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Brett Somers (born Audrey Dawn Johnston; July 11, 1924 – September 15, 2007) was a Canadian-American game-show personality, actress, and singer.Somers was best known as a panelist on the 1970s game show Match Game and for her recurring role as Blanche Madison opposite her real-life husband, actor Jack Klugman, on ABC's The Odd Couple.
The Match Game consistently won its time slot from 1963 to 1966 and again from April 1967 to July 1968, with its ratings allowing it to finish third among all network daytime TV game shows for the 1963–64 and 1967–68 seasons (by the latter season, NBC was the dominant network in the game show genre, ABC was not as successful and CBS had ...
In 1979, she appeared as a contestant on the game show Match Game, [4] where she won both her games and went on to win $500 in her first Super Match and $5,500 in her second. [5] In 1980, Alley appeared on the game show Password Plus. On both game shows, she described her profession as interior designer.
Fannie Flagg (born Patricia Neal; September 21, 1944) [1] is an American actress, comedian, and author. She is best known as a semi-regular panelist on the 1973–1982 versions of the game show Match Game and for the 1987 novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, which she adapted into the script for the 1991 motion picture Fried Green Tomatoes.
She won several games over the four episodes in which she appeared, earning a total of $9,050. She came back to the show three years later as a celebrity panelist, becoming the only person to appear on the 1970s incarnation as both a contestant and a panelist (1979 contestant Kirstie Alley came back to the re-booted show as a panelist in 2019).
From 1972 to 1973, Deutsch was a regular cast member on the final season of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, where she worked with her future fellow Match Game panelist Richard Dawson. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] From 1973 to 1979, Deutsch was a recurring celebrity panelist on Match Game , and became a popular fixture in the number six seat.
Mobley also made occasional appearances on Match Game as one of the celebrity panelists from 1973 to 1977. She and her husband Gary Collins played Dr. and Mrs. Diller on The Love Boat S2 E6 "Ship of Ghouls" (1978). From 1984 to 1988, Mobley joined Collins in co-hosting the Pillsbury Bake-Off on CBS. [5]
Herself/Celebrity Player Episode: "Kevin Pollak vs. Niecy Nash" Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Debbie Holt Episode: "The Cruise" Masters of Sex: Louise Bell Recurring Cast: Season 4: As the Fire Pit Burns: Jennifer Bowen-Brown Main Cast 2016–19 Match Game: Herself/Celebrity Player Recurring Guest 2017 Drop the Mic: Herself