101-552: 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. Beginning with the CBS run of the 1970s, the questions are often formed as humorous double entendres . The Match Game in its original version ran on NBC's daytime lineup from 1962 until 1969. The show returned with
202-448: A Broadway director, often responded with comments such as "I like it when you act" and "That character was really very good. Along with the other two that you do," to the amusement of the audience. In the second round, the contestants attempted to match the celebrities whom they had not matched in the first round. On the CBS version, the challenger always began the second round (unless that contestant had matched all six stars, in which case
303-467: A Clue since 1972, The News Quiz since 1977, My Word! from 1956 to 1988, and My Music from 1967 to 1994. The British version of What's My Line? may have been the first television panel show in the UK, with an original run from 1951 to 1963 and several remakes in later years. The word game Call My Bluff aired from 1965 to 2005, the charades show Give Us a Clue ran from 1979 to 1992, and
404-513: A Secret and To Tell the Truth . At times, they were among the top ten shows on U.S. television, and they continue to experience occasional revivals . All three Goodson-Todman primetime shows were cancelled by CBS in 1967 amid ratings declines and trouble attracting younger viewers, although the programs were consistently profitable by being among the cheapest television shows to produce. Their cancellations came as attention to demographics and
505-465: A Secret is about secrets ; To Tell the Truth , Would I Lie to You? and The Unbelievable Truth deal with lies ; and It Pays to Be Ignorant and I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue are parodies . Some panel shows are variations of classic parlor games. Twenty Questions is based on the parlor game of the same name, Give Us a Clue is modelled after charades , and Call My Bluff and Balderdash are based on fictionary . Frequently,
606-549: A brief break in 1974–75 when Gary Burghoff , Nipsey Russell , and Rip Taylor substituted for him. Burghoff and Russell continued to appear as semi-regular panelists afterward. Celebrity panelists appeared in week-long blocks, due to the show's production schedule. A number of celebrities, including Betty White , Dick Martin , Marcia Wallace , Bill Daily , Fannie Flagg , Elaine Joyce , Sarah Kennedy , Patti Deutsch , Mary Wickes , Bill Anderson , and Joyce Bulifant , were semi-regular panelists, usually appearing several times
707-400: A celebrity gave the censorable answer, the word "Oops!" was superimposed over the index card and the celebrity's mouth, accompanied by a slide whistle masking the spoken response. Popular questions featured a character named " Dumb Dora " or "Dumb Donald." These questions often began, "Dumb Dora/Donald is so dumb..." To this, in a routine taken from The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson ,
808-404: A chance to play the head-to-head match. Instead of simply choosing a celebrity, the contestant spun a wheel that was divided into six sections, each marked with a different celebrity's name. Once the wheel stopped, the contestant attempted to match with the indicated celebrity. If the wheel did not make at least one complete revolution, the contestant was required to spin again. The introduction of
909-546: A charades show on NHK General TV from 1953 to 1968; and 私の秘密 ("My Secret"), based on I've Got a Secret on NHK General TV from 1956 to 1967. Currently, a wide variety of Japanese variety shows are popular, and many of them feature owarai comedians, Japanese idols , and other celebrities playing games. Some games involve bizarre physical stunts. Brain Wall , adapted in English-speaking countries as Hole in
1010-405: A different one. Matching one of the three responses on the board awarded $ 500, $ 250, or $ 100 in descending order of popularity. If the contestant failed to match any of them, the round ended immediately and the contestant won nothing. The premise for Family Feud (which Dawson began hosting in 1976) was derived from the audience match. Two audience matches were played on Match Game PM , allowing
1111-400: A five-minute newscast slot. Since Olson split time between New York and Miami to announce The Jackie Gleason Show , one of the network's New York staff announcers (such as Don Pardo or Wayne Howell ) filled in for Olson when he could not attend a broadcast. On February 27, 1967, the show added a "telephone match" game, in which a home viewer and a studio audience member attempted to match
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#17327811899251212-515: A focus on younger viewers gained currency among advertisers. The departures of these three New York–based shows were also part of a mass migration of television production to Los Angeles, leaving only one primetime show produced on the East Coast. Later years saw several successes in the format, with Match Game ; The Hollywood Squares ; Win, Lose or Draw ; Celebrity Sweepstakes ; Password and Pyramid primarily running in
1313-405: A gadget. In 2011, the daily netcast program was refactored into a weekly netcast, therefore retitled "The Weekly Daily Giz Wiz." On July 24, 2012, "The Weekly Daily Giz Wiz," changed its day, format, and show title (again). Currently appearing on Thursdays, "The Giz Wiz" features DeBartolo and Chad "OMGChad" Johnson (or Leo Laporte before January 2014) sharing gadget reviews, a random gadget, and
