7:58 and 8:13 I can read Richard’s mind the way he is looking at Sue Sobel - 💭 she’s single she’s gorgeous and she’s a twin! 💭 double your pleasure double your fun 😜
@@edwardlozano8807 Of course you're right. But looking at the name, before he was wildly famous, you might reasonably say "Battey." And then Gene and the contestant get it right.
Don't forget about his movies. Some would say they were "cheesy", but I loved The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno just to name a couple. The special effects for his movies were ahead of their time. He certainly was a prolific producer. 🤔🤔
For the first time in all the episodes I’ve watched of Match Game, Brett really got on my nerves in this one. I just wanted to turn around and say shut up. She really was obnoxious in this episode and I’m a fan of hers for the most part. RIP..
The very same one. And Tommy won $100,000 on Name That Tune in 1984...but the tabloid news show A Current Affair in 1989 reported he was declared ineligible.
Tommy was a great, enthusiastic contestant. And Gene shouldn't have surprised about all of the kicks, the guy was a three-sport coach! Obviously in good shape for a middle-aged man.
End-of-week H/H match recap: ... ~~~Today's action: The latest in a growing string of one-time champions was defeated in the closing moments of yesterday's program. We start today's show with our brand-new champion in center stage, ready to win some big money. Today's audience match question: "Warren _______ " (I'll pass because names are harder to guess or remember after nearly 50 years.) The celebs: Brett (Beatty), Pat (Oates), and Richard (Harding) The choice: Beatty The answers: Burger, Harding, Beatty Alright, our new champ starts off with a $500 audience match win. When he was calling on celebs, he said he matches Brett a lot when he watches at home, so I wonder if that will carry on to the H/H match? Or will Richard extend his string of 13 consecutive times playing for the big money? I love it! He picks Brett! I do enjoy seeing her get all verklempt! Quick review: Brett hasn't played the H/H match since 665 (which she matched). In fact, she's matched every one of her four most recent attempts. Is five in a row pushing her luck? Today's H/H question: "Howdy _______ " (My first thought was that this is super easy - I can only think of the one answer: Doody.) Brett smiles immediately and begins to write. She files her answer in record time (for her) without the slightest agitation or hesitation. "Please be Doody, Brett!" says our champion. Brett looks slightly aghast, but in the past she's demonstrated fake-out talents that rival or surpass Richard's. Looking apologetic, she says, "You know, I started to write Doody..." (The contestant looks disappointed and turns away in defeat.) "... and I never changed my mind!" Brett scores her 24th H/H match today! ~~~This week saw only 4 H/H matches (the contestant struck out with the audience match on Thursday). Even sadder, there were only two matches this week: Richard 1/3, Brett 1/1 Well, after two and a half weeks of only Richard, a new champion goes a different route and ends up winning 5 grand with Brett. (Incidentally, this is the first non-Richard win in the H/H since Clifton Davis scored one in 674.) Brett has been ahead of Richard in accuracy for a few weeks now (the two of them have traded places 6 or 7 times over the course of the show), but today Brett widens her lead to 2.4 percentage points. Richard won't easily catch her by matching - the only realistic way for him to retake the lead now is if Brett has a string of bad luck in future head-to-head matches. Oh, and with Brett's attempt today, she and Charles together have now played in exactly 100 H/H matches! But in that regard, Richard has them beat by a country mile - 402 attempts! Looking at the rest of the panel, Betty and Orson finish the week where they started, at 50% and 100%, respectively. Based on 34 attempts, I think Betty's track record is fairly indicative, but Orson has only played 4 times, so it's hard to judge his rating. Let's not forget Charles who hasn't played since 631 (he matched then). His accuracy stands at 47.7% (well above Brett's and Richard's), and it's based on 44 attempts, so that's plenty of data. I think it's a shame he isn't called on more often. Finally, of course, Pat Delany ends her one and only Match Game week without playing the H/H. ~~~Looking ahead to next week, our three regulars will be joined by: --Semi-regular Fannie Flagg, back after a single week's absence. This will make 3 out of 4 weeks she's been on the panel. She is #4 on the list of most-frequent MG panelists (at 90 weeks) after all, with only our three regulars appearing more frequently. --Bill Cullen, returning for his third week (of 5). It's been a while for Bill - his last appearance was way back in episodes 176-180. He's been chosen for the head-to-head once, but didn't match. --Finally, we have another "one-and-done" guest panelist in the fourth seat: Janice Pennington. ~~~Here's the updated 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 - 52.6% (10 wins in 19 attempts). Betty - 50% (17 wins in 34 attempts). Charles - 47.7% (21 wins in 44 attempts). Jo Ann Pflug - 44.4% (8 wins in 18 attempts). Brett - 42.9% (24 wins in 56 attempts). Richard - 40.5% (163 wins in 402 attempts). Bert Convy - 33.3% (5 wins in 15 attempts). *These stats include every head-to-head match from episode 1 through 690, excluding the lost/missing/damaged episodes: 31, 32, 33, 311, 312, 313, 324, 325, and 645. (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!")
