Match Game 74 (Episode 131) (Happy Birthday Betty White) (Time's Up Ladies??) (CLASSIC BLOOPER!) 

This show was so full of bloopers, and that's what made it so funny

And Gene was right, Betty would be with the show until the very end, appearing on the last week of Match Game.

High schools were holding sock hop dances even after this program aired. Dancing in socks didn't scrape or scratch wooden gymnasium floors.

Another set of notes, and Charles is back! Recorded on 5th January 1974, the first recording of the year. First up, it's the only week of character actor Joe Flynn, forever immortalised in his role as Captain Binghamton in the sitcom McHale's Navy. He also appeared in many Disney films including The Love Bug, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, The Barefoot Executive and Superdad, the latter of which he promotes in this episode. He also hosted a television revival of the radio panel show It Pays To Be Ignorant, of which Charles was a semi-regular. Later in the year Flynn would go on to record his role as Snoops, the dogsbody to Madame Medusa, in the animated film The Rescuers. Sadly, shortly after finishing work on the film, Flynn was found dead in his swimming pool, the official report saying he had a heart attack while swimming and drowned. He was 49. Also the only week for actress and singer Linda Kaye Henning, the daughter of TV producer Paul Henning, creator of sitcoms The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres and Petticoat Junction, the latter of which starred Linda. She has also made guest appearances on The Tonight Show, The Ed Sullivan Show, Adam-12, Happy Days and Mork & Mindy. Her game show appearances were numerous to say the least, as she's been on Hollywood Squares, Family Feud, Tattletales, Showoffs, Body Language, Password and Password Plus. Linda Kaye Henning and Betty White are still with us as of March 2018. Speaking of Betty, it's her Ninth week, and this episode was broadcast on 17th January 1974, her 52nd birthday. Technical note: This is the first episode in which Gene collects his ECM-51 wand from the panelists' desk rather than carrying it on with him.

Happy Brithday to Betty! Shes 99 today

One of the best shows ! So much fun to watch ,miss it!

Watching this on what would have been Betty's 100th birthday.

So, if you didn’t win any money, your consolation prizes were some bed linens, floor wax shine, and Rice a Roni. 😂

This is the earliest episode of Match Game that Game Show Network airs. The network airs the episodes from this one (from January 1974) to episode 246, from July, 1974, then skips to episode 921 from March, 1977 and airs a block ending with episode 1215 from May, 1978 (right before Richard started getting really dour).

We had sock hope at my high school in the 70's. Of course I wasn't in cool LA like these folks

COOL learning about Gene's Slavic roots, his real last name Rubessa, pronounced: Rubesha. :)

It's funny that they plugged the Disney movie _Superdad_. It also starred Bob Crane.

And now Betty White is 99 years young

Joe Flynn was only 49 in this episode! (and had just turned 49 two months earlier) look at a 49 year old now, in 2021! Joe would look like a much older man compared to someone that age now.

Joe Flynn died just a few months after taping this episode, of a heart attack in his swimming pool. According to IMDb : “he had a cast on his broken leg, and his body was found at the pool’s bottom, held down by the weight of his cast.” He was 49 years old.

"Tale" was damn clever!

10-12 years ago, I saw a documentary about Match Game. In the documentary, one of the ex-contestants confessed that for lunch, the entire group usually went to a restaurant together. Often their lunch was a “liquid lunch”. When they came back from lunch to continue the show, it sometimes got pretty loud and zany. My guess is that this episode is one of those “after lunch” shows.

I think I remember seeing Joe Flynn in a Disney film that was shown on TV while I flipped through the channels one day. It was called "The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes", and its star back in 1969 was a young man named Kurt Russell.

This is really off topic, but, when this aired, I had just arrived in Idaho Springs, Colorado, to live with my sister and her boyfriend and finish the second half of the seventh grade. We lived in a mobile home with a wood stove for heat and no television. Now you know.

Brett may be a pain but she can take a joke to herself.

Richard Dawson jokes about dishwasher bras with cups and saucers! Lol 9:23

Sad to learn about the short life of Joe Flynn. The man seemed to have, if not the right answers, the funniest (16:30).

Someone told Janet she looks like Mary Anne from Gilligan’s Island.

Brett coughing all the time, annoying while using my headphones. lol

Bless her, Betty White... her youthful joyful spirit is what kept her alive for 99 years... How old are you, Betty? 21:14 "I'm too old!!!" such a joy to watch her here... 👏👏👏👏

“No you’re not hallucinating”

I thought that Janet girl was Punky Brewster! LOL

Charles seems to show more “Gay” in this episode 😂✅👍🏻

Linda Henning was the voice of Jethrine on the Beverly Hillbillies, her dad created the show

In Junior and Senior high school, during the 1950’s, when dances were held in the gymnasium, we had to take off our shoes. It was to keep the floors from getting damaged. Hence the term sock hops.

Gene and the panelists, particularly Brett, are always utterly unaware of rock and roll, even when it's in the past -- 11: 25.

I've watched a few of these tonight, and I've noticed that Brett is almost always the last one writing XD

Richard was so lively and animated when he was second banana and working hard to get his own show. It was almost an anticlimax when he finally landed one and he allowed himself to power down.

Did he really say "Rottenchester"?! How dare you!

Sick of listening to Somers coughing.

