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Gene Rayburn reprised his role as host of the Match Game and Super Match segments, while Jon Bauman hosted the Hollywood Squares segment. Gene Wood was the show's regular announcer with Johnny Olson and Rich Jeffries substituting during the run. The series was credited as a Mark Goodson Television Production.
Gene Rayburn (born Eugene Peter Jeljenic; [1] December 22, 1917 – November 29, 1999) was an American radio and television personality. ... Match Game PM, ...
Match Game PM's Super Match used two audience matches, with the answer values combined and multiplied by ten for the head-to-head match, with a maximum of $10,000 available. When the star wheel was introduced, that potential payout grew to $20,000 if a contestant spun a double. Match Game PM ran until the
The goal of the game was to identify a famous movie scene hidden behind a 3-by-3 puzzle board. Each puzzle piece included a movie-related question, identified by a category; the question often involved "fill-in-the-blank" movie quotes similar to Rayburn's previous game show Match Game. Correctly answering a question revealed that piece of the ...
Play Your Hunch was an American game show first hosted by Merv Griffin from 1958 to 1962 and then hosted by Gene Rayburn and finally by Robert Q. Lewis until 1963. [1] The announcers for the show were, respectively, Johnny Olson, Wayne Howell and Roger Tuttle. In 2001, Play Your Hunch was ranked #43 on TV Guide's "50 Greatest Game Shows of All ...
long before the 1973 Match Game revival (Carson hosted The Tonight Show from 1962 to 1992). However, there is another connection between Match Game and Tonight: Gene Rayburn was the announcer and sidekick of Steve Allen's Tonight Show (in the early 1950s), and, in fact, substituted for Johnny on several occasions in the 1960s.
Hollywood Squares was always played as the second (middle) segment of the show, and featured the winner of the Match Game match played in the first half of the program playing O and the show's returning champion playing X, regardless of the player's genders (all other versions had women playing O and men playing X with exceptions, as noted above).
The daytime show was unaffected, and host Gene Rayburn suffered no damage to his career. After Tic-Tac-Dough , he went to Goodson-Todman, where on December 31, 1962, he began the first of his hosting assignments of The Match Game .