Career

He played a total of 89 games, defeating 43 opponents, answering 353 questions correctly. McKee was defeated by Erik Kraepelien to end his winning streak. After his defeat, McKee appeared on To Tell the Truth in 1980.

Only one of the four celebrity panelists was able to identify him alongside his two impostors.

Three years after his original run on Tic Tac Dough, McKee made one more appearance on the show, this time to compete in a Tournament of Champions. In the 1990s, he became president of Hicks & Rotner Associates Incorporated.

(now Henry and Richard Retail), a brokerage firm. He is no longer with the firm.

McKee still holds the American record for most consecutive games played (88 games, 43 wins), due to the nature of Tic Tac Dough making ties possible (and frequent).

However, Jeopardy!

McKee was a subject on the Robin Ward-hosted version of To Tell the Truth shortly after his reign on Tic Tac Dough came to an education McKee participated in the American version of Grand Slam as the #11 seed, facing a field of game show greats. He faced John Carpenter of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire fame in a first-round matchup, but lost.

Achievements

• This total made him the biggest winner in the history of television game shows at the time. Prior to McKee"s record, the most ever won on a television game show was The Joker"s Wild contestant Eileen Jason, who won $305,280 ($250,000 of which was won during the 1979 Tournament of Champions). The wins and consecutive days records were broken by 100% contestant Ian Lygo in 1998, while the winnings record was broken by Michael Shutterly during the original 15-night run of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in 1999, where he won $500,000.