Chuck Woolery | The complete Pioneers of Television interview

[@ChadBest-ug8uo]

Chuck's voice is like a warm blanket on a cold day. So comforting!

[@brandonpowe4416]

@@ChadBest-ug8uo He passed away.

[@ChadBest-ug8uo]

@@brandonpowe4416 was lol

[@user-xl3yb3xb9v]

RIP Chuck Woolery thanks for the memories 🕯🕊

[@ErikFlores-mo3fs]

So long chuck and go to church ⛪️

[@Jebbie1976]

Chuck was an absolute legend & oh so easy on the eyes! I used to love watching The Love Connection & I'll always remember him saying before every commercial "We'll be back in 2 & 2!" & he would turn his 2 fingers. Go with God Chuck. Thanks for the memories.✌️💔

[@SJG629]

Loved him. Great game show host. Great voice. Great sense of humor. Great man. What he says illustrates his character. Strong conservative voice and talented musician. I will miss you, Chuck! ❤️ (and loved his duet with Dolly…)

[@ErikFlores-mo3fs]

No more you

[@matthewbaduria]

Chuck Woolery is one of the best game show hosts that ever was from Wheel Of Fortune to Lingo,he's done it all.

[@ErikFlores-mo3fs]

I love ❤️ lingo since 2002 and 2007 with two 2️⃣ teams are going to win 🏆 💵 and prizes

[@stewartvolk5156]

He passed away two days ago

[@ErikFlores-mo3fs]

@ sorry 😢 about him and which church ⛪️ did everyone part of lingo please 🙏

[@scottburton9701]

Chuck was excellent as the host of "Love Connection".

[@chriscampbell5538]

Also scrabble

[@StevenBlaugh-zt8gn]

The stars lined up when Chuck was chosen to host Love Connection! I cannot think of anyone else who would have made That show the success it was. I saw and enjoyed all of the shows he hosted except one or two and he was great on everything I ever saw him do. I read he was also a radio disc jockey, and he must have done a wonderful job at that as well, due to his sparkling personality and quick wit which was on full display on TV, especially on live connection. He was also very cordial and congenial to his contestants and I know of no dirt on him which cannot be said of others, such as Bob Barker. His weakest show was Lingo. I could do without the airhead letter girls. By comparison, Steve Harvey tries to be funny and is a complete flop to me. His idea of being funny is putting people down, and making his stupid deer in the headlights look into the camera. He looks like an overgrown oaf and a sneering bully to me. Chuck thank you for the memories and laughs! You were such a talent and bright star who belongs up there among the legends like Bob Eubanks and Tom Kennedy.

[@brandonpowe4416]

@@StevenBlaugh-zt8gn He had a lot of interesting people on that show.

[@1vegasdood]

I was on Love Connection in 1990 and this crazy persona I created to get on the show I believe Chuck would have remembered...but, he was very genuine on set.

[@Addy-iy5jl]

Give us the link of your episode 😊

[@1vegasdood]

@@Addy-iy5jl Amazingly, KZbin was not in full swing back then and I could find it on some college youtube-like channel but I can no longer find it.

[@millenniumman75]

Chuck and Susan taught me to read, add, subtract, and multiply. I'd come home from preschool and watch the show. Three years old! Forget Sesame Street, Wheel of Fortune was the real deal.

[@wfemp_4730]

I learned Calculus from watching WoF.

[@charlesallan-ks6gq]

Everything else I learned on The Hollywood Squares

[@yell0wberry]

My condolences to the friends and family of legendary game show host Chuck Woolery

[@ErikFlores-mo3fs]

Lingo

[@PatienceMelissa]

I met him when I was on Scrabble in California in 1987. Nice man.

[@PatienceMelissa]

16:54. But Scrabble was a Mark Goodson/Bill Toddman production.

[@VahanNisanian]

It was produced by the Australian-based Reg Grundy Productions. Do you still have your episode?

