‘Dating Game’ Host Jim Lange Dies

Jim Lange, the first host of the classic television romance gameshow The Dating Game, died this week. He was 81, and died Tuesday morning after suffering a heart attack in his California home, the Associated Press reports. While Lange began and ended his career in radio, which his wife Nancy told the AP was “his real love,” he was best known for helping contestants find love on TV. The Dating Game debuted in 1965, and Lange served as a host to average Americans, a pre-fame Farrah Fawcett...

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