1414-951: A linguistic game on ORTF and TF1 from 1969 to 1981; L'Académie des neuf ("The Academy of Nine"), based on Hollywood Squares on Antenne 2 from 1982 to 1987; Cluedo , based on the board game Cluedo/Clue on France 3 from 1994 to 1995; Burger Quiz on Canal + from 2001 to 2002; Incroyables Expériences ("Incredible Experiences"), about scientific experiments on France 2 and France 3 from 2008 to 2012; and Canapé quiz ("Sofa Quiz"), an adaptation of Hollywood Game Night on TMC in 2014. German panel shows include 7 Tage, 7 Köpfe ("7 Days, 7 Heads"), Genial daneben ("Idiot Savant"), Kopfball ("Headball"), Die Montagsmaler ("Pictionary"), Noch Besserwissen ("Even Better Knowledge"), Pssst … (similar to I've Got A Secret ), Die Pyramide (the German version of Pyramid ), Quizfire , Sag die Wahrheit ("Tell
1515-576: A local French language adaptation of Taskmaster . In 2014, Super Channel ordered 36 episodes of a panel show called Too Much Information . A revival of Match Game aired on The Comedy Network from 2012 to 2014, the news quiz Front Page Challenge aired on CBC Television from 1957 to 1995, and the charades show Party Game aired in syndication from 1970 to 1981. French panel shows include Vendredi tout est permis ("Friday, Everything Goes"), an improv game on TF1 since 2011. Earlier panel shows include Le Francophonissime ,
1616-546: A long-distance contributor; even writing questions for the Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour on NBC and the 1990 revival on ABC. Besides his experience on Match Game , DeBartolo served as creative consultant on other Goodson-Todman game shows, such as Tattletales and What's My Line . In 1971, he was able to induce Mad publisher William M. Gaines to appear on To Tell the Truth as himself. However, all four panelists failed to pick out
1717-462: A loose adaptation of BBC Radio 4 's The News Quiz . HIGNFY , as the show is sometimes known, began airing in 1990, and has been the most-viewed show of the night, regularly attracting as much as a 20% audience share . The show's success grew after its transfer from BBC Two to the flagship BBC One in 2000. After HIGNFY' s success, panel shows proliferated on British TV. Notable example include QI on various BBC channels since 2003, Mock
1818-507: A new question. On the CBS version, the tiebreaker went on until there was a clear winner. If it came to the sudden-death tiebreaker, only the final question (the one that ultimately broke the tie) was kept and aired. The CBS daytime version had returning champions, and the gameplay "straddled" between episodes, meaning episodes often began and ended with games in progress. In this version, champions stayed until they were defeated or had won $ 25,000, whichever occurred first. Originally, this amount
1919-410: A new sign was built each year. Coinciding with a redesign of the set, a new sign was built with interchangeable digits that could be swapped as the years changed. Additionally, this sign allowed for a "PM" logo to be attached for tapings of the syndicated program instead of using an entirely different sign. Charles Nelson Reilly swapped out the "78" portion of the sign and installed the new "79" on-air, to
2020-432: A number of similar familiar phrases, such as for "Baseball _____" (baseball game, baseball diamond, etc.). The contestant was instructed that his or her response must be an exact match, although singular/plural matches were usually accepted, whereas synonyms, derivatives, and partial word phrases were not. The panelist chosen most often by contestants to play the head-to-head match was Richard Dawson, who usually matched with
2121-428: A numeric-answer format, e.g., "we surveyed 50 women and asked them how much they should spend on a hat," a format similar to the one that was later used on Family Feud and Card Sharks ). Each contestant who agreed with the most popular answer to a question earned the team $ 50, for a possible total of $ 450. The questions used in the game were pedestrian in nature to begin: "Name a kind of muffin," "Write down one of
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#17327811899252222-522: A panel of celebrities, largely writers and intellectuals, but also actors and politicians. Listeners would mail in questions, winning prizes for stumping the panel. U.S. panel shows transferred to television early in the medium's history, with the first known example being Play the Game , a charades show that aired on DuMont and ABC beginning in 1946. The celebrity charades concept has been replicated numerous times since then. The most popular adaptation
2323-479: A panel show features recurring panelists or permanent team captains, and some panelists appear on multiple panel shows. Most shows are recorded before a studio audience. The first known example of a panel show in the world is the radio program Information Please , which debuted on 17 May 1938 on the NBC Blue Network . An evolution of the quiz show format, Information Please added the key element of
2424-525: A pick from the "Gadget Warehouse." A new segment, in connection with "Turn the Table Turkey," started on July 31, 2012, features "Crap We Found in Skymall," where the viewers vote on the gadget they want reviewed on the next week's show. This segment ended in mid-2013. DeBartolo appears as a monthly guest of Computer America , which is heard in over 30 markets including New York and Boston, as well as
2525-761: A podcast called The Daily Giz Wiz , a short, daily discussion about technology and gadgets appearing on TWiT.tv . Each episode features one gadget chosen by DeBartolo, except for Tuesdays, when Laporte chooses it (Turn the Tables Tuesday). Many times, the gadget is not a fancy mainstream one, but a weird, odd, or extremely simple device. For the Friday episodes, DeBartolo picks the gadget from his Gadget Warehouse, an actual storage facility in NYC he rents for keeping his old gadgets. For its 600th episode on June 27, 2008. DeBartolo traveled from NYC to Petaluma, California to do