[@yell0wberry]

@@PatienceMelissa I sure hope the game show network does a binge marathon of all his shows

[@PatienceMelissa]

VahanNisanianSorry. You are right. I'm not sure why I thought that. And Charlie Tuna did the narrating in the background.

[@PatienceMelissa]

yell0wberryYes. That would be cool. I see that someone posted quite a few episodes on KZbin... But I still don't see the one I was in.

[@lawrencegoldworm]

What a great guy. Loved listening to Chuck's take on his career and show business!

[@jamesqualls8125]

Well RIP to Chuck, wonderful game show host as well as a singer. From the late 60's. A Billboard top 40 hit.

[@ElijahsTarot]

Rest in peace Chuck Woolley

[@ErikFlores-mo3fs]

He’s 83 and got really old

[@ckrtom2]

Great interview. He looks great for his age. Such an affable sharp guy!

[@zachhoran]

This interview is from the Lingo era of Chuck perhaps, which was 20ish years ago now

[@richerdcooper2383]

I remember when he played the character of Mr Dingle on the New Zoo Revue.

[@mattkramer4132]

"We'll be back in ✌& ✌." Edit: RIP Chuck

[@ErikFlores-mo3fs]

We love ❤️ you

[@deandrelgarcia2157]

If I recall correctly, I've seen him do it ( the ✌️and ✌️gesture) first on Love Connection and then Lingo. Not too sure if he did it on Scrabble or his other TV programs

[@deandrelgarcia2157]

If I recall correctly, I've seen him do it ( the ✌️and ✌️gesture) first on Love Connection and then Lingo. Not too sure if he did it on Scrabble or his other TV programs

[@ErikFlores-mo3fs]

@ chuck has the 🎤 with teams on lingo on the computer 🖥️ all right let’s play lingo

[@dianeleahy4970]

He’s one of my favorite Game Show Hosts!

[@ErikFlores-mo3fs]

I love lingo

[@darlastone4159]

Chuck Woolery Family I Am. Sorry for for The Loss of your Loving Husband and your Loving Father ❤❤❤ I Loved Him Since The 70's And i i Always To Watching him Back when I Had A Black And white TV 📺 😢😢😢 And i Got a Color TV And I I Truly Loved Your Precious Chuck He Made me Laugh So. Very much and I Appreciate Chuck For All the Laugter And Tears of Making Me Laugh So much. Thank you Chuck Woolery And I will Always Miss you like your Loving family Will ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ God Bless you Always And Forever And Chuck RIP 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@ErikFlores-mo3fs]

What are we going to do about chuck woolery and I love ❤️ him so much

[@darlastone4159]

@@ErikFlores-mo3fs Is What Chuck Woolery Would Want us To Do is keep Him in Our ♥ and Soul and Remember His Sexy Eyes And Smile ☺ And How Chuck Made us Laugh 😂 Everytime We Watched Him and I know All of His Fans Will Always And Forever Amen Hugs to You For Life Amen 🥰🥰🥰😇😇😇🙏🙏✍️

[@jettp3810]

Rest in peace Chuck Woolery. I always wanted to be a game show hosted by him, particularly on the Love Connection.

[@Blkojo]

As far as I can tell this aired January 2008. Chuck would have been 66 (was filmed probably in 2007).

[@buicklincoln]

Thank you, Chuck! You, sir, were a legend!!! RIP

[@brandonpowe4416]

He hosted great game shows over the years.

[@theflorgeormix]

U watch Chuck because authentic excitement. Star quality voice. Gold standard

[@brandonpowe4416]

@@theflorgeormix He's got the look of what other hosts have.

[@peaceandsolepodcasthost6922]

Oh Chuck. You deserved better but ya had to argue with Merv! (But then that gave us Pat Sajak for 41 years and it worked out for Chuck with Scrabble, Greed and Lingo.) I love his speaking voice.

[@marcpower4167]

Alex Trebek backed Chuck on that in his autobiography saying Merv often got cheap with hosts. He mentioned when he was first offered Jeopardy he thought the pay was too low, he offered to be the executive producer as well (which he did for the first 3 years) and the pay for both jobs was still less than his last gig.

