BOB MCALLISTER ALBUM SIGNED ONLY ONE ON EBAY
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HELLO UP FOR BID IS A ULTRA RARE ONLY ONE ON EBAY BOB MCALLISTER ALBUM SIGNED! IT IS IN BRAND NEW CONDITION.SADLY HE PASSED AWAY ON JULY 21,1998 I HAD THIS PERSONALLY AUTOGRAPHED BY HIM IN 1984.FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW HIM HERE'S SOME INFO.BID HIGH NO RESERVE OWN A PIECE OF RARE HISTORY THAT'S GONA BE WORTH ALOT IN THE FUTURE ITS A COLLECTOR'S ITEM FEEL FREE TO ASK ANY ?'S THANK YOU.
Born in Philadelphia, Bob first made his name as a ventriloquist on NBC on the Today Show in the 1950s, while still in his teens. He appeared in 1953 on CBS on Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour and was able to get his first regular television job hosting his own program on WTAR in Norfolk, Virginia. The "Bob and Chauncey Show" paired McAllister with a wise-cracking dummy ("Chauncey"). This led to his being hired on at WJZ-TV in Baltimore, Maryland in 1963 on The Bob McAllister Show.
The show was a big success and led to an offer from WNEW-TV in New York to host his own program there in 1967. Though the New York version of the show failed, he was brought in as host of the syndicated popular show Wonderama, produced by WNEW-TV, to replace the departing Sonny Fox.
McAllister's version of the show became Metromedia TV's most popular children's series. He also found the time to host a NYC edition of The Bob McAllister Show and a few children's television specials for WNEW-TV during the late 1960s and early 1970s. He hosted a reproduced Wonderama show at Six Flags Great Adventure. In 1975, Monty Hall, impressed by McAllister, flew him out to Los Angeles to host a pilot for a new game show called Carnival. By all accounts, the pilot was well-done, but it was never picked up as a series.
He was forced to leave Wonderama following the Sunday, December 25, 1977 broadcast of the series. [1] In the fall of 1978 McAllister briefly returned to children's television as the host/performer and interviewer of ABC TV's Kids Are People Too!, a show that took its name from the title of McAllister's closing Wonderama theme.
But the show that he was hired to emcee was aimed at teens, not children, and this led to creative disputes with the producers and network executives. In November 1978, Bob McAllister was fired from Kids Are People Too! and he was replaced by Michael Young and by Randy Hamilton as the program's hosts.
McAllister would spend the remainder of the 1970s and 80s performing at corporate banquets and picnics and, for a time, served as co-owner of a roller skating rink in Westchester County, New York. He tried a return to children's television with an educational program called Tuned In for PBS-TV in the early 1980s. He played the teacher, Mr. Graff.
Bob received recognition in the magic field with numerous awards, including the prestigious "Magician of the Year " award from the Society of American Magicians.
He died on July 21, 1998 of lung cancer.
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