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The only
reason this list isn't
even longer is that throughout the seventies, most game shows were
based
in California while Bill was still working in New York.
Appearances
on those west coast shows were limited to occasional visits during
breaks
in his own schedule. For example, in a short trip to L.A. in July,
1975,
Bill taped appearances as a celebrity guest on Tattletales, Rhyme
and
Reason and You Don't Say.
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THE $10,000 PYRAMID
(Dick
Clark)
August
13-17,
1973 with Fannie Flagg
January
28-February
1, 1974 with Anita Gillette
March
3-7, 1975
with Jo Anne
Worley
August
18-22,
1975 with Lee
Meriwether
October
13-17,
1975 with Stephanie Braxton
THE
$20,000 PYRAMID (Dick Clark)
January
19-23,
1976 with Jo Anne Worley (first week with larger prize)
March
29-April
2, 1976 with Anita
Gillette
July
12-16, 1976
with Barbara Feldon
December
13-17,
1976 with Anita Gillette
September
27-October
1, 1976 with Anne
Meara
August
8-12,
1977 with Lucie
Arnaz
December
12-16,
1977 with Caren
Kaye
December
4-8,
1978 with Lynn
Redgrave
March
5-9, 1979
with Anne Meara
July
23-27, 1979
with Adrienne
Barbeau
June
23-27, 1980
with Lois Nettleton (final week of
series)
THE $25,000 PYRAMID
(Dick Clark)
October
10-14,
1983 with Shelley
Smith
March
11-15,
1985 with Jo Anne
Worley
March
24-28,
1986 with Elaine
Joyce
July
21-25, 1986
with Lois
Nettleton
June 1-5,
1987
with Betty White (Bill's last TV appearance)
ALL-STAR SECRETS
(Bob
Eubanks)
Feb
26-March
2, 1979 with Nanette Fabray, Arte Johnson, Della Reese and John
Schuck
BREAK THE BANK
(Bert
Parks)
Bill
filled in
as host during Parks' vacation in August,
1954.
BREAK THE BANK
(Jack
Barry)
Syndicated. Specific
dates
varied.
1976 with
Barbara
Eden, Joey Bishop, William Conrad, Abe Vigoda, Bob Crane, Jaye P.
Morgan,
Lee Meriwether and Anson Williams
BREAK THE BANK
(Tom
Kennedy)
July 19-23,
1976 (final week of series) with Joyce Bulifant, Soupy Sales, Elke
Sommer,
Donny Most, Jo Anne Worley, Jan Murray, Jaye P. Morgan and Lonnie
Schorr
CARD
SHARKS (Jim Perry)
September
8-26,
1980 three-week series featuring game show hosts, with Gene Rayburn,
Wink
Martindale, Jack Clark, Tom Kennedy, Jim Lange, Allen Ludden and Alex
Trebek.
CELEBRITY SWEEPSTAKES
(Jim McKrell)
September
16-20,
1974 with Geoff Edwards, Carol Wayne, Jo Ann Pflug, Macdonald Carey and
Pat Henry
April
26-30,
1976 with Lynn Anderson, Peter Brown, Dody Goodman, Dick Martin and
Carol
Wayne
July
12-16, 1976
with James Darren, Anne Meara, Paul Williams, Dick Gautier, and Carol
Wayne
Fall,
1976 syndicated
show with Dick Gautier, Arte Johnson, Lonnie Schorr, Carol Wayne, and
Buddy
Hackett.
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Eagle-eyed
contributor Chris
Tufts points out that during the week of July 12-16, 1976, Bill could
be
seen as a guest on three different shows on three different
networks.
He was on Celebrity Sweepstakes (NBC), The $20,000 Pyramid
(ABC)
and Tattletales (CBS).
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CONCENTRATION
(Hugh Downs)
December
24,
1965 with Betty White
Bill used this appearance to
plug Eye Guess. He also appeared
on Concentration
in 1971, not to play, but to plug the debut of Three
on
a
Match.