[@zachhoran]

@@marcpower4167 besides Battlestars, one of the last gigs in the three years before Jeopardy! was Pitfall, and he's known not to be paid for his services there.

[@8avexp]

He also hosted Scrabble and even The Dating Game.

[@ErikFlores-mo3fs]

Scrabble has funny 😁 answer recrap instead of recap

[@bereanist]

Loved watching him on game shows. He was good looking and seemed genuine with his nice voice. 🙂

[@keekeemyfirstcat8410]

Sad to see such a lovely man pass on.

[@ErikFlores-mo3fs]

His breath was so big

[@ErikFlores-mo3fs]

Bye 😘 chuck

[@suburban60sKid]

Singer, musician, writer, and television presenter Chuck Woolery died November 23, 2024. He was first a member of ‘60s pseudo-psychedelic group The Avante-Garde with co-writer Elkin ‘Bubba’ Fowler. Their first single "Yellow Beads” failed to chart, followed by their only top 40 hit, “Naturally Stoned" (BB #40) from 1968. Their 3rd single “Fly With Me!" also stiffed before they disbanded without ever releasing an album. Woolery later issued several mid- and lower-charting country single before hosting game shows like Wheel Of Fortune before being replaced by Pat Sajak over a salary dispute. He hosted several other game shows, including Love Connection and Scrabble. After hosting Lingo on The Game Show Network, he was the subject of their first reality show in 2003, Chuck Woolery: Naturally Stoned. The program featured the Avant-Garde's biggest hit as its title theme. Woolery was 83 when he passed quietly at his Texas home.

[@AldousHuxleysCat]

I'd rather watch reruns of Chuck hosting love connection than almost anything. He's right that it was much more interesting to find out what the couple's thought of each other, especially those couples were the date didn't go well. That's what hooked me on the show I had never seen it and was flipping channels waiting for a show and just stop there to kill time and the couple that came on, wow did they not like each other. I never missed another episode after that

[@pamelamays4186]

Once you buy a prize, it's yours to keep.

[@brandonpowe4416]

That used to be the case when Chuck hosted.

[@stewartvolk5156]

Chuck always said the same line every day before the start of each game show on Wheel of Fortune between 1975 and 1981

[@zachhoran]

Lingo's original version was taped in Canada in 1987 and ran 26 weeks. The show aired on a few stations in the US. I don't think Scrabble was the number one game show in daytime, though it did pretty well against Price is Right for its first three years.

[@peaceandsolepodcasthost6922]

USELESS TRIVIA if you're interested: Scrabble replaced other failing NBC game shows that tried to compete with CBS' Price is Right between 10 AM and noon depending on where you lived. These included Blockbusters with Bill Cullen from 1980-81, Wink Martindale's Las Vegas Gambit from 1981-82, Alex Trebek's Battlestars and Peter Tomarken's Hit Man from 1982-83 and Dream House with Bob Eubanks from 1983-84. Fun fact: David Letterman openly mocked Las Vegas Gambit when his 10 AM NBC Morning show was cancelled I'm 1980. Scrabble premiered in July 1984 and then settled in to the 11:30 AM slot against the second half of Price is Right on CBS through Summer 1987 Chuck was thinking about Scrabble's switch to a 12:30 PM Eastern timeslot in the Fall of 1987 (9:30 AM in Los Angeles). Prior to that switch, The Young and the Restless and Wordplay with Tom Kennedy had been on NBC after your local noon newscast. Yeah, Scrabble probably did pretty good in both timeslots. In 1990 when Scrabble moved to a 10 AM space on NBC's schedule for its final few months, the soap opera "Generations" went to 12:30 PM and barely lasted a year.

[@MMB18abel]

SCRABBLE'S numbers may have been solid but when they ran it against FAMILY FEUD on CBS, it was the beginning of the end for that show.

[@VahanNisanian]

RIP Chuck.

[@gwenniegirl50]

Any idea when this interview was conducted?

