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- The series ran from October 31, 1983, to July 27, 1984 on NBC.
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Match Game is an American television panel game show that premiered on NBC in 1962 and has been revived several times over the course of the last six decades. The game features contestants trying to match answers given by celebrity panelists to fill-in-the-blank questions.
Apr 18, 2020 · Match Game was canceled in 1979 (and attempts to revive it have never matched its success). In 1999, Gene was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the TV Academy and died a month later.
Match Game: With Gene Rayburn, Johnny Olson, Brett Somers, Richard Dawson. Host Gene Rayburn's five-day-a-week syndicated successor to the popular CBS game show, where two contestants could compete to match fill-in-the-blank phrases with answers provided by a panel of six celebrities.
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During the six-year run of Match Game on CBS, only one champion retired undefeated (unfortunately, 1 of the 10 shows off-air did that after the last on-air broadcast of Match Game '79 on Friday April 20, 1979 on CBS-TV).
The Match Game originally ran on NBC from 1962 to 1969. It was revived in 1973 and quickly became the number-one rated daytime show for the next five years. It was revived again as part of The Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour on NBC from 1983 to 1984. All three versions were hosted by Gene Rayburn.
Match Game (7x/P.M.) was the comedy game show where celebrities match contestants and vice versa, simply by filling in the blanks. If the contestants do it very well, they win lots of money.
Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour is an American television panel game show that combined two panel games of the 1960s and 1970s – Match Game and Hollywood Squares – into an hour-long format. The series ran from October 31, 1983, to July 27, 1984 on NBC. [2]
