All-time faves

A thread on the Sitcoms Online game show board asks folks for their all-time favorite hosts. As you might expect on the game show Interwebs, the choices lean heavily toward the past.

You can probably guess the usual names. "Bob Barker! Closely followed by Gene Rayburn, Dick Clark, Bill Cullen, Bob Eubanks, Jim Perry, Monty Hall, Geoff Edwards, and basically all of the other 70s hosts."

But some offbeat selections crop up. One poster even remembers the distaff side: Vicki Lawrence from Win Lose or Draw and Stephanie Miller from Lifetime's I've Got a Secret. Frankly, I would rank both of them well behind Meredith Vieira on Millionaire. She kept the syndie going for eleven seasons, after all. But she's too recent for these folks.

The only hosts still working who get mentioned at all are the big two, Pat Sajak and Alex Trebek. And they've been around forever, so I guess even the super-traditionalist board will grant them some kudos. Don't bother looking for Steve Harvey or Drew Carey around these parts.

At least Garry Moore gets a few nods. He had a tough show to run, with wildly different stunts every week. But he kept things on a surprisingly even keel.