The Original Match Game Host

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The original match game host.

This is the 1st edition of the program. The show returned with a significantly changed format in 1973 on cbs also in daytime and became a major success with an expanded panel larger cash payouts and emphasis on humor and innuendo. 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 next six decades. Game show comedy 63 metascore a revival of the classic game show which involves contestants guessing a celebrity panel s answers in a fill in the blank style.

The game features contestants trying to match answers given by celebrity panelists to fill in the blank questions. He was the host of the popular game show the match game the match game in its original version ran on nbc s daytime lineup from 1962 until 1969. Name a part of a chicken that ll this ll read ing by the host star gene rayburn and one 1 member of the team wrote writes the answer e g. With gene rayburn johnny olson betty white henry morgan.

Rayburn also hosted some episodes of tattletales. Also during the run of the 1970s match game rayburn and his wife helen appeared on the game show tattletales hosted by bert convy. With gene rayburn johnny olson brett somers richard dawson. Three years after the original match game was canceled rayburn hosted the short lived heatter quigley productions show the amateur s guide to love.

Beginning with the cbs run of the 1970 s the questions are often formed as humorous double entendres.