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Apr 18, 2020 · Fannie Flagg Recalls ‘Favorite Memories’ on ‘Match Game’ — Plus More Behind-the-Scenes Secrets! If you watch reruns of Match Game from the ’70s, you can tell which episodes aired ...
- 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.
Jun 20, 2023 · “In the 1970s,” he said, “it just became a classic example of everything working.”
- Ed Gross
Nov 25, 2006 · Such were the strict language codes of “Match Game,” the ribald game show of 30 years ago that introduced American housewives and children — anyone home in the afternoons — to the inscrutable...
In the 1970s, Match Game just became a classic example of everything working. And they found the right celebrities right away with Richard Dawson, they booked Jack Klugman for the first week and...
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.
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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. Gene Rayburn greets two contestants and several million Americans on Match Game '7?/PM.
