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Profile of Jim Peck
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Jim Peck |
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5th June 1943 |
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Little Rock, Arkansas, USA |
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Jim Peck is an American game show host, but is also known as the whispering reporter on Judge Wapner's version of The People's Court. He got his start in the form of a contract with ABC to host 3 game shows (he also occasionally substituted for David Hartman on Good Morning America). His first hosting job came on the Ron Greenberg-produced hard quiz The Big Showdown, which ran on ABC in the summer of 1974. His next game show was a bizarre show called Hot Seat, also on ABC, but only for one season. This show centered around an oversized lie detector that was used to measure a husband's or wife's responses to personal questions. It was cancelled in 1976. Peck's last ABC game came in 1977 as Second Chance (which was a primitive version of the 80s game show Press Your Luck). This show fared better than his previous efforts; it lasted four months. After his contract with ABC expired, he hosted the infamous Chuck Barris game show Three's A Crowd, which asked the question "Who knows a man better, his wife or his secretary?" This show was a failure in first-run syndication. He stayed away from hosting jobs for a while, his last one being a substitute role for Jack Barry on the syndicated quiz The Joker's Wild.
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