Game Show Host Dies in Plane Crash

The Insider ^ | 3/13/06

[Borges]

[kenth]

ping

[My2Cents]

best known for the show "Press Your Luck" and "Whammy!

How ironic.

[Huck]

Whammy. I guess he pressed his luck.

[TampaDude]

I'll take Air Disasters for $500, Alex...

[Christian4Bush]

Just damn. One of my favorite shows, too. I found a freeware computer version of Press Your Luck a few years ago, and it is lots of fun. (I don't recall where it was)

Thoughts and prayers to the Tomarken family.

[AZRepublican]

Should had been able to land on water without power and swimmed to shore.

[Stone Mountain]

Remember the guy who figured out the "random" patterns for Press Your Luck and won a ton of money?

[WestVirginiaRebel]

So he was the host of "Press Your Luck" when that guy who figured out how to beat the game board kept winning?

Whenever you step into a plane, You Bet Your Life. He probably knew he was in Jeopardy at some point.

[Tanniker Smith]

Sorry to hear that. I knew the face and the shows, but I couldn't remember his name.

[CindyDawg]

I really liked that show. Prayers for the families.

[Tanniker Smith]

I saw a special on him a couple of years ago. I remember when it happened. I think I read about it back then in TV Guide. Basically, they had to rule that he hadn't cheated. It isn't cheating to simple "pay attention". But, hey, that's how you beat "Pac-Man", too. There were patterns that you could recognize. It wasn't all random.

The later version really was random, so you couldn't Press Your Luck very far.

[M203M4]

best known for the show "Press Your Luck" and "Whammy!"

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[kcvl]

The pilot was flying to San Diego to pick up a passenger who needed to get to UCLA Medical Center for treatment, Griffith said.

http://www.pe.com/ap_news/California2/CA_Plane_Crash_228599CA.shtml

[Gunflint]

I wonder if his hair was damaged?

[Hildy]

13 posts, and only 1 so far showing any sympathy whatsoever. 12 others with variations of the same lame joke. Shameful.

[xp38]

Recently while perusing http://www.newsmeat.com/celebrity_political_donations/ it was nice to see Alex was one of the extremely rare celebs who had donated to the pubs instead of the dims.

[A CA Guy]

Small plane travel is as dangerous as it gets IMO.

I know several folks that killed themselves this way.

[kcvl]

And I think it was a flight for a non profit group for needy patients...

The pilot was a volunteer for Angel Flight West, a nonprofit organization that provides free air transportation for needy medical patients

[Christian4Bush]

Remember the guy who figured out the "random" patterns for Press Your Luck and won a ton of money?

I do, but I don't remember his name. A Google or Yahoo search will probably turn it up. That's how I found it. In fact, I know someone who was once on that show. I don't think she won anything.

Seems like there are only a few old time GS hosts still with us...Bob Barker (The Price is Right), Bob Eubanks (Card Sharks, the Newleywed Game), Richard Dawson (Family Feud), Dick Clark (25K Pyramid), Wink Martindale (Tic Tac Dough), Chuck Woolery (Wheel of Fortune, Love Connection, Lingo), Pat Sajak (Wheel of Fortune), Alex Trebek (High Rollers, Jeopardy) among them.

I can't recall the guys that did Card Sharks and The Dating Game...guess there are more around than I thought.

Some that we've lost (including the announcers): Bert Convy (Super Password, Win, Lose or Draw), Bill Cullen (Password), Gene Rayburn (Match Game), Peter Tomarken (Press Your Luck), Johnny Olsen and Rod Roddy (announcers, The Price is Right and Press Your Luck), Gene Wood (announcer, Family Feud).