Gene Wood was a prolific game show announcer during the 1970s and 1980s. Most often heard over Goodson-Todman was on the 1969 version of "Beat the Clock," which Wood later hosted. In the mid-1990s, he retired from the world of game show announcing, apparently bitter over younger announcers taking his place.
Prolific game show announcer.
Has two daughters, Shasha and Misha.
After Johnny Olson s death in 1985, he was one of the 4 guest-announcers on "The New Price Is Right" , who lost the announcing job, not only because his voice wasnt good enough for the show, he also didnt along with then-host Bob Barker , off-camera.
He worked as an announcer at Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions, as an announcer, from 1969 to 1995.
They keep recycling the same old formats and the same old concepts.
Eventually, the audience gets tired of those and they want to see,something new. .