2626-424: A question and each player privately wrote down their response, raising their hand when done. Then each player was asked individually to reveal their response. A team scored 25 points if two teammates matched answers or 50 points if all three contestants matched. The first team to score 100 points won $ 100 and played the audience match, which featured three survey questions (some of which, especially after 1963, featured
2727-417: A recurring panelist sat in for Somers or Reilly), and the female guest panelist of the week, Dawson (after 1978, a semi-regular male panelist), and a semi-regular female panelist (most frequently White, Flagg, Deutsch, Bulifant, or Wallace) occupied the bottom row. Two contestants competed on each episode. On the CBS version, the champion was seated in the upstage (red circle) seat and the challenger (opponent)
2828-453: A semi-annual celebrity quiz. There are many other games featuring celebrities within Japan's variety genre. Prime Minister Ōta is a show featuring many comedians and politicians debating fictional proposals in a sort of game show version of a legislative chamber. Dick DeBartolo Dick DeBartolo (born October 19, 1940) is an American writer, most famous for writing for Mad . He
2929-478: A significantly changed format in 1973 on CBS (also in daytime) and became a major success, with an expanded panel, larger cash payouts, and emphasis on humor. The CBS series, referred to on-air as Match Game 73 to start – with its title updated every new year, ran until 1979 on CBS, at which point it moved to first-run syndication (without the year attached to the title, as Match Game ) and ran for three more seasons, ending in 1982. Concurrently with
3030-418: A simple fill-in-the-blank question, similar to the 1970s' "head-to-head match." A successful match won a jackpot, which started at $ 500 and increased by $ 100 per day until won. Very few episodes of the 1960s The Match Game survive (see episode status below). In the early 1970s, CBS vice president Fred Silverman began overhauling the network's programming as part of what has colloquially become known as
3131-580: A streaming broadcast on the internet. He also has a periodic "gadget" segment on ABC World News Now . DeBartolo made over 100 appearances on Live with Regis and Kathie Lee , offering purchasing advice about various devices and products. On April 23, 2015, it was announced in Episode 1515 that The Giz Wiz would be leaving TWiT.tv and continuing the show solo with Chad "OMGChad" Johnson, utilizing Patreon for funding. On August 23, 2012, DeBartolo married his partner of 32 years, Dennis Wunderlin. DeBartolo
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3232-453: A weekly prime time edition on June 26, 2016, running as an off-season replacement series, all using the 1970s format as their basis, with varying modifications. The series was a production of Mark Goodson/Bill Todman Productions , along with its successor companies, and has been franchised around the world, sometimes under the name Blankety Blanks . In 2013, TV Guide ranked the 1973–79 CBS version of Match Game as No. 4 on its list of
3333-432: A year. Celebrity panelists also included personalities from other Goodson–Todman-produced game shows, such as The Price Is Right ' s Bob Barker , Anitra Ford , Janice Pennington , and Holly Hallstrom and Password ' s Allen Ludden . The panelists were all seated in a strict order: The male guest panelist of the week, Somers, and Reilly usually sat in the top row from the viewer's left to right (occasionally
3434-477: Is Play the Game , a charades show in 1946. The modern trend of comedy panel shows can find early roots with Stop Me If You've Heard This One in 1939 and Can You Top This? in 1940. While panel shows were more popular in the past in the U.S., they are still very common in the United Kingdom . While many early panel shows stuck to the traditional quiz show format in which celebrities tried to get
3535-489: Is occasionally referred to as " Mad 's Maddest Writer", this being a twist on Don Martin 's former status as " Mad 's Maddest Artist". DeBartolo served as the magazine's "Creative Consultant" from 1984 to 2009. He is also known for his work on Match Game in the 1960s and 1970s. Mad long spaced out DeBartolo's articles to ensure that at least one appeared in every issue. From 1966 to 2019, new DeBartolo material appeared in 459 consecutive issues, dating back to 1966. This
3636-434: Is the second longest such streak behind only Sergio Aragonés (whose streak is active). DeBartolo has written well over 250 television or film parodies for the magazine, easily the most by any Mad writer. DeBartolo recounted his first-ever experience submitting material to Mad in 1961: DeBartolo was also a writer for several TV game shows, beginning with Barry-Enright before moving on to Goodson-Todman . DeBartolo
3737-453: The rural purge . As part of this overhaul, the network reintroduced game shows, beginning in 1972. One of the first new offerings was The New Price Is Right , a radically overhauled version of the 1950s game show The Price Is Right . The success of The New Price Is Right prompted Silverman to commission more game shows. In the summer of 1973, Mark Goodson and Bill Todman took a similar approach in adapting The Match Game by reworking
3838-542: The 1960s Match Game , contributed broader and saucier questions. Frequently, the statements were written with bawdy, double entendre answers in mind. One example was, "Did you catch a glimpse of that girl on the corner? She has the world's biggest [blank]." Frequently, the audience responded appropriately as Rayburn critiqued the contestant's answer. For the "world's biggest" question, Rayburn might show disdain to an answer such as "fingers" or "bag" and compliment an answer such as "rear end" or "boobs", often also commenting on
