- Darow Myhowich
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Darow Myhowich Born January 8, 1933 Died December 7, 1996 (aged 63) Other names Mike Darow Darow Myhowich (stage name: Mike Darow), January 8, 1933 – December 7, 1996) was a Canadian-American television game show host best known for hosting the 1968-1970 ABC run of Dream House, the 1985-1988 Canadian-produced run of the Bob Stewart game show, Jackpot (seen in the U.S. on the USA Network), and Club 6 from 1960-1962.
He also hosted the first season of the game show The $128,000 Question, a syndicated revival of The $64,000 Question, in 1976. Darow's announcing work included the NBC game show The Who, What, or Where Game (1969-1974) and sub-announcing duties in 1980 for the Wink Martindale version of Tic Tac Dough. He also hosted the game show Bluff in 1976 and A Go Go '66 in 1966.
Darow also worked as an on-air disc jockey in the early 1960s in Toronto at radio station CHUM. While there, he sang on two novelty recordings made as promotions for the station. He later hosted Toronto-based segments of the MDA Labor Day Telethon.
Darow died in 1996 and was cremated and buried in Edmonton, Alberta.[1]
References
- ^ Interview with Darow's son, Randall Myhowich on 2011-11-15.
External links
Categories:- 1933 births
- 1996 deaths
- American game show hosts
- Canadian game show hosts
- Canadian radio personalities
- American television biography stubs
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