Early Career
He got his start in the form of a contract with ABC to host three game shows (he also occasionally substituted for David Hartman on Good Morning America). His first hosting job came on the Ron Greenberg-produced hard quiz The Big Showdown, which ran on ABC from December 23, 1974 until July 4, 1975. Peck then hosted the unusual Hot Seat, a Merrill Heatter-Bob Quigley production which featured an oversized lie detector that was used to measure a spouse's responses to personal questions. Hot Seat began airing on July 12, 1976, but was gone after fifteen weeks and aired its final episode on October 22 of that year. In March 1977 Peck began to helm the Bill Carruthers-produced Second Chance, a precursor to Carruthers' Press Your Luck which premiered in 1983 and ran for three seasons. Peck's series wasn't as popular as its follow-up and after nineteen weeks of episodes, Second Chance left the air on July 15, 1977. Peck has not hosted a network game show since.
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