before Alex Trebek), Bob Eubanks and the Newlywed Game, Jim Lange and the Dating Game, Monty Hall of Let's Make a Deal (lived to 96!) and Gene Rayburn of the Match Game. Maybe Allen Ludden with Password, as well.

Like a lot of stuff, enough double entendres to entertain the adults while the kids had no idea what Paul Lynde and Charley Weaver were talking about.

I didn't know until today that Marshall (LaCock) took the job because he had heard Dan Rowan was being offered it. And he had a personal beef with Rowan over comedy material he felt had been stolen from Marshall's late partner. A 13-week temp gig turned into 16 years!

RIP. And circle gets the square.

 

[playthrough]

RIP. I was more of a Match Game guy in terms of yuk-yuk game shows, but that's no knock on Marshall.

My Mount Rushmore of game show hosts: Barker, Trebek, Eubanks and Bill Cullen. Sorry Sajak.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

I love the Match Game reruns. And like Maumann, l had no idea that he was still alive too.

 

[HanSenSE]

RIP. I was more of a Match Game guy in terms of yuk-yuk game shows, but that's no knock on Marshall.

My Mount Rushmore of game show hosts: Barker, Trebek, Eubanks and Bill Cullen. Sorry Sajak.

Sajak's just a compiler!

 

[da man]

My first reaction was "he was still alive?" Television game show hosts seem to have a good lifespan. Hugh Downs of Concentration fame lived to be 99. So did Bob Barker.

Wink Martindale is 90.

One of those guys who will be forever linked to the show he hosted during the heyday of 1960s game shows, much like Art Fleming and Jeopardy! (before Alex Trebek), Bob Eubanks and the Newlywed Game, Jim Lange and the Dating Game, Monty Hall of Let's Make a Deal (lived to 96!) and Gene Rayburn of the Match Game. Maybe Allen Ludden with Password, as well.

Like a lot of stuff, enough double entendres to entertain the adults while the kids had no idea what Paul Lynde and Charley Weaver were talking about.

I didn't know until today that Marshall (LaCock) took the job because he had heard Dan Rowan was being offered it. And he had a personal beef with Rowan over comedy material he felt had been stolen from Marshall's late partner. A 13-week temp gig turned into 16 years!

RIP. And circle gets the square.

Thanks for the nod to Art Fleming, who will ALWAYS be the host of Jeopardy to me.

"Correct, select."
"Nooooo, sorry."

 

[MTM]

Going old school, John Daly did a great job hosting the original What's My Line. It took deft hosting to keep the game moving.

 

[YMCA B-Baller]

RIP. He was a really good host for what Hollywood Squares was.

Everyone had a variety show in the 70s!

 

[Slacker]

My first reaction was "he was still alive?" Television game show hosts seem to have a good lifespan. Hugh Downs of Concentration fame lived to be 99. So did Bob Barker.

Wink Martindale is 90.

One of those guys who will be forever linked to the show he hosted during the heyday of 1960s game shows, much like Art Fleming and Jeopardy! (before Alex Trebek), Bob Eubanks and the Newlywed Game, Jim Lange and the Dating Game, Monty Hall of Let's Make a Deal (lived to 96!) and Gene Rayburn of the Match Game. Maybe Allen Ludden with Password, as well.

Like a lot of stuff, enough double entendres to entertain the adults while the kids had no idea what Paul Lynde and Charley Weaver were talking about.

I didn't know until today that Marshall (LaCock) took the job because he had heard Dan Rowan was being offered it. And he had a personal beef with Rowan over comedy material he felt had been stolen from Marshall's late partner. A 13-week temp gig turned into 16 years!

RIP. And circle gets the square.

I wonder how many of those guys were smokers and yet still lived so long.
Seems like many of them might have been, just being hip cats back in the game show days.
Marshall, Rayburn, Martindale, Fleming – they all look the type. Maybe Downs. Maybe Ludden?

 

[Matt1735]

My team name for bar trivia tonight: Circle Gets the Square

 

[DanOregon]

Better than "LaCocks" I guess.

 

[Liut]

Thanks for the nod to Art Fleming, who will ALWAYS be the host of Jeopardy to me.

"Correct, select."
"Nooooo, sorry."

Mr. Fleming post-Jeopardy hosted shows at KMOX radio in St. Louis.
RIP, Mr. Marshall.

 

[Chef2]

In the end, X got the square.

I bow in your general direction.

 

[Slacker]

My Mount Rushmore of game show hosts: Barker, Trebek, Eubanks and Bill Cullen. Sorry Sajak.

Good call on Cullen, the master. I gotta say Monty Hall over Eubanks, though.

"Let's Make a Deal" was basically a forerunner to "The Price is Right,"
and Monty was as god-like a host back in his days as Barker became later.
Both of them were outstanding at working frenzied crowds of desperate yahoos.

 

[garrow]

Not easy hosting silly stuff like HS and remain solid. RIP.

 

[maumann]

Not easy hosting silly stuff like HS and remain solid. RIP.

At least that game had celebrity interactions that Marshall could play against. Sort of the same with Rayburn and Match Game.

Games like Press Your Luck and Card Sharks had to have been excruciating to emcee.

 

[MTM]

Backside of the Hollywood Squares set, 1976