Search results
Jun 12, 2019 · Not that we’re complaining at all, especially since the latter means the return of Match Game, the iconic and often raunchy fill-in-the-blank hoot that’s been cracking up viewers since its first...
Match Game: With Alec Baldwin, Steve French, Caroline Rhea, Jack McBrayer. Contestants attempt to match the answers of celebrities in the iconic game of fill in the missing blank.
- (1.4K)
- 2016-06-26
- Comedy, Game-Show
- 60
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. Brett...
- Kara Kovalchik
- IT BEGAN IN A CONFERENCE ROOM. During a corporate “creative” meeting in the early 1960s, Goodson-Todman staffer Frank Wayne had an idea. “Try this,” he said to his co-workers at the conference table, “write down something about an elephant—and try to write the same thing that you think the others will.”
- ITS EARLY TECHNOLOGY LEFT SOMETHING TO BE DESIRED. The Match Game debuted in December 1962, with Gene Rayburn as the host and Bert Kaempfert’s catchy “A Swingin’ Safari” as the theme song.
- A MAD WRITER’S “SAUCE” QUESTION MADE THE GAME SAUCIER. Dick DeBartolo was a Match Game question writer, and a freelance writer for MAD Magazine. The Match Game had been on the air for 10 months when Goodson approached DeBartolo to give him a “heads up” that ratings were sagging and NBC was hinting that the show would be canceled after its one-year contract was up.
- THE SHOW HAD SOME A-LIST CELEBRITY FANS. When the show became a hit, everyone’s contracts were renewed and soon a variety of A-list celebrities were clamoring to play.
Match Game: With Ross Shafer, Gene Wood, Charles Nelson Reilly, Brad Garrett. 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 celebrity gave the same answer.
People also ask
When did Match Game come back?
When did the Match Game start?
When was Match Game canceled?
What does Match Game mean?
When was Match Game on CBS?
What happened to match game?
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.
