![]() ![]() ![]() From 1983-86, he hosted NBC's coverage of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. For a time in 1983, Pat had a recurring role as radio host Kevin Hathaway on NBC's Days of Our Lives. Pat appeared as a celebrity guest on Password Plus just before his aired Wheel debut, yet credited as being from Wheel comments by host Tom Kennedy suggest that Sajak had either just taken over or would very shortly do so. In 1980, he hosted pilots for Ralph Edwards ( Press Your Luck, based on the board game Simon and unrelated to the series hosted by Peter Tomarken) and Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions ( Puzzlers, a clip of which was used in the first episode of Game Show Moments Gone Bananas). Wheel was not Pat's first attempt at hosting a game show, nor his first national television appearance. It was in this role that Merv discovered him. ![]() In 1977, he was spotted by representatives at KNBC Los Angeles, who chose him as their full-time weatherman. He later worked the afternoon shift at WSM in Nashville, and as a weekend weatherman on the station's sister television station, WSM-TV (now WSMV). Afterward, he worked as a disc jockey for various stations, including Armed Forces Radio during an Army stint in Vietnam. His first professional job was a desk clerk at Chicago's Palmer House Hotel. Sajak was born in Chicago to a Polish-American father. ![]()
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