Match Game Sign Change: 76 to 77 part Two!!!

[masoudfun1996]

At the end, someone REALLY messed up on the credit roll.

[oldertvshowswerebetr]

This is Studio 33, same as TPIR, now known as the Bob Barker Studio. Anybody know why they have the back part of the audience walled off, which they never did for TPIR?

[tpir1972]

Little did he know Family Feud WOULD move to CBS in 1988 with Ray Combs whom Richard hated.

[TheSegacampGamer]

R.I.P. Gene Rayburn you were a Awesome Game Show Host to an Awesome Game Show!

[spacecowboy5000]

Joey Bishop. Haven't seen him in forever! Funny guy.

[dtiman]

Thanks for posting this! I saw it when it was new and have never seen it since! Never lucky enough to catch it on GSN. I was in 4th grade at the time, and for some reason it has stuck with me.

[tpir1972]

Maerk mentions Family Feud on CBS that show wouldn't be on CBS for 11 years.

[heine71]

Maybe Match Game should be revived for 2012 and have it at Universal Orlando.

[tpir1972]

RIP Mark Goodson and Bill Todman, we miss you and all your game show buddies miss you, but Ray and Bert and Gene, and others who worked with you are with you.

[msu2k9]

@mrmatchgame: I really don't understand why you didn't clarify point B. of your introductory paragraph. A.) is by no means true, Match Game '90 and Match Game '98 were both fine shows, and the '90 series ended in 1991, not 1992, the year Goodson died. B.), well, if you're referring to Match Game '98 you're right, as it ended (I believe) in the fall of 1999, and Gene died in November of 1999.

[DENo1MatchGameFan]

@msu2k9 "Match Game '98" was a piece of ____ that should have never made it to the air - it made a black eye in the legacy of both "Match Game" and Mark Goodson himself!

[jemerson722]

@DENo1MatchGameFan: If I revealed that answer, the answered would be censored with a big "OOPS".

[DENo1MatchGameFan]

@jemerson722 It would have been the truth though!

[nextbarker]

Just wondering did Bill Todman ever make an appearance it seems like it was always Mark Goodson.

[yaggy9]

best game show ever produced

[smittykins]

Sounds like Gene is saying, "Match Game Seventy=SEV-OHN."

[iluvHN42]

Happy 1977! =P

[BuddyNovinski]

Isn't it ironic that Mark Goodson says that he would need a new MC in 1999, and Gene Rayburn died in 1999? "When it gets to be Match Game 99, I'll need a new BLANK."

[bluebear1985]

That's also when the last (really crappy) incarnation of Match Game ended.

[bigweezey]

thats right his name was george fredricks

[AarHan3]

The year of Match Game I remember most!! '77!! :-)

[animegal2686]

It sounds like he's saying Iris Kutch instead of Ira Skutch.

[nextbarker]

Mark Goodson made many appearance did Bill Todman ever make any appearances?

[mrmatchgame]

Not on Match Game but did appear on What's My Line and To Tell The Truth when they had food one day.

[ejchiefsfan]

This was the episode where the Goody-Toddy Bird appeared, right?

[mhmrules]

It most certainly was.

[tomwaterwitch]

I have you all beat I was born on Nov 7, 1976 I was only two months old! :) My wife was born in Dec 17th 1978 and I showed that funny christmas epi that would of came out a week after she was born :)

[gshowguy]

Man... I wonder what would've happened if Syd Vinnedge had been involved instead of Mark Goodson. :-)

[lugnuts6]

Sadly the End titles suffered a new years whiplash ..lol

[cdcnyy]

Rayburn died in 1999.

[newman20072008]

happy new year im 31 years late lol

[denny906]

What year did the show move to Los Angeles?

[mrmatchgame]

Most Shows moved in the late 60's to LA. The show was made in 73 in L.A.

[brobinson75]

Nice, I was 1 1/2 at New Year's '77. :)

[wisegirl]

Mark Goodson looked like he was a nice boss.

[the69chevykid]

Plus he didn't seem to age that much from then until his death in '92.

[SignOffsGuy]

WOW! I most certainly DO remember seeing this particular episode as a kid in junior high school! Thanks!

[TheKid965]

Here's yet another way this is kinda sad: This is the last sign-change episode to feature the whole Match Game "gang" of Gene, Brett, CNR, and Richard. (Brett would be off doing theater work during the '77-'78 switch, and of course Richard was gone by the end of '78.)

[heine71]

Some GSN airings of the New Years Eve 1976 Match Game 1976 episode did not air this last segment.

[DENo1MatchGameFan]

They damn sure wouldn't do with now with their 'lovely' credit crunches!

[reddropdrop]

I love Charles and Richard so much!!!!!

[gcd134]

OMG, you're right that Gene died in '99. They unwittingly predicted Gene's death. That's chilling.

[prausch65]

T One of the all time great game shows, they handle New Years with so much charisma.

[FeudFan76]

I have seen most of the sign changes except for when 75 became 76 and when 78 became 79. Do you have those that you could upload?

[bluebear1985]

mrmatchgame, there is also a third count by which this is sad. Mark Goodson died in 1992, seven years before the question, so to speak.

[drewshi]

"He works on another show with me called Family Feud."

Boy, Richard Dawson really looked like he was in pain being there by then.

[ryanschroer]

No, he still looks like he was enjoying himself.

[ericandy88]

@ryanschroer Exactly. Even in '78 right before the Wheel came, he was alive & into it, though I would probably give him the fact he might have been tired of shuttling between two shows. Still, the claws had not come out just yet.

[crinos43]

Problem is that I'm pretty sure at this point the Star Wheel was being used. Richard did not enjoy that very much as it means that he was not being picked as much for the Final Match.

[DENo1MatchGameFan]

@crinos43 The Star Wheel didn't come until 1978.

[mjen1952]

The egg didn't hatch! Also can you upload more of the Match Game Sign Change?

[crinos43]

Mark Goodson. The greatest producer in television.

[TerryT1976]

AMEN to that!

[Macduck92]

Amen

[landrykkb]

Not to mention that Richard Dawson and Mark Goodson had so much legitimate hatred towards each other at the end of it that he had Mark Goodson barred from the Family Feud set.

[crinos43]

@landrykkb Couldn't Goodson have then just FIRED Richard?

[landrykkb]

You would think,but Family Feud was such a rating's winner and money grab that firing Richard Dawson was easier said than done.Instead,when Family Feud got canceled in 1985 and renewed in 1988,Mark Goodson vowed that Richard Dawson would never work for him ever agsain until his death and sure enough,Mark Goodson died in 1992.