CROSS-WITS
(Jack Clark)
Syndicated. Specific
dates
varied.
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Syndicated
shows in the seventies,
including many of the games listed here, were on tapes that were
"bicycled"
from one station to the next throughout the country. Under that
system,
different markets saw different episodes of a given series on any given
day. That's why we can't be more specific about the air dates of
those shows. In today's system of satellite distribution,
virtually
all markets see the same episode of a syndicated show on the same day.
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1976 with
Fannie
Flagg, Patti Deutsch and Jack Carter
1977 with
Fannie
Flagg, Elaine Joyce and Rick Hurst
1977 with
Dody
Goodman, Joyce Bulifant and Ron Ely
1978 with
Pat
Carroll, Alice Ghostley, and Milt Kamen
1979 with
Roxie
Roker, Marcia Wallace and Bobby Goldsboro
1979 with
Roxie
Roker, Marcia Wallace and Fred Grandy
1979 with
Vicki
Lawrence, Polly Holliday and Don Galloway
1979 with
Jo
Anne Worley, Elinor Donahue and Johnny Brown
FAMILY FEUD
(Richard
Dawson)
November,
1983 game
show
hosts week, with Bob Eubanks, Jim Perry, Nipsey Russell, Betty White,
Tom
Kennedy, Jim Lange, Peter Marshall, Bert Parks and Leslie Uggams.
HE SAID, SHE SAID
(Joe
Garagiola)
Syndicated. Specific
dates
varied.
1969 with
Gene
Rayburn and
others
1970 with
Orson
Bean, Robert Lansing and Heywood Hale Broun
1970 with
Orson
Bean, Patrick O'Neal, and Pat Carroll
1970 with
Dick
Clark, Peter Duchin, and Peter Lind Hayes & Mary Healy
1970 with
Alejandro
Rey, Genevieve, and Kyle Rote & Sharon Ritchie
1970 with
Dick
Clark, Jerry Shane, and Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis
(Bill also substituted for
Joe Garagiola
as host on at least one occasion, possibly when Joe had a committment
to
baseball broadcasting.)
HOLLYWOOD SQUARES
(Peter
Marshall) [NBC Daytime]
August
16-20,
1971 with Wally Cox, Rose Marie, Jack Klugman, Tony Randall, Karen
Valentine,
Jackie Vernon, Charley Weaver, and Carol
Lawrence.
JEOPARDY!
(Art Fleming)
March 30,
1972
Eighth Anniversary Show with Peter Marshall and Art
James
LIARS CLUB
(Allen Ludden)
Syndicated. Specific
dates
varied.
1978 with
Larry
Hovis, Dody Goodman and Alan
Sues
MATCH GAME
(Gene Rayburn)
December
20-24,
1965 with Joan Rivers
May
15-19, 1967
with Phyllis Newman
December
18-22,
1967 with Bess Myerson
February
12-16,
1968 with Fannie Flagg
February
17-21,
1969 with Hugh Downs
MATCH
GAME '7X (Gene Rayburn)
Nov
12-16, 1973
with Brett Somers, Jack Klugman, Cass Elliott, Richard Dawson and
Loretta
Swit
March
28-April
3, 1974 with Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly, Patty Deutsch,
Richard Dawson and Betty
White
*April
14-20,
1976 with Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly, Janice Pennington,
Richard Dawson and Fannie
Flagg
*September 26-30,
1977 with Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly, Debralee Scott, Richard
Dawson and Fannie Flagg
*April
18-20,
1979 with Fred Grandy, Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly, Connie
Stevens and Marcia Wallace
MATCH GAME
(Gene Rayburn)
Syndicated. Specific
dates
varied.
*1979-80
week
with Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly, Lee Meriwether, Bill Daily
and
Betty White
*1980-81
week
with Peter Marshall, Brett Somers, Dick Martin, Elaine Joyce and Betty
White
1981-82
week
with Jimmie Walker, Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly, Lilibet Stern
and Elaine
Joyce
1981-82
week
with Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly, Sharon Farrell, Maclean
Stevenson and Edie McClurg
*A sixth show was taped
during the
starred weeks for the syndicated MATCH GAME PM.
