Match Game

x-post Sue Yannick. At >$13,000 the show's biggest winner to that point. She looks uncannily contemporary, like a young millennial. She finally got defeated on a ridiculously impossible 2nd round question, "Howard looked in the mirror and said, ____ ."

I guess they hadn't yet instituted the convention that 2nd round questions are easier than 1st round ones

Wow. I don't have Buzzr so I can only watch the first episode she won, which is on Youtube. Found some reference in imdb to a broken link on a Bert Convy website entitled "Burt Convy: Match Game 73 and the legacy of contestant Sue Yannick." Wonder if it is worth going in the wayback machine to see what was there.

https://web.archive.org/web/20050204055737/http://bertconvy.net/index1.html

Oh, here is the first one, but seems like there are more from that run
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoSB2khC4ww&list=PLCnvmZ8KpyOplEIPa8em1s_9RINxR7GMh

Still in awe of Josefa's impressive knowledge of this- is it just from watching or is some other fund of knowledge involved?

Hm. Try again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoSB2khC4ww

I watched a lot of these shows in the original run during my latchkey kid years. They were on just after school at 3:30. I often took in Tattletales at 4:00 as well. When they moved Match Game back to 11am (1977?) that broke me of the habit (post-'77 shows and panelists seem much less "familiar" to me, although I've caught up with that era in reruns). I still think the classic period ends when they bring in the celebrity wheel, remodel the set, and Dickie Dawson leaves - pretty much all in the summer of '78. That screws up the chemistry and they never found the right person to occupy the Dawson seat.. McLean Stevenson: no. Gary Burghoff: definitely not, and so on.

You can pick up some trivia from matchgame.org or the Match Game entry at tv.com

matchgame.org

Try this:

http://web.archive.org/web/20051105093646/http://www.matchgame.org/

Guess I can try wayback machine again.

Also, no latchkey here, but definitely came home from school looking forward to that 3:30 Match Game '73, '74 etc.
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Thanks!

The Match Game Hollywood Squares Hour (1983-1984)

Alec Baldwin is viciously owning the doofus contestants on this. Returning in the new year with more episodes apparently.

I watched some of the new ones, and must say the show loses something when the host/panel/contestants aren't drunk/stoned/blasted to the gills.

http://i.imgur.com/T3VKnTH.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/KtGmEo9.jpg

https://68.media.tumblr.com/1912ea643bd83c44cba92cfd0e073ad4/tumblr_mywrvriFwn1s8watwo1_500.jpg

RIP Patti

She was the best. My dream Match Game panel always starts with Patti.

I saw your obituary post and looked up some images on Google--just can't remember her for some reason. A local station here plays old Match Game episodes. Whenever I stop for a couple of minutes I remember everybody, but not her.

Buzzr actually just was running a set of '75s she was on while pregnant. There's also an ep from '78 they show from time to time that features Rayburn making his entrance w/two small children--Gary Burghoff's daughter and the son Patti was pregnant with in those earlier episodes!

I was inspired to look up some Match Game stuff on wiki last night, and discovered that Joyce Bulifant (still alive, btw) is the biological grandmother of Jenny McCarthy's 'Autistic' son.

Accidentally posted this elsewhere...that '78 episode w/the kids

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyWi3K-Olmk

I was inspired to look up some Match Game stuff on wiki last night, and discovered that Joyce Bulifant (still alive, btw) is the biological grandmother of Jenny McCarthy's 'Autistic' son.

― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, July 29, 2017 2:47 PM (seven hours ago)

Edward Mallory was the grandfather. Joyce Bulifant & her then-husband Edward Mallory appeared as one of the celebrity couples on Tattletales in 1974; they were divorced the same year, which is probably a speed record.

Joyce Bulifant has an interesting marital history: in the 1960s she was married to James MacArthur ("Dan-O" on Hawaii Five-O); later she was married to Elizabeth "Bewitched" Montgomery's ex-husband. Later still she was married to Jo Anne Worley's ex-husband. Worley and her husband also appeared on Tattletales the same year Joyce Bulifant was on with her then-husband.

Ha, I was just looking up Joyce Bulifant today. Helen Hayes AND Jenny McCarthy as in-laws, that's bonkers.

