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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.
Match Game is an American television panel game show that premiered on NBC in 1962 and has been revived several times over the course of the last six decades. The game features contestants trying to match answers given by celebrity panelists to fill-in-the-blank questions.
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.
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
From 1973 to 1977, Match Game was number one among all daytime network game shows—three of those years it was the highest rated of all daytime shows. The daytime revival of Match Game , which featured regular panelists Richard Dawson , Brett Somers , and Charles Nelson Reilly , ran until 1979 on CBS and another three years in first-run ...
1973–1981: Match Game: Himself: Game Show Participant / Celebrity Guest Star 1975: Cher: Lt. Colonel Henry Blake: Episode: "#8.22" 1975: The McLean Stevenson Show — NBC variety show special, 1 episode 1976–1977: The McLean Stevenson Show: Mac Ferguson: 12 episodes 1978: In the Beginning: Father Daniel M. Cleary: 9 episodes 1979–1980 ...
Pflug was a frequent panelist on the television game show Match Game from 1973 until 1981, [9] a co-host with Allen Funt on the 1970s version of Candid Camera, and a regular in the TV series The Fall Guy for the 1981–1982 season. [8] In 1984, she was the first actress to play Taylor Chapin in the syndicated soap opera Rituals.
Richard Dawson (born Colin Lionel Emm; 20 November 1932 – 2 June 2012) was an English-American actor, comedian, game-show host, and panelist in the United States. Dawson was well known for playing Corporal Peter Newkirk in Hogan's Heroes, as a regular panelist on Match Game (1973–1978), and as the original host of Family Feud (1976–1985, 1994–95).