3939-457: 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 mostly dropped out of the genre). NBC also occasionally used special episodes of the series as a gap-filling program in prime time if one of its movies had an irregular time slot. Although the series still did well in the ratings (despite the popularity of ABC's horror-themed soap opera Dark Shadows ), it
4040-529: The 60 greatest game shows ever. It was twice nominated for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Game Show , in 1976 and 1977 . Since 2010, Match Game has been parodied by drag artist RuPaul in the reality competition series RuPaul's Drag Race , as " Snatch Game " - A regular challenge in the series where the contestants each impersonate a different celebrity for comedic effect. The Match Game premiered on December 31, 1962. Gene Rayburn
4141-490: The 600th show with Laporte on TWiT Live Archived 2011-09-15 at the Wayback Machine ; the gadget was "Fred Lanes" third hand. A shorter, weekly version of "The Daily Giz Wiz" had formerly appeared on Laporte's syndicated radio show The Tech Guy , but was discontinued after a radio network request to make way for more live callers. But, as of mid-2010, DeBartolo comes on Laporte's radio show on Saturday to discuss
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4242-466: The Horn as part of its daytime block of sports news and discussion shows. While presented as being a roundtable debate show , the series does contain some game show-like elements; the panel of sports journalists earn points from the host based on the strength of their points and arguments in specific topics (and may also mute panelists, if needed), with the lowest scorers eliminated at points throughout
4343-510: The NBC incarnation. Within three months, Match Game '73 was the most-watched program on daytime television. By summer 1974, it grew into an absolute phenomenon with high school students and housewives, scoring remarkable ratings among the 12–34 age demographic. The best ratings this version of Match Game saw were in the 1975–76 season when it drew a 12.5 rating with a 35 share, higher numbers than that of some prime-time series. It surpassed records as
4444-486: The Star Wheel ended what effectively was Dawson's "spotlight" feature on the show, which distressed him further, and he left the panel of Match Game permanently a few weeks later. The subsequent 1990–91 version of the show used a redesigned version of the star wheel. The wheel itself was stationary, and the contestant spun the pointer on a concentric ring to determine which celebrity he or she had to match. The prize
4545-552: The Truth", the German version of To Tell the Truth ), Typisch Frau – Typisch Mann ("Typical Woman – Typical Man"), Was bin ich? ("What am I?", the German version of What's My Line? ) and Was denkt Deutschland? ("What Does Germany Think?"). Early Japanese panel shows include 話の泉 ("Source of the Story"), based on Information Please on NHK Radio 1 from 1946 to 1964; 二十の扉 ("Twenty Doors"), based on Twenty Questions on NHK Radio 1 from 1947 to 1960; ジェスチャー ("Gestures"),
4646-753: The United Kingdom, where they have found continued success since the BBC adapted its first radio panel shows from classic parlor games. Perhaps the earliest UK panel show is the BBC radio adaptation of Twenty Questions , which debuted on 28 February 1947. Panel shows can have decades-long runs in the UK: Twenty Questions lasted until 1976, while Just a Minute has remained on the air, and had Nicholas Parsons as host from 1967 until 2019. Other long-running games on radio include I'm Sorry I Haven't
4747-491: The Wall , has comedians attempt to jump through oddly shaped holes in moving walls without falling into water, DERO and its successor TORE have celebrities solve mental and physical challenges to escape traps and hazards or presumably die trying, VS Arashi has a team of celebrities compete against J-pop group Arashi and their Plus One guest(s) in physical games, Nep League has various celebrity teams competing in various quizzes that test their combined brainpower in
4848-915: The Week on BBC Two from 2005 to 2022, 8 Out of 10 Cats on Channel 4 since 2005, Would I Lie to You? on BBC One since 2007, and the annual special, The Big Fat Quiz of the Year on Channel 4 since 2004. On the radio, The News Quiz , Just a Minute , I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue and The Unbelievable Truth are among the most popular and long-running panel shows, all of which air on BBC Radio 4. British comedy panel shows feature mainly male guests. A 2016 study that analysed 4,700 episodes from 1967 to 2016 found that 1,488 of them had an all-male lineup, and only one an all-female cast. The proportion of women rose from 3% in 1989 to 31% in 2016. Australian panel shows include advertising-focused The Gruen Transfer and its various spinoffs on ABC1 since 2008,
4949-533: The Week . 8 Out of 10 Cats is based on opinion polling ; What's My Line? is about occupations ; Never Mind the Buzzcocks and Face the Music center on music ; A League of Their Own , A Question of Sport and They Think It's All Over are sports -themed; Was It Something I Said? , Quote... Unquote and Who Said That? feature quotations ; My Word! involves wordplay ; I've Got
5050-492: The answer. If there was more time left, the same game was played with Charles Nelson Reilly responding to and writing down an answer for another audience member to guess. Episodes of Match Game PM were self-contained, with two new contestants appearing each week. The contestant who matched more celebrities than the other contestant at the end of the game won the game and went on to play the Super Match, which consisted of
