Doug Fields, to Steve Timko, Fri. (7/03):
>
> Trebek’s been doing the same thing for several years (starting right
> around the time of his cancer diagnosis, if memory serves) selling
> $9.95/month no-medical-questions-asked life insurance policies during the
> overnight hours. I don’t recall
The kind of policy may have changed from time to time, but per his IMDB page,
Trebek has done commercials for a particular insurance company since the 1990s.
Print as well (common in the Sunday supplements, at least when they were thick
enough to run ads).
Has he really? Interesting. I guess I never crossed paths with one of them
before the last 4-5 years. I never had to work graveyard shifts back in the
good old days.
Doug Fields
Tampa, FL
From: tvornottv@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Mark
Jeffries
Sent: Friday, July 3, 2020 7:45 PM
Sadly, the commercial runs on Fox News during the day.
On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 6:06 PM Doug Fields wrote:
> Trebek’s been doing the same thing for several years (starting right
> around the time of his cancer diagnosis, if memory serves) selling
> $9.95/month no-medical-questions-asked life
And he's been doing those almost as long as he's been doing "Jeopardy!"
Mark Jeffries
Saints Spotlight Editor
spotligh...@gmail.com
On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 5:09 PM Doug Fields wrote:
> …although in Alex’s defense, his is actually in the traditional 60-second
> commercial format, rather than a
I wonder what Norm felt when he saw the soaps* The Doctors* and *Another
World* in Living Color, but not his own show?
On Friday, July 3, 2020 at 11:49:16 AM UTC-4, Mark Jeffries wrote:
>
> Norm Blumenthal, the show's producer (and sole rebus creator for the
> entire run), had the advantage of
…although in Alex’s defense, his is actually in the traditional 60-second
commercial format, rather than a 30-minute infomercial.
DF
From: tvornottv@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Doug
Fields
Sent: Friday, July 3, 2020 6:06 PM
To: tvornottv@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: [TV orNotTV] Hugh
Trebek’s been doing the same thing for several years (starting right around the
time of his cancer diagnosis, if memory serves) selling $9.95/month
no-medical-questions-asked life insurance policies during the overnight hours.
I don’t recall ever seeing it outside the hours of 1:00am-5:00am.
Hugh Downs was in many ways the perfect TV talking head. He was white,
male, competent and inoffensive. I was largely indifferent to him until in
his retirement he used his credibility with seniors to sell hokey health
care products in an infomercial.
On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 8:49 AM Mark Jeffries
Norm Blumenthal, the show's producer (and sole rebus creator for the entire
run), had the advantage of running a small portion of the network that no
one paid attention to and had fought off every attempt to go to color at
the network whose slogan became "The Full Color Network" until the bosses
Trivia note: "Concentration" was the last NBC show to switch to color full-time.
But it was already a color show by Christmas 1968 -- this appears to be a
kinescope of a color broadcast.
> On Jul 3, 2020, at 12:11 AM, JW wrote:
>
> > But I will always remember him most fondly as the MC on
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hugh-downs-dead-20-20-875939
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