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echo: memories
to: JOE MACKEY
from: KURT WEISKE
date: 2020-12-16 07:58:00
subject: Re: Game shows

-=> JOE MACKEY wrote to DARYL STOUT <=-

 JM>   A few surviving original Match Game shows from the early '60s have
 JM> surfaced on You Tube.
 JM>   There were six guest panels, two teams of three men/three women, who
 JM> had to match other players answer, which was written on card, etc.
 JM> Gene Rayburn was the host.

 I'll have to look for those - were they black and white?

 My parents both worked when I was growing up, and I watched a lot of
 afternoon TV. I remember watching Match Game all the time, and
 wondering who the hell Charles Nelson Reilly and Rose Marie were,
 since I'd never seen them in anything else...

 JM>   One show from 1964 the panel were asked "Name some electric item
 JM>  found in the bedroom".

 JM>   The common answer was an electric blanket.
 JM>   In  the comments someone wrote:
 JM>   1964: Electric blanket.
 JM>   1974: A vibrator.

 Reminds me of the "Newlywed Game" when asked where is their favorite
 place to make "whoopie" (in the house). I'll leave the answer to the
 reader.


 >   All I can think of is the numerous deals from "Hollywood Squares",

 JM>   That show often had answers that somehow got past the censors.

 Host: "How many men in a professional hockey team?"

 Paul Lynde, snickering: "About half..."

 Circle gets the square!






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