Match Game 73 (Episode 111) (Turntable Gets Stuck?)

[@bradstephan7886]

Way to go, Charles! So glad Sharon FINALLY won.

[@beckydutra6543]

Twice!

[@STNeish]

He had to get animal crackers, considering his theatre background.

[@beckydutra6543]

I almost cried too, such a sweet win. ❤❤

[@Nina-wt8ie]

This show is so fun. I can't stop watching it! 😄

[@neversaygoodbye4]

“Gene’s (blank) is drooping.” That was a good one 😂

[@Echognomics101]

It happens to us all. 😅

[@jeannehall6546]

🤣

[@michaelnivens6267]

MatchGameProductions , that's cool - what a lineup with Jack & June along with Loretta with RD , BS and CNR- again , thanx for putting these up on youtube

[@jeffclement2979]

Fun fact: June was a big David Bowie fan and according to fellow actor Billy Mumy "a total rock-n-roll animal!"

[@travis7310]

I found that out yesterday and I was blown away! She just doesn’t seem like the type, but, looks are definitely deceiving!

[@antster1983]

Time for another note-mas! It's Christmas week on Match Game, the first Christmas of the CBS run with the episodes running Wednesday 19th (this one) to Friday 21st, and the following Monday and Tuesday, which were Christmas Eve and Christmas Day respectively. This "week" would be the only time Match Game would be shown on CBS on Christmas Day, which was marked by Charles Nelson Reilly arriving on set dressed as Santa. A marvelous sight. Now for the tech notes. This is the last week in which Gene wears a lapel microphone. After this week he'd no longer be tethered and would use the Sony ECM-51 wand microphone exclusively. There are problems with the turntable today - as the new contestant appears on stage, the turntable fails to turn around completely on the first attempt, leading to Gene "attempting" to push it round. Now on to the stars! First week of Jack Cassidy, an actor and singer, a Broadway veteran equally at home on the big and small screens as he was onstage. His TV credits include guest spots on Gunsmoke, Columbo (he played a murderer in three different episodes!), The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Get Smart and Bewitched. He was the father of actor, singer and teen idol David Cassidy, who died last year. Jack Cassidy's death in December 1976 was tragic - I need not repeat what happened here. He was 49. Only week on the CBS Match Game of actress June Lockhart. Her best known TV works were Lassie, Lost in Space and Petticoat Junction, along with guest spots in the likes of Gunsmoke, Rawhide, Perry Mason, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. She was also a presenter of CBS's coverage of the annual Tournament of Roses Parade, which she was promoting in her appearances on Match Game 73. She previously appeared on the NBC Match Game over three weeks between 1965 and 1967. Sixth week of Loretta Swit. Her appearances would become more sporadic after this week. She and Lockhart are the two remaining panelists from this week as of February 2018. (For any non-Americans like me, the Tournament of Roses Parade is part of the New Years Day celebrations in America, or on Monday 2nd January if New Years Day falls on a Sunday. It is a parade through Pasadena with carnival floats; followed the day after by The Rose Bowl, an American college football game between two of the top college teams, played at the aptly named Rose Bowl, also in Pasadena)

[@LynxSouth]

I very much appreciate your notes about these programs and panelists. As for the Rose Parade, I'd like to add a detail that makes this parade particularly interesting to me and many others: the floats' designs and figures are ALL completely made from or covered in vegetable matter, primarily flowers, but also leaves, seeds, bark, etc. It's one of the criteria for a float's acceptance into the parade, and the presenters explain which materials are on each float. The colors and textures are wonderful and amazing.

[@dtmania]

I as well appreciate your added insight! I love how there are others that love The Match Game as much as I do.

[@tennissir1986]

Could you please give more details.

[@michaelnivens6267]

Charles is really on a roll

[@RK-li4sw]

They sure did casually kiss alot in the 70s. You will never see that on tv today. Inocente times

[@kristabrewer6736]

I'm 48 years old, and I'm just watching Lassie now for the second time (the first time was last year)

[@AllenJones-w3p]

Jack Cassidy was an immense ly talented performer who tragically died too young. He died in an apartment fire in 1976 at 49 years of age.

[@mamasinger49]

Thank you so much for posting these!

