Thom McKee is a former United States Navy

United States Navy

The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S...

 officer who was a long-running contestant on Tic Tac Dough, an American game show

Game show

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, in 1980. He set a number of game show records for the time, appearing on forty-six episodes of the series and winning $312,700 in cash and prizes. This total made him the biggest winner in the history of television game shows at the time.
As a contestant on Tic Tac Dough, McKee won $312,700 (the equivalent of about $800,000 in today's dollars) in cash and prizes over forty-six days on the show.