Groucho Marx hosted the original You Bet Your Life quiz show for fourteen seasons, starting on radio and moving into television. Since he stopped, there probably hasn't been a week when someone in the game show profession didn't say to someone else, "Hey, how about if we revive You Bet Your Life with…" and then they mention the name of some prominent comedian who is not and never will be Groucho Marx. Even in my very brief brushes with that kind of programming, I've heard talk of that at least a half-dozen times.
Usually, all it is is talk but they revived the show in 1980 with Buddy Hackett and in 1992 with Bill Cosby and reportedly in both cases, everyone knew the first week that it wouldn't last long. In 2021, it was revived yet again, this time with Jay Leno. His lasted longer than Hackett's or Cosby's and some reports say it might have lasted longer if not for the Writers Guild strike of 2023.
What I didn't know until recently is that in '88 between the Hackett version and the Cosby, there was a pilot done for You Bet Your Life starring Richard Dawson. I always liked Dawson on other shows but I don't think you'll have to watch much of this one to see why it didn't sell…