[@shoeshooey5464]

Poor Sharron. Wins 4 games and hasn’t broken a1000 bucks. Never mind. She just hit the 5k

[@jjryan1352]

"Cassidy married singer and actress Shirley Jones. Cassidy and Jones had three sons, Shaun, Patrick, and Ryan. Cassidy's eldest son David later starred with Jones in the musical sitcom The Partridge Family. Son Shaun also became a teen idol in the late 1970s, starring in The Hardy Boys series, and producing four top-40 records.". I did not know that!

[@40bpaula]

well, I didn't know who Sean Cassidy's father was, but I watched the Partridge family in reruns when I was a kid. They also had a cartoon, if I remember correctly.

[@wattsjetton3027]

Panelists: 1. Jack Cassidy 2. Brett Somers 3. Charles Nelson Reilly 4. June Lockhart 5. Richard Dawson 6. Loretta Swit

[@michaelpowell5266]

June was only a several years removed from her time on Petticoat Junction. BTW, in addition to Dr. Janet Craig, there's also Maj. Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan RN(Loretta Swit) on M*A*S*H. The early 1970's!!!

[@jjryan1352]

It's not clear if Hot Lips was an RN, but she was Head Nurse of the Mash unit.

[@maynardsmoreland]

12:08 Perhaps the biggest laugh Charles ever had on MG.

[@sarahkinsey5434]

And 20:20!

[@annika_panicka]

5:20 [Head-to-Head SPOILER ALERT] I love the showmanship and joy with which Charles reveals the $5,000 match. 🎉

[@kristabrewer6736]

I love Charles, but thank HEAVENS he buttoned his shirt up!

[@RaineStudio]

Why? Have I missed some horrible disfigurement with his chest?

[@kentetalman9008]

Right. He buttoned his shirt just for you. God forbid you should see part of a man's chest.

[@kevansf]

Incredible day for Charles!!! This was his *3rd and 4th* successful head-to-head matches !!!!! (Out of only 5 attempts!!!) With so few attempts, it's probably too early to compare his success rate with the other celebs, but if anyone is interested, here's the running tally of the 5 celebs with 4 or more wins (no other celeb has more than 2): Charles has 80% (4 out of 5). Betty has 42.9% (6 wins in 14 attempts). Bert Convey has 33.3% (4 wins in 12 attempts). Brett has 28.6% (4 wins in 14 attempts). Richard has 24% (6 wins in 25 attempts). Trivia: Charles scored his first head-to-head match in episode 37 (that was his second attempt), and then he scored his second in episode 38. Brett's first match was in episode 55 (her fifth try). Richard's first match was in episode 58 (his ninth try). *These stats include every head-to-head match from episode 1 through 111, excluding the lost/missing episodes 31, 32, 33.

[@Rasputin443556]

What's the overall total numbers for this? I'd also be interested in seeing how well celebrities did on the audience match. Conventional wisdom is that Richard was numero uno here, since they gave him his own show of audience matches, but what do I know?

[@Echognomics101]

The Swedish secretary does not... Assemble furniture? (IKEA joke, maybe too modern)

[@michaelnivens6267]

Rocky Marciano , greatest heavyweight of all time

[@stevenbest6923]

kissing on the lips like that today would probably land you in jail.

[@suprchickn7745]

No one is going to remark on Richard Dawson's brilliant Stan Laurel impersonation at 9:50 ?

[@stellarjay3314]

Big Cassidy fan me. So sad his descent and demise. He was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. He burned alive about three years from this appearance. He appears to be doing Ronald Coleman in this episode. He and Reilly are really clicking; maybe they got it on behind the scenes? I like Lockhart's performances, yet she's a bit dull as a panellist.

[@sarahkinsey5434]

There is DEFINITELY something between Cassidy and CNR!

[@UberLummox]

@@sarahkinsey5434 You think sexually? Strage because for the 1st. time I got a small gay vibe from him. Maybe I'm way off base.

[@annika_panicka]

@@sarahkinsey5434 Are you a member of that Kinsey family😉, founders of the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana U.? Resume-wise for the lads, what I know for sure is that in 1964, Jack Cassidy and CNR were both in long-running musicals on Broadway ( _Fade In-Fade Out_ and _Hello, Dolly!_ , respectively) ... I wouldn't doubt it if they met for cocktails after curtain call on several occasions.