[@mananimal3644]

gwenniegirl, Good question! He looks incredible! 👍🏿

[@nealgordon3712]

It must have been many years ago, because he is not only a lot older,but supports a full beard. I'm thinking this is around 10 maybe 15 years ago

[@fredmckinney8933]

He's 83 now, still living, so this had to have been some time ago.

[@Blkojo]

This should have aired in January 2008. So, about 17 years ago.

[@hartford2112]

RIP Chuck

[@ErikFlores-mo3fs]

Amen 🙏 chuck

[@jonathanmyers2867]

RIP Chuck Woolery 😭😭😭😭

[@deehardy285]

RIP Chuck Woolery.

[@ErikFlores-mo3fs]

We love you 😘 chuck

[@imal25]

CHUCK WOOLERY PASSED AWAY THIS MORNING FAREWELL MY LOVER.😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@ErikFlores-mo3fs]

In the morning we love 💗 you chuck don’t be dead 😵 please 🙏

[@privateprivate1865]

Chucky Baby! Rip my Man, Rip!

[@Stephanie-s1x]

Chuck is one of the best game show hosts of all time he host some game shows like wheel of fortune love connection scrabble greed the series lingo and more the list goes on and on his career spend more than a decade

[@ryanstrnad8442]

I swear this thing reads my mind. I just started watching this. I wonder if he talks if Greed ever had a real time announcer?

[@zachhoran]

Mark Thompson was the announcer for Greed

[@ryanstrnad8442]

@@zachhoran I think he was pre recorded.

[@zachhoran]

@@ryanstrnad8442 He might have been.

[@nextbarker2702]

@4:00, his successor just left it after 42yrs.

[@zachhoran]

Merv bucket kicked in 2007, so this interview is from between 2002-2007

[@rangerdj1]

Your schtick is tiresome

[@michaela.wilson8264]

When did this interview happen? What date?

[@Blkojo]

The episode aired, as best as I could find out, January 2008.

[@jeffreybrowne3302]

Does anyone know what year this interview was conducted?

[@adamk8197]

When was this filmed?

[@jeffreybrowne3302]

Rest in peace Chuck Woolrey. We'll see you in 2 and 2...

[@nealgordon3712]

In all actuality both Chuck and Susan ( Stafford) both left over a money issue. Funny he talked about that before, but not here.

[@8avexp]

Susan left because she wanted to pursue other interests.

[@GameShowMike]

Chuck actually wanted parity with Richard Dawson, the host of Family Feud. Dawson was earning $2,000,000 per year and according to Chuck, parity in the marketplace around 1982 was $500,000. Chuck was earning $65,000 per year and wanted $500,000 per year. Merv countered with $400,000 and NBC offered to make up the $100,000 difference. But when Merv threatened to channel hop Wheel to CBS, NBC withdrew the offer and Chuck left.

[@marcpower4167]

Susan it was solely for personal reasons. She left show business entirely, she joined the peace corps and did missionary work. Merv tried to convince to say on telling her the show was going into syndication the next year and it would make her a huge star but I guess she felt it wasn't her calling.

[@rafaeldiazus]

When was this interview?

[@lisab7977]

I never watched Wheel after Chuck and Susan left. As far as his influencers- I loved Bill Cullen, he was one of my faves! But I easily liked Chuck more than Jonathan Winters, Carson and Dean Martin.

[@zachhoran]

Two Million Dollars was only attained once, on Super Greed in 2000 between the remaning team of three. Dan Avila went for the Two Millon by himself in 1999 and did not win. $1.98 Beauty Show taped at NBC Burbank, as was Gong Show for most of its 70s run, CHuck W. did do Gong but IIRC didn't no $1.98

[@ryanstrnad8442]

16:54 IMO, Goodson may have not wanted Chuck on his shows after him comparing himself to Richard Dawson's pay at "Feud" which led to why Chuck left Wheel.

[@aaronbruceladner1983]

Does Chuck Talk About Hosting SCRABBLE?