5151-526: The audience match and the head-to-head match segments, for additional money. On the CBS version, the winner of the main game won $ 100. The contestant was shown a short fill-in-the-blank phrase (example: "Tell it to ______"), for which the members of a previous studio audience had provided responses. The three most popular responses were hidden on the board, and the contestant attempted to match one of them. The contestant chose any three celebrities to offer suggestions, and could either use one of their ideas or give
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#17327811899255252-539: The audience match segment of Match Game . Panel game A panel show or panel game is a radio or television game show in which a panel of celebrities participate. Celebrity panelists may compete with each other, such as on The News Quiz ; facilitate play by non-celebrity contestants, such as on Match Game and Blankety Blank ; or do both, such as on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me . The genre can be traced to 1938, when Information Please debuted on U.S. radio. The earliest known television panel show
5353-500: The audience responded en masse, "How dumb is she/he?" This expanded to the generalized question form "[adjective]-[alliterative-name] is SO [adjective]..." To this, the audience responded, "How [adjective] is he/she?" Rayburn finished the question or, occasionally, praised the audience or derided the audience's lack of union and made them try the response again. Other common subjects of questions were Superman/Lois Lane, King Kong/Fay Wray, Tarzan/Jane, The Lone Ranger/Tonto, panelists on
5454-478: The audience's approving or disapproving response. The audience usually groaned or booed when a contestant or celebrity gave a bad or inappropriate answer, whereas they cheered and applauded in approval of a good answer. Sometimes, they howled at a risqué answer. At other times, their reaction was deliberately inappropriate, such as howling at a good answer or applauding a risqué answer, to perverse effect. The contestant earned one point for each celebrity who wrote down
5555-749: The book recounts memorable anecdotes, notably the ascent that DeBartolo, Gaines, and Gaines' wife Annie once made through the arm of the Statue of Liberty. DeBartolo was also the author of numerous non-reprint Mad paperbacks, including MAD-vertising , MAD Murders the Movies , and The MAD Book of Sex, Violence, and Home Cooking . DeBartolo also scripted several of Don Martin 's " Captain Klutz " adventures, which appeared in Martin's series of paperbacks. In February 2006, Dick DeBartolo and Leo Laporte began producing
5656-402: The celebrities were canvassed to give their answers verbally. Originally, this included regulars Somers, Reilly, and Dawson only, but when Dawson left the show, the canvass was expanded to include all six panelists in the usual order. The first celebrity response to match a contestant's answer gave that contestant the victory. If there was still no match, which was rare, the round was replayed with
5757-408: The celebrity guests buzzing in to earn points from the host for punchlines and responses in various segments. In 2024, a reboot of the show, now titled After Midnight and hosted by Taylor Tomlinson , premiered on CBS . The streaming service Dropout has received attention for many of its shows' similarities to panel shows, notably Game Changer . Panel shows are particularly popular in
5858-407: The champion selected from the two questions available). This meant that a champion who had answered only one question could be ahead of a challenger who had played both questions, rendering the final question moot. On the syndicated versions, the leader after a round played first in the next round. In case of a tie score, the contestant who had not selected his or her question in the previous round made
5959-415: The contestant chose the celebrity. Later, the celebrity who played this match was determined by spinning a wheel (see "Star Wheel" below). At the very start of the 1970s series, Rayburn read the question before the celebrity was chosen, but this was changed after the first two episodes. The format of these matches was much shorter and non-humorous, typically requiring the contestant and celebrity to choose from
6060-523: The contestant to win up to $ 1,000 in this half of the Super Match. If a contestant failed to win any money in either audience match, Rayburn then read a question similar to those in the main game. The contestant earned $ 100 per celebrity matched, for a maximum of $ 600. A contestant who won money in the audience match then had the opportunity to win an additional 10 times that amount (therefore, $ 5,000, $ 2,500, or $ 1,000) by exactly matching another fill-in-the-blank response with one celebrity panelist. Originally,
6161-448: The contestants who chose him. Dawson, in fact, was such a popular choice for the second half of the Super Match that the producers instituted a rule in 1975 that forbade contestants from choosing the same panelist for consecutive head-to-head matches in an effort to give the other celebrities a chance to play. After six weeks, the rule was rescinded. On June 28, 1978, the producers made a second attempt to ensure that each celebrity received
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#17327811899256262-401: The daytime and airing in their greatest numbers during the '70s and '80s. These panel shows marked a shift in the format: whereas CBS' primetime shows had panelists guessing secrets about the guests, these new shows largely featured civilian contestants playing games with celebrity partners, or competing to either predict how the panelists will respond to a prompt or question, or determine whether