Just stopped on an episode with Denise DuBarry, who I have no recollection of whatsoever, here or anywhere else. Exceptionally beautiful, but so painful to watch--Rayburn starts off by saying it's a tradition on the show that new panelists get a kiss, she's sort of "Uh...okay," and he goes ahead and plants a real kiss on her. Then he tries to cover his tracks by kissing Dawson, another panelist, and a contestant.

Hanging my head in shame for my favourite decade.

Buzzr's doing a rarities week starting tonight. RN they are running an ep of Choose Up Sides, a 50s game show for kids hosted by Rayburn and his cohost Mr. Mischief...

http://www.game-show-utopia.net/gene/cusmrmischief.jpg

http://www.game-show-utopia.net/gene/cusmrmischief.jpg

Interesting to see how the seating conforms to Josefa's taxonomy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uskfXFKvdJk

The cast here is, in seated order: Bobby Van, Elaine Joyce, Charles Nelson Reilly, Brett Somers, Richard Dawson, and Nanette Fabray. Notice how Elaine Joyce is sitting in Brett Somer's canonical set and Nanette Fabray is sitting where Elaine might otherwise sit.

Based on: Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

upper left = comedian
bottom left = eye candy (people like Lee Meriweather)
bottom right = funny lady or kook

btw two misspellings in that screen shot - should be Nipsey and Fannie

― Josefa, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 17:15 (fifty minutes ago) link

and I misspelled Meriwether

― Josefa, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 17:18 (forty-eight minutes ago) link

Convenience link to: PO9: ILX HOLLYWOOD SQUARES!!!

They hadn't quite set the canonical seating in most of the Match Game '73s. Only Dawson was present at the beginning, with Somers and CNR joining as they went along, but they didn't become regulars till late in the season, or maybe in '74.

x-posts That's an early episode from before the seating arrangement got solidified, with Elaine Joyce obv taking Brett Somers' rightful seat there.

To elaborate on my seating taxonomy -

top left: comedian or impressionist, hunky actor, not-very-bright actor, any actor from a new TV show, athlete, sometimes a "hip" dude
top middle: Brett Somers
top right: Charles Nelson Reilly
bottom left: eye candy, ingenue, not-very-bright actress, glamorous older star
bottom middle: Dickie Dawson, later frequently Bill Daily or Bart Braverman, later still McLean Stevenson
bottom right: funny lady, kook, oddball... having red hair a plus

Elaine Joyce being a looker was a natural for the bottom left, but since she was also a bit of a kook she could take the bottom right when needed

Scoey Mitchell is an example of a "hip" dude who would properly be in the top left seat

Neither I nor my mom--who was alive when it aired--had any knowledge of the original, serious version of Match Game til we watched Behind the Blank. It seems like a gag, a la "Homonym" in 30 Rock. Even the first dozen or so episodes of the rebooted version had very generic, overly broad unfun questions. "Mary was hungry and went to the store and bought blank" or whatever.

Yeah those early episodes are odd to see... I said this upthread but oftentimes early on the questions would be of a leading type as if they were trying to entice the stars to say something risqué, but at first none of the stars would bite since they weren't sure what was allowed on daytime TV. Then one day Bert Convy says "boobs" and the floodgates are opened.

Yeah and later on it was the reverse wasn't it? The setup sounded dirty with the "blank" in it but the "correct" answer was tame. "Daffy Dory was astounded by the size of the plumber's blank" but the logical answer would be wrench.

right, and the best was when on occasion you would get a naive contestant who would "go there" and say something definitively out-of-bounds. I think eventually the contestants were pre-coached on what words to use for what, but being on the spot during the actual taping they would sometimes forget these guidelines

That elaborated seating taxonomy may be the greatest thing ever, Josefa. Wondering if a similar thing could be done for other game shows, although I'm not sure I would care nearly as much.

I’d love to see a toxicology report on an average episode of Match Game 74. Mötley Crüe couldn’t handle the volume of drugs and alcohol in those bodies. pic.twitter.com/VIyYGEQUUq

— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) July 20, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJHICKg2Mkg

Gene Rayburn only came here to use a skinny microphone and kick some ass. Looks like he’s done talking. pic.twitter.com/Ea1bS0eI3n

— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) December 1, 2021

Get ready to match the stars!

Orson Bean!

Brett Somers!

Charles Nelson Reilly!

Scoot Japson!

Joyce DeBrille!

Debralee Scott!

Who is Joyce DeBrille?

Assuming those are joek names and Joyce DeBrille is a play on Joyce DeWitt.

Except Debralee Scott is real.