Gene Rayburn's hosting Match Game along with the lunacy of the stars who graced the show's humor staying power reminds me of I Love Lucy. Still funny after all those years. Same with Match Game!!
Michael Landon was on "Bonanza", "Little House on the Prairie", and "Highway to Heaven", which all aired on NBC. In fact, his appearance on "Match Game 73" was one of the few times that he DIDN'T appear on the Peacock Network.
Half the fun of watching Match Game for me is learning about classic films and TV shows that *maybe* 100 people my age have ever heard of. Never had a clue that there was a TV version of _Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice._
Some major stars in this episode, with Jack still in The Odd Couple, Vicki in Carol Burnett show and Michael in Little House on the Prairie at the same time
And several years later, Jack and Anita would co star together on Quincy, M.E. on NBC. I remember she played a doctor, but was she was she married to Quincy, or an ex? Or did another actress play his wife or ex?
I met both Jack and Anita, she is still alive, she is over 80 now, I looked it up, she played Quincy's wife twice, his deceased wife in flashbacks and his second wife, so he married her twice, hehehehheh
The contestant named Stanley is Dr. Stanley Camilla Benson Viltz. She was born in 1944, if Internet records are correct. She became very ill in her later years and may have since passed away. I am not sure. I have been reading her blogs.
Great THANK YOU SUCH FUN TO WATCH ME TOO ASA CONTESTENT IN 1974 WOW WHERE DID TIME GO..I AM HANGING IN AT AGE 83 LOST BETTY AWW..LOVED AND KNEW HER XXCRIP HON
Vicki Lawrence would reappear on Match Game in 1978 when she crashed an episode with Carol Burnett, Tim Conway and Jim Nabors, and they proceeded to have their own little round alongside the contestants. Lawrence was asked to return to the panel later that year, was a semi-regular on the ABC version and became a regular on the late 90s flop revival.
the contestant has their back turned to the panel. but what they can do, (i've seen it done) is listen to them write, because of the microphone and magic marker you can clearly hear the word written out, and if you have two answers in your head, one long, and one short, you can tell which one they may have wrote. it can give you a clue.
Yup in the last episode for ____ Derby I was thinking Roller or Kentucky, and from the mic picking up Landon's writing i could guess the last letter he wrote was more likely to be a Y not an R.
You have to watch these in order. He made a Bonanza reference each show, so far. That's what he was known for... and may still have been in at the time this was aired. This started the year Bonanza ended.
What I don't understand is Gary Walls was on four episodes in 1973 - #4, # 5, # 6 and # 7 yet Gene never once asked her where she was from. He asked her about her job - a bartender - but never asked where she was from. And asking that was the norm on that show.
I personally have a tough time watching these early episodes. As you said more straight forward questions, not a lot of the shenanigans that would occur later. It almost seems like these early episodes were scripted.
yup, many series are like that, Newhart for example, it took a couple of years for the series to be really funny, Simpsons too, but some series were funny from the beginning, Cheers, SCTV
Glenn Marshall Married..with Children was the same as well. First 1 or 2 seasons were funny but not as classic as like season 3 or 4 onwards. Also Kelly Bundy was actually less dim-witted in the early seasons.
It would have been physically impossible for her to have watched the show unless she had a time machine - the first five episodes were taped on the same day and only broadcast later. This is the fourth episode, so it hadn't hit airwaves yet.
Actually, back then Chicken Delight was a national chain in the US, and as I remember the first national chain (in the '60s and '70s, their slogan was "Don't Cook Tonight, Call Chicken Delight," as they were one of the few chains that delivered then. They were big in New York until the mid-1980's or so.
Y’all are so weird to be talking about their legs and how you wish you could see them now..just saying. People are beautiful but some y’all are just being creepy
Fil was short for Felicit (she said, not Felicity per my ears); Gary was a nickname for her name, Garnet, the same as her grandmother; only Stanley really had a boy's name, and that was indeed from a 1940s movie. There's the actress Michael Learned, born 1939 per Wikipedia; I have a female cousin Randi, born in the early 50s; met an unfortunate called Michaeleen in the 70s, born late 50s. There are more females named man(nish) names now/from the 90s on, IMO: Ashley, Morgan, Madison, etc.
@@cherylroberts3569my mom's cousin is Jonnie b/c her parents had a son, followed by 4 girls. Uncle Porter was ready for another boy, so her nickname has always been Jonnie. Family from NC. 😄