6363-434: The end of the game, the scores were reset and the contestants played one tiebreaker question each, again attempting to match all six celebrities. Tiebreaker rounds were repeated until a winner was determined. On Match Game PM , or on the syndicated daytime show if time was running short, a time-saving variant of the tiebreaker that reversed the gameplay was used. The contestants wrote their answers first on cards in secret, then
6464-431: The fields of Japanese, English, General Knowledge, Etc., and AKBingo! similarly features members of pop group AKB48 and others competing in physical challenges and quizzes. Other shows include 日本語探Qバラエティ クイズ!それマジ!?ニッポン ("Is it really!?"), a celebrity word game; くりぃむクイズ ミラクル9 ("Miracle 9"), a show somewhat similar to Hollywood Squares; Numer0n , a celebrity numbers game; and オールスター感謝祭 ("All Star Thanksgiving"),
6565-473: The first season, a game was played with audience members for a small cash prize, usually $ 50. The game was played with regular panelist Brett Somers first. A word or phrase with a blank was asked of Somers, and she wrote it down on her card. Rayburn then circulated amongst audience members who raised their hands to play, and if the audience member matched the answer Somers had written down, they won $ 50. Rayburn continued picking audience members until someone matched
6666-435: The first week of CBS shows that "This is your old favorite, updated with more action, more money, and, as you can see, more celebrities." The first few weeks of the show were somewhat different from the rest of the run. At first, many of the questions fit into the more bland and innocuous mold of the earlier seasons of the original series. In addition, many of the frequent panelists on the early episodes were not regulars later in
6767-570: The host and Olson returning as the announcer. The gameplay for this version had two solo contestants attempting to match the answers given by a six-celebrity panel. Richard Dawson was the first regular panelist. Due to CBS News coverage of the Watergate hearings, the network delayed the premiere one week from its slated date of June 25 to July 2. The first week's panelists were Dawson, Michael Landon , Vicki Lawrence , Jack Klugman , Jo Ann Pflug , and Anita Gillette . Rayburn reassured viewers of
6868-413: The improv game Whose Line Is It Anyway? aired from 1988 to 1998. Current British panel shows have become showcases for the nation's top stand-up and improv comedians, as well as career-making opportunities for new comedians. Regular comics on panel shows often go on to star in sitcoms and other TV shows. The modern British panel show format of TV comedy quizzes started with Have I Got News for You ,
6969-576: The introduction, "Welcome to Whose Line Is It Anyway , the show where everything's made up and the points don't matter." QI ' s opaque scoring system is purportedly a mystery even to its creator, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue dispenses with points altogether, and many other shows mention points only occasionally or at the end, instead of continuously displaying scores in front of players. Panel shows can have any number of themes. Many are topical and satirical , such as Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! , Have I Got News for You , The News Quiz and Mock
7070-406: The knowledge that the show could not be canceled again, Goodson gave the go-ahead for the more risqué-sounding questions, a decision that caused a significant boost in ratings and an "un-cancellation" by NBC. 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
7171-531: The most extreme cases, the questions were puns with only one answer that made sense. "Did you hear about the religious group of dentists? They call themselves the Holy [blank]" was written so that only "Molars" made sense. Rayburn always played the action for laughs and frequently tried to read certain questions in character, such as "Old Man Periwinkle" or "Old Mrs. Pervis." He also did the same with Confucius and Count Dracula. Regular panelist Charles Nelson Reilly ,
7272-472: The most popular daytime program ever with a record 11 million daily viewers, one that held until the " Luke and Laura " supercouple storyline gripped viewers on ABC's General Hospital some years later. Every New Year's Eve, when the two-digit year designation in the Match Game sign was updated, there was a New Year's party with the cast and studio audience. Up to and including the 1977–78 changeover,
7373-538: The music quiz Spicks and Specks on ABC1 from 2005 to 2011 and again since 2014, news quiz Have You Been Paying Attention? on Network Ten since 2013, and tabloid quiz Dirty Laundry Live on ABC1 and ABC2 since 2013. News quiz Good News Week aired on ABC1 from 1996 to 1998 and on Network Ten from 1999-2000 and again from 2008 to 2012, sports quiz A League of Their Own aired on Network Ten in 2013, and pop culture quiz Tractor Monkeys aired on ABC1 in 2013. Currently running New Zealand panel shows include
7474-415: The news quiz 7 Days since 2009, Have You Been Paying Attention? New Zealand since 2019, Taskmaster New Zealand since 2020, and Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee since 2023. CBC Radio One currently broadcasts two long-running radio panel shows: The Debaters , which debuted in 2006, and Because News , which debuted in 2015. In 2022, Noovo began broadcasting Le maître du jeu ,
7575-481: The panelist answered a question correctly. Later, Nickelodeon premiered the youth-oriented panel game Figure it Out in 1997, the American version of Whose Line Is It Anyway? had a primetime run from 1998 to 2004 on ABC and a revival in 2013 by The CW , while Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! has become a popular weekend show on NPR since 1998. Since 2002, the sports channel ESPN has broadcast Around
