Bruce Forsyth with ITV, hosting the game show "Play Your Cards Right", which was the UK version of the US original "Card Sharks", from 1980 to 1987, 1994 to 1999, and a brief period from 2002 to 2003, before the show was cancelled mid-run due to low ratings. In 1986, he went to the United States to host a game show on ABC, "Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak", which ran for 65 episodes from January to April that year. Forsyth starred in the Thames Television sitcom "Slinger's Day" in 1986 and 1987, a sequel to "Tripper's Day" which had starred Leonard Rossiter, whom
Richard Alfred Rossiter Bloemfontein. Richard Alfred Rossiter Richard Alfred Rossiter (December 19, 1886 January 26, 1977) was an American astronomer, known for the Rossiter–McLaughlin effect. Rossiter served as director of the Lamont-Hussey Observatory from 1928 until 1952. Rossiter was born in Oswego, New York, on December 19, 1886. He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1914, and the next year married Jane van Dusen in 1915. He taught mathematics at Wesleyan Seminary for five years before enrolling in the astronomy program at the University of Michigan. He earned a master's degree in 1920, and three years later earned a doctorate. In his doctoral dissertation,