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BOB STEWART 2007 Recipient of the Game Show Congress Award for Career Achievement Rare is an individual who finds a cozy niche. The spinning wheel of fortune was good to one Bob Stewart. His track record of creating television game shows is quite impressive. Equally impressive was his relationship with one William Lawrence Cullen, or quite simply, our dear Bill Cullen. In 1956, Bill Cullen was named host of The Price Is Right, a Bob Stewart-created show for Goodson and Todman. The two didn’t know it at the time, but that show would be the start of a lifelong friendship and work relationship that would delight American TV viewers for decades to come. The dynamic duo gave us these game show favorites: Eye Guess, You’re Putting Me On, Three on a Match, The $25,000 Pyramid, Winning Streak, Blankety Blanks, Pass the Buck, The Love Experts and Chain Reaction. The Price Is Right, which began the relationship, was so successful that it was number one in both daytime and prime time for years. Some 51 years later, it's sweet poetic justice that today Bob Stewart will receive the legendary Bill Cullen Award. In all, Bob Stewart has maintained an exhausting pace through much of the ’50s, ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, creating game shows, well over 20 in total and along the way receiving 16 Emmy nominations -- and winning nine! In addition to the Bill Cullen-emceed shows listed above, Bob created these as well: To Tell the Truth, Password, The Face Is Familiar, Personality, The $10,000 Pyramid, Jackpot!, Shoot for the Stars, The $20,000 Pyramid, The $50,000 Pyramid, Go, The $100,000 Pyramid, The New Jackpot!, The New Chain Reaction and Double Talk. Who here in this ballroom hasn’t enjoyed playing Bob’s shows? Close your eyes and if you listen really hard, you can hear Don Pardo announcing Bill Cullen on Three on a Match, Bob Clayton telling America who this week's celebrity guest stars will be on Dick Clark's $10,000 Pyramid and Don Pardo yelling Jackpot! as Geoff Edwards appears on his Emmy nominated show of the same name. How about Betty White guesting on Password, where she met and married its talented emcee, the great Allen Ludden! It was Password and Allen Ludden that inspired fellow award winner Wink Martindale to become a top game show emcee. Other biography pages 
 
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