[@jjryan1352]

@@UberLummox wiki says the fam found out later he went both ways.

[@UberLummox]

@@jjryan1352 Ok thank you much.

[@beckydutra6543]

I love Brett's top. ❤

[@jeannehall6546]

In 3 years, Jack would be dead. June and Loretta are still living.

[@annika_panicka]

Does it sound like Johnny is saying "Loretta SwitS"? It has sounded like that to me since her first appearance-I'm just getting around to commenting now. Many earlier episodes later: I've noticed it sounds like he's saying Betty WhiteS sometimes, too, so it must be an enunciation + microphone effect.

[@40bpaula]

Yes, it does. it confused me cause it also sometimes sound like he's saying Swift.

[@TimothyONeill_84.]

Can someone tell me what Gene meant he couldn’t finish his story of Honest John

[@bradstephan7886]

I was wondering that, too. What famous 'John' was in the news for not being honest in 1973??? Or, was he referring to a prostitute's client?

[@LynxSouth]

@@bradstephan7886 I was trying to think of what Gene meant, too. There was Judge John Sirica who figured in the Watergate trials (a very honest John), and John Dean, who was Nixon's lawyer. He was involved in the cover-up, so was probably the most dishonest John of 1973.

[@jeffclement2979]

I thought it was a referrence to what prostitutes call their customers "John's"

[@kristabrewer6736]

Honest John from the Beverly Hillbillies!

[@sdlively27]

Free spirit flying! ;0) ROFL! Another fine episode! ;0) ROFL! Love ya Gene! ;0) ROFL! Love ya Charles! ;0) ROFL! the turntable again, must we wearing out after 100 plus shows.. ;0) He was so bored at this party that he stuck a pencil up his nose so he could write his brain a letter??? ;0) nailed? OUCH! ;0)

[@Echognomics101]

*_Richard Dawson Tracker_* Ep. 111 *Game Matches* Episode: 0/3 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 .500 YTD: 140/497 🇬🇧 .282 Not Shown: 1 (41 tot) Celebrity Matches (All): 3 *Super Match* $500: 14 wins (22 given) $250: 8 wins (19 given) $100: 2 wins (12 given) Not Selected: 0 (53 tot) *Head-to-Head* 6 wins, 25 att (24%) 💸 *Cash Winnings: $34,950* 💸

[@Mafon2]

I'd have said "Animal Farm".

[@Norfolk250]

In the story The Monstrumologist (the audiobook is available on this'a'here The YouuuuuTuuuube), one of the characters 'Kerns' I thought would look like Cassidy to a T.

[@yankeegirl5175]

What do you say now instead of Honest Injun? Honest Native American Leader??? 😂

[@marleneflanagan7137]

What's with Jack's fake English accent?

[@scdevon]

It's more of a so-called "Trans-Atlantic" accent common in upper crust boarding schools of the early-mid 1900s. William F. Buckly used to speak with a similar accent.

[@fjccommish]

In what year did this first air?

[@kentetalman9008]

It's Match Game 73. Is there a hint in there somewhere?

[@judithparsons1920]

I have been sequentially following the episodes. 73 was the first year.

[@CarpeDiamCoramDao]

Obviously pre woke times.....honest native American

[@markmatthes4964]

Charles was such class

[@sdlively27]

Happy Valentine Day! ;0)

[@annika_panicka]

❤️💗 ... and Memorial Day to all you Yankees🗽🇺🇸. Remember those who fought for our freedom, however compromised it may be right now (2020).

[@sdlively27]

@@annika_panicka Thank you and I agree.. ;0)

[@randomvintagefilm273]

I hated it when the stars would write some stupid answer just to try to be funny because it wasn't fair to the contestants. Perfect example of this was Loretta Swit. She had the stupidest answers. Umbrella? Gtfo

[@rasputinsliver9092]

Jack Cassidy was an utter abominable excuse for a human being.

[@UberLummox]

His poor son David. Jealous of his son's success. : (

[@jjryan1352]

Bipolar isn't exactly a picnic. Alcoholism doesn't help matters.

[@kentetalman9008]

Sure, he had his issues. That doesn't mean he was anything but a good person.