Kurt wrote --

>  JM>   A few surviving original Match Game shows from the early '60s have surfaced on You Tube.

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

  1962 pilot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9naJkO5gVA
  1964 show:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQbz1wi-VV4
  1975 and onward shows:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj5ZS2n9Vs0&list=PLCnvmZ8KpyOqNzOzrqXUGnNT4byRfW3ev&index=1&ab_channel=MatchGameProductions
  Few shows, in general, of any taped programs, from that era were saved. 
Videotape was expensive and reused many times.  After all, who wants to
watch a game show a second time was the thinking.
  This is what happened to almost all the Tonight Show programs. as an
example, with Jack Paar and later Johnny Carson.

>  wondering who the hell Charles Nelson Reilly and Rose Marie were,

  Reilly was mostly a stage actor.
  Rose Marie had a long life in show business, over 90 years.
  She started out at around five or six as "Baby Rose Marie" who could
really belt out a song.  She moved from vaudeville to radio and at one time was
the youngest person on radio with their own show.
  She eventually went to night clubs, appearing on tv a few times, but
mainly remembered as Sally, on the Dick Van Dyke show.
  She started doing game/panel shows since the work was easy and the money
was good.  She died a couple of years ago in her mid 90s.
  Betty White was another popular panelist on various shows and also has a
long history in show business.
  She was one of the first women who had her own show, "Life with
Elizabeth" in the early '50s. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1NsEkPmXqc&list=PL_fJ-yi54T0o2yAE7t4JKYqBobKYl1f8U&ab_channel=TheFilmDetective
  These were a half hour program, with two 15 minute domestic playettes.
  In the late '50s she was in a half hour sitcom, A Date with the Angels,
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4-et1jbq1g&list=PLeagipoZmyfnMv01VD9v38q0Ik4wC4Rvh&ab_channel=PizzaFlix)
which IMHO was far better than than the other.  
  She bounced around game/panel shows, often on husband Allan Ludden's
Password, and was The Happy Homemaker on the Mary Tyler Moore show.
   She had another short lived series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxzGSwV4OMo&list=PLKiPEmIz-2gv8ecLp1iNNYT0qYBpN9I5q&ab_channel=froomee in the
late '70s.
   Then she was on Golden Girls.
   I've probably told you more than you cared to know.  :)
   Joe
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