dismissed Bleyer for recording McNeill. McNeill attempted to transfer the show to television as Don McNeill's TV Club (1950–1951). The Breakfast Club was simulcast on television in 1954–1955. McNeill appeared occasionally on game shows, and in 1963 hosted a short-lived game show Take Two, built around photo comparisons. McNeill's radio series finally ended in 1968, when McNeill retired from entertainment and public life. Later years After his radio career ended, McNeill taught communication arts classes at Marquette and Notre Dame from 1970 to 1972, represented the Deltona Corporation, Florida land developers, from 1970 to 1980, and served as a director of the Sears Foundation and on the advisory boards of Notre Dame, Marquette and Loyola University of Chicago. Legacy and death Don McNeill's Breakfast Club'' was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1989. Seven years later, McNeill died at Evanston Hospital in Evanston, Illinois, aged 88. References External links Highlights from The 1953 Breakfast Club Year Book Donald T. McNeill Collection 1907 births 1996 deaths Radio personalities from Chicago RCA Victor artists Marquette University alumni