Part of the reason that long-time game show announcer Gene Wood took over as host of Beat The Clock in 1972 was because he had a little experience as a host of a similarly themed show produced in Canada, and imported to the US a year earlier.
Anything You Can Do bowed in 1971, and ran for three years total, but as memory serves, only the first season---with Wood---aired here in the US. When Wood left to take over Clock, Canadian entertainer Don Harron (Hee Haw) was hired as his replacement. Stations had the option of airing Anything as a daily or weekly series, and I can't say for sure if any of the Harron episodes aired here in the US.
Videoarchives1000 offers up a sample episode:
Wood's run on Beat The Clock was not that successful, either, as I recall, and so you can understand why he stuck with being an announcer for the rest of his career.
Rating: C+.
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