Match Game

Match Game is an American panel game show from Mark Goodson Bill Todman Productions. It has had several incarnations over the years. The game featured contestants trying to answer fill-in-the-blank questions, often formed as humorous double entendres, and match answers given by celebrity panelists.


 * The Match Game (1962)
 * Match Game (1973)
 * Match Game PM
 * Match Game (1979)
 * Match Game Hollywood Squares Hour
 * Match Game (1990)
 * Match Game (1998)
 * Gameshow Marathon
 * Match Game (Canada)
 * Match Game (2016)

History
Its original version ran on NBC's daytime lineup from 1962 until 1969. The show returned with a significantly changed format in 1973 on CBS (also in daytime) and became a major success. It spawned a weekly nighttime syndicated version in 1975, while the morning show moved to syndication in 1979. In 1983, it merged with Hollywood Squares to become an hour-long show until its demise the following year. A short-lived revival ran on ABC from 1990 to 1991, and another ran in syndication from 1998 to 1999.

Match Game was the sixth of seven classic game shows featured in CBS's month-long Gameshow Marathon hosted by Ricki Lake and announced by Rich Fields in 2006. A Canadian revival debuted in 2010 on V and ran two seasons. The current version premiered 26 June 2016 on ABC.