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The first host of the 1980s version was Michael Reagan, son of then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan, with Dusty Martell as co-host. Beginning on February 22, 1988 executive producer Ralph Andrews and Margaux MacKenzie took over as host and co-host and stayed on for the remaining five weeks the show was on the air.

Game show veteran Chuck Woolery was the host of the GSN version. Co-host Stacey Hayes joined the show in the third season. In later episodes of that season there was a second co-host known only as Paula, but that role was eliminated. Shandi Finnessey, Miss USA 2004, took over the role as co-host for the rest of the GSN-produced episodes. Randi Thomas, a female announcer known for doing Hooked on Phonics ads, was the offstage announcer in the second season, with Hayes acting as announcer in the third season. For the remainder of the series, contestants introduced themselves in the show’s open and Shandi offered the “welcome back” before the beginning of Round Two.

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The first version aired from September 28, 1987 to March 25, 1988 with repeats airing until September. It was produced by Ralph Andrews (in association with Bernstein/Hovis Productions) in Canada for syndication by ABR Entertainment in the US. Versions of Lingo were subsequently produced in the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Quebec (see Lingo (Quebec game show)), France, Norway, Sweden, Poland and The Netherlands.

On August 5, 2002 Game Show Network started airing the first episodes of its version of Lingo. The first 20 episodes were recorded in the Netherlands on the set of its Dutch counterpart; subsequent episodes were produced in the U.S. Five more seasons, filmed in Los Angeles and each consisting of 65 episodes, began in December 2002, December 2003, August 2005, April 2006 and April 2007. GSN held back five unaired Hawaiian-themed episodes from the fourth season, but these episodes did not make it to the air until January 1, 2007.

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Format Game show
Created by Harry de Winter
Presented by Michael Reagan (1987-1988), Ralph Andrews (1988), Chuck Woolery (2002-2007)
Starring Dusty Martell (1987-1988), Margaux MacKenzie (1988), Stacey Hayes (2003-2004), Shandi Finnessey (2005-2007)
Narrated by Randy Thomas (2003), Stacey Hayes (2003-2004)
Country of origin Canada (1987-1988), United States (2002-2007)
No. of episodes 475

Lingo is an American television game show with multiple international adaptations. The first American version, which ran from 1987 to 1988 in syndication, was hosted by Michael Reagan. A revival of the show, hosted by Chuck Woolery, ran as an original series on GSN (formerly Game Show Network) for five seasons from 2002 until 2007. The show’s format comprises two teams, who attempt to guess a five-letter word given the first letter and place numbers on a 5×5 Lingo board to achieve five covered spaces in a row.

Links

• Official website
• Lingo at the Internet Movie Database

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