Slow week again but Brett managed to wrestle the title away from Richard this week to win for the regulars giving away 6,000 dollars in head to head and audience match matches with 9 matches. Orson and Betty tied this week for the semi regulars with 7 matches each. Richard still managed to give away 3,250 dollars in head to head and audience match matches himself..
Brett Somers was so damn annoying. She had to make her voice be known at all times. And "Whos that? Whos he? Whos she? Did she live under a rock or what?
@@mlchc9004 An inside joke she did with Gene on the show. Talking about going there for a good time after/before the show etc. Some fun banter between them.
2:56 Five years earlier, Warren Oates had starred in _Two Lane Blacktop_ alongside James Taylor and Dennis Wilson. It’s a really unique film that has become more popular as a cult classic in the years since, which is perhaps why Gene had never heard of Oates. I’d recommend it to anyone who digs 70s existential cinema and enjoys seeing what America looked like in that time period.
I keep reading that Brett just plays stupid, but after questioning why the wife made 2 meatloafs... And she repeatedly talks over Gene when he's initially asking the question, like she did with the meatloaf one. SOMEBODY liked her. 🙄
NO... EPISODES ENDING IN 0 or 1... ARE A.M. TAPINGS... LAST 3 ON THE DAY ARE AFTER HAPPY HOUR AND STARS ARE BRINGING VODKA ON THEIR OWN... PILLS WERE EVERYWHERE FROM 73 TO ABOUT 77.. BY 79 THE GAME SHOW INDUSTRY COLLAPSED INTO RERUNS FOR NEARLY A DECADE
@@billwheeler7243 That's almost right, and easy to verify by referring to the episode guide at the Goodson Todman fandom site. The counting of episodes starts with 1 so a single day's filming would go 1-5, then 6-10, 11-15 , 16-20, etc. So the 0's are never the first episode filmed on a given day; they are always the last. There was a meal break, usually after 2nd or 3rd episode filmed, depending on what time they got started. The episodes ending in 4, 5, 9, and 0 are often (but not always) pretty raucous. In this episode Gene seems really hopped up. I can't really speak to the pills assertion, but yes by all accounts some drinking went on. Not everyone participated in the revelry. Dawson did not drink at all. I thought Rayburn didn't either, but I've read differing accounts of that.
@@billwheeler7243 Well they are about a month advance of air date right now, these didn't air for another month. No, I would dare say that FF was hitting it high peak in 79 to 85. TPIS was going strong.. Wheel Of Fortune. Classic Concetration, Scrabble, Win. Lose Or Draw to name a few were going strong in the 80's. I wouldn't say the industry collapsed into reruns in the 80's. I could be wrong but all those were 1, 2,3 in daytime at one point or another. TPIS had the #1 spot with Wheel at #2...
