Television Game Show Host. He was best remembered as the host of the CBS prime time game show "The $64,000 Challenge," a spin-off of the game show "The $64,000 Question," that aired from 1956 until 1958. Born Ralph Bernard Snyder, he began his broadcasting career in the late 1940s, after serving as a US Army Air Force flight instructor and P-51 Mustang fighter pilot during Word War II. In 1948 he had his big break in broadcasting when he was hired to host and direct an early morning show on KNX radio in Los Angeles, California. At the suggestion of the station's managers, he changed his name to Ralph Story. In 1956, he began hosting the hugely popular game show, "The $64,000 Challenge" and it was canceled in 1958 while several networks were embroiled in allegations that popular contestants were supplied with answers in advance. He, who was not implicated in the scandal and returned to local broadcasting in 1960, anchoring a radio news program at KNX and later joined "The Big News" on KNXT-TV, one of the nation's first hour-long local TV newscasts. His regular feature, "Human Predicament," about people caught in unusual events and situations, became a popular segment and it developed into a local news magazine program about the people and places of Los Angeles called "Ralph Story's Los Angeles," airing from 1964 until 1970. In the 1970s he joined KABC-TV, co-hosting "AM Los Angeles," a morning news show with Stephanie Edwards and newsman Bob Banfield that became the precursor to "Good Morning America." When show moved to New York City, he remained in Los Angeles, where he continued working as a writer, producer, and reporter for several TV stations. He retired in the mid-1980s and moved to Santa Barbara County's wine region, where he and his wife operated an art gallery in Los Olivos. In 1989 he appeared in the television film, "Ernest Goes to Splash Mountain." He often volunteered for numerous civic groups, serving as a fundraiser for public television stations, narrator for the Hollywood Bowl and judge of the Rose Parade. The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences honored him with its highest honor, the Governor's Award. He died at the age of 86.