Joe passed away in July of 1974, just a few months after this show

Rotton-chester, NY.

It's funny when you come up with answers and they're things that haven't been invented yet. Blank Hop. I said Hip Hop.

Another scene from the MG funnies moments and bloopers video on youtube.. ;0) I need to write these down sometime.. ;0)

That subtle bird flip in the intro

I started school in the 80's and WE had sock hops

16:34 oh the heartbreak of psoriasis

January 17, 2021: Happy 99th Birthday, Betty!

16:10 I'd like to see the melodramatic old commercials they're referencing

So Gene knows the answers in advance? He says he didn’t understand sock hop even after Ira explained it to him before the show.

20:18 Time is Up, Ladies

Love this episode . Happy Birthday Betty

8:00 - No, you're not hallucinating 😂

This polyester is killing me!!! I remember wearing things like that. Just awful. The suits don't move. The ties are 8 inch thick and those collars. Why did we wear those collars.

Betty White - she’s awesome

Panelists: 1. Joe Flynn 2. Brett Somers 3. Charles Nelson Reilly 4. Linda Kate Henning 5. Richard Dawson 6. Betty White

FYIZ: I can't be 100% sure, but A sock hop was most likely created for a school dance in the school gym where street shoes were not allowed , so everyone just took off their shoes.

Love you Betty White!

Happy 52nd Birthday Betty 🥳 🎊🎉🎂🎁🎈 Lol

I almost saved 21:27 as a screen shot to make it my laptop's wallpaper. Almost.

2022 answer: HIP hop..

Brett's hacking up lung butter into the microphone is enough to make anyone want to fro up.

The participants’ hairstyles are very 70s

Brett and her backwards "Y"'s

Pigtails and yellow cottons ribbons, damn. My sister had those in 1094, and she was four years old, lol.

Holly crap! Don Draper appears on Match Game.

20:57 BAck then you had the family of the Smith Sisters $100 for singing that

Fun fact. The contestant, Les, went on to win the next game then match Betty White twice to win another $5,000. This took his total winnings to over $14,000 which at the time set the record for Match Game.

time was called

It was Betty White's 52nd birthday! If she only knew she was only half way there!

Just imagine living to 99 and even making a comeback to showbiz at the age of 90. The Snickers commercials.

Betty White and Rice A Roni are all that’s still around. Gene was right, she be there til the end!

ROFL! Another fine episode! ;0) ROFL! Love ya Gene! ;0) ROFL! Love ya Betty! ;0) ROFL! Love ya Charles! ;0) ROFL! Love ya Joe! ;0) Just two weeks Gene. ;0) bra.. Psoris! Dialerria! rear! Love your slip up Gene! ;0) Love that you don't take yourself too seriously.. ;0) I thought they couldn't sing that song on tv as it would cost them too much money.. ;0)

Super Dad's main star was Bob Crane that Flynn left failed to mention.

Gotta love the after lunch shows...

I was d cups in the dish washer...

Richard Dawson seemed quite happy in this episode. Maybe because he enjoyed the break in filming. Last episode 12/23/73 this one 1/5/74. He’ll soon start getting a bit fed up again perhaps.

She’s amazing!

This is obviously a game after they drank a bit

Linda Kaye Henning not Kate as printed above

Betty Jo Bradley was always so hot. "lots of curves you bet, and even more when you get, to the Junction, Petticoat Junction."

Betty is not 73

Meriwether-Iverson, round 1, question A: "The truth is, Lola doesn't have much of a body, so the best part is what her GRASS SKIRT says." (Bzzt!) Round 2, question B: (lay out; see previous video) Question A: "They said she could wash bowls in it, so she assumed that included her TOILET BOWL. Not a pretty sight." (Bzzt!) Super Match: BUNNY Meriwether-Videl, round 1, question B: "So are you saying frog legs *don't* make you TURN GREEN?" (Bzzt!) Question A: "For the record, Joe, it's THE *HEARTBREAK* OF P-S-O-R-I-A-S-I-S." (Bzzt!) Round 2, question B: "Am I the only one who remembers the actual story? His MAGIC RING, of course." (Bzzt!)

I love Charles but he never quite mastered wearing a toupee.

What the heck is wrong with Breannas hair ?Elizabeth 😇

no time to continue the game

Didn’t Gene make a really big mistake here? I thought whenever there was a tie game they wiped the slate clean and started from scratch. Instead he gave it to Brenda be telling her she only needed one to win, which of course she did win. I wonder if they called the other contestant back later on. Or am I totally wrong about this? Enlighten me please.

Happy birthday to the amazing Betty white. Love to see Joe Flynn.

Brett needs to go, that coughing and need for attention was as annoying as anything I can stand. It was infernal.

She’s so pretty

Betty is still alive and working, even during the pandemic, in the summer of 2020!

20:19

Happy birthday Betty white

Sally Field?

If Betty was 73 in 1974, that means she would have been 120 today.

This must have aired on 17 January. That was Betty's actual birthday. That was a Thursday, by the way. The numbering indicates that this should have been a Monday.

RIP BETTY WHITE 🥰

I never liked the practice of changing panels in the middle of the game.

i think they had that drink on a break,Gene acts a little too silly...

they all seem kind of tipsy....

Stupidest game show ever made.

20:18