I've been watching reruns of this for the last three or four years, at least, and it never gets old. It was one of a kind. It all starts with Gene, the perfect host, and Brett and Charles and Richard. And all the great 'semi-regulars' like Fanny, Patty Deutsch, Betty, Patty Duke, Joyce Bulifant, Joanne Worley, Elaine Joyce, Marcia Wallace, Nipsey Russell, Gary Burghoff, Dick Martin, Joann Pflug, Orson Bean... A show like that can never be duplicated. I remember watching Match Game 73 when I got home from school in junior high, and still think of it with the 73 in the name because of that. Best game show ever, with Jeopardy number two, but for completely different reasons. For entertainment value Match Game stands alone. And quite often the contestants were very entertaining - you got quite a variety of personalities.
Let's go!! The scientist got into his time machine and began moving through time... But he became concerned when he suddenly realized he forgot to take his blank..
That DEF would be AMAZING‼️ I LOVED staying home with my mom and watching funny, uncut, “real tv” and the greatest game shows EVER! This and $10,000 Pyramid were our faves👍
One moment I will never forget circa 1979. Charles was wearing a cowboy hat & talking like John Wayne & Gene says " don't get BUTCH with me" & Charles responds..."Don't Worry". Everyone erupted in laughter. No one had to say gay...it just was understood.
They were Absolutely Fantastic! Brett and Charles are totally insane. I was a middle school teacher and they act just like some of my kids sitting in the back of the classroom. Classic!
"Match Game" is pure joy! The greatest game show, the greatest host, and the greatest panelists in the history of television! Those people were, and are, VERY special to me.
Gene was very impeccibly dressed, my word, it meant a lot to him to be fashionable. Best host then and since. Plus, Gene was a good man. I was just a kid watching it then but looking at it now, I see it. I miss seeing well-dressed men in the workplace. Men and women could work together, tease each other, have fun like that and not be offended.
I LOVED this show Growing up in the 70's and 80's AND have watched replays religiously on GSN EVERY day, 2 shows at 12 and 12:30 since the pandemic and I have been forced to work from home. I record them on my DVR if I work through the lunch hour. GSN, PLEASE never take this show off the air...
Every time I watch it on Buzzr it takes me back to coming home from school in the 70’s and watching it with my mom. A lot of the sexual innuendo was over my head. It just seemed so cool though to watch these celebrities unscripted, joking and having fun.
I remember my Mom laughing so hard watching Match Game. When it premiered on CBS the 2nd time in 1973, I was 5 years old, just starting kindergarten and I learned a lot about something I absolutely love doing and enjoy with women. Innuendo! Learned all about it from watching. I asked my Mom, why does it always seem like these questions have answers that are right, but means something different? Mom said, boy....I don't know how you caught on? You are so smart! I'm going to tell you and "carefully" explain it to you.....after Match Game goes off. She told me all about innuendo, why it is, how to use it to present something to someone or group. Also how women like it and how it adds fun and deep thought to any loving relationship. The 70's....times "teenage" years. 😀
I watched #MatchGame with my Grandparents every weekday in the 70's !! When I get a chance to watch it now......I feel like they are sitting beside me...….
Match Game was a show where anything, absolutely anything could happen. You tune in and Charles might FLY into the studio, Carol Burnett would invade the set, or a contestant might bend over in a two-short skirt. That random factor, the anticipation of "what could possibly happen this week?" was a big part of the magic.
@Mark Thomas Richard dawson used be great at the match game, family feud , he used to like to kiss the pretty woman, I hear he met his wife on the show
greenrefrigerator I’m 52. And lived only a block and around the corner from my grade school. My whole goal was to get home get the tv turned on quick enough to warm up use the bathroom wash my hands and grab my snack all before the stars were introduced. I always felt so proud if I got there in time to see the first guy. I would run if I was still in the kitchen when the theme song started to play.
Gene was the last true "master of ceremonies". They dont have hosts like this anymore. Even when the question box broke he would beat it up and yank on it to get the questions lmao this show is a fever dream!
Alexei Cogan 1,000,000,000% agreed with you they are so great people and I wish they were still alive :( but they were very talented people and I love them and this show so much
I NEVER get tired watching these old MATCH GAME reruns they were the BEST R.I.P to: GENE RAYBURN BRETT SOMMERS CHARLES NELSON RILEY ....and RICHARD DAWSON.
