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John McCaffery

John McCaffery (1913–1983), also known as John K. M. McCaffery, was an American television host who appeared on many game shows and talk shows during the 1940s and 1950s including Americana, Television Screen Magazine, What's the Story, One Minute Please, and Author Meets the Critics.

Switchover Media

The tip of GXT programs include: game shows such as Japanese and American Ninja Warrior, and sports entertainment programs such as American Gladiators and WWE.

Thesni Khan

.She has attended popular talk shows such as Nammal Thammil,Sreekandannair Show.She has acted in some tele-films also.She has participated in popular game shows such as 1.1.3 on Mazhavil Manorama and Sarigama on Asianet.She has supported Beena Antony and Manoj Kumar in reality show Sundari Neeyum Sundaran Njaanum on Asianet.She has performed in various stages


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¿Quién quiere ser millonario?

¿Quién quiere ser millonario? is the title of several Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? franchise game shows in Spanish-speaking countries.

Alan Hamel

In the late 1960s he hosted two syndicated game shows which aired on all the ABC owned and operated TV stations as well as others: Wedding Party (1968); and Anniversary Game (1969), where he first met Suzanne Somers, whom he married in 1977.

Angry Brides

The landing page of the game shows an eight-armed woman, clad in red and resembling the powerful female Hindu goddess Durga.

Baja Marimba Band

Initially formed by producer Herb Alpert to cash in on the "south of the border" craze started by his own Tijuana Brass, the Baja Marimba Band outlasted the Tijuana Brass by several years thanks largely in part to TV producer, Chuck Barris, who featured the group's music on his game shows through the mid-1970s.

Bern Bennett

In the 1940s and 1950s, he was closely associated with Bud Collyer, as announcer on three Collyer-hosted game shows, Winner Take All, Beat the Clock, and To Tell the Truth, all produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman.

Bill Carruthers

He also produced and directed game shows including Give-n-Take, The Neighbors, Second Chance (all with Warner Bros. Television), Lee Trevino's Golf for Swingers (with McCann Erickson) and the 1975 version of You Don't Say! (with Ralph Andrews Productions and Warner Bros. Television), before hitting it big with the CBS game show, Press Your Luck, which ran from 1983-86.

Bill Leyden

After returning home following the war, Leyden worked as a radio announcer on KMPC in Los Angeles and later served announcer for the syndicated radio series The Liberace Program (1954–55) before moving over to television, where he hosted several game shows, the most successful of which was It Could Be You.

CCTV-14

It airs cartoons such as SpongeBob SquarePants and other cartoon programs broadcast as well as children's game shows and other children's programmes in this channel.It separated from CCTV-7 since 2003.Before 2003,CCTV children's programmes were available on CCTV-7.After CCTV-14 is launched,all children's programmes on CCTV-7 are moved to CCTV-14.CCTV-7 don't broadcast children's programmes any longer.

Columbia Pictures Television

On November 8, 1989, Sony Corporation bought Columbia Pictures Entertainment for $3.4 billion and the next day, Sony acquired the Guber-Peters Entertainment Company (formerly game show production company Barris Industries with the library of game shows including The Newlywed Game, The Dating Game, and The Gong Show) for $200 million after hiring film producers Peter Guber and Jon Peters to run the company.

Contestant

There are links between game show contestants and other games and hobbies, such as Scrabble players who take part in word-based game shows like Countdown and BrainTeaser.

Das Bohnenspiel

A detailed analysis of the rules of the game shows the bean game to be very similar to Central Asian and Arab mancala games, such as Turkish mangala, Palestinian Al-manqala, and Iraqi Halusa.

Dave Feldman

Feldman was hired by CSN Bay Area to serve as anchor/reporter for the network's San Francisco 49ers programming and the network's regular studio show SportsNet Central, including pre- and post-game shows for Major League Baseball, NBA basketball and NHL hockey broadcasts.

Dean Goss

Other game shows for which he has announced include Bargain Hunters and the Wink Martindale-hosted version of High Rollers both from 1987, as well as NBC's I'm Telling!, and the syndicated Slime Time.

Design and Production of The Crystal Maze

The Crystal Maze was one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful British TV game shows of all time.

Elaine Stewart

Stewart was also known as the co-hostess on two 1970s game shows, Gambit with Wink Martindale and the nighttime edition of High Rollers with Alex Trebek, which were both produced by her husband.

Flamingo Fortune

After the first five shows, production was transferred to Jonathan Goodson Productions (long discussed as the first solo production for JGP), after All American Television (which acquired Mark Goodson's company a few weeks earlier) spun out their lottery game shows to Mark Goodson's son, Jonathan Goodson.

Greengrass Productions

It has, over the years, produced miniseries such as Oliver Stone's Wild Palms, game shows such as I Survived a Japanese Game Show, and reality series such as Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (in association with Endemol USA).

Gunde Svan

After retiring from his athletic career he has worked as the host for some game shows such as the Swedish version of American Gladiators, Fort Boyard and Bingolotto.

