I want to thank you for putting these videos up. I just was released from the hospital with covid pneumonia and I laid in ICU watching one Match Game after another, it kept my mind off the agony I endured, big thank you!
That's where I'm at now. I remember being sick as a child sitting at home watching match game. Massive fever and covid positive but match game is still making me feel better.
Happy 50th Anniversary to one of my favorite game shows! Vicki Lawrence (74), Jo Ann Pflug (83), and Anita Gillette (86) are all still living! We lost Gene Rayburn 11/29/1999; Michael Landon 7/1/1991; Jack Klugman 12/24/2012; and Richard Dawson 6/2/2012. Thank You all for so much happiness and laughter over the last half century!
This show caught fire in a way few shows ever have. Housewives, kids home during the summer or after school, it was like this big party/happy hour and of course the "celebrities" were interesting. Joann Pflug had the coolest name and was hot. Watched this so much as a kid.
Markcus Hines Michael Landon died from pancreatic cancer, Jack Klugman died from prostate cancer, Richard Dawson died from esophageal cancer, Gene Rayburn died from congestive heart failure, and Johnny Olson died from a cerebral hemorrhage.
This show took time to find itself. The first episode still has a late 60's feel to it even though it was 1973. The contestants and the panelists have that 60's way about them. Later on as the show got more popular it all came together making it one of the best game shows in history.
1973 was still the 1960s!!! Vietnam was still on, people were dying of drug OD, being assassinated and the government was in shambles! Nothing different!!
American game shows had much better prizes than our Canadian ones, where grand champions were lucky to get a box of carpet samples and a week’s worth of Granola bars. 😁
Here's some classic TV trivia....a few years later....Jack Klugman and Anita Gillette would be boyfriend/girlfriend (and later husband and wife) on Quincy
Jennifer She was Hot 😍 and I'd say so was your grandma 📸. I was only born then and someone said fanny was gay ahhh what a waste for men.Fanny is a naughty word in Ireland 🍻.
Man, as a 28 year old, I wish tv was like this nowadays. Not afraid to make jokes or say things (especially if it wasn't politically correct), humour was humour and it was great. I remember watching rerun episodes with my family of this and the OG Family Feud with Richard Dawson. The new Match Games and Family Feuds can't compete.
Just enjoy the show already - enough of that #MeToo BS - after all, I'd rather see kissing instead of endless 'dick jokes' that fill up today's version of the show - if that ain't sexist, then I don't know what is!
@@stevieb6455 I am a Rape Victim and Sexual Assault Victim. I am certainly in the know to know the difference. I have posted #MeToo . . . whereas Richard Dawson (Colin Emm 1932 - 2012 R.I.P.) was a Fine Gentleman. The only ones needing to pull their heads out here, are those making these disgusting comments!
When i looked up Gene Rayburn's wiki page i was rather shocked to see that he was the target of age discrimination...I say if you can still do the job well you should be able to do that job until it becomes too much for you and i've watched every episode of match game and he never lost that spark throughout the series!
Sometime in the mid-80s, there was supposedly a reboot of the show in the works for syndication. However, when "Entertainment Tonight" reported on this, they made a mention of Gene's age, which was older than many people thought. After this, the reboot got scrapped, and he had difficulty finding any regular work in television for the rest of his life.
I'm sure I've commented this at some point already some time ago, but thank you so much for your tireless efforts to bring all of these episodes too us! Such a classic show!
Episode 0001 Taped Sunday, June 10, 1973 Aired Monday, July 02, 1973 Jack Klugman 1922-2012 Richard Dawson 1932-2012 Michael Landon 1936-1991 Anita Gillette 1936- . Age 84 Jo Ann Pflug 1940- . Age 80 Vicki Lawrence 1949- . Age 71.
It’s amazing just how much of the premise of the show they got right on this first episode. They didn’t have many differences for years. Many shows premier are very different from the “working version” of the show. They had very few bugs to work out. Even the comfort level of everyone was very natural. Didn’t feel staged. And Johnny Olsen sounded like he had done 1000 episodes the first day!!! Wow! They had it figured out from the jump. They question writing was key for the success of the show(my opinion). Edgy and very 70’s kept it naughty in a good way. And their first questions were just that, amazing foresight. But the nature of the questions, celeb panel, everything else was spot on from day one. Who could imagine what this show would become-even 45 years later? True genius. Just shows when it’s right, it’s just right. A rare thing in life. This is a important piece of TV history. Even for people who don’t like this show, the fact stands they had a brilliant formula from day one. Fun times.
There were several working versions of an earlier iteration of "The Match Game" on NBC in the 60's. It started as a somewhat serious show that really wasn't working. After NBC cancelled it and Goodson & Todman had nothing to lose, they allowed Dick DeBartolo (who wrote great stuff for Mad magazine) to write humorous questions. The show took off, was "un-cancelled", and ran successfully until 1969. So it was in pretty good shape when it was revived on CBS in 1973.
All I can say is Thanks for when TV was Great !! All the way around.Was just a kid, but never forget getting home from Grade School,, and this would be just Starting. Thanks for all these Great Episodes.. 2019
Loved this show. When I would stay home sick from school my mom worked, so I was alone. I would empty the piggy bank, order a delivery pizza, and watch Match Game, The Price is Right, Hogan's Heroes and Star Trek. Before that were soaps, which as a nine year old boy I truly despised. Did anyone else notice that Richard Dawson did a Paul Lynde impersonation two separate times? HAHAHA!!!