I always liked Patti Deutsch. She had the cutest voice (she worked a lot in voiceover), and beautiful hair. She married once, had 3 children, and remained married until her death. This was a fun, silly show!
I crushed on her...loved her gorgeous red hair, cute voice, beautiful curves, and (strangely enough) her penmanship on the answer cards. :) I sadly never got to meet her, but love being able to watch her on Buzzr.
@@billman6364 He was also a panelist on Match Game too. It was always funny when A Dumb Donald question popped. His reactions to them were always hysterical.
I watched about 2 minutes of the reboot and was horrified. They've rebooted Match Game and $100,000 Pyramid. Both reboots are mere shells of the originals. They're simply bad products.
@@paulapayne7940 The reboot is awful. If they asked that Ronald McDonald question in the reboot they would just answer penis. That isn't funny to just say the obvious answer that everyone is thinking. Saying quarter pounder is much funnier.
Bring me back to the 70's when people weren't brain washed to be offended like they are today. When the women enjoyed the attention and gave it also. There isn't any harm to flirting fun.
@@jpolar394 It's not pussification, it's that the bar swung the other way but will eventually settle in the middle. For years women, minorities, etc, had to put up with so much shit (still do) and now there is pushback from all the years of having to put up with it.
@@RandomPlayIist crap has, is & will ALWAYS happen behind the scenes it's just a matter of who gets caught or not; in this case we're talking in FRONT of the camera two very different things
I grew up in the 60s and we watched the Match game every weekday. The characters were the first tv stars that I thought seemed like real people and so funny.
Brett was such an annoying pain-in-the ass & NEVER shut that piehole of hers. Never. She always had 2 b the center of attention. And the way she looked at Gene with that teenage girl look & tellin him how she wanted 2 go 2 Encinitas hotel. She sounded like such a FOOL. Even though it was a joke ?? I don’t think on her part.
B. Stanley, The person in the last spot was directed to do that; so really not the person's choice. The person in the 4th spot was known as the "dummy" spot; usually reserved for pretty actresses to be ditzy. Richard was to hopefully get it right. The 6th spot was to end the round being funny. The panelist and Gene explain that in another documentary that's here on you tube. Anyone just had to have watched the show to realize the line up, though.
Exactly what the modern versions haven't figured out. Innuendo is fun and much funnier than vulgarity. In the 70's they'd ask leading questions that would make people think something dirty, but the celebs had to work around not being able to give the dirty answer. These days they allow the dirty answer and it just isn't nearly as funny.
So true, but you could tell the panelists were thinking about the possibility of writing an off color answer, when they would laugh or get a funny look on their face. But let's not forget, hearing the word "boobs" on TV in the 1970s was still a bit shocking... Especially to the older adults who were watching.
Ms. Brett was such a wonderful celebrity for Match Game, along with Charles Nelson Reilly! Thank you so much for your great time for this astounding game !!
Brett Somers is well before my time, but I love wathcing game show fails and she's popped on a few times and is always funny. This lady would still thrive if she were alive in today's world.
Very true, the cellphone hadn't made its debut to disrupt humanity as it has done now, so humanity lived as was designed, joyous, funny and happy to interact with one another face to face, not behind glass screens, share emotion by touch, not emoji... 46 years later, society has frayed so much, the America depicted here no longer exists.
Gene Rayburn was the best game show host of all time. Richard Dawson a close second. All the rest are way behind. He had a presence and timing unlike anyone else.
Favorite game show as a young girl growing up in the 70s I loved the quirky celeb guest panelist such as charles nelson Reilly,Brett Somers,Richard dawson🎉
Gene was very patient with brett trying very hard to take over the show. He did get annoyed with her a few times and told her that it was his show. He or the producers must have been friends with Jack Klugman who got her on the show
I miss you as well, Brett. You, Charles, Richard, Betty White. I'm more able to watch all these re-runs now that my children and grandchildren are grown & gone. Moved away. Busy with their own lives. Now, I can really enjoy the show. I even miss Gene. Him and his funny sarcasm. If one can't take a joke, they shouldn't be on the Match Game. Because Gene was sure to embarrass someone. But, that was Gene. Got to love him, as well as you, and all the others. Can't remember all the other stars names right now, but you all had some great stars on your show. The only other game show I've really ever watched faithfully was " the kissing bandit' Richard Dawson, on Family Fued. He, like you, and Betty White, and Charles, had BIG hearts. As did some of the other stars.
