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This series helped Perry begin a long association with NBC, lasting more than a decade. Perry hosted the entire NBC version and the two pilots that preceded the series, airing from April 24, 1978, until October 23, 1981. His biggest break in the United States came in 1978 when NBC and Mark Goodson- Bill Todman Productions cast him for their new show Card Sharks. ( December 2015) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources.
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Another game show also produced in Canada for syndicated TV in the U.S., The Moneymakers (a game based on Bingo), aired in 1969, originally titled Bingo at Home, in which contestants and home viewers had a chance to win money (albeit less than $100 at a time) and in some years his co-host was Dominique Dufour, Miss Canada 1981. The series was produced in Canada for syndication in the United States. Perry's first major American network hosting tenure came in 1967, with a short-lived charades-type game called It's Your Move. Perry, though shaken from the incident, regained his composure and continued on with the broadcast. While hosting the 1975 Miss Canada pageant, during a commercial break, a female protester hit Perry with a packet of flour while on camera, claiming that the pageant was sexist. Again, Dave Devall worked alongside Perry as the pageant's off-screen announcer. This practice, however, ended in the 1980s. Like Bert Parks in the United States, Perry, a talented singer, would sing the pageant's closing song, The Fairest Girl in Canada soon after the new Miss Canada was crowned. counterpart Bob Barker presided over the Miss USA Pageant on CBS. Perry presided as emcee of the annual Miss Canada Pageant, a job he held from 1967 until 1990, about the same length of time his U.S. Perry hosted another long-running weekly nighttime game show, Headline Hunters, which lasted from 1972 until 1983.
After a few weeks of announcing the show, Perry moved from the announcer position to hosting (replacing original host Bob McLean), and remained there until the show ended its run in 1989. In 1974, Perry became the announcer of the CTV game show Definition, a Hangman-based, pre- Wheel of Fortune series which would become the longest-running game show in Canadian television history. From 1969 to 1972 he was a weekend overnight DJ at WABC radio in New York City. He also appeared in a few television commercials, including one for Morton Salt. Perry also served as an announcer for That Show starring Joan Rivers, a short-lived two-month series that aired in 1969 on syndicated television. in the late 1970s when he was hired to host Card Sharks. Although Perry was American by birth, he and his family emigrated to Canada in the early 1970s and moved back to the U.S. Afterwards he presided over several other game shows, including Eye Bet and The Money Makers (also called Bingo at Home), the latter also airing on syndicated television in some US markets for 13 weeks in 1969. His first appearance as a TV host came in Canada with the popular game show Fractured Phrases (1965). Due to a name conflict with AFTRA, he adopted his mother's maiden name of Perry shortly after beginning his television work. These were under his birth name of Jim Dooley. Perry appeared in three syndicated specials with Caesar titled "As Caesar Sees It" which aired during the 1962–63 season. After the service, he worked for a short time at General Electric and then replaced Eddie Fisher as the staff vocalist at Grossingers in the Catskill Mountains and later did comedy working with Sid Caesar as his straight man for several years (which included a four-year stint with Caesar in Las Vegas). Perry started out as a singer in Special Services after college at Penn, working on Armed Forces Radio during the Korean War. He was often nicknamed "Big Jim" because of his height. While briefly attending Amador Valley High School in Pleasanton, California, Perry was an outstanding basketball player thanks in part to his height (at 6'4" or 193 cm) he graduated in 1952. His father, Edward Dooley, was a musician. His mother, Genevieve Perry, was a record-holding swimmer, as well as a known marathon dancer. Perry was born James Edward Dooley in Camden, New Jersey. Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources.įind sources: "Jim Perry" television personality – news Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. This section relies largely or entirely on a single source.
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