Remember "Candlepins for Cash"?

I sure do. I loved that show as a young kid back in the '70s. I can even still remember its mega-cheesy local TV theme song. I even used to set up plastic bowling pins in the hallway and play my own games of Candlepins for Cash, with me being both the contestants and the host, Bob Gamere.

Oh, where have you gone, Bob Gamere?

The Boston Globe tells us where today, and it's not pretty.

By Globe Staff
Robert Gamere, the former host of the local TV show "Candlepins for Cash," has been arrested on charges of transporting and possessing child pornography.
Gamere, 69, of Brookline, is charged in a three-count indictment with transporting child pornography videos on two separate dates last year and with possessing child pornography on his home computer, the US attorney's office said in a statement.
Federal agents who executed a search warrant at Gamere's residence also allegedly found printed-out images in a locked drawer in Gamere's bedroom.
Prosecutors said Gamere had sent multiple people emails with child pornography videos attached.
Documents unsealed in federal court today showed that the case began when an undercover agent received an email with a child pornography video attached. The agent was able to determine that the video file had been sent previously by someone with the screen name "GreatGamere." That screen name was subsequently traced to Robert Gamere, prosecutors said in a statement.
Gamere is to be arraigned this afternoon in US District Court. If convicted, he faces a minimum sentence of five years and a maximum of 20 years on the transportation counts, and a maximum of 10 years on the possession count.
Gamere, a veteran sportscaster who worked at a number of local TV and radio stations, told the Globe a year ago that he was "semi-retired," though he had been doing some announcing at Boston University track meets and was until recently calling horse races at the Brockton Fair.
Gamere said he still got stopped on the street by people who appeared on Candlepins, which ran from 1973 to 1980.

-- MJM