Bowling for Dollars
tom maphet
was locally produced in several U.S. cities during the 1970s. I will
pay you for anything you have. Please reply to map...@fuse.net.
Don Howard
the station's call letters were WTVN--they switched to WSYX in 1987.
One of the show's hosts was Dick Schorr, until a few years ago
the longtime play-by-play announcer for The Ohio University Bobcats.
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Ted S.
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Channel 6 in what city? Channel 6 in Albany, NY, had a bowling show on
Sundays ("TV Tournament Time" IIRC), but they got rid of that in the 80s,
IIRC. (Or course, Albany's channel 6 has been WRGB for decades.) When my
high school was on the last season of "Answers, Please" in 1989 (they got
rid of it because they could make more money from infomercials :-(), we
got to take a tour of the studios and saw where they kept the bowling
lanes. "Answers, Please" was done in the same studio as Mr. Food, FWIW.
Of course, I think I was the only one from our school who cared --
everybody else had cable and got the NYC channels.
ISTR that in Boston, they had Candlepin Bowling instead of regular
tenpins.
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Zach Horan
>When Bowling For Dollars was on Channel 6 during the 1970s,
>the station's call letters were WTVN--they switched to WSYX in 1987.
It aired on WTAE with host Nick Perry in Pittsburgh. When 666 at his insistance
hit as the Pennsylvania Lottery daily number on one fateful day in the early
80s, that pretty much killed the show, and put Nick in jail. They had another
host for Pittsburgh BFD the last few months IIRC.
Steve Mindykowski
> Somebody claiming to be SearchFo...@hotmail.com (Don Howard) wrote
> in news:4cd032dd.02111...@posting.google.com:
>
> > When Bowling For Dollars was on Channel 6 during the 1970s,
> > the station's call letters were WTVN--they switched to WSYX in 1987.
>
> Channel 6 in what city?
WTVN and WSYX are Columbus, OH ABC stations.
And as for my personal memories for Bowling For Dollars, it was seen in the
late-1970s - early 1980s on WJRT ch.12 in Flint, MI. Ed Phelps, that station's
sports anchor, was host. I don't know if he still does sports for WJRT, though
he did as recently as 1999.
And recently, in the Tampa Bay area (in the mid-1990s), there was a local
cable bowling show (NOT "Bowling For Dollars", but something similar) that was
supposed to take place every week from a different local bowling alley. After
the first show, however, it was slated to be a monthly thing, but it went out
of production after the second or third episode. As I heard, the producer ran
off with all the money, to the ire of the alley owners and the participants.
I should know, as I worked at one of the bowling alleys at the time. We were
on a list for a future episode, but of course, it never came.
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That one you describe is the one I vividly remember. Poor Nick....rigged
the lottery and all. Don't even know if he's still around. Do you have any
BFD shows with him on tape?
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Zach Horan
>That one you describe is the one I vividly remember. Poor Nick....rigged
>the lottery and all. Don't even know if he's still around. Do you have any
>BFD shows with him on tape?
Nah, I wasn't more than 10 or 11 when said scenario happens. The recent
Travolta film Lucky Numbers was sorta based on that story.
Captainhank
Polka Varieties he hosted??? Whatta walk down memory lane!! That has
been sooo long ago....I honestly don't remember.
Captain Hank
Captainhank
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Mike Klauss
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> Didn't Don Webster of TV 5 host that too at one point or was that the
> Polka Varieties he hosted??? Whatta walk down memory lane!! That has
> been sooo long ago....I honestly don't remember.
I don't think Don Webster hosted any game shows, at least in the Cleveland
area. Webster hosted the 60s show Upbeat. As far as I know, Dick Goddard
hosted Cleveland's Bowling for Dollars at WJKW (now WJW).
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Captainhank
been a very long time...thanks for setting that straight. :-)
Captain Hank
JC
> ISTR that in Boston, they had Candlepin Bowling instead of regular
> tenpins.
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In Boston the show was Candlepins for Cash from the 1970's. Hosted by
Bob Gamere and then later brought back and hosted by Rico Petrocelli (who I
think was a Boston Red Sox Player). For the rest of the country not
familiar with Candlepins, They are Tall Narrow thin Pins. The bowling balls
are a little smaller then what's used for small Duckpins. (About the size
of a Coconut.) So it's really the most difficult version of bowling that
there is. The average score is definately lower than any other type of
bowling. On Candlepins for Cash you would bowl one frame (3 Balls) and get
$1 for each pin you knocked over. I think for a spare you got an extra $25
bucks. Anything other than a strike would add $10 to the growing jackpot.
If you got a strike you won the Jackpot. There were 7 contestants on each
show who would make their entrance one by one through a typical game show
sliding door with accompanying music cue playing. Each new contestant would
be introduced after the previous finished bowling and was handed a check by
the host. I beleive the jackpot started at $500 everytime someone won.
Since only a maximum of $70 was added to the jackpot each show, it took a
while before you would see larger jackpots. You hardly would ever see
anything larger than $2,000 in the Jackpot.
The show had a studio audience and at the end of the show an audience
member was chosen at random to bowl one ball and try to get a strike to
split $500 between him/her and a home viewer. The host spun this large
clear bin filled with post cards. The member of the studio audience would
then pick out a post card of a viewer. Then the studio audience member
bowled their one ball and got $1 a pin or the $500 for a strike. If they
didn't get a strike... the home viewer also received $1 for each pin that
was knocked down. Wasn't bad for a little local bowling show. From what I
understand the rattings were pretty good. Originally aired on a CBS
affiliate every weekday at 5:30 leading into the 6 PM News.