MATCH GAME/HOLLYWOOD
SQUARES
HOUR (Gene Rayburn & Jon Bauman)
January
16-20,
1984 with Brian Mitchell, Jay Leno, Linda Dano, Ellen Bry, Richard
Kline,
Lyle Waggoner, and Phyllis Diller.
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Bill appeared
on The Match
Game/ Hollywood Squares Hour with two little-known young
celebrities
who would go on to become much more famous. In 1984, Jay Leno was
a rising stand-up comic and Brian Mitchell was a supporting actor in a
medical series. Today, Leno is host of The Tonight Show
and
Mitchell is a Tony Award winning Broadway performer.
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MINDREADERS
(Dick Martin)
August
20-24,
1979 with Brett Somers
PASSWORD
(Allen Ludden)
[60's CBS]
January
30, 1962
with Dorothy
Collins
August
21, 1962
with Rita Moreno (Jack Clark
hosts)
March 10,
1963
with Jane
Fonda
July 8,
1963
with Susan
Strasberg
November
1-5,
1965 daytime week with Florence
Henderson
PASSWORD
(Allen Ludden)
[70's ABC]
July
12-16, 1971
with Florence Henderson
November
12-16,
1973 with Helen Reddy
May 6-10,
1974
with Susan Oliver
PASSWORD PLUS
(Allen
Ludden)
March
12-16,
1979 with Mary Tyler
Moore
July
9-13, 1979
with Patty Duke
October
29-Novembeer
2, 1979 with Marcia
Wallace
March
3-7, 1980
with Peggy Cass
PASSWORD PLUS
(Bill
Cullen)
(Bill hosted Password Plus
for four
weeks during Allen Ludden's
illness.)
April
14-18,
1980 with Elaine Joyce and Bill
Anderson
April
21-25,
1980 with Nanette Fabray and Skip
Stephenson
April
28-May
2, 1980 with Vicki Lawrence and Dick
Gautier
May 5-9,
1980
with Betty White and Greg
Morris
PASSWORD PLUS
(Allen
Ludden)
May
12-16, 1980
with Susan
Richardson
July
29-August
4, 1980 with Betty
White
October
14-20,
1980 with Karen
Marrow
PASSWORD PLUS
(Tom
Kennedy)
November
11-17,
1980 with Barbara
Rhoades
December
31,
1980-January 7, 1981 with Susan
Richardson
February
11-17,
1982 with Patty Duke
Astin
PERSONALITY
(Larry
Blyden)
July
10-14, 1967
with Joan Rivers and Henry Morgan (Second week of series)
August
21-25,
1967 with Phyllis Newman and Sheila MacRae
October
30-November
3, 1967 with Joan Fontaine and Betsy Palmer
December
4-8,
1967 with Florence Henderson and Selma Diamond
January
8-12,
1968 with Joan Bennett and Joan Rivers
February
26-March
1, 1968 with Totie Fields and Gig Young
April
15-19,
1968 with Sheila MacRae and Betsy Palmer
May
13-17, 1968
with Eva Gabor and Pat Carroll
June
24-28, 1968
with Carol Lawrence and Dick Shawn
October
21-25,
1968 with Pat Carroll and Lainie Kazan
March
24-28,
1969 with Betsy Palmer and Selma Diamond
August
18-22,
1969 with Julia Meade and Sheila MacRae
THE
PRICE IS RIGHT (Bob Barker)
Bill
appeared
on TPIR in 1982 to plug Child's Play.
No
mention
was
made
in his brief visit of his own history with The
Price
Is Right.
