Eugene Edward "Gene" Wood (October 20, 1925 – May 21, 2004) was an American television personality, known primarily for his work as an announcer on various game shows. From the 1960s to the 1990s, he announced many game shows, primarily Mark Goodson–Bill Todman productions such as Family Feud, Card Sharks, Password, and Beat the Clock. Wood also served a brief stint as a host on the latter show, and on another show entitled Anything You Can Do. After retiring from game shows in 1996, Wood worked as an announcer for the television channel Game Show Network, retiring from that in 1998.
They keep recycling the same old formats and the same old concepts. Eventually, the audience gets tired of those and they want to see something new.
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He worked as an announcer at Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions, as an announcer, from 1969 to 1995.
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After Johnny Olson's death in 1985, he was one of the 4 guest-announcers on The Price Is Right (1972), who lost the announcing job, not only because his voice wasn't good enough for the show, he also didn't along with then-host Bob Barker, off-camera.