7676-409: The playing of " Auld Lang Syne " and wished the audience a happy new year. In 1976, the show's success, and celebrity panelist Richard Dawson's popularity, prompted Goodson–Todman to develop a new show for ABC , titled Family Feud , with Dawson hosting. This show became a major hit in its own right, eventually surpassing the parent program. Family Feud was said to be based on Dawson's expertise in
7777-420: The premiere of the 1979 syndicated version, the wheel was re-designed so that each section had three stars in separate, evenly spaced squares. The pointer now had to be on a square in order to double the money. Ironically, the wheel stopped on Dawson the first time it was used, inspiring four of the panelists (Somers, Reilly, guest panelist Mary Wickes , and Dawson himself) to stand up from their places and leave
7878-622: The real Gaines. After stumping the panel, Gaines jokingly denied knowing DeBartolo. After the episode, panelist Kitty Carlisle told DeBartolo, "I never figured it was him. I mean, look at the way he's dressed. I was looking for someone who ran a very successful magazine, so I thought it couldn't be him!" DeBartolo's book, Good Days and Mad: A Hysterical Tour Behind the Scenes at Mad Magazine (1994), traces his first 30 years at Mad and details his friendship with publisher William Gaines. Featuring contributions from other Mad writers and artists,
7979-412: The right answers and win, the primary goal of modern panel shows is to entertain the audience with comedy, with the game or quiz structure providing subjects for the comedians to joke about. Panel shows also feature comedic banter, friendly ribbing and camaraderie among the panelists. Scoring is often deemphasised in panel shows. The American version of Whose Line Is It Anyway? acknowledged this with
8080-401: The same answer (or a reasonably similar one as determined by the judges; for example, "rear end" matched "bottom" or a similar euphemism), up to six points for matching everyone on the celebrity panel. After one contestant played, the second contestant played the other question. A handful of potential answers were prohibited, the most notable being any synonym for genitalia . In instances where
8181-524: The second round (or third round in Match Game PM ) to allow trailing contestants to catch up quickly, hinted at more obvious answers based on the context of the question. One such question was " James Bond went to an all-night restaurant. When the waitress told him they were out of coffee, he ordered a [blank]." Because James Bond's signature drink is a martini , shaken, not stirred , the panelists and contestants were expected to choose that answer. In
8282-415: The selection in the tiebreaker round. On Match Game PM , the third round was added after the first season as games proved to be too short to fill the half-hour. Again, the only celebrities who played were those who did not match that contestant in previous rounds. On Match Game PM , the questions with the most obvious answers were typically used in the third round. If the contestants had the same score at
8383-462: The series but had appeared on the 1960s version, including Klugman, Arlene Francis , and Bert Convy . However, the double entendre in the question "Johnny always put butter on his _____" marked a turning point in the questions on the show. Soon, the tone of Rayburn's questions changed notably, leaving behind the staid topics that The Match Game had first disposed of in 1963 for more risqué humor. Celebrity panelists Brett Somers (Klugman's wife at
8484-407: The set momentarily out of disbelief, leaving recurring panelist Scoey Mitchell and guest panelist Sharon Farrell behind. At the time, Dawson was becoming weary as a regular panelist on Match Game as he had concurrently been hosting the (by then) more-popular Family Feud since 1976. Dawson was tired from appearing on both shows regularly and wished to focus solely on the latter. The addition of
8585-454: The show (most commonly Brett Somers ), politicians, and Howard Cosell . Questions also often featured characters such as "Ugly Edna" (later "Ugly Ulfrea"), "Unlucky Louie/Louise," "Horrible Hannah/Hank," "Rodney Rotten," and occasionally "Voluptuous Velma." Some questions dealt with the fictitious (and often sleazy) country of "Nerdo Crombezia" or the world's greatest salesman, who could sell anything to anyone. Other questions, usually given in
8686-622: The show's panelists and guests in his own 8mm film comedies, which he shot on the studio's rooftop. A rare public showing of those films was held in a Manhattan hotel ballroom in 1964. DeBartolo told Game Show Network in 2006 that when Match Game moved its production west to Los Angeles in the 1970s, he stayed in New York and mailed in his questions to the Match Game staff in Los Angeles . The 1973 West Coast-based version ran for nine more years on CBS and in syndication, with DeBartolo as
8787-556: The show, moving it to Los Angeles , adding more celebrities, and increasing the amount of prize money that could be won. It was this show (along with the Bob Stewart game shows The $ 10,000 Pyramid , Three on a Match , Jackpot , and the Heatter-Quigley show Gambit ) that reintroduced five-figure payouts for the first time since the quiz show scandals of the late 1950s. The new version had Rayburn returning as
8888-413: The show. The winner receives 30 seconds at the end of the show to discuss any topic unopposed. In 2015, ABC announced primetime revivals for Match Game , which ran from 2016 until 2021, and To Tell the Truth , which ran from 2016 to 2022. From 2013 to 2017, Comedy Central aired @midnight , an internet culture and social media -themed panel game which used a more quiz show-styled presentation—with