RHYME AND REASON
(Bob
Eubanks)
August
4-8, 1975
with Jaye P. Morgan, Mitzi McCall, Meredith MacRae, Pat Harrington and
Nipsey Russell
SHOOT FOR THE STARS
(Geoff Edwards)
January
10-14,
1977 with Penny Peyser
April
4-8, 1977
with Adrienne Barbeau
July
25-29, 1977
with Barbara Feldon
September
26-30,
1977 with Adrienne Barbeau (final
week)
SNAP JUDGMENT
(Ed McMahon)
April
20-24,
1967 with Diana Sands
March
19-23,
1968 with Phyllis Kirk
November
28-December
2, 1968 with Jayne
Meadows
March
17-21,
1969 with Dina Merrill
STRIKE IT RICH
(Warren
Hull)
1954
Guest Host
Found in only one source and
not
confirmed, though Hull used a number of guest hosts for his series
(including
Robert Alda, Monty Hall and Dom Ameche) so why not Bill? Bill is
also credited with participating in the RADIO
version of the series.
SUPER PASSWORD
(Bert
Convy)
October
22-26,
1984 with Marcia Wallace
February
4-8,
1985 with Marcia Wallace (Tournament of
Champions)
September
16-20,
1985 with Tom Poston
January
27-31,
1986 with Kim Miyori
TATTLETALES
(Bert Convy)
March
25-29,
1974 with Allen Ludden & Betty White and Jo Ann Pflug & Chuck
Woolery
August
14-20,
1975 with Joan Collins and Zsa Zsa Gabor
July
12-16, 1976
with Judy Norton & Doug Taylor and Don & Susan Stewart
1977 week
with
Bob Barker, Patty Weaver
Aug
29-Sept 2,
1977 with Gary Collins & Mary Ann Mobley and Ray Buktenica &
Joyce
DeWitt
March
1-5, 1982
with Conrad Janis and Irlene Mandrell
September
9-13,
1982 with Stuart Damon and Christopher Norris
April
12-18,
1983 with Maureen Reagan and Phyllis Diller
TO TELL THE TRUTH
(Bud
Collyer)
October
19, 1964
with Peggy Cass, Kitty Carlisle and Tom Poston
January
18, 1965
with IGAS panelists Betsy Palmer, Henry Morgan and Bess Myerson.
TO TELL THE TRUTH
(Robin Ward)
Syndicated. Specific
dates
varied. The week numbers are the
production
weeks of the 39-week
season.
Week 6
with Fannie
Flagg, Soupy Sales and Peggy Cass
Week 7
with John
Wade, Susan Lucci and Polly Bergen
Week 13
with
John Wade, Tiiu Leek and Peggy Cass
Week 14
with
Pat Collins, Dick Clark and Polly Bergen
Bill was a regular on the
70s version
of To Tell The Truth.
TRIVIA TRAP
(Bob Eubanks)
1984
celeb week
with Jamie Farr, Tom Poston, Vicki Lawrence, Betty White and Jayne
Meadows.
WHAT'S MY LINE?
(John
Charles Daly)
April 1,
1956
with fellow I've Got A Secret panelists Henry Morgan, Jayne
Meadows
and Faye Emerson collectively as Mystery
Guests
July 9,
1961
as a solo Mystery Guest. The panel (Dorothy Kilgallen, Bennett
Cerf,
Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows) failed to identify him.
WHAT'S MY LINE?
(Larry
Blyden)
One
source says
Bill participated in this syndicated version of the series in
1974.
If true, it was probably as a Mystery Guest again, since according to
the
book What's My Line?, Bill was never a member of the panel. Not
confirmed.
WHEEL OF FORTUNE
(Chuck
Woolery)
Single
appearance
in 1980 as part of a special game show hosts
week Bill's episode does not survive (as far as we know), but the
following day's with Tom Kennedy does. At the end of Kennedy's
show, he, Woolery and Susan Stafford comment on how well Bill performed
the day before.
YOU DON'T SAY
(Tom
Kennedy) [60s NBC Daytime]
April
8-12, 1968
with Pat Carroll
November
11-15,
1968 with Barbara Bain
YOU DON'T SAY
(Tom
Kennedy) [70s ABC Daytime]
July
21-25, 1975
with Ann Elder, Joyce Bulifant, and Larry Hovis
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