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Originally Posted by SirFozzie
Nice to see they got rid of the five and out rule, too bad we'll never see anyone beat the record of Thom McCann (who won something like 36 straight games of Tic Tac Dough back in the 80's.. winning 7 cars  ) |
Damn you, Fozzie! This was driving me crazy so I had to look it up -- Thom McCann is the crappy place in the mall that sells women's shoes; Thom McKee was the Tic Tac Dough champion.
The guy was on 46 episodes and won $312,700 and eight Buicks. Oddly, he continued to hold the record for most money won on a game show until The first $500,000 winner on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
I do like shows where they don't force the champion into retirement. That was a feature of Jack Barry and Dan Enright shows, which unfortunately leads to the speculation that shows where the champ always returns might be "manipulated" to keep popular champions on the show longer. I have no doubt Jeopardy! is on the up and up, but there are some others in the past you just don't know about.