This show had fun, creativity and they knew how to laugh with and at each other! You don't see anything like this on TV anymore! I'm wondering who the 9 morons who gave this thumbs down were thinking (if at ALL!) You saw it was Brett, Gene, Charles and the others, you knew you were gonna laugh and you gave thumbs down? NO points for you people!
@stromada1 There was and maybe is a LOT of sexual harassment and sexual imposition going on. Just because some whining attention-seekers joined in doesn't mean the whole movement is false. Let's not throw the baby out with the bath water.
@stromada1 Oh, the fun I'm sure they had, then, watching Dawson and the female contestants on "Family Feud." Bet there wasn't one set of white knuckles in THAT bunch, ho ho ho.
I swear that this show was just for entertainment. Dawson was the most consistent celebrity with matching answers. Reiley wasn't too far off but, he had his bad days. Somers got to the point where she didn't give a damn about helping the contestants win any money. She would give a bad answer using up to four cards to make her look like she's desperate to be funny. It got to the point that I couldn't stand her.The only reason that she landed on the show was due to Jack Klugman,the actor that could only express one emotion, anger, talked the producer into putting her on the show! The worst panelists would always occupy seats one , four, and six. These, also, would be actors or comedians that cared more about being glib than helping the contestants win any money. Before anyone says, why did you watch it, because my wife liked the show and I wanted to be with her!
@@oldiesgeek454 She didn't have to. The only sport that we both like is bowling. In fact, after over 42 years of marriage, the only thing that she didn't care for was ,"The Walking Dead". She would watch something else while I watched it until they started killing each other instead of walkers. That's when I quit watching. If I want to see man's inhumanity to man, I'll watch the evening news.
The 70's was an Amazing time. So fortunate to have lived during it.
I've been watching reruns of this for the last three or four years, at least, and it never gets old. It was one of a kind. It all starts with Gene, the perfect host, and Brett and Charles and Richard. And all the great 'semi-regulars' like Fanny, Patty Deutsch, Betty, Patty Duke, Joyce Bulifant, Joanne Worley, Elaine Joyce, Marcia Wallace, Nipsey Russell, Gary Burghoff, Dick Martin, Joann Pflug, Orson Bean... A show like that can never be duplicated. I remember watching Match Game 73 when I got home from school in junior high, and still think of it with the 73 in the name because of that. Best game show ever, with Jeopardy number two, but for completely different reasons. For entertainment value Match Game stands alone. And quite often the contestants were very entertaining - you got quite a variety of personalities.
we must be the same age, i think the merv griffin show came on after it, but that theme music really takes me back
I wanna go back again and live in a 20 year eternal loop from 1970 - 1990. Oh, and of course be a guest player on Match Game at least once a year.
I'm going with you.
Same here I love to go
Let's go!!
The scientist got into his time machine and began moving through time...
But he became concerned when he suddenly realized he forgot to take his blank..
Thought I was the only one.
That DEF would be AMAZING‼️ I LOVED staying home with my mom and watching funny, uncut, “real tv” and the greatest game shows EVER! This and $10,000 Pyramid were our faves👍
Everyone, turn off the stinken news, fell good again and watch this, it'll make the world right again!!!
brett is so right, i'm watching 45 years later and it holds up beautifully, having fun transcends time.
She is just a funny lady. I enjoyed her on The Odd Couple playing Oscar's ex wife Blanche.
@@vanmoody odd, his wife in real life playing his ex on the show
@@cannedmusic I had forgotten that they were married in real life.
@@vanmoody Frank seib
U.c Toll
One moment I will never forget circa 1979. Charles was wearing a cowboy hat & talking like John Wayne & Gene says " don't get BUTCH with me" & Charles responds..."Don't Worry". Everyone erupted in laughter. No one had to say gay...it just was understood.
It was more than just a game show! Entertainment gold!
The regulars; Brett, Charles, Richard, Fannie, Betty, etc, sure knew what being funny was all about.
Dawson was phony idiot !!!!
I love the way Brett and Charles had fun with each other.
Indeed!
I love the way Gene and Brett had fun with each other at the Motel 6 in Encino! 😊
They were Absolutely Fantastic! Brett and Charles are totally insane. I was a middle school teacher and they act just like some of my kids sitting in the back of the classroom. Classic!
