- Celebrity Bowling
"Celebrity Bowling" was an American syndicated sports series hosted by
Jed Allan that ran from 1971 to 1978. The series was produced inLos Angeles at the studios ofKTTV .Each week, the show featured four celebrities, on a pair of AMF or Brunswick lanes installed inside KTTV's studios, pitted against each other in teams of two. Victorious teams won prizes for studio audience members based upon the level of winning scores.
The weekly series was a by-product of "The Celebrity Bowling Classic", a 90 minute TV special produced in 1969 for the
Metromedia -owned stations, benefitting the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation.Joe Siegman created the series, and he and Don Gregory produced 144 episodes for their 7-10 Productions.
In 1987, 26 episodes of "The New Celebrity Bowling" were produced for national syndication.
Celebrities that appeared on "Celebrity Bowling"
More than 400 celebrities appeared on the show throughout its seven-year run, among them:
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Bob Newhart
*Carroll O'Connor
*Dan Rowan andDick Martin
*Laurence Harvey
*George Foreman
*Lloyd Bridges
*Michelle Lee
*Bobby Darin
*Sid Caesar
*Ernest Borgnine
*Michael Douglas
*Charles Nelson Reilly
*Peter Lawford
* The cast of "The Brady Bunch ", includingBarry Williams
* Members of the cast of "The Waltons "
*The Lennon Sisters
*Arte Johnson
*Leslie Nielsen
*Rob Reiner
*Penny Marshall
*Burl Ives
*Frankie Avalon
*Martin Milner andKent McCord
*Cornel Wilde
*McLean Stevenson
*Patty Duke
*Wally Cox
* Peter Marshall
*Kate Jackson
*Pat Morita
*Norm Crosby
*Steve Allen
*Jill St. John
*Telly Savalas
*Rafer Johnson
*Robert Culp
*Wayne Rogers
*Jack Klugman
*Angie Dickenson
*Susan Saint James
* Richard Dawson
*Roy Rogers
*Wink Martindale
*Adam West
*Jayne Meadows
*Ed Asner
*Sammy Davis Jr.
*Brenda Vaccaro
*William Shatner
*Paul Lynde
*Virginia Graham
*Nanette Fabray
*Tom Kennedy
*Ed Ames
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