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Man, I loved that show back in the day!  No whammies, no whammies, and.........STOP!


TV Game Show Host, Wife Killed in Air Crash


Tuesday Mar 14, 2006 8:00am EST

By Stephen M. Silverman



Peter Tomarken
CREDIT: GSN / AP



Press Your Luck TV game-show host Peter Tomarken and his wife Kathleen were killed on Monday when their light plane crashed in the ocean off the coastal suburb of Santa Monica.

The couple, who were transporting a cancer patient to a treatment center in San Diego, had just taken off in their Beechcraft about 9:45 a.m. when the engine failed.

The plane went down near Santa Monica Pier in front of horrified spectators, reports Reuters.

Peter Tomarken was 63, and from 1983-86 he hosted the CBS show, which was noted for the dreaded "Whammy" – which signaled that a contestant was about to lose all his money. Contestants yelled out the memorable line "No Whammies!" to ward off bad luck.




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Aww, that's sad. I love the whammies too! They show reruns on the gameshow network every day!

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Oh no! That is sad. I watched that all the time with my grandparents. Damn that was a good show.

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Awwww---this is sad news, b/c I use to watch that show all the time myself.

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oh no! I the whammies!

-- Edited by ILoveChoo at 09:12, 2006-03-15

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So sad.  I loved the whammie show.  I didn't know it by its real name.  Just "NO Whammies!"


My bf and I talk about that show all the time and how we miss it. I'm too cheap for satellite otherwise we could get the game show network and watch it.



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