Love this program
oldies geek she wishes!
Brett , Charles , Richard and Gene !! What a great time watching!! God bless you all.
"Match Game" is pure joy! The greatest game show, the greatest host, and the greatest panelists in the history of television! Those people were, and are, VERY special to me.
Me too.
Gene was very impeccibly dressed, my word, it meant a lot to him to be fashionable. Best host then and since. Plus, Gene was a good man. I was just a kid watching it then but looking at it now, I see it. I miss seeing well-dressed men in the workplace. Men and women could work together, tease each other, have fun like that and not be offended.
That was the greatest thing I ever heard said about this great show
Such an amazing show.
The reruns of this show on BUZZR are the best. Brings back memories of when I was a wee tot.
I LOVE BUZZR!
Buzzr is the best!
Does anyone also watch the show on Game Show Network?
@@ATLienForLife I used to when it was on GSN at a reasonable time. Now, it's all about Buzzr.
They should do an interview with Betty White, she worked with everyone on this show. She must have had a ball. R.I.P. to all we've lost.
Yes. Sadly Betty White passed in December 2021. 💘 Love Match Game.
Thx for putting the jinx on Betty White. You killed her.
Did you see this interview ? This is a short clip but she talks about MG at 2:50.
ua-cam.com/video/bEZkCnTKGW4/v-deo.html
To bad Gene wife was subjected to his infidelity. Oh what fun!!
Read the story
I watch this show every night before bed. They are friends of mine & I love & miss them. ❤
I watch on Roku love this show.
irishmermaid 4: AMEN!!!
I watch this show on the buzzr channel. It's so much fun and funny. Love Gene Rayburn he was a fantastic host.
If you have Amazon Prime Video, you can watch many episodes without the "old people product" commercials.
He was indeed! :)
A low I.Q. missing link lech .
@@maxroyle6750 You can't possibly be referring to Gene Rayburn as Low IQ.
Gene would definitely be on the Mount Rushmore of Game Show Hosts
One of the best shows ever.
Thanks to Brett, Charles,Richard and Gene.
Thanks for the laughs and silliness RIP legends
I LOVED this show Growing up in the 70's and 80's AND have watched replays religiously on GSN EVERY day, 2 shows at 12 and 12:30 since the pandemic and I have been forced to work from home. I record them on my DVR if I work through the lunch hour. GSN, PLEASE never take this show off the air...
Every time I watch it on Buzzr it takes me back to coming home from school in the 70’s and watching it with my mom. A lot of the sexual innuendo was over my head. It just seemed so cool though to watch these celebrities unscripted, joking and having fun.
I remember my Mom laughing so hard watching Match Game. When it premiered on CBS the 2nd time in 1973, I was 5 years old, just starting kindergarten and I learned a lot about something I absolutely love doing and enjoy with women. Innuendo! Learned all about it from watching. I asked my Mom, why does it always seem like these questions have answers that are right, but means something different? Mom said, boy....I don't know how you caught on? You are so smart! I'm going to tell you and "carefully" explain it to you.....after Match Game goes off. She told me all about innuendo, why it is, how to use it to present something to someone or group. Also how women like it and how it adds fun and deep thought to any loving relationship.
The 70's....times "teenage" years. 😀
I love this show!
Its missed by so many!!
And it cant be "matched "by another show!😉💖
Rest In Peace Brett Somers 1924-2007
Dream Big Productions/Plush Bat Fan miss her so much
We lost Richard, Charles, Brett . Jack klugman who has been on a lot and even the host Gene to name a few.
I watched #MatchGame with my Grandparents every weekday in the 70's !! When I get a chance to watch it now......I feel like they are sitting beside me...….
Hands down the best game show ever... makes me smile.
Match Game was a show where anything, absolutely anything could happen. You tune in and Charles might FLY into the studio, Carol Burnett would invade the set, or a contestant might bend over in a two-short skirt. That random factor, the anticipation of "what could possibly happen this week?" was a big part of the magic.
What a awesome show!!!!!! Sure wish they had awesome shows like this on TV now. Wish we could go back to the 70's
TY Match Game for providing me with great childhood memories. These wonderful people will live on in our hearts. God Bless You.
Loved this game show!!! Sadly we have lost just about everyone on that show.
