Posted on 07/03/2006 1:00:46 PM PDT by freepatriot32
I know I'm getting old. I remember this man very well!
A Hollywood Squares mainstay. Damn I'm getting old!
What's The Hollywood Squares?
Just kidding.
"I know I'm getting old."
My second thought (first was: "bummer, I liked that guy").
I remember Treasure Hunt --- and I dont mean rereuns on the Game Show Channel.
It was a fun program. Similar to NBC's Deal or No Deal.
I think there were sixty small "treasure chests" each numbered. The "winner" would get to pick a number; some had joke prizes worth little in them, others contained vactions, new cars, new homes, etc., one chest contained (I think) sixty thousand dollars in cash.
A pretty young blonde wearing little for those days would get the chest selected by the "winner" and then Jan would offer the winner the chance to sell the chest back to him before anyone know what was inside. Jan would offer sometimes hundreds of dollars if the selector would forego the chest.
Sounds stupid today, but as a child in the fifties this was one of my favorite shows.
Murray always seemed to have that infectious smile. I remember him well. He was a funny guy. He will be missed.
I also remember "Treasure Hunt." "Let's Make a Deal" and "Deal or No Deal" copied the premise of this show, playing on the greed of the contestant to trade away the prize they already had for the possibility of getting something better.
Sounds stupid today, but as a child in the fifties this was one of my favorite shows.
Mine too.
A pretty young blonde wearing little for those days would get the chest selected by the "winner" and then Jan would offer the winner the chance to sell the chest back to him before anyone know what was inside.
I also remember the pretty young blondes chest!
"Dollar a Second", now there's a game show the PI lawyers would have a field day with today.
Where old actors went to die, before they invented "The Love Boat".
Rest in peace.
Anyone old enough to remember when the comment "You're very beautiful" to a woman would elicit the response "Thank you!" I miss those days. Men were men, and women were glad of it.
BTW, for today's TV trivia note, did you know that the sweet British actress on Fraiser got her start as a Benny Hill Girl? Boy, those were the days!
Me, too, and me, too.
Are you implying that some women aren't beautiful? (Oh, how skin-deep). Or that men aren't? (Oh, how sexist!) Or that men who would make such comments weren't anything other than shallow, surface-driven assessors incapable of addressing the entire person regardless of their perceived, socially constructed role imposed by a dominating patriarchal "old-boys club" in Hollywood and beyond? (Oh, how anti-feminist) And that such men are so...
IIRC: He was a man of charity. RIP.
Where old actors went to die, before they invented "The Love Boat".
Now that's funny! and true...
"Jan Murray stars as himself, judging the NYPD barbershop quartet competition. To his dismay, they all sing "By the light of Silvery Moon" in exactly the same way: "Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom! By the light....." Even the female quartet sounds the same! By the time the Car 54 boys show up, Murray's on the verge of a breakdown and he jumps out the window when they start singing."
Classic television.
RIP, Jan. You were great.
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