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Helped finance The Beatles' first performance at the Hollywood Bowl.

This made Eubanks the only person to host the same game show in six consecutive decades (1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010s).

Bob Eubanks was a guest on the new I've Got a Secret (2000) program on the Oxygen Cable Channel in December 2001. His "secret" was that he was Dolly Parton's agent in the 1960s and 1970s.

Before he was a successful game show host, he also worked as a doorman and opened limousine doors for stars such as: Elizabeth Taylor, Gary Cooper and Debbie Reynolds.

Was a huge fan of Gene Rayburn's Match Game (1973).

He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Radio at 6712 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on December 29, 2000.

Close friends with Michael Landon, his son Corey Michael Eubanks was involved with almost the majority of Landon's projects until Landon's death on July 1, 1991.

Ranked #10 as GSN's Top 10 Game Show Hosts of All Time.

First gained fame as the host of the TV game show The Newlywed Game (1966).

His first wife, Irma Brown, was a ranch forewoman and a gifted artist. They purchased a 20-acre portion of a working cattle ranch, before expanding to 26 acres.

Has the distinction of hosting two longest-running game shows in television history for almost 35 years, one in front of Alex Trebek, and two behind Bob Barker and Wink Martindale. He hosted The Newlywed Game (1966), for more than 30 years, in between ABC and syndication, and Card Sharks (1978), for four 1/2 seasons on CBS.

Ranked #9 on Life's 15 Best Game Show Hosts.

Father of actor/writer Corey Michael Eubanks.

Has been a commentator of the Tournament of Roses Parade for L.A. television station KTLA from 1978 to 2016.

As a teenager, he grew up watching quiz and game shows that led him to being a game show host.

Sub-hosted for Casey Kasem on "American Top 40" twice - January 9, 1982 and April 16, 1983.

He alongside Chuck Woolery and Jamie Farr was one of the three rotating hosts of the $250,000 Game Show Spectacular at the Las Vegas Hilton, until the show closed in April 2008.

Attended and graduated from Pasadena High School in Pasadena, California, in 1955, at only 17.

He was influenced by: Cary Grant, Howard Hughes, Buddy Hackett and Bill Cullen.

Best known by the public as host of The Newlywed Game (1966) and Card Sharks (1978).

His mentor was the late Bill Cullen, who was his favorite game show host.

Was one of the youngest emcees ever to began hosting game shows at age 28, Ryan Seacrest and J.D. Roth both started hosting game shows at age 20.

As of 2011, he became the first game show host ever to host the same show for 45 years.

Before he was a successful game show host, he was a deejay on Los Angeles radio station KRLA, where he was replaced by Bob Hudson as morning man in 1963.

Before he was a game show host, he was an entertainment promoter and manager at KRLA 1110 in Los Angeles, California, from 1960 to 1968.

Before he hosted the revamp version of Card Sharks (1978) for CBS, he made a guest appearance on the original Card Sharks (1978) that was hosted by Jim Perry for NBC. At the time, he was there to promote his short-lived game show All Star Secrets (1978).

Since he was too busy hosting The New Newlywed Game (1984) at nighttime, the hosting job on Card Sharks (1986) was immediately given to Bill Rafferty.

In 1940, when Eubanks was only 2, he and his family moved to Pasadena, California.

His parents were John Ortho Leland Eubanks, a barber, and Gertrude Eubanks, a housewife. They were originally from Missouri.

Like fellow game show hosts Alex Trebek, Jim Perry, Chuck Woolery, Dick Clark, Pat Sajak and Bert Convy, Eubanks was one of the game show emcees to host a game show both in daytime and in nighttime.

Executive Producer of Hill-Eubanks Productions from 1979 to 1992.

Does rodeo, riding and playing the guitar in his spare time.

On The Newlywed Game (1966), when Eubanks used the phrase, "Makin' Whoopee", it was his call to borrow it, from the song of the same name, in an attempt to keep parents with young children from having to explain the facts of life because of a television show. While the network was comfortable with the term "making love", its Standards and Practices Department did not allow the use of the word "panties".

Before he was a successful game show host, he used to work at JCPenney department stores.

His second wife, Deborah James is a wedding/events coordinator in Ventura, California and has her own company, Bella Vita Events.

Was the second choice to host the revamp version of Card Sharks (1978) for CBS, when fellow game show host, Jim Perry who was Mark Goodson's first choice to host the show, a second time, when he was already under contract with NBC, hosting the immensely-popular game show Sale of the Century (1983).

When he was growing up, he enjoyed listening to music the most. At least two singers named him as Eubanks' favorite childhood radio heroes were: Doc Watson and Frank Sinatra.

He tried acting, but found he was not good at doing lines; he also learned the game show business was far more lucrative and less confining.

Made a cameo appearance in the music video for "Why Don't You Get a Job?" by the rock band The Offspring (1999).

At the end of 1948, when Eubanks was 10, his parents received a phone call to shoot an ad for New Years' Day with Gene Autry, in 1949. He was very happy when he learned how to ride horses with him.

Ranks fifth behind Bill Cullen, Tom Kennedy, Wink Martindale and Alex Trebek, in the number of game shows hosted at age 8, with Geoff Edwards sharing that record.

Friends with: Bill Cullen, Betty White, Bob Barker, Richard Dawson, Alex Trebek, Dick Clark, Nipsey Russell, Gene Rayburn, Jim Lange, Wink Martindale, Jim Perry, Chuck Woolery, Bob Goen, Pat Finn, Mark Goodson, Chuck Barris, Peter Tomarken, Monty Hall, Regis Philbin, Pat Sajak, Tom Kennedy, Bert Convy and Michael Landon.

Worked with game show announcer Bob Hilton on three game shows: Trivia Trap (1984), The New Newlywed Game (1984) and the second incarnation of Card Sharks (1978).

Was employed at Mark Goodson Productions from 1984 to 1989.

He attended Los Angeles Pierce College in Los Angeles, California.

Had guest-hosted Prime Time Country (1996).

His father, John Otto Leland Eubanks, passed away on April 11, 1995 at age 89, and his mother, Gertrude Eubanks, passed away on July 24, 1997 at age 90.

Met fellow game show host Jim Lange while working in the Chuck Barris Studios in Los Angeles, California, prior to becoming a game show host in 1966. The two would be friends for 48 years, until Lange's death in early 2014.

His first wife, Irma Brown, passed away on January 19, 2002, only nine days of what would have been her 78th birthday. Eubanks was only 14 years Irma's junior.

Lifelong friends with the late Dave Hull. They met together in 1964, at the radio station KRLA, in Los Angeles, California, as radio disc jockeys, and they both almost have a great deal in common, with booking musicians, especially when they were both planning concerts for The Beatles.