One of the greatest game shows under Gene Rayburn with the celebrity panel. It was ad lib, spontaneous and funny.
Used to watch this show every day back in the 1970's :)
It was the best game show
@Mark Thomas Richard dawson used be great at the match game, family feud , he used to like to kiss the pretty woman, I hear he met his wife on the show
greenrefrigerator
I’m 52. And lived only a block and around the corner from my grade school. My whole goal was to get home get the tv turned on quick enough to warm up use the bathroom wash my hands and grab my snack all before the stars were introduced. I always felt so proud if I got there in time to see the first guy. I would run if I was still in the kitchen when the theme song started to play.
Best show ever I started watching it when I was 17yrs old..i miss them all..💞
How I wish I could have met you all 🙁 Much Love ❤️
Gene was the last true "master of ceremonies". They dont have hosts like this anymore. Even when the question box broke he would beat it up and yank on it to get the questions lmao this show is a fever dream!
Brett, my dear, I miss you so much! ...(You, Gene, Charles, and Richard!)
great show
You have a great name
We will never see anyone like them again.
Alexei Cogan 1,000,000,000% agreed with you they are so great people and I wish they were still alive :( but they were very talented people and I love them and this show so much
Back when comedians were funny
TV shows had meaning and times were a lot simpler and ppl were happier.
I NEVER get tired watching these old MATCH GAME reruns they were the BEST R.I.P to:
GENE RAYBURN
BRETT SOMMERS
CHARLES NELSON RILEY
....and RICHARD DAWSON.
I always liked Patti Deutsch. She had the cutest voice (she worked a lot in voiceover), and beautiful hair. She married once, had 3 children, and remained married until her death. This was a fun, silly show!
Gene certainly had fun talking about her breasts... LOL. Today that might be considered workplace harassment.
her husband passed around the same time, Donold
I crushed on her...loved her gorgeous red hair, cute voice, beautiful curves, and (strangely enough) her penmanship on the answer cards. :) I sadly never got to meet her, but love being able to watch her on Buzzr.
@@billman6364 He was also a panelist on Match Game too. It was always funny when A Dumb Donald question popped. His reactions to them were always hysterical.
Her hair was unbelievable
We lost a lot of wonderful people who were on match game .
I loved Joyce Bulifant. She was very cute and that baby voice! They passed on her.
She and Gene Hackman were almost the Brady Bunch
@@savvybear11781 damn, they were considered first??
Idiot
Wonderful people, wonderful show
Patti and Brett. Some of my favourite people that ever were. R.I.P. my queens.
Patti Dortch is dead?
I was definitely born in the wrong era..... Long live the 70s! Still better than any game show today!
I miss Match Game. That was such a fun show.
bgarris1 me too
I watch these shows. The reboot with Alec Baldwin isn't funny. It's crude and borderline offensive. He couldn't hold Gene Rayburn's stick mic.
I watched about 2 minutes of the reboot and was horrified. They've rebooted Match Game and $100,000 Pyramid. Both reboots are mere shells of the originals. They're simply bad products.
It was, indeed!
@@paulapayne7940 The reboot is awful. If they asked that Ronald McDonald question in the reboot they would just answer penis. That isn't funny to just say the obvious answer that everyone is thinking. Saying quarter pounder is much funnier.
Love this so much! And stop it with the sexual harassment crap! It was a different time and place
Bring me back to the 70's when people weren't brain washed to be offended like they are today. When the women enjoyed the attention and gave it also. There isn't any harm to flirting fun.
I couldn't agree more. Today we live in a age of pussification.
It was a better time and place. People new how to have fun and take and good fun insult.
@@jpolar394 It's not pussification, it's that the bar swung the other way but will eventually settle in the middle. For years women, minorities, etc, had to put up with so much shit (still do) and now there is pushback from all the years of having to put up with it.
@@RandomPlayIist crap has, is & will ALWAYS happen behind the scenes it's just a matter of who gets caught or not; in this case we're talking in FRONT of the camera two very different things
It never gets old! Love it!
I grew up in the 60s and we watched the Match game every weekday. The characters were the first tv stars that I thought seemed like real people and so funny.
I soooooo miss this show & stars of Match game!!
I especially miss Fannie's sweaters!