@@Observer-jw8wv I thought so too, especially after getting Hep in the 50's and he also told Brett in ep 702 that he didn't because of a rotten liver but I have reading differing accounts as well. And he had sleeping problems but I don't know anymore.. ;0)
@@sdlively27 Hepatitis is bad news. He seemed like a nice, level-headed man, in any case. The suggestion that Gene and Richard were part of the Hollywood pill-popping scene just bugs me, especially since it is thrown around with no evidence. Gene was never PART of that scene -- his career began in NY and he never moved to Hollywood and preferred to live in Massachusetts. Richard stayed out of the party scene too. He was by all accounts a homebody. There are no photos or news accounts from the 60s and 70s of him partying or drinking or carousing. He worked hard and went home to his sons.
7:58 and 8:13 I can read Richard’s mind the way he is looking at Sue Sobel - 💭 she’s single she’s gorgeous and she’s a twin! 💭 double your pleasure double your fun 😜
In Ohio we have a high school Warren Harding their football team is usually powerful I'm glad Tommy won his kicks were great
"Be careful -- he kicks!" Very funny line for Gene.
The look on Betty's face made it look like she was reading some of the questions from yesterday's show....
"Beat-tee"? I thought it was prounounced "Bay-tee"...
@@edwardlozano8807 Of course you're right. But looking at the name, before he was wildly famous, you might reasonably say "Battey." And then Gene and the contestant get it right.
I thought of book ends for the meatloaf question.
Me too!!! It’s the right shape
Another very funny episode. Thanks for sharing.
Irwin Alan had the cheesiest shows on TV, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, Land of the Giants, Time Tunnel, etc.
Don't forget about his movies. Some would say they were "cheesy", but I loved The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno just to name a couple. The special effects for his movies were ahead of their time. He certainly was a prolific producer. 🤔🤔
Today it would be Warren Buffett
Warren Burger was actually the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
He was still on the Supreme Court (as chief justice!) at the time of this show. (And until 1986.)
He was the first one I thought of, but after Brett said Warren Beatty, I knew that's what I would have gone for.
For the first time in all the episodes I’ve watched of Match Game, Brett really got on my nerves in this one. I just wanted to turn around and say shut up. She really was obnoxious in this episode and I’m a fan of hers for the most part. RIP..
What made it worse than other times?
@@pencils812 haha yup She won’t stop talking! She’s got diarrhea of the mouth
Tommy was a memorable player, he was quite charming 😀
Missed Warren Spahn
And Warren Buffett
Is that the same Tommy Simmons who later was on Face The Music and later Name That Tune?
The very same one. And Tommy won $100,000 on Name That Tune in 1984...but the tabloid news show A Current Affair in 1989 reported he was declared ineligible.
@@NEPatriot Why was that? And, what took them 5 years to figure that out?
@@magikexpert NTT had a rule it seemed back in the day where if you were part of SAG or AFTRA, two noted actors' unions, you couldn't be on the show.
Tommy was a great, enthusiastic contestant. And Gene shouldn't have surprised about all of the kicks, the guy was a three-sport coach! Obviously in good shape for a middle-aged man.
Tommy is a very engaging player.
Tommy passed away in July of 2020
End-of-week H/H match recap:
...
~~~Today's action:
The latest in a growing string of one-time champions was defeated in the closing moments of yesterday's program. We start today's show with our brand-new champion in center stage, ready to win some big money.
Today's audience match question: "Warren _______ " (I'll pass because names are harder to guess or remember after nearly 50 years.)
The celebs: Brett (Beatty), Pat (Oates), and Richard (Harding)
The choice: Beatty
The answers: Burger, Harding, Beatty
Alright, our new champ starts off with a $500 audience match win. When he was calling on celebs, he said he matches Brett a lot when he watches at home, so I wonder if that will carry on to the H/H match? Or will Richard extend his string of 13 consecutive times playing for the big money?
I love it! He picks Brett! I do enjoy seeing her get all verklempt! Quick review: Brett hasn't played the H/H match since 665 (which she matched). In fact, she's matched every one of her four most recent attempts. Is five in a row pushing her luck?
Today's H/H question: "Howdy _______ "
(My first thought was that this is super easy - I can only think of the one answer: Doody.)
