Jim Lange, Genial Host of ‘Dating Game,’ Dies at 81

Jim Lange, Genial Host of ‘Dating Game,’ Dies at 81 Jim Lange, the initial host of “The Dating Game,” the hit television show that distilled the moving Sixties into a potent mixture of on-screen matchmaking, jovial innuendo and unstinting Mod looks, passed away on Tuesday a their house in Mill Valley, Calif. He had been …