Match Game 74 (Episode 203) (With Slate) ("Plugging Bell of Amherst!")

[