NO WHAMMY BIG BUCKS (RIP RELATED)
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Man this was my favorite show as a kid, no whammy.SANTA MONICA, California (AP) -- A former TV game show host and his wife were killed Monday morning when their small plane crashed into Santa Monica Bay, authorities said. Rescue crews were searching for a third person also aboard the plane.The bodies of Peter Tomarken, 63, host of the hit 1980s game show "Press Your Luck," and his wife, Kathleen Abigail Tomarken, 41, were identified by the Los Angeles County coroner's office.The plane was on its way to San Diego to ferry a medical patient to the UCLA Medical Center, said Doug Griffith, a spokesman for Angel Flight West, a nonprofit which provides free air transportation for needy patients.Griffith said the pilot was a volunteer for the group. According to the FAA, the plane was registered to Tomarken and he was the pilot.The plane apparently had engine trouble and was headed back to Santa Monica Airport, located about two miles inland, but went down about 9:35 a.m. just off shore, said Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Allen Kenitzer.Rescue boats and divers searching for the third person believed to be aboard the plane were clustered about a half-mile southwest of the Santa Monica Pier where the plane went down in about 19 feet of water.Luis Garr said he didn't hear the engine but heard the splash as the plane "kind of landed into the water.""It's a big splash, a huge splash. ... Then it started going down," Garr said. "The wings were still floating so I was, `Get out! Get out!' because the door was still available to get out and nobody came out. So the plane kept going down, down, down."Tomarken's death was first reported by "Entertainment Tonight.""Press Your Luck" was known for contestants shouting the slogan "Big bucks! No whammies!"Tomarken's agent, Fred Wostbrock, said his client's first game show was "Hit Man!," which ran 13 weeks on NBC, followed by the four-year hit "Press Your Luck" on CBS. He also was on "Bargain Hunters," "Wipe-Out" and "Paranoia.""He was always a fun guy to be around, and he just loved the genre of game shows," Wostbrock said.
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Big Co-sign. Used to love watching it at my Grandma's house all the time.
You ever see the dude who studied all the patterns and won a ton of money?
co-sign. used to come home from school and watch old reruns w/ a huge bag of mini pretzels or a bowl of popcorn popped over the stove and a coke.
Michael Larson
I actually watched the documentary thingy that web page is talking about, and I gotta say, it's pretty damn enthralling viewing, in no small part because of Peter Tomarken, who doesn't realize that Larson has found a way to beat the system and thinks he's just on an unbelievable hot streak that could come crashing down at any moment. He's seriously pleading with the guy to stop spinning and just keep the cash...shit was crazy.
Anyway, yeah, this and The Price Is Right were my shit as a kid. RIP.
Enki, where did you see this film? I've been wanting to see it too.
A dude I used to work with taped it off the Game Show Network and loaned it to me. GSN might rerun it now and then, though.
i watched it on e! gsn or something like a that about 6 weeks ago..
Wow thats really sad that dude lost all of the money so fast.
Yeah, it was shown on GSN... GSN is showing that film tonight. This is from tvgameshows.net:
"GSN will offer an encore of Big Bucks: The Press Your Luck Scandal, narrated by Peter Tomarken, Tuesday night at 10 p.m. (ET/PT).
Sunday, the network will present a nine-hour marathon of the best of Tomarken's Press Your Luck episodes from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. (ET/PT).
The 2003 documentary, still the network's highest-rated and most-watched broadcast of all-time, depicts the odyssey of contestant Michael Paul Larson winning the biggest single-game jackpot in network daytime history, and the ensuing CBS investigation which ultimately cleared Larson.
Tomarken, host of Press Your Luck, was forced for the only time in the series' history to split the game into two episodes. During the documentary, Tomarken is shown again pleading with Larson to quit the game, particularly after the video game wizard exceeded $80,000 in winnings.
Press Your Luck---a remake of the former ABC game Second Chance---premiered on CBS Sept. 19, 1983, and ran for three years and one week. The show was Tomarken's signature success.
The episodes listed Monday night by GSN for the Sunday marathon are all from the show's second season and do not include the two Larson shows."