James Edward Peck was born on April 16,1939 and is an American television and radio personality based in Milwaukee and is perhaps best known for his time as a game show host.
12 Facts About Jim Peck
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Jim Peck had dabbled in acting by appearing in several theatrical plays on campus during his college years and the idea of performing intrigued him.
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Jim Peck moved to Washington, DC in 1973 to host the talk show Take It From Here for WRC-TV, where he remained for the next three years.
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Jim Peck continued hosting Take It From Here in Washington, DC during this time and commuted to New York City every three weeks to tape episodes for The Big Showdown.
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Jim Peck then hosted the unusual Hot Seat, a Merrill Heatter-Bob Quigley production which featured an oversized lie detector to measure a spouse's responses to personal questions.
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Shortly before the demise of Hot Seat, Jim Peck had moved to Los Angeles and following the show's cancellation, ABC President Fred Silverman put him under exclusive contract with the network to host game shows and other projects.
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Jim Peck occasionally substituted for David Hartman on Good Morning America.
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Since then, Jim Peck hasn't emceed game shows on a full-time basis.
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Jim Peck hosted two game show pilots during the early 1980s that never made it to the air: Everything's Relative for ABC in 1980 and The TV Game in 1982 and hosted occasional infomercials.
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Except for several weeks of subbing for Cullen on The Joker's Wild during its final season, and the unsold pilots The Buck Stops Here and the 1990 Marty Pasetta pilot Suit Yourself, Jim Peck moved away from game shows altogether; he went on to serve as the court reporter and announcer for a revival of Divorce Court from 1985 to 1989, when he was replaced by actress Martha Smith.
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From 1985 to 1989, Peck played the courtroom reporter and announcer on the William B Keene version of Divorce Court, often whispering through the proceedings of the case.
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In 1993, Jim Peck moved to Spring Green, Wisconsin, where he rented a large farm and spent the next year in retirement.