Posted
5:30 PM
by Gene
We all knew it had to happen someday, but we see
The Bionic Game Show Host is calling it quits. Fifty years on TV will do something to a man. Oh well, we salute you, Bob Barker, and we hope your retirement is long enough for a medically-induced encore.
P. S. It is more than a little revolting to realize that when Bob started his current run Bill Paley and Frank Stanton still headed CBS -- they'd just invented VIACON and would soon spin it off to appease the FEDS -- and
Mark Goodson and Bill Todman were still his bosses. He's gone through (by our calculations) five management changes at the network and
four at the producer. (Does anyone believe his show was once co-produced by
The Econowiz' publisher? Sheesh.)