Another classic game show guy has left us:
http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2008_10_15.html#016026
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Obit: Jack Narz, 85....Game Show Host, Announcer
- Thread starter Stanislav
- Start date
Jack Narz's passing got me to thinking: I post
a lot of Atlanta schedules from 1962, as good
a time for game shows as any, and it occurred
to me that only three hosts from that year are
still with us: Bob Barker (Truth Or Consequences),
Hugh Downs (Concentration), and Don Morrow
(Camouflage).
Hosting games somewhere up there (I hope)
besides Jack Narz are Art James (Say When!),
Merv Griffin (Play Your Hunch), Bill Cullen (The
Price Is Right), Bert Parks (Yours For A Song),
Bill Leyden (Your First Impression), Allen Ludden
(Password), Jan Murray (Charge Account), Jack
Bailey (Queen For A Day), Johnny Carson (Who
Do You Trust?, although his successor, Woody
Woodbury, is still with us), Bud Collyer (To Tell
The Truth), Garry Moore (I've Got A Secret), and
John Charles Daly (What's My Line?). Not to mention
later hosts like Art Fleming and Lloyd Thaxton, or
some earlier ones like Groucho, Jack Barry, Herb
Shriner, Hal March, and George DeWitt. Or Gene
Rayburn and Bert Convy.
Jack always lived in the shadow of brother Tom
Kennedy (in part, I think because he was unfairly
tainted by his emceeing Dotto, the first show found
to be rigged), but I always enjoyed his friendly style,
particularly on syndicated Concentration, which I
used to watch every night on Channel 11 in Atlanta.
It was never clear to me why he simply disappeared
from television after announcing the Monty Hall version
of Beat The Clock.
Hope the fates are better to Jack up there.
a lot of Atlanta schedules from 1962, as good
a time for game shows as any, and it occurred
to me that only three hosts from that year are
still with us: Bob Barker (Truth Or Consequences),
Hugh Downs (Concentration), and Don Morrow
(Camouflage).
Hosting games somewhere up there (I hope)
besides Jack Narz are Art James (Say When!),
Merv Griffin (Play Your Hunch), Bill Cullen (The
Price Is Right), Bert Parks (Yours For A Song),
Bill Leyden (Your First Impression), Allen Ludden
(Password), Jan Murray (Charge Account), Jack
Bailey (Queen For A Day), Johnny Carson (Who
Do You Trust?, although his successor, Woody
Woodbury, is still with us), Bud Collyer (To Tell
The Truth), Garry Moore (I've Got A Secret), and
John Charles Daly (What's My Line?). Not to mention
later hosts like Art Fleming and Lloyd Thaxton, or
some earlier ones like Groucho, Jack Barry, Herb
Shriner, Hal March, and George DeWitt. Or Gene
Rayburn and Bert Convy.
Jack always lived in the shadow of brother Tom
Kennedy (in part, I think because he was unfairly
tainted by his emceeing Dotto, the first show found
to be rigged), but I always enjoyed his friendly style,
particularly on syndicated Concentration, which I
used to watch every night on Channel 11 in Atlanta.
It was never clear to me why he simply disappeared
from television after announcing the Monty Hall version
of Beat The Clock.
Hope the fates are better to Jack up there.
Jack Narz was also the narrator of the first episode of TV's "Superman" titled "Superman on Earth".
tothedj said:
I have to agree, mostly because I'm around 30 years old, and never had a chance to see anything else Narz hosted. In fact, I only recently had a chance to watch "Now You See It" since it was added to the GSN lineup. I think the way players were matched up, eventually facing the returning champion, was a little strange. But then again, what 70s game show didn't have some strange twist in an attempt to set itself apart from the rest? NYSI was one show that didn't really need the twist though -- the basic premise of the game was pretty good on its own, and Narz did a super job hosting.
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