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Match Game PM: With Gene Rayburn, Johnny Olson, Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly. A group of celebrities would be given a sentence with a missing word, which they would then have to fill in. The contestants would then give their own answer, and scored points according to how many celebrities gave the same answer.
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- Gene Rayburn, Johnny Olson, Brett Somers
- TV-PG
- 1962–69, NBC
- Match Game 73–79
- Later Revivals
- Episode Status
- The Real Match Game Story: Behind The Blank
- Music
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The Match Game premiered on December 31, 1962. Gene Rayburn was the host, and Johnny Olson served as announcer; for the series premiere, Arlene Francis and Skitch Henderson were the two celebrity panelists. The show was taped in Studio 8H at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, NBC's largest New York studio, which since 1975 has housed Saturday N...
In the early 1970s, CBS vice president Fred Silverman began overhauling the network's programming as part of what has colloquially become known as the rural purge. As part of this overhaul, the network reintroduced game shows, beginning in 1972. One of the first new offerings was The New Price Is Right, a radically overhauled version of the 1950s g...
1979–82, daily syndication
After the cancellation of Match Game 79, there was still enough interest in the series for Goodson–Todman and Jim Victory Television to consider a continuation of the daily series in syndication as the weekly Match Game PM was still airing and had not stopped production. The consideration eventually came to fruition as a daily syndicated Match Game, without a year attached and often referred to on-air as The Match Game, debuted on September 10, 1979. The rules and gameplay were the same as be...
The Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour
In 1983, producer Mark Goodson teamed up with Orion Television (who had recently acquired the rights to Hollywood Squares) and NBC to create The Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour. Rayburn, after a year as a morning show host in New York, agreed to return as host. However, few of the regular Squares cast appeared on this version. Jon Bauman (Sha Na Na) was tapped to host the Hollywood Squares segment of the game and he and Rayburn swapped seats while the other hosted his portion of the show. T...
1990–91, ABC
In 1989, ABC, which had not carried a daytime game show since Bargain Hunters in 1987, ordered a revival of Match Game for its lineup. A week's worth of pilot episodes were commissioned with Bert Convy as host, who was also hosting 3rd Degreefor his own production company at the time. The network agreed to pick up the revival for a summer 1990 premiere. Just before the new series was to begin, producers were forced to find a new host when Convy was diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor in Apr...
Only 11 episodes of the 1962–69 series are known to survive—the pilot and 10 kinescope recordings, all of which are archived at the Paley Center for Media. Nine of these are black-and-white kinescopes and one is a color episode (from 1969 and on videotape). The pilot has since fallen into the public domain.
On November 26, 2006, GSN aired an hour-long documentary titled The Real Match Game Story: Behind The Blank, narrated by Jamie Farr.The documentary features rarely seen footage of the 1960s version, many odd or memorable moments from the main 1973–82 runs, and interviews with Rayburn (including the final interview before his death in 1999), Somers,...
Match Game featured several theme songs throughout its various runs. From 1962 to 1967, Bert Kaempfert's instrumental "A Swingin' Safari" was used as the theme. Kaempfert's commercial single, recorded in Europe, was used for the pilot; an American cover version by the Billy Vaughn orchestra was used through 1967. From 1967 to 1969, a new theme comp...
Home games
Several home game versions based on the 1960s and 1970s American television version were published by Milton Bradleyfrom 1963 through 1978, in multiple editions.
Interactive online versions
After much success with its online version of Family Feud, Uproar.com released a single-contestant version of Match Gamein 2001. However, as of September 30, 2006, the website has been temporarily shut down, no longer offering any game show-based games of any kind. GSN offered a version called Match Game: Interactive on its own website that allowed users to play along with the show while watching. However, as of January 1, 2007, only those shows airing between 7:00pm and 10:00pm were interact...
Slot machine
A five reels video slot machine based on the 1973–82 version was released at various US casinos by WMS Gaming in 2004. The game features caricatures of Jimmie Walker, Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly, Morgan Fairchild (even though she has never appeared on any incarnations of the show itself), Rip Taylor and Vicki Lawrence as the panel and Gene Rayburnas the host. The slot machine's bonus round stays faithful to the original game format where round one is adapted from the main game while r...
1962 pilot episode at archive.orgThe Match Game (1962) at IMDbMatch Game PM at IMDbMatch Game 73 at IMDb- December 31, 1962 –, July 28, 2021
Jun 20, 2023 · Here's What Happened To. television. tv hosts. Take a look back at what happened to Gene Rayburn's 'Match Game' celebrity panelists, from Brett Somers to Richard Dawson and more.
- Ed Gross
Match Game is the long-running comedy game show where six celebrities try to match two contestants and vice versa, simply just by filling in the blanks. If the contestants do it very well, they win lots of money. The series was also known by these titles as: The Match Game (1962-1969) Match Game 7x (1973-1979) Match Game PM (1975-1981)
Match Game ('73-'79/PM) is the comedy game show where six celebrities match two contestants and vice versa, simply by filling in the blanks. If the contestants do it very well, they win lots of money. Contents. 1Game Format. 1.1Super Match. 1.1.1Audience Match. 1.1.2Head-To-Head Match. 1.1.3Star Wheel. 2Personnel. 3Trivia. 4In Popular Culture.
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From Wikipedia: Match Game (also called The Match Game, Match Game '7"X", and Match Game PM) is an American television game show featuring contestants attempting to match celebrities' answers to fill-in-the-blank questions. It was hosted for most of its time on air by Gene Rayburn.