Heatter-Quigley Productions

Kenny Williams was the announcer on all of Heatter-Quigley's game shows except for two: Temptation (announced by Carl King) and The Magnificent Marble Machine (announced by Johnny Gilbert), with both shows hosted by Art James.

Jimmy Cefalo

Cefalo co-hosted PM Magazine, AM South Florida, and hosted the syndicated game shows Trump Card, and Sports Snapshot (according to The Encyclopedia of TV Game Shows Volume 2).

Joyce Bulifant

Bulifant also appeared in the movie Airplane!, and as David Spade's mother on Just Shoot Me!, in addition to guest starring roles on several TV shows, and as a guest panelist on numerous game shows.

LaVannes C. Squires

Coach Phog Allen said that Squires in his first game “shows fine early coaching and has a lot of fire, enthusiasm and ability. If he continues to improve as he has in the past few weeks he’ll play a lot for us.”

Lonnie Burr

Burr also appeared as a contestant on two game shows, The Big Showdown (1975) and Wordplay (1987).

Ludia

The company works with the owners of game show properties such as FremantleMedia, Sony, CBS, BBC Worldwide, Mark Burnett Productions and Disney to create video games based on game shows such as The Price Is Right, Family Feud/Family Fortunes, Press Your Luck, Pyramid, Hollywood Squares, Hole In The Wall, Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?, The Weakest Link and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.

Mlakar

Oliver Mlakar (born 1935), Croatian television presenter, best known for hosting game shows

Password Plus and Super Password

On June 20, 1980, three other NBC game shows were canceled to make room for David Letterman's morning talk show.

Pennsylvania Lottery

To celebrate the Lottery's 25th anniversary in 1997, Jonathan Goodson, who, at the time produced several other lottery game shows, produced a Pennsylvania Lottery game show, with a format similar to Illinois Instant Riches.

Petra Bagust

She began her television career at local TV station Cry TV, She later co-hosted youth TV series Ice TV, its sequel Ice As, and later a wide range of programming include travel shows, real estate shows, and game shows.

Randy Dellosa

He is life coach-psychotherapist of Filipino celebrities and was the resident psychiatrist in the Pinoy Big Brother and Pinoy Dream Academy reality shows of ABS-CBN Network as well as game shows such as Deal or No Deal.

Reg Grundy Organisation

Frequent announcers of the company's game shows included Jay Stewart, Don Morrow, Gene Wood and Charlie Tuna.

Roger Dobkowitz

In addition to The Price Is Right, Dobkowitz also worked on other game shows, such as Family Feud, Double Dare, Now You See It, and Match Game.

Sally Wiggin

Wiggin has stepped out of her anchor role to serve as a co-host for Pittsburgh Steelers pre-game shows, as well as her regular appearances on WDVE morning comedy show.

Sheldon Allman

Additionally, Allman worked with Stan Worth, co-writer of the "George of the Jungle" theme, to create music for a number of game shows by Stefan Hatos-Monty Hall Productions, including the 1970s versions of Let's Make a Deal, Masquerade Party and It Pays to be Ignorant.

Stewart Tele Enterprises

One of the first game shows he created was The Price is Right aired on NBC and was hosted by Bill Cullen.

The Joke's on Us

Milton DeLugg provided the theme song, which had previously been used as a cue on various Chuck Barris game shows.

The National Lampoon Radio Hour

Two examples of the sometimes shocking humor of the Radio Hour are sketches which featured game shows entitled "Catch it and Keep it" (prizes - some quite lethal - are dropped from a great height to the crowd below), and "Land a Million" (in which a housewife is left alone in an airborne Boeing 747 containing $1 million in cash and a ton of TNT and must answer questions about literature in order to receive tips on how to land the plane safely).

The Prospect Studios

Four of the most well-known game shows in television history were recorded at ABC Television Center: Family Feud (1976–85, hosted by Richard Dawson), Let's Make a Deal (1968–76, hosted by Monty Hall), The Dating Game (1965–74, hosted by Jim Lange), and The Newlywed Game (1966–74, hosted by Bob Eubanks).

Tommy Tighe

Also, prior to 2004, Tighe hosted the pre- and post- game shows for Monday Night Football on the network, but was replaced by Jim Gray.

Tony Twist

He now is a co-host in post-game shows after Blues games on Fox Sports Midwest.

Valarie Rae Miller

She hosted two game shows; one was the second season of Gladiators 2000, replacing Maria Sansone; the other was the ill-fated Peer Pressure.

Valleycrest Productions

It went on to earn even greater success as the production company and copyright holder of several American game shows of the late 1990s and 2000s, which included Win Ben Stein's Money on Comedy Central, and more famously, the American versions of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and the spin-off program Who Wants to Be a Super Millionaire.

Vanessa Collingridge

After graduating, Collingridge moved immediately to a career in television, first as a question checker on game shows Wheel of Fortune and Win, Lose or Draw, and then for 14 months as a weathergirl on BBC Scotland.

Winter Challenge

Once the players were selected, the game shows an Opening Ceremonies clip and then took you to a tournament screen where you could see your icons for the seven events, as well as four button that would show your current standings, start a new tournament, enter a password to return to an existing tournament, or return the main menu.