Thursday, March 06, 2014

Geoff Edwards, Veteran TV Game Show Host, R.I.P.

Geoff Edwards, best remembered as the host of several television game shows in the 1970s and 1980s, most notoriously two Chuck Barris-produced revivals of Treasure Hunt, passed away on Wednesday at St. John's Medical Center in Santa Monica, California at age 83.

Mr. Edwards passed away from complications from pneumonia.

From 1973 to 1977, Geoff hosted the first of two revivals of the old 1950s Jan Murray game show Treasure Hunt, which was titled The New Treasure Hunt.  He also hosted the second revival, simply entitled Treasure Hunt during 1981 and 1982.

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