It was on "Feud" that Dawson met contestant Gretchen Johnson, who appeared on the show teamed with members of her family. "I kissed them for luck and love, that's all," Dawson said at the time. He was known for kissing each woman contestant, and at the time the show bowed out in 1985, executive producer Howard Felsher estimated that Dawson had kissed "somewhere in the vicinity of 20,000." Tom Shales of The Washington Post called him "the fastest, brightest and most beguilingly caustic interlocutor since the late great Groucho bantered and parried on 'You Be Your Life.'" The show was so popular it was released as both daytime and syndicated evening versions. The game show, which initially ran from 1976 to 1985, pitted families who tried to guess the most popular answers to poll questions such as "What do people give up when they go on a diet?"ĭawson won a daytime Emmy Award in 1978 as best game show host.
Peter Newkirk on "Hogan's Heroes," died Saturday night from complications related to esophageal cancer at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, his son Gary said. Dawson, also known to TV fans as the Cockney POW Cpl.
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