96. Wow, are we getting old. RIP Monty, more so than that licentious “icon” the other day.
I wonder which door he chose?
Around 1967 one of my best friends married a cutie who was his long time girlfriend.
A couple of months later I visited them and they were watching “Lets Make A Deal”. I had never seen before.
That is really sad.
The guy’s name was synonymous with game show host.
Enjoy Video Village only surviving episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EisxsT5OF-I
Break the news gently to Ed Grimley.
60609.
My after-school days never let me forget the zip of Let’s Make a Deal.
RIP Monte... a good man...grew up listening to him on the CBC.
My whole life’s waiting behind door number three.....
I see that Carol Merrill is still alive.
I agree with above posters - he was a memory of a much healthier time.
A while back on the BUZZR Game Show channel, they aired a special about “Let’s Make a Deal.” The host of the current version, Wayne Brady, interviewed Monty Hall. They then showed the very first episode from the 1960s. It was nothing like it eventually became. The trading was the same, but everyone in the audience was nicely dressed. Monty Hall went around the audience and picked people at random. Hall explained to Brady that one day, a man in the audience held up a sign to attract his attention, and got picked to make a deal. Soon, others were bringing signs, then someone decided to wear a costume, and it snowballed from there.
RIP. My whole world lies waiting behind door number three.
There’s got to be a joke in here...
Monty is standing at the pearly gates......
Hall was a radio analyst for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League during the 1959–60 season.
Hall was born Monte Halparin in Winnipeg to Orthodox Jewish parents, Maurice Harvey Halparin,[3] who owned a slaughterhouse, and Rose (née Rusen).[4] He was raised in Winnipeg’s north end,[5] where he attended Lord Selkirk School (Elmwood, Winnipeg), and, later St. John’s High School.[6] Hall graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Manitoba, where he majored in chemistry and zoology.
On September 28, 1947, Hall married a distant cousin, Marilyn Doreen Plottel (May 17, 1927 – June 5, 2017); the two had been introduced by a mutual cousin, Norman Shnier, the previous year. They became United States citizens in 1949.
Bob Barker (age 93) and Peter Marshall (age 91) are still around.
i think I recall him wearing plaid suits. I always liked how he interacted with the people, his personality with them, he kept it very entertaining and family fun unlike some hosts who are over the top obnoxious in ways.
Good clean fun.