I always thought that the Paul Lynde impersonation was so overused! I got tired of hearing it after a while,but it is what it is. I love Richard Dawson's Stan Laurel/Oliver Hardy impression combo.
You must be 57 now when you were a lad watching Match Game early 70s. I love this show watching together with my one year old. Most of the stars passed so was my son, last year from COVID after 7 years of vegetative state from a brain trauma. Tons of memories from this game show and I still watch it today, it is on the Game Show Network.
I'm in my 20s but still love this series. Grew up watching classic reruns and playing along with my grandma. Thanks for uploading! Brings back awesome memories. :)
@ Thank you. Would you mind telling me what one of your best memories is that you have of your grandmother?
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@@21melpomene it was playing cards with her at her house in Florida and going to spring training games. Her house always smelled so good I wrap myself in that smell
Richard Dawson deserved every bit of love he ever got! He even married a contestant... What, 15 years later? This was a very special moment, watching this, for me.
SO WEIRD not seeing Brett on here! THANKS for posting these! gameshow/comedy at its finest! PS. im AMAZED the censors back then allowed the word "orgy" :P
Richard Dawson had the longest tenure of any celebrity panelist on this show, starting from the first episode until episode 1285, when he finally left.
Thank you soo much for all these episodes (and having them in order 🙏🙌😁🤩). Soo many episodes are skipped over on tv and now I can find the episode where Ava Gabor gave an answer that made me laugh soo hard I cried
Love this show so much that I miss Gene Rayburn so much as much as Brett Richard Charles and the show also and I really miss it when he made us laugh and really miss the old version of it and the old one reminds me of Gene Rayburn
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you so much, for sharing these!!!! One of my favorite shows EVER!!! And THERE IS SSOO MANY EPISODES!!!!!!! I can watch these all winter and enjoy some good tv, when there was just good ole shows, with all the different stars joining the cast! Bret, Charles, and Richard was the best regulars! Thank you again! You can find about anything on RU-vid!!! :-))
No kidding! I love everyone on this show! Ron Valenti & Evie were my favorite contestants. Can't remember Evie's last name, but she passed away several years ago 😢
I love this show watching together with my one year old. Most of the stars passed so was my son, last year from COVID after 7 years in a vegetative state. Tons of memories from this game show and I am still watching today, it is on the Game Show Network.
@@antonsmith9788- I was wondering about this lady Stanley. Her name is so unusual for a lady. (Considering the next winner contestant lady was a bartender named Gary, from Indiana) I want to look Stanley up. I am hard of hearing and cant understand or make out her last name. Sounds like Welsh or Belch or something like that to me. She was a pleasant contestant to watch and did very well in winning in the first few episodes.
I remember that episode very well I was living in Stockton California when that was aired on CBS in 1973 and I believe it was either on September 5th or 6th of that year
ray burns With the exception of the 1990 MG reboot, the 1985 Price Is Right nighttime return,and the Card Sharks 1986 nighttime show,Mark Goodson and Bill Todman put out a lot of great game shows.
Man, today's woke television garbage and politics can't even touch the greatness of the 70s, 80s and 90s television. Thank you for uploading these. It so amazing to see how life and television was back then, I'd do anything to go back.
Oh my gosh !! Haven’t seen this since I was a little girl !! In grade school . My Mom loved this also she liked Hollywood Squares & To Tell the Truth . Wow this really takes me back to childhood . If mom wasn’t watching these it was the Soaps on ABC TV . Thanks for these memories ❤😊
Thank you for posting all of these! I have some fond memories of Match Game and enjoy watching them again and again! They are truly classics! Thanks again!
So much fun to see this first episode and the amazing show it became. Obviously, they knew Richard was a winner from the start. (Brett begged Jack to come on the show. Who knew at the time what a great addition THAT would turn out to be.) And Gene was obviously so nervous! They also learned to eventually let the leader start the second round so that both players would get equal time.
Was he? I don't always pick up on it if they seem to be hiding it outwardly, I just figured after all those years hosting the '60s Match Game it'd still be old hat to him.
To think, this episode is almost half a century old and yet half of the panelists are still with us. Interestingly enough it's all 3 females who are still alive as of Groundhog Day 2021. So many MG episodes now I see I think to myself "Wow, all six celebs are gone!" Usually we're lucky to have 1 or 2 who are still with us, but to have 3 of these 6 still around is awesome. I often wish they would interview them to ask them about this first episode, but now with Joann & Anita in their 80s and Vicki is in her 70s, I doubt they remember a whole heck of a lot from so long ago...
Two of these celebrities, were on my mail route..I was a mailman in Malibu, in the early 80's..Jack Klugman lived in a condo on PCH., near Christie Brinkley,, & Michael Landon lived in the Colony....I just happened to be at his house when he was giving his wife her birthday present,, a green Ferrari....
50 years later,and,in my book,still a great show! Had I been in my 20s and the vtr has been more available for purchase, I would have recorded ALL of the CBS,PM and the 1979-82 episodes for my personal collection.
This was and still is one of my favorite game shows of all time. The playlist title is misleading though. Missing the rest of Match Game PM and Match Game 76. Not to mention Match Game 77 and 78. All in all though Match Game 73-75 pretty much complete is rather awesome 😎