John
ToddWine
SKIPPER RYLE!!!!!!! On WKRC
Complete with the Halloween episode of the wicked witch rolling a pumpkin down
the lanes.
Roll'em Claudie.
Don Howard
> "Captainhank" <capta...@bright.net> wrote in message
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> > Didn't Don Webster of TV 5 host that too at one point or was that the
> > Polka Varieties he hosted??? Whatta walk down memory lane!! That has
> > been sooo long ago....I honestly don't remember.
>
> I don't think Don Webster hosted any game shows, at least in the Cleveland
> area. Webster hosted the 60s show Upbeat. As far as I know, Dick Goddard
> hosted Cleveland's Bowling for Dollars at WJKW (now WJW).
For many years, Don was emcee of most everything TV5 had on the air.
He hosted Academic Challenge, The Ohio Lottery Show and The Gene
Carroll Show (an variety program). Polka Varieties was hosted by
Paul Wilcox, who hosted the Ohio lottery drawings briefly in 1984.
He had trouble reading the correct numbers on the lottery balls so
he was replaced with Bob Becker, who used to co-host the 1220/WGAR
afternoon drive show with Paul Tapie, the host of Ohio Lottery's Cash
Explosion since 1988. Paul replaced Bob Grossi, who left to replace
Joe Holbrook as 6pm and 11pm weatherman on the Monday through Friday
editions of 10TV Eyewitness News in Columbus.
Don was the first co-anchor, with Wilma Smith, of Channel 5's Live
On Five. Wilma now co-anchors the news on WJW Fox 8 with Tim Taylor,
not to be confused with the Tim Taylor character played for many
years by Tim Allen with co-star Richard Karn, now the host of Family Feud.
Dick Goddard, former TV-8 Bowling For Dollars host, has been the
weathercaster at Channel 8 since 1966 when he returned to Cleveland
from Philadelphia, where he was transferred the year previous in the
WKYC-KYW swap. He'll be 72 on his next birthday which is February 24th.
From 1977-85 Channel 8's call letters were WJKW instead of WJW because
WJW Radio 850 had the calls first and the stations were no longer owned
by the same company. When WJW moved their talk programs over to 1100
WWWE, now WTAM which were the station's original call letters, 850 on
the AM dial was the place for middle-of-the-road music and WRMR became
the new call letters. Last year, that format moved to 1420 AM, where
WHK which is the former home of Gary Dee, Doc Lemon, Joe Finan and
Carolyn Carr, who was fired for smoking grass in the studio.
1420 became WCLV with the transfer of the WRMR format.
Since WJW was no longer being used for radio call letters, TV8 grabbed
the opportunity to reclaim those calls. WJKW is now used in Southern
Ohio as the call letters for a Christian FM station.
Don Webster retired in the late 1990s.
Chuck Kopsho
In Los Angeles, Chick Hearn, the late announcer for the L.A. Lakers
was the host of Bowling for Dollars.
Best Wishes,
Chuck
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> "Captainhank" <capta...@bright.net> wrote in message
> news:3DD41A81...@bright.net...
>> Didn't Don Webster of TV 5 host that too at one point or was that the
>> Polka Varieties he hosted??? Whatta walk down memory lane!! That has
>> been sooo long ago....I honestly don't remember.
>
> I don't think Don Webster hosted any game shows, at least in the Cleveland
> area. Webster hosted the 60s show Upbeat. As far as I know, Dick Goddard
> hosted Cleveland's Bowling for Dollars at WJKW (now WJW).
>
Here's the skinny on who hosted what in Cleveland:
€Paul Wilcox hosted Polka Varieties, Don hosted the last few years of "The
Gene Carroll Show" (Cleveland's answer to Ed Sullivan) after Gene's death.
€The first incarnation of "Bowling For Dollars" was on WEWS - Channel 5,
hosted by Don Webster.
The second incarnation of "BfD" was on WJKW/WJW - Channel 8, hosted by Dick
Goddard (both Don & Dick were weathermen at the time for their respective
channels).
€ Don Webster also hosted the following game shows for at least some point
of the show's run:
"The Ohio Lottery Show" -- Mid 70's "Pot Of Gold" version (IIRC, legendary
Cleveland Browns announcer Gib Shanley had hosted the lottery show for a
brief time as well).
"Academic Challenge" -- The bulk of the 70s & 80s, and for a brief time in
the 90s.
"Quick As A Wink" -- The 60's.
Ted Novak
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Steve Mindykowski
"Upbeat", which was WEWS's answer to "American Bandstand" in the 1960s (was also
syndicated nationally at one point, as well).
Don Howard
> Gene Carroll Show" (Cleveland's answer to Ed Sullivan) after Gene's death.
>
with Herb Score. After Gene Carroll died, Jim Runyon took over hosting
duties of the variety show, but Jim passed away a year or so later,
then Don took over. The show was called Entertainent 5 during its
final months of existence.
> €The first incarnation of "Bowling For Dollars" was on WEWS - Channel 5,
> hosted by Don Webster.
>
> The second incarnation of "BfD" was on WJKW/WJW - Channel 8, hosted by Dick
> Goddard (both Don & Dick were weathermen at the time for their respective
> channels).
>
For a few years in the 70s and 80s, the other weatherman in town [on
NBC affiliate WKYC-TV during the good ole days of ACTION 3 NEWS] was
Al Roker, who never hosted Bowling For Dollars, but did host a game
show for a wee while on MSNBC.
