1969 he said he made more money in the preceding year than in his entire time at Warner Bros. Back in the US he worked mostly in TV; this included episodes of Mannix; Love, American Style; The Virginian; Adam-12 and Pathfinders. He was also in the TV movies The Silent Gun (1969), starring Lloyd Bridges, and The Gift of Terror (1973), starring Denise Alexander and Will Geer. Byrnes had a supporting role in the Duo-Vision horror film Wicked, Wicked in 1973, starring Tiffany Bolling, and played a TV interviewer in the David Essex film Stardust (1974). In 1974, Byrnes hosted the pilot of Wheel of Fortune, but NBC chose Chuck Woolery instead. He was a guest star in Marcus Welby, MD; Thriller; Police Story; Police Woman and Sword of Justice; and was also in the TV movies Mobile Two (1975) and Telethon (1977). Grease Byrnes played a small but memorable role of the Dick Clark-like dance-show host Vince Fontaine, host of National Bandstand, in the 1978 movie Grease. The box office success of the film led to Byrnes becoming the only regular cast member of the NBC comedy-drama anthology series $weepstake$ in early 1979, but it only lasted nine episodes. He went back to guest starring in shows like CHiPs, B.J. and the Bear, House Calls, Charlie's Angels, Vega$, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Quincy M.E., The Master, Simon & Simon, and Crazy Like a Fox. Later career Byrnes had a small role in the Erin Moran TV film Twirl (1981) and the lead in Erotic Images (1983) with Britt Ekland. Byrnes also appeared in Mankillers (1987); Back to the Beach (1987); Party Line (1988) and Troop Beverly Hills (1989). Later appearances included parts in: Throb; Unhappily Ever After; Rags to Riches; Mr. Belvedere; Empty Nest; Burke's Law (the revival); Adam-12, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues and Murder, She Wrote. In 1992, he played a fictionalized version of himself on Married... with Children, being a celebrity endorser for a time share and having the thrash metal band Anthrax singing the trademark "Kookie" song. The episode and his appearance were well received. One of his final TV roles was a small role in the mini-series Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story (1999). Personal life and death Byrnes’s son by Asa Maynor is Logan Byrnes, a television news anchor for KUSI-TV News in San Diego, California, since 2018, after performing