'Press Your Luck' Host Dies in Plane Crash

Press Your Luck was my favorite part of having summer vacation as a kid. I loved that show. RIP, Peter.

Didn't that champion that memorized the game patterns die also?

Must be the Press Your Luck curse.

One of my faves too as a kid and he was a very good host.

RIP.

jeez, what a great show, a great host, even that recent documenatary on the guy who memorized the patterns was awesome. rip peter.

Bummer. Press Your Luck was also one of my favorite game shows.

Ironic. But sad.

Same here.

Yep, me too. Every morning Monday-Friday at 10:30 am on CBS I was glued to the tv watching Press Your Luck. He seemed like he would be a fun guy to be around. Hate to see him go.

... John Denver... John F. Kennedy Jr... Peter Tomarken... will we ever learn?

Tomarken and his wife were flying a needy patient to UCLA Medical Center. A little different situation than the other two...

Here is a link to clips of the most famous PYL show ever!

http://gscentral.net/larsen.htm

Thanks for the link,never knew about that.

Sad, yes. But ironic? How so?

Press Your Luck... Plane Crash.

They just go together so gosh darn well.

I heard about the crash this morning on CNN but they didn't give the names of the passengers, and on the report it mentioned that one person lived, one had died, and one was still missing. I'm guessing its the same crash since the details are pretty close. The article didn't mention any survivors though so who knows.
Loved the show as a kid.I still do the Big Money, NO Whammy chant.

Apparently, the ratings back in that day didn't take into account the massive child population watching the show in the summers. I'm happily shocked to see so many people who loved this show post here.

I also enjoyed watching Press Your Luck when I was a kid. YOu'll be missed Peter.

RIP Peter and Kathleen.

Just wanted post that the PYL Scandal documentary will be shown on GSN tonight. Get your tivo's ready if you missed this before its really good.

RIP Peter

http://www.gsn.com/buzz/showthread.php?t=82046

just watched those clips... how could they not know something was going on? The guy was reacting before you could even see what he landed on.

Oh wow. I loved this show as a kid too. I'm sorry to hear he this happened.

So that's who plane it was... ouch

Of course they knew something was up..the question is: What could they do? He wasn't cheating. They couldn't stop the game because he was winning.

I loved PYL. Sad to see Peter is gone.

And the new PYL on GSN is just not as good as the original.

GSN is doing a Press Your Luck marathon all day Sunday!

Shoot,did not know they were showing the Pyl scandal. Someone please let me know if they will be repeating it soon. Let me know time and date. Thanks in advance!