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Match Game
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video:
 Gene Rayburn "I haven't had this much fun since they took a wisom
tooth out through my ear." "A television executive once told me, 'They don't
let queers on television.' Now I have to find out WHO DO I HAVE TO #@%$
TO GET OFF!"
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Revived in 1973, Match Game quickly became the number-one rated daytime show for the next five years. The premise: six celebrities answered salacious questions posed by host Gene Rayburn, who was nominated for five Daytime Emmy awards during the series' run.
Every January, the title changed to reflect the new year - all the way up to Match Game '79. There was also Match Game PM, new episodes that ran in syndication from 1975 -1982 with the same cast. The announcer was Johnny Olson.
Gene Rayburn's short-lived show before Match Game, The Amateur's Guide to Love (Jan - Sept. 1972), was a clever mixture of game show and Candid Camera. This audio fragment is all that exists of the series, recorded from one of the last telecasts. Gene Rayburn passed away on November 29, 1999. Brett Somers and Charles Nelson Reilly both died in 2007, she was 83 and he 76. Match Game 1978 clip. The
question: "You know your blind date is wild when she can BLANK
her own ear" from a later Match Game episode. 1970's Game Shows: 1950's Game Shows: |
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The
1970s version of Match Game (1973-1979 on CBS daytime) was
based on The Match Game airing on NBC from 1962-1969.
Regular
panelists included Charles Nelson Reilly, Richard Dawson, Brett Somers,
Fannie Flagg and Betty White with the other three slots occupied by
random visiting stars like Jo Ann Pflug, Connie Stevens, Scoey Mitchell,
Elaine Joyce, and Dick Martin.
An
entire week's shows were taped all in one day, and a buffet with alcohol
was served between shows; Brett Somers preferred sipping vodka and soda
between shots. By the fifth taping, the cast would 
