RIP Phil Donahue
 

He dead.

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One of the originators of trash TV, I do remember he foiled a plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth at a baseball game. Rip

Same day as 1963chief’s birthday.

Draw your own conclusions.

RIP

And thanks for being a better option than soap operas on school sick days for kids.

"The Phil Donahue Show, meh, it's better than a soap opera."

He is/was married to "That Girl".

Not really.

He was super-serious and legit, but with the advent of Morton Downey and Geraldo, his ratings started to drop, and he ended up having to pivot to try to get the ratings back.

Heh. When I was little and home from school sick, I used to stay at my Grandmother's house (while my Mom was at work) that was right across the street from where we lived. My Grandma would fix me peanut butter toast and hot tea while we watched Donahue :)

RIP, Phil

I think that was Enrico Pallazzo

Phil was awesome

They should bury him in a dress.

I thought this was the dad on Modern Family at First

Never thought he'd out live Jerry Springer.

He was a communist bastard

Now when will that bitch Ricki Lake die?

RIP


Surely there was a game show of some sort on????

It’s definitely not as good as Hogans Heroes or Mash re-runs

I've been watching those reruns recently, and Colonel Hogan was getting a little too confident in later episodes of the show. He was almost daring the Germans to catch him.

His show was good tho

I remember when that wrassler slapped him for calling wrassler's professional career fake

Can you blame him? I mean… we are talking a about a show that features funny Nazis.

That’s correct. He would have on scientist guys like Linus Paulson who talked about the real danger to the foodstuffs due to the radiation bomb from Chernobyl.

Yea, the trash TV wounded him, then Oprah gutted him.

I vividly recall my mother being glued to his show when he had a renowned atheist on the show. I can’t recall her name, but do recall my mother being totally horrified.

*Edit*

It was Madalyn Murray O’Hair. My google search suggests that she was a frequent guest of the show.

Game shows were on in the mornings. Soap operas and Donahue were on in the afternoon. If I remember right Donahue came on at noon.

I respectfully disagree, it was hot topic emotional vampire daytime talk show just like the rest of them. Was it as trashy as Jerry Springer? No. But the idea was still the same.

Think this was his final episode, he was cancelled right after this.

https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-l...eisand/2860842

That was Oprah, she asked if it was fake and Dynamite Kid headbutted her and gave her a shoot brainbuster on the floor.

Dona-who?

Donahue sucked. The best episode of Donahue that I can remember is when he had the economist Milton Friedman on. Milton cut him to pieces.

His son Kevin was roommates with a good friend of mine at KU. Nice guy and never really let it be known he was Phil's son unless you asked him about it.

I enjoyed watching him host The Jerry Springer show back in the day. He always had such classy guests and thought provoking conversations.

Colonel Hogan apparently got a little too confident with making amateur porn films with the ladies he was sleeping with too. Leading to him being bludgeoned and strangled to death in an apartment in Scottsdale.

If you don't rate, just overcompensate, at least you know you can always go on Ricki Lake.

I'll never forget the time he showed up at the Academy Awards...

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