H/H match update: ... Here's our panel for the show's 110th week, which aired September 15-19, 1975: Our beloved regulars Charles, Richard, and Brett are joined by familiar faces Avery Schreiber and Joyce Bulifant. Avery is making his fifth week of appearances (of 14 weeks total). He hasn't been selected for a H/H match yet. Semi-regular Joyce (26 weeks total) is currently near the top of the leader board with a 75% accuracy (3 out of 4) when it comes to matching contestants for the big money. Rounding out the panel is Lana Wood. This is her one and only week on the program. I'd love to see Joyce get another shot and/or Avery have a chance to play the H/H match this week... ... but no one's getting chosen today, as the brand-new champion struck out on the audience match board. She should've taken Charles's answer for $500 or even Brett's for $100... Stay tuned! (Trivia note: today Brett uses the expression "definitive answer" @ ~ 19:30. I remember hearing this expression on MG a lot when I watched it as a kid, and as I've been watching all the episodes in order, I was wondering when I would hear it again. This is the first time.) Meanwhile, here's the current leader board showing the 11 celebs with at least 3 H/H matches, ranked by accuracy: Orson Bean - 100% (4 wins in 4 attempts). Gary Burghoff - 83.3% (5 wins in 6 attempts). TIE: Jo Anne Worley - 75% (3 wins in 4 attempts). TIE: Joyce Bulifant - 75% (3 wins in 4 attempts). Fannie - 50% (9 wins in 18 attempts). Betty - 48.4% (15 wins in 31 attempts). Charles - 45.2% (19 wins in 42 attempts). Jo Ann Pflug - 44.4% (8 wins in 18 attempts). Richard - 38.6% (115 wins in 298 attempts). Brett - 38.3% (18 wins in 47 attempts). Bert Convy - 33.3% (5 wins in 15 attempts). *These stats include every head-to-head match from episode 1 through 546, excluding the lost/missing episodes: 31, 32, 33, 311, 312, 313, 324, 325. (As per MatchGameProductions, these episodes "are nowhere to be found and also aren't in the Goodson/Todman Library. Sadly, looks like they are lost forever!")
I like how Peggy says she does needlepoint and Gene doesn't say anything and just asks about the commercial. Usually when contestants say they do needlepoint he's all over it.
It's not the suit, it's the cameras. I remember reading that there were certain patterns (narrow stripes, checks, houndstooth, etc.) that "confused" the cameras for a couple of technical reasons that I've forgotten, as well as certain fabrics or fabric finishes that caused glare and some other stuff. I always rather liked the shimmers and blurs and twinkles. Now with the high def cameras and TVs, we can see every wart and wrinkle much more clearly than in real life. Whoopee.
Geez, that Deidre or whoever it is who's on the bells & buzzers is giving me a headache! When someone wins, she rings that thing for ages. I've lowered my volume, but I think Match Game really turned theirs up. The sound effects are still too much louder than the level of their voices.
