I remember Lloyd Thaxton hosting a couple of game shows in the 60s but is it my imagination, or did he host some kind of show like American Bandstand?
He indeed did. The Lloyd Thaxton Show began as a local show in Los Angeles and went into national syndication in 1964-65 and 1965-66. In most markets, the show aired Saturday afternoons (a few cities with ABC affiliates aired Thaxton right after American Bandstand). Lloyd’s two game shows, Everybody’s Talking and Funny You Should Ask, were not long-running successes for ABC). He went on to do Showcase ’68, which was a summer low, low-budget precursor to American Idol for NBC. The results reflected the budget. Thaxton wasn’t seen on national television after that but went on to do other work as a producer.