There was so much affection there that was a huge part of my enjoyment
One of the greatest shows ever
One of the best was when the contestant is asked in the bonus round, Cuckoo blank------ and answered Cuckoo,Friend and Ollie..
I loved Match Game since it first came on when I was a kid. And today I still watch it every morning.
Absolutely the best game show EVER!
I watched Match Game in the 70s and I watch the reruns every day. I loved Brett Somers.
Brett was such an annoying pain-in-the ass & NEVER shut that piehole of hers. Never. She always had 2 b the center of attention. And the way she looked at Gene with that teenage girl look & tellin him how she wanted 2 go 2 Encinitas hotel. She sounded like such a FOOL. Even though it was a joke ?? I don’t think on her part.
Patti rarely gave a matching answer because she was so preoccupied with trying to give a goofy one to amuse herself.
They said that that 6th slot was really hard to do
B. Stanley, The person in the last spot was directed to do that; so really not the person's choice. The person in the 4th spot was known as the "dummy" spot; usually reserved for pretty actresses to be ditzy. Richard was to hopefully get it right. The 6th spot was to end the round being funny. The panelist and Gene explain that in another documentary that's here on you tube. Anyone just had to have watched the show to realize the line up, though.
7:57 my answer was "nuggets" and then I realized they hadn't been invented yet.
It's too bad that McDonald's question existed before McNuggets.
bainsey89”hot dog”????
That would have been Absolutely Hilarious!
🤣🤣🤣
The sexual innuendo was fun! ;)
Exactly what the modern versions haven't figured out. Innuendo is fun and much funnier than vulgarity. In the 70's they'd ask leading questions that would make people think something dirty, but the celebs had to work around not being able to give the dirty answer. These days they allow the dirty answer and it just isn't nearly as funny.
Plus the pc culture has it way in destroying everything.
So true, but you could tell the panelists were thinking about the possibility of writing an off color answer, when they would laugh or get a funny look on their face. But let's not forget, hearing the word "boobs" on TV in the 1970s was still a bit shocking... Especially to the older adults who were watching.
Who remembers their brilliant use of Cleopatra's "Asp"?
I still burst out in laughter whenever they use it!
@@oldiesgeek454 Very True
loved this show as a kid- and now on buzzer tv!!
Best game show ever!
Really fun clip ! Thanx for sharing ! Till now I never knew Rita Moreno or Shelley Winters had appeared on Match Game !
Ms. Brett was such a wonderful celebrity for Match Game, along with Charles Nelson Reilly! Thank you so much for your great time for this astounding game !!
Nestor Suan one of my favorite match Game celebrities
Brett looks good, she is ex wife of the late great Jack klugman
Charles died a couple of months b4 Brett loved them both
Everyone loved what they were doing and respected each other. Such a great show
Elaine was a living doll!
MeTaz she had a cute husband too. I saw them on a show tattletales on the buzz channel.
Loved this show and the older cast...
Gene Rayburn was the best no one came close !
Always loved her roaring laugh on Match Game 😁👍🏻
Match Game was the best game show ever.
Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly and Richard Dawson,giving the Game show great bouts of laughter for all and making it a classy hit!
"classy" ? i saw a few METOO moments.
Station wagon missing its seat covers. LOL
Funny and classic I still watch it!
Gotta have Betty White do an interview on just Match Game. Easily two hours+ material worth watching.
Brett Somers is well before my time, but I love wathcing game show fails and she's popped on a few times and is always funny. This lady would still thrive if she were alive in today's world.
Gene was 6’1”, so Ira must have been 6’6”.
Charles was 6'-2". With his toupee he must have been at least 6'-4"
Odd that $62.50 was the fee paid to anyone accidentally appearing on camera as 62.50 a week was Ralph Kramden's salary.
She’s so obviously looking to her right at the cue cards. But it’s great to hear her recollections of the Match Game.
Good to see Ira!
He is a part of tv history!
These old show people h ave fun its nice to see people can laugh and enjoyed life
Very true, the cellphone hadn't made its debut to disrupt humanity as it has done now, so humanity lived as was designed, joyous, funny and happy to interact with one another face to face, not behind glass screens, share emotion by touch, not emoji... 46 years later, society has frayed so much, the America depicted here no longer exists.
Gene Rayburn was the best game show host of all time. Richard Dawson a close second. All the rest are way behind. He had a presence and timing unlike anyone else.
dawson was full of himself, among other things
Agree, none of the celebs today don’t know how to host a good game show. And sadly none of the game shows that are being revamped aren’t working.
