This is the pilot of the classic episode of The Match Game hosted by Gene Rayburn with guests Peggy Cass with teammates Arthur Trudeau and Ronni Smith and Peter Lind Hayes with teammates Mary Pidgeon and Rick Mainzer enjoy the episode
Gene Rayburn had a hit radio show on WNBC in New York and was signed to a 20 year contract with NBC in 1952. They later assigned him to be Steve Allen's announcer/sidekick on the first version of The Tonight Show. When Steve left that show, Gene was assigned to host various NBC game shows that didn't last until Match Game clicked in 1962. He also was one of the hosts of NBC radio's Monitor weekend program. When Match Game was cancelled in 1969, Gene again was assigned to host more short-lived game shows for NBC until his contract expired in 1972. The next year he was hired to host the new version of Match Game on CBS.
This was the demo for the show. This pilot was never aired until GSN ran it several years ago. A few cosmetic changes were made before the first NBC broadcast of “The Match Game”.
This is WNBC (-TV) COMCAST NBCUniversal 4 New York, NY! "From New York City, (NBC-TV Presents/It's Time to Play) 'The MATCH GamE' (This Portion of 'The MATCH GamE' is Brought to You By...) (and now Here's Your Host/With The Star of 'The MATCH GamE') (Mr.) GENE RAYBURN."
It's interesting how Gene asked the male contestants what they did for a living, but asked the female contestants where they were from. Sign of the times. I'm glad the format changed, but that they kept Gene!
This was a favorite of mine back then.Several aspects of the original game were transferred to Family Feud and Card Sharks.I remember Ironized Yeast and Haley's MO.I always wondered what MO stood for
The Late 50s thru the early 60s was FAB! And, with such truly WHOLESOME INNOCENT SIMPLE FUN, this fab show depicts that ever-missed Space Age Era!🇺🇸 Much Thanks for sharing this Rare Vintage Gem!🇺🇸
I'd come home from school and hear the music to Match Game, the show in the '70's. My mom would tell us to go upstairs and get changed; then, we could watch Match Game. We ran upstairs, got dressed in play clothes, and sat in front of the TV from 3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. What an amazing, innocent time. So grateful.
They didn't actually record it on tape at all. This is was recorded in the studios by a process called kinescope. They would use another camera to record the telecast image off another camera. That's why the picture is so soft and blurry. Similar idea to you holding a camera up to your TV to record a show. If you look at old television that's in black in white, if the image is fairly sharp, it was recorded on either film or early video tape. If the picture is really soft, with very extreme blooms of black and white, and not much shading, then that was kinescope.
Watching this just shows how important Gene was as host. His impish personality was perfect for the show as it evolved into more of a freewheeling format and became just a framework that allowed the celebs to goof around and improvise with each other. The elements are there but bringing in a couple of contestants and having a panel of celebs definitely improved on things. A stodgier host and we might never have had the Match Game for all those years. The revival with Alec Baldwin actually wasn't bad but after his incident on that movie set it cancelled.
@@stephenmitchell663, shortly after that, about three months or so, I SAW THE MATCH GAME IN COLOR on my parents first ever, COLOR TV..on day one of having one in our house. It was 1963..
It was broadcast in color, but was only recorded in kinescope, which is not only black and white, but a severely downgraded process of recording old television programs.
Ummmm....no. There was no home recording in 1962. This was recorded in the studios by a process called kinescope. They would use another camera to record the telecast image off another camera. That's why the picture is so soft and blurry. Similar idea to you holding a camera up to your TV to record a show.
Now I see why the 1970s version was a quantum leap ahead of this original; as Bob Eubanks said "New York people were really stern and there was a little more relaxation and filthy dirty questions allowed on the west coast."
You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen, Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen, but do you recall the most famous reindeer of all? Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer!
The broadcast would have been in color. This was recorded in the studios by a process called kinescope. They would use one camera to record the telecast image off another camera. That's why the picture is so soft and blurry. Similar idea to you holding a camera up to your TV to record a show.
Quinine: This medicine may cause very serious unwanted effects and should only be used for patients with malaria. (Did you notice at the very end of this pilot they didn’t have all the credited names listed.)
The broadcast would have been in color. This was recorded in the studios by a process called kinescope. They would use one camera to record the telecast image off another camera. That's why the picture is so soft and blurry. Similar idea to you holding a camera up to your TV to record a show.
The broadcast would have been in color. This was recorded in the studios by a process called kinescope. They would use one camera to record the telecast image off another camera. That's why the picture is so soft and blurry. Similar idea to you holding a camera up to your TV to record a show.
5:14 "Fulton, the inventor of the steam engine." Sorry Gene, Robert Fulton didn't invent the steam engine. What he did - with help from Robert R. Livingston - was develop the first commercially successful steamBOAT: The "North River Steamboat" - later renamed the "Clermont". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fulton#Career_in_the_United_States_(1806-1815)