[@PatienceMelissa]

aaronbruceladner1983 9:24

[@nealgordon3712]

I can recall an episode of " Greed" college week,when a " Wheel Of Fortune " question came up and the college boy mentioned after Chuck said he once hosted (Wheel) when the college boy glorified Pat ( Sajak) I wondered as disrespectful ( obnoxious) that the producers let the show go on without stopping tape. But Chuck got even in talking about the ability to remove a wrong answer,but stated this freebie will allow you to remove one contestant ( in reference to the college boy) I'm really surprised that the producers didn't stop tape to either talk or remove that contestant. The college boy actually stated that when Chuck mentioned that he hosted Wheel the college boy said it was before he was born. He really insulted Chuck.

[@joeybaseball7352]

What?

[@marcpower4167]

I do recall the one where there was a $25,000 Question asking which of these shows was not hosted by Chuck Woolery: Scrabble, Love Connection, Singled Out or Wheel of Fortune. The contestant got cocky saying he's followed Chuck's career and said Wheel. The captain agreed. WRONG! Chuck was jokingly mocking them for missing "his" question.

[@fredmckinney8933]

I remember that episode.

[@Shellinois]

Always respected his talent. He was a natural. I hated when he became politically loud. It didn’t suit his friendly Image. That said, one of the best TV hosts ever, and was always better than Sajak.

[@wfemp_4730]

Sajak wins hands down.

[@Matthew6418]

I like Seacrest more than sajak lol. But woolery is still the best.

[@cking3081]

S.I.P. CW 🥀

[@TheOneandOnlyJoeyPop]

That would be in 2 and 2.

[@brandonpowe4416]

@@TheOneandOnlyJoeyPop He'll always be remembered for doing that.

[@ErikFlores-mo3fs]

@@brandonpowe4416his game show was lingo

[@brandonpowe4416]

He just passed yesterday.

[@ErikFlores-mo3fs]

@@brandonpowe4416 oh yeah 👍 that’s right what time did chuck died this morning yesterday

[@brandonpowe4416]

I’m not sure but his wife was by his side when he passed.

[@michaelglucksman147]

RIP

[@ErikFlores-mo3fs]

We love you 😍

[@KevinJL]

Scrabble

[@PIXPromosMore]

Say what you will about his political views; he was still one of the all time great Emcees...may he RIP.

[@jamesgibson5818]

Hey Chuck I know who you’re talking about Phyllis Harris a.k.a. the gambling gal

[@freddyfurrah3789]

I like Chuck, but I HATED HATED HATED LOVE CONNECTION.

[@brandonpowe4416]

@@freddyfurrah3789 What was wrong with Love Connection, tell me?

[@ErikFlores-mo3fs]

@@brandonpowe4416nothing ✅

[@andrewkelley434]

I wish they would've brought him back for Scrabble!!! Instead of Raven Simone :(

[@tocinoamericano]

I found out chuck supported trump. How sad

[@wfemp_4730]

He's a Covid flip-flopper

[@peaceandsolepodcasthost6922]

Yeah but still a damn good game show host.

[@marcpower4167]

I don't agree with his politics but yes he's a good host. On the covid issue, his son got very sick from it. Probably what changed his mind.

[@wfemp_4730]

@@marcpower4167 I agree. It's unfortunate that Trump encouraged mistrust of our government agencies.

[@Matthew6418]

​@wfemp_4730 some of what we were told were flat out lies so people had a good reason to question it. Woolery is too extreme i agree though

[@wfemp_4730]

@@Matthew6418 If you're referring to the public health experts, they provided the best information they had at the time. Saying there were flat out lies implies dishonestly, which just isn't true.

[@VahanNisanian]

𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘣𝘭𝘦 is my favorite show of his.

[@ErikFlores-mo3fs]

How about lingo game show network

[@VahanNisanian]

@@ErikFlores-mo3fs Good show, too.

[@ErikFlores-mo3fs]

@@VahanNisanian he did game changers in 2017

[@Scottwilkie18]

R I p

[@ErikFlores-mo3fs]

I am crying 😭 about pal chuck about breathing 😮‍💨 attack