| rdfs:comment | - Match Game was a game show where contestants attempted to match fill-in-the-blank answers to questions posed to . The show became known for its bawdy humor from the six celebrity panelists, which often included regulars such as Richard Dawson, Charles Nelson Reilly, and Brett Somers. Many incarnations of Match Game have been on the air since 1962, with Gene Rayburn hosting the first five versions of the show. Other hosts include Ross Shafer (1990-1991), Michael Burger (1998-1999) and Alec Baldwin (2016-present).
- Match Game is a game once hosted by Gene Rayburn. In Match Game, players try to match their answers with the answers celebrities give. Match Game usually comes on during the late night hours on the Oxygen network, but has spread to other networks, like FOX and Adult Swim (on Cartoon Network). It is similar to Family Feud in its provocativeness, and in its inclusion of Richard Dawson.
- The Match Game is a special gameshow- type segment that occasionally takes place on the OLR Sunday Show. It is based on the popular game show of the same name. The object of the game, is the contestants are presented with a question with a 'blank' at the end and it's up to the listeners to try and fill in the blank, while also matching what the celebrity guests had answered the question with. The contestant with the most points at the end wins!
- (The) Match Game ('73-'79/PM) is the long-running game show where celebrities match contestants and vice versa, simply by filling in the blanks. If the contestants do it very well, they win lots of money.
- The Match Game began in the 1960s on NBC as a simple parlor game: Host Gene Rayburn read questions such as "Name one of Columbus' three ships." Two teams, each consisting of two contestants and a celebrity captain, earned points by matching answers. This first series ended in 1969. It was featured on the penultimate episode of Gameshow Marathon in 2006, hosted by Ricki Lake, with an impressively detailed replica of the original set. Not related to Dream Match Game or Match Three Game.
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| abstract | - Match Game was a game show where contestants attempted to match fill-in-the-blank answers to questions posed to . The show became known for its bawdy humor from the six celebrity panelists, which often included regulars such as Richard Dawson, Charles Nelson Reilly, and Brett Somers. Many incarnations of Match Game have been on the air since 1962, with Gene Rayburn hosting the first five versions of the show. Other hosts include Ross Shafer (1990-1991), Michael Burger (1998-1999) and Alec Baldwin (2016-present).
- Match Game is a game once hosted by Gene Rayburn. In Match Game, players try to match their answers with the answers celebrities give. Match Game usually comes on during the late night hours on the Oxygen network, but has spread to other networks, like FOX and Adult Swim (on Cartoon Network). It is similar to Family Feud in its provocativeness, and in its inclusion of Richard Dawson.
- The Match Game is a special gameshow- type segment that occasionally takes place on the OLR Sunday Show. It is based on the popular game show of the same name. The object of the game, is the contestants are presented with a question with a 'blank' at the end and it's up to the listeners to try and fill in the blank, while also matching what the celebrity guests had answered the question with. The contestant with the most points at the end wins!
- (The) Match Game ('73-'79/PM) is the long-running game show where celebrities match contestants and vice versa, simply by filling in the blanks. If the contestants do it very well, they win lots of money.
- The Match Game began in the 1960s on NBC as a simple parlor game: Host Gene Rayburn read questions such as "Name one of Columbus' three ships." Two teams, each consisting of two contestants and a celebrity captain, earned points by matching answers. This first series ended in 1969. The format everyone remembers debuted on CBS in 1973, again with Rayburn as host. This time, two contestants tried to match answers with six panelists, including regulars Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly and Richard Dawson. By 1976 or so, the questions — and the stars' answers — featured Double Entendre and Unusual Euphemisms. Beginning in July, Dawson began hosting a new show over at ABC called Family Feud; subsequently, he became more and more bored with Match Game until finally leaving in 1978. Concurrently with the CBS series, Rayburn was the host of Match Game PM in Syndication until 1981. There were three revivals of the CBS format: The Match Game Hollywood Squares Hour on NBC with Gene Rayburn and Jon Bauman, a 1990-91 run on ABC with Ross Shafer and poor affiliate clearance, and a syndicated 1998-99 run with Michael Burger and only five panelists. None of the revivals lasted long. This show has become difficult to revive: In the 1970s, the panelists had to show some creativity to answer the dirty-sounding setup questions while still falling within the bounds of daytime television acceptability. By the 1990s, standards had relaxed enough that panelists would go ahead and give the obvious answer, which defeated the purpose and got boring very quickly. It was featured on the penultimate episode of Gameshow Marathon in 2006, hosted by Ricki Lake, with an impressively detailed replica of the original set. The British version was called Blankety Blank, hosted by Terry Wogan (1979-83) and Les Dawson (1984-90) during its original run on BBC1. It was resurrected in 1997, hosted by Lily Savage (aka Paul O'Grady) first on BBC1 (1997-99) and then ITV1 (2001-02). It also became Blankety Blanks in Australia when Graham Kennedy hosted a version of it on Network Ten from 1977-1978. Not related to Dream Match Game or Match Three Game.
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