Brett smiles immediately and begins to write. She files her answer in record time (for her) without the slightest agitation or hesitation.
"Please be Doody, Brett!" says our champion.
Brett looks slightly aghast, but in the past she's demonstrated fake-out talents that rival or surpass Richard's. Looking apologetic, she says, "You know, I started to write Doody..." (The contestant looks disappointed and turns away in defeat.) "... and I never changed my mind!"
Brett scores her 24th H/H match today!
~~~This week saw only 4 H/H matches (the contestant struck out with the audience match on Thursday). Even sadder, there were only two matches this week: Richard 1/3, Brett 1/1
Well, after two and a half weeks of only Richard, a new champion goes a different route and ends up winning 5 grand with Brett. (Incidentally, this is the first non-Richard win in the H/H since Clifton Davis scored one in 674.) Brett has been ahead of Richard in accuracy for a few weeks now (the two of them have traded places 6 or 7 times over the course of the show), but today Brett widens her lead to 2.4 percentage points. Richard won't easily catch her by matching - the only realistic way for him to retake the lead now is if Brett has a string of bad luck in future head-to-head matches.
Oh, and with Brett's attempt today, she and Charles together have now played in exactly 100 H/H matches! But in that regard, Richard has them beat by a country mile - 402 attempts!
Looking at the rest of the panel, Betty and Orson finish the week where they started, at 50% and 100%, respectively. Based on 34 attempts, I think Betty's track record is fairly indicative, but Orson has only played 4 times, so it's hard to judge his rating. Let's not forget Charles who hasn't played since 631 (he matched then). His accuracy stands at 47.7% (well above Brett's and Richard's), and it's based on 44 attempts, so that's plenty of data. I think it's a shame he isn't called on more often.
Finally, of course, Pat Delany ends her one and only Match Game week without playing the H/H.
~~~Looking ahead to next week, our three regulars will be joined by:
--Semi-regular Fannie Flagg, back after a single week's absence. This will make 3 out of 4 weeks she's been on the panel. She is #4 on the list of most-frequent MG panelists (at 90 weeks) after all, with only our three regulars appearing more frequently.
--Bill Cullen, returning for his third week (of 5). It's been a while for Bill - his last appearance was way back in episodes 176-180. He's been chosen for the head-to-head once, but didn't match.
--Finally, we have another "one-and-done" guest panelist in the fourth seat: Janice Pennington.
~~~Here's the updated 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 - 52.6% (10 wins in 19 attempts).
Betty - 50% (17 wins in 34 attempts).
Charles - 47.7% (21 wins in 44 attempts).
Jo Ann Pflug - 44.4% (8 wins in 18 attempts).
Brett - 42.9% (24 wins in 56 attempts).
Richard - 40.5% (163 wins in 402 attempts).
Bert Convy - 33.3% (5 wins in 15 attempts).
*These stats include every head-to-head match from episode 1 through 690, excluding the lost/missing/damaged episodes: 31, 32, 33, 311, 312, 313, 324, 325, and 645. (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!")
Some lack of common sense by some I noticed 😂
Brett really had diarrhea of the mouth on this one . Jeez
I was surprised Warren Commission didn't come up. 🤷♂️
Slow week again but Brett managed to wrestle the title away from Richard this week to win for the regulars giving away 6,000 dollars in head to head and audience match matches with 9 matches. Orson and Betty tied this week for the semi regulars with 7 matches each. Richard still managed to give away 3,250 dollars in head to head and audience match matches himself..
Gene wearing moss green.
He wore thar suit fairly often.
The blond was a little fluffy.
Janice Pennington was the 1971 Playboy Centrefold
Betty White outshined them all
RIP. One more MG alum has left us.
Betty remains a treasure
Brett Somers was so damn annoying. She had to make her voice be known at all times. And "Whos that? Whos he? Whos she? Did she live under a rock or what?
Part of her persona on this show, just like they always joke around about the motel in Encino.
@@MooncricketsInc what’s the deal with Brett & Gene & Encino?
@@mlchc9004
An inside joke she did with Gene on the show. Talking about going there for a good time after/before the show etc.