8989-465: The star wheel also brought about a change in the bonus payout structure. Each section included several gold stars, which doubled the stakes if the wheel stopped on one of them. The maximum prize was $ 10,000 on the daytime series and $ 20,000 on Match Game PM . When the star wheel was introduced, each section contained five stars in a continuous white border, and the prize was doubled if the wheel stopped with its pointer anywhere in that area. Beginning with
9090-587: The statement, and the six celebrities wrote their answers on index cards. After they finished, the contestant verbally gave an answer. Rayburn then asked the celebrities, one at a time beginning in the upper left-hand corner of the panel, to respond with their answers. While early questions were similar to those from the NBC version (e.g., "Every morning, John puts [blank] on his cereal"), the questions quickly became more humorous and risqué. Comedy writer Dick DeBartolo (who stayed in New York), who had participated in
9191-406: The time) and Charles Nelson Reilly began as guest panelists on the program, with Somers brought in at the request of Klugman, who felt she would make a nice fit on the program. The chemistry between Somers and Reilly prompted Goodson–Todman and CBS to hire them as regular panelists, Somers remained on the show until 1982, while Reilly continued appearing through the 1983–84 and 1990–91 revivals, with
9292-409: The weekday run, from 1975 to 1981, a once-a-week fringe time version, Match Game PM , was also offered in syndication for airing just before prime time hours. Match Game returned to NBC in 1983 as part of a 60-minute hybrid series with Hollywood Squares , then saw a daytime run on ABC in 1990 and another for syndication in 1998, each of these series lasted one season. It returned to ABC in
9393-489: The words to ' Row, Row, Row Your Boat ' other than 'Row,' 'Your,' or 'Boat,'" or "John loves his _____." The humor in the original series came largely from the panelists' reactions to the other answers (especially on the occasional all-star episodes). In 1963, NBC canceled the series with six weeks left to be recorded. Question writer Dick DeBartolo came up with a funnier set of questions, like "Mary likes to pour gravy all over John's _____," and submitted it to Mark Goodson. With
9494-488: Was Pantomime Quiz , airing from 1947 to 1959, and having runs on each of the four television networks operating at the time. Other charades shows have included Stump the Stars ; Movietown, RSVP ; Celebrity Charades ; Showoffs and Body Language . TV panel shows saw their peak of popularity in the 1950s and '60s, when CBS ran the three longest-running panel shows in prime time : What's My Line? , I've Got
9595-432: Was canceled in 1969 along with other game shows in a major daytime programming overhaul, being replaced by Letters to Laugh-In which, although a spin-off of the popular primetime series Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In , ended in just three months, on December 26. The Match Game continued through September 26, 1969, on NBC for 1,760 episodes, airing at 4:00 p.m. Eastern (3:00 p.m. Central), running 25 minutes due to
9696-436: Was doubled if the pointer stopped on either of two circles within each section. The 1973–82 versions were produced by veteran Goodson–Todman producer Ira Skutch , who also wrote some questions and acted as the on-stage judge. Marc Breslow directed while Robert Sherman was associate producer and head writer. When CBS revamped Match Game in 1973 with more of a focus on risqué humor, ratings more than doubled in comparison with
9797-406: Was on the staff of the original Match Game in 1962, when the show was cancelled by NBC . In what were supposed to be the final weeks of the program, DeBartolo is credited with coming up with the silly and suggestive style of questions that the show is remembered for, which led to improved ratings and an "un-cancellation" that kept the show on the air. At the same time, DeBartolo cast several of
9898-446: Was seated in the downstage (green triangle) seat. On the syndicated versions, which had no returning champions, positions were determined by a backstage coin toss. The object was to match the answers of the six celebrity panelists to fill-in-the-blank statements. The main game was played in two rounds (three on Match Game PM after the first season). The opponent was given a choice of two statements labeled either "A" or "B". Rayburn read
9999-553: Was the host, and Johnny Olson served as announcer, for the series premiere, Arlene Francis and Skitch Henderson were the two celebrity panelists. The show was taped in Studio 8H at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, NBC's largest New York studio, which since 1975 has housed Saturday Night Live , among other shows. The show originally aired in black and white and moved to color on June 24, 1963. Both teams were given
10100-524: Was the network's winnings limit. Anything above that amount was forfeited, but the rule was later changed so that although champions retired after winning $ 25,000, they kept any winnings up to $ 35,000. During the six-year run of Match Game on CBS, only one champion, Carolyn Raisner, retired undefeated with $ 32,600, the highest total ever won on Match Game . On the daily 1979–82 syndicated version, two contestants competed against each other in two games, with two new contestants replacing them afterward. The show
10201-414: Was timed so that two new contestants appeared each Monday. This was necessary as the tapes of the show were shipped between stations, and weeks could not be aired in any discernible order. This was a common syndication practice at the time, known as "bicycling." Usually, three pairs of contestants competed in a total of six games over the five episodes for each week. On Friday episodes that ran short, during
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