Bill Cullen's Game Show Openings
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- A compilation video of 30+ years of Bill Cullen's hosted game show openings. They are in order;
Quick As A Flash (Pilot), Winner Take All, Professor Yes & No, Place The Face, Bank On The Stars, The Price Is Right, Eye Guess, To Tell The Truth (subbing for Gary Moore), Jokers Wild, Three On A Match, Winning Streak, Blankety Blanks, I've Got A Secret (76 Pilot), $25,000 Pyramid, How Do You Like Your Eggs, Pass The Buck, The Love Experts, Chain Reaction, Password Plus (subbing for Allen Ludden), Blockbusters, Childs Play and Hot Potato.
I do not own any of these clips. - Zábava
Bill Cullen was the greatest game show host of all time! RIP Bill. I miss you to this day.
Agreed. My personal favorite, as well. He had a lot of so-so games that he made better just by being the host.
Bill didn't let his physical handicap keep him from becoming one of the greatest game show hosts of all time!
He was an avid pilot, but due to childhood polio, had a bad limp and was ruled unfit for service in WW2. He served stateside in the air patrol. Those who knew him thought him the most intelligent elegant man they ever met.
Bill Cullen has paid his dues in television, may he RIP!!
I wanted to be a game show host when I was a kid. (Yes, weird kid.) Bill was one of my inspirations. Rest in games, Bill.
Same
Bill Cullen Was A Wonderful Game Show Host!
When the intros to your shows take 20 minutes, you've had a mighty fine career.
it's because many of the clips are too long and could have been edited down.
@@rah62 it was actually a compliment. Bill Cullen was a great host, and it's a fine testament to him something like this could be put together.
I'd swear that one time I saw Bill being interviewed, maybe a talk show, and he was asked about his ability to know exactly how long a minute lasted. He'd been on so many game shows, that used a minute timer, that he just knew. The host started a timer, and continued interviewing Bill. When the minute was up, Bill interrupted the conversation, to say that one minute was complete. The timer showed he was exactly right. That's impressive !
17:56, My Favorite Bill Cullen Show, BLOCKBUSTERS
Bill had two turns at The Joker's Wild? I remember the second immediately after Jack Barry passed.
Who knew that Bill Cullen contracted polio when he was 18 months old and then had a serious motor vehicle accident in 1937. These unfortunate events left him with considerable physical limitations. Much like FDR, very few people were aware of his disabilities and the studio sets were specially arranged for him. Notice how often these shows open with Bill already seated or when he does walk or stand, it's for a limited time. The Wikipedia article goes into more detail on this.
In spite of that, he had a life-long TV career and was one of America's favorite TV personalities.
This is also true where he was a panelist - if you recall the classic To Tell The Truth intro, the camera always panned up to shoot the male panelists from above the waist while the women got full-camera treatment. They may have claimed it was to show off the women's outfits, but it was really to protect Cullen from having his limp appear on-camera.
I just in recent years discovered his genius thanks 2 buzzr, already one of my favorite game show hosts.... Keep resting well sir 💯👏
So cool. Thank you DTB1997!
He will be missed
Agreed, I liked blockbusters and chain reaction
Even though he only hosted it for 4 weeks, Password Plus was my favorite. Other favorites include Chain Reaction, Blockbusters, and Child's Play. Although, Pass the Buck and Hot Potato look pretty exciting as well. I should check them out.
The best games he hosted, IMO, were Pyramid and Three on a Match. You will not find many episodes of TOAM because of the (stupid policy of) wiping the network used to do.
"William lawrence francis cullen the first host of the price is right the legendary game-show host & panelist professor yes n no himself bill-cullen"🇮🇪🇺🇸.
I wondered why a game show would be called "How Do You Like Your Eggs?", but then I saw that it was from Columbus, Ohio, so naturally it was obvious.
If you listened closely, it was called a two way game show. Produced in Columbus by Warner Media for the QUBE interactive television service.
I learned something new tonight. The theme to Second Chance (Press Your Luck predecessor), was originally the pilot version of I've Got A Secret. I didn't know that.
On "Password Plus", Goodson-Todman originally recruited Geoff Edwards to substitute for Allen Ludden, but declined and gave it to Bill Cullen.
That's right, Geoff Edwards ended up subbing for Bill on Chain Reaction (which set him up for doing the USA run)
Glad for that! The noble Bill Cullen is & always will be the most interesting & intelligent game show emcee ever!!!!
@@newstarcadefan And Geoff done a great job. NBC should've kept 'Chain Reaction' for a few more seasons....then we wouldn't have 'Blockbusters'.
wow do this man host a lot of game shows
How do you like your eggs?!?!?!? Sadly, Allen never did get back.
If anyone is curious to know, there is 1 show missing from this list, maybe it will show up one day in video form though, but it is Name that Tune. He hosted it 1954 and 55 while hosting Place the Face as well. This made him at the time available to be seen on two different networks (ABC and NBC) simultaneously. Can't imagine there have been many others before or since that would have done that, although in the early days of both Radio and TV I suppose coulda occured more than it would now. Nice vid BTW DTB, showing it to a friend of mine who likes Bill Cullen too. Really neat encapsulation of his career :)
I know there is at least one episode available, since I saw it at the Museum of Broadcasting during a trip to New York.
"Epic rap-battle bill-cullen the legendary game-show host & panelist from pittsburgh-pa vs drew-carey the comedian from cleveland-ohio".
That just sounds depressing.
Did Bill Carruthers have anything to do with WINNING STREAK? I ask because the board was a precursor to PYL
Is it me or did they borrow the pass the buck music from jackpot.
Could you make a video for Monty Hall, Peter Tomarken, and maybe Pat Sajak?
I'm really busy at work right now, but I plan on getting to some more of these this winter.
Pat Sajack did only 2 game shows iirc (Wheel and a pilot called Puzzlers)
Blockbusters was hands down the ugliest set in the history of game shows!