Some fun banter between them.
Well, to be fair, it was Gene who asked "Who?" (3:09) when Pat said "Oates," and it was Gene who asked Ira "what" Warren Burger was...
2:56 Five years earlier, Warren Oates had starred in _Two Lane Blacktop_ alongside James Taylor and Dennis Wilson. It’s a really unique film that has become more popular as a cult classic in the years since, which is perhaps why Gene had never heard of Oates. I’d recommend it to anyone who digs 70s existential cinema and enjoys seeing what America looked like in that time period.
Great movie.
I love Gene's suit! 😊
6:50 shades of Ron Santo
Where is the Ballet Pregnant?
Gene Rugburn
Lol
I keep reading that Brett just plays stupid, but after questioning why the wife made 2 meatloafs... And she repeatedly talks over Gene when he's initially asking the question, like she did with the meatloaf one. SOMEBODY liked her. 🙄
Brett's mama must've liked her at on point. There haven't been many admirers since.
Pat Delany living up to her hair color. Yikes.
Oh, my God. Gene is wasted at the start of this episode.
NO... EPISODES ENDING IN 0 or 1... ARE A.M. TAPINGS... LAST 3 ON THE DAY ARE AFTER HAPPY HOUR AND STARS ARE BRINGING VODKA ON THEIR OWN...
PILLS WERE EVERYWHERE FROM 73 TO ABOUT 77.. BY 79 THE GAME SHOW INDUSTRY COLLAPSED INTO RERUNS FOR NEARLY A DECADE
@@billwheeler7243 That's almost right, and easy to verify by referring to the episode guide at the Goodson Todman fandom site. The counting of episodes starts with 1 so a single day's filming would go 1-5, then 6-10, 11-15 , 16-20, etc. So the 0's are never the first episode filmed on a given day; they are always the last. There was a meal break, usually after 2nd or 3rd episode filmed, depending on what time they got started. The episodes ending in 4, 5, 9, and 0 are often (but not always) pretty raucous. In this episode Gene seems really hopped up. I can't really speak to the pills assertion, but yes by all accounts some drinking went on. Not everyone participated in the revelry. Dawson did not drink at all. I thought Rayburn didn't either, but I've read differing accounts of that.
@@billwheeler7243 Well they are about a month advance of air date right now, these didn't air for another month. No, I would dare say that FF was hitting it high peak in 79 to 85. TPIS was going strong.. Wheel Of Fortune. Classic Concetration, Scrabble, Win. Lose Or Draw to name a few were going strong in the 80's. I wouldn't say the industry collapsed into reruns in the 80's. I could be wrong but all those were 1, 2,3 in daytime at one point or another. TPIS had the #1 spot with Wheel at #2...
@@Observer-jw8wv I thought so too, especially after getting Hep in the 50's and he also told Brett in ep 702 that he didn't because of a rotten liver but I have reading differing accounts as well. And he had sleeping problems but I don't know anymore.. ;0)
@@sdlively27 Hepatitis is bad news. He seemed like a nice, level-headed man, in any case. The suggestion that Gene and Richard were part of the Hollywood pill-popping scene just bugs me, especially since it is thrown around with no evidence. Gene was never PART of that scene -- his career began in NY and he never moved to Hollywood and preferred to live in Massachusetts. Richard stayed out of the party scene too. He was by all accounts a homebody. There are no photos or news accounts from the 60s and 70s of him partying or drinking or carousing. He worked hard and went home to his sons.
Creepy Richard letching over the contestants yet again.
@R he does have those dark, baggy eyes. Everyone says he didn't drink though.
I can't wait until I get up to Richard's last episode. I don't like him.
@@proud_brettsomersfanclub8687 no worries he didn't like you either. 🤬🤬🤬
That bothered you why??
@@garfield2439 why are you so triggered to defend lecherous behavior and have the audacity to speak for someone else?
Has anyone seen the episode that Betty is talking about at the end of the video at 2:50?
ua-cam.com/video/bEZkCnTKGW4/v-deo.html
No!