Calling himself the "Father of Combat TV," he was a fixture on Southern California television for three decades (1975–2003), most notably as the host of Hot Seat, which began as a local show on KDOC Channel 56, a local Southern California based UHF TV station in Anaheim, Orange County in 1983.

His mother, Eugenia Clinchard, had been a vaudeville performer and child movie actress, in Essanay Studios westerns starring Broncho Billy Anderson.

George grew up in San Mateo and was 13 when his parents divorced,[4] after which his mother moved to the Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles.

[12] By 1980, George had his own talk show at KWHY,[13] and when it moved to fledgling UHF station KDOC in Anaheim, he launched Hot Seat in 1983.

He played to an eager studio audience and often ejected guests from the set, using uniformed private security guards.

Hanging behind him were pictures of John Wayne and the U.S. Space Shuttle, both with strong links to Orange County, California, where the episodes were taped.

George's gray slacks, navy blue blazer, white dress shirt and U.S. flag tie along with his platinum blond wig—combed straight down at ear-length and parted on the side—became a conservative style trademark.

He called his delivery "combat TV," a phrase he used in his 1999 autobiography, and Johnny Carson labeled George "the William F. Buckley of the cockfighting set."

When similar incidents occurred on later talk shows, such as those hosted by Geraldo Rivera and Jerry Springer, George called them "copycat combat."

He gave halftime "studio analysis" and sometimes "endgame news" on the roller derby television program RollerGames which aired in 1989-90 and later on the Nintendo Entertainment System game of the same name.

[32] His memorial service was held at the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California, where he was eulogized by evangelist Robert H.