@@srats56 10000000%
Dawson 👎
Fannie Flagg is one of the few still alive miss this show
Favorite game show as a young girl growing up in the 70s I loved the quirky celeb guest panelist such as charles nelson Reilly,Brett Somers,Richard dawson🎉
Love Debralee Scott. Beautiful lady RIP
Hi, Cutie! Found you, and Match Game on You Tube! Love you and the whole crew!
Brett and Charles should have gone on to have their own talkshow as cohosts. It would've been a hit.
Gene was very patient with brett trying very hard to take over the show. He did get annoyed with her a few times and told her that it was his show. He or the producers must have been friends with Jack Klugman who got her on the show
I miss you as well, Brett. You, Charles, Richard, Betty White. I'm more able to watch all these re-runs now that my children and grandchildren are grown & gone. Moved away. Busy with their own lives. Now, I can really enjoy the show. I even miss Gene. Him and his funny sarcasm. If one can't take a joke, they shouldn't be on the Match Game. Because Gene was sure to embarrass someone. But, that was Gene. Got to love him, as well as you, and all the others. Can't remember all the other stars names right now, but you all had some great stars on your show. The only other game show I've really ever watched faithfully was " the kissing bandit' Richard Dawson, on Family Fued. He, like you, and Betty White, and Charles, had BIG hearts. As did some of the other stars.
It was a really good show and I enjoyed every episode. It defined the word fun.
I loved watching, and still do on BUZZR, all of them! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Greatest game show ever still watching it today
I chuckle so much when I watch this show.
Greatest game show theme song of all time!
My fav then,and thanks to youtube,my fav show now
LOVE Match Game!
Great show. I just recently started watching it.
This show had fun, creativity and they knew how to laugh with and at each other! You don't see anything like this on TV anymore! I'm wondering who the 9 morons who gave this thumbs down were thinking (if at ALL!) You saw it was Brett, Gene, Charles and the others, you knew you were gonna laugh and you gave thumbs down? NO points for you people!
@stromada1 There was and maybe is a LOT of sexual harassment and sexual imposition going on. Just because some whining attention-seekers joined in doesn't mean the whole movement is false. Let's not throw the baby out with the bath water.
Nope the 9 morons were not thinking at all
I love the show I watch it every blank.
@stromada1 Oh, the fun I'm sure they had, then, watching Dawson and the female contestants on "Family Feud." Bet there wasn't one set of white knuckles in THAT bunch, ho ho ho.
Too many sanitized sensitive idiots today, that's why MATCH GAME still holds up !😁✌
Dawson was the only one who couldn't laugh at himself
I swear that this show was just for entertainment. Dawson was the most consistent celebrity with matching answers. Reiley wasn't too far off but, he had his bad days. Somers got to the point where she didn't give a damn about helping the contestants win any money. She would give a bad answer using up to four cards to make her look like she's desperate to be funny. It got to the point that I couldn't stand her.The only reason that she landed on the show was due to Jack Klugman,the actor that could only express one emotion, anger, talked the producer into putting her on the show!
The worst panelists would always occupy seats one , four, and six. These, also, would be actors or comedians that cared more about being glib than helping the contestants win any money. Before anyone says, why did you watch it, because my wife liked the show and I wanted to be with her!
Did she reciprocate by watching sports with you? 😊
@@oldiesgeek454 She didn't have to. The only sport that we both like is bowling. In fact, after over 42 years of marriage, the only thing that she didn't care for was ,"The Walking Dead". She would watch something else while I watched it until they started killing each other instead of walkers. That's when I quit watching. If I want to see man's inhumanity to man, I'll watch the evening news.
@@fiddlefaddle1 lol... I used to watch the old PBA bowling in the 1970s on Saturday afternoons.
@@oldiesgeek454 the only time I ever saw bowling on TV was on ABC's Wide World of Sports the thrill of Agony and the victory of defeat
i loved all of them and the show!
If Brett had looked at the camera once in a while instead of just reading off of the cue cards, This would have been a lot better.
Brett passed away in 2007. I wonder when she recorded that.
this show had more sexual tension than most adult films did.
Match Game was my favorite game show... EVER!!!
Ken Bell 🧡mine too!