Editing Geoff Edwards (section)

==Game shows==
Edwards's first full-time game show hosting stint took place from March through June 1973 on [[Jack Barry (television)|Jack Barry]]'s ''[[Hollywood's Talking]]'', a remake of a late 1960s [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] game ''[[Everybody's Talking]]'' and the Canadian hit ''[[Eye Bet]]''. The program featured contestants watching video clips of celebrities talking about a subject; their job was to guess the subject in question. The series, which aired afternoons on [[CBS]] television, did not fare well and the network cancelled it in favor of the phenomenally popular ''[[Match Game]]'' remake. Edwards also said he did not like Barry and he had no intention of continuing with the series if it made it past CBS' initial commitment.<ref>{{cite web| title=Hollywood's Talking| url=http://www.game-show-utopia.net/geoff/hollywoodstalking/hollywoodstalking.htm| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120316162301/http://www.game-show-utopia.net/geoff/hollywoodstalking/hollywoodstalking.htm| url-status=usurped| archive-date=March 16, 2012| website=Game Show Utopia| access-date=22 April 2018}}</ref>

Edwards was not unemployed long, as [[Chuck Barris]] hired him to host ''[[Treasure Hunt (U.S. game show)#1970s version .28The New Treasure Hunt.29|The New Treasure Hunt]]'' that launched in weekly syndication in fall 1973. In January 1974, Edwards returned to daytime with the NBC show ''[[Jackpot (game show)|Jackpot]]''. For the next nineteen months, ending in September 1975, Edwards would commute back and forth between California and New York as ''Jackpot'' taped at NBC's Rockefeller Center studios. He would briefly do this again in 1977 during the run of NBC's ''[[Shoot for the Stars]]'' (both it and ''Jackpot'' were produced by [[Bob Stewart (television producer)|Bob Stewart]]). ''The New Treasure Hunt'' would also come to an end in 1977.

In January 1980, Edwards debuted as the host of the new Barry & Enright show ''[[Play the Percentages]]'', which he hosted until the end of the television season when it was cancelled. He also hosted his last daytime network show when he substituted for [[Bill Cullen]] (then filling in on ''[[Password Plus]]'' for an ill [[Allen Ludden]]) on two weeks of NBC's ''[[Chain Reaction (game show)|Chain Reaction]]'', another Bob Stewart show. Edwards also briefly tried his hand at producing when he teamed with Mark Maxwell-Smith to form Smith-Edwards Productions in 1980.  The duo signed a deal with [[Warner Brothers]] to produce the game show pilot ''Pot of Gold'' for NBC, but the series never sold.  They also worked on a talk show based on the magazine [[Ladies Home Journal]], but that series also failed to sell and Smith-Edwards Productions folded in 1981.  Later that year, Edwards returned to television to host a daily revival of ''Treasure Hunt'' for syndication that was cancelled at the end of the 1981–82 season.

In 1983 Edwards began hosting ''[[Starcade]]'', a new show centered on video games. He took over the show from previous host Mark Richards, who hosted from December 1982 until the summer of 1983.  The show initially aired on [[TBS (American TV channel)|Superstation WTBS]] and went into national syndication from September 1983 to September 1984. Richards was fired for the reasoning that he did not know much nor was he very enthusiastic about video games; determined not to repeat what his predecessor did, Edwards studied the video games used on the show and the industry in general and consequently became so fascinated with video games that he became an avid player. Edwards kept up the hobby until his death.<ref>{{cite web| title=Starcade| url=http://www.game-show-utopia.net/geoff/starcade/Starcade.htm| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120316162323/http://www.game-show-utopia.net/geoff/starcade/Starcade.htm| url-status=usurped| archive-date=March 16, 2012| website=Game Show Utopia| access-date=22 April 2018}}</ref>

Except for a week of substituting for an indisposed [[Monty Hall]] on ''[[Let's Make a Deal]]'' in early 1985 and an unsold Bob Stewart pilot for ABC called ''$50,000 a Minute'', Edwards remained largely inactive on the national television scene. This changed with his next two hosting gigs, which were his longest. In November 1985, Edwards replaced [[Chuck Woolery]] as the host of the [[California Lottery]]'s weekly game show ''[[The Big Spin]]'', which he would host for ten years, mostly from the lottery's Sacramento headquarters. Then, in 1986, Edwards was called on by Stewart yet again, this time to replace [[Blake Emmons]] as host of its [[Montreal]]-based revival of ''Chain Reaction'' (which aired in the US on the [[USA Network]]). He would do this until the series was cancelled in 1991 and would commute between the United States and Canada during this time. During this time, Edwards would also take the job as host of a revival of ''Jackpot'' for syndication in 1989.

Edwards was also one of four game show hosts to have emceed a game show in the United States and another in [[Canada]] concurrently (the other three were [[Howie Mandel]], [[Alex Trebek]], and [[Jim Perry (television)|Jim Perry]]). Edwards, like Perry, commuted back and forth between the United States and Canada between 1986 and 1991, hosting ''The Big Spin'' and the 1989 revival of ''Jackpot!'' in [[Sacramento, California|Sacramento]] and [[Glendale, California|Glendale]], respectively, and the [[USA Network]] version of ''Chain Reaction'' in Montreal, [[Quebec]]. However, Edwards was required to have a Canadian co-host on ''Chain Reaction'', due to the fact that he had no ties to the country, unlike Trebek, Mandel and Perry (Mandel is a native Canadian, as was Trebek; Perry had blood ties to Canada and lived in [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]] during the first several years of ''Definition''). His commuting days ended after ''Chain Reaction'' left the air in 1991. (''Chain Reaction'''s next incarnation would be in 2006 on [[Game Show Network|GSN]] with Dylan Lane hosting.)

Edwards was famous for his catch phrase&nbsp;— "Right you are!"&nbsp;— which he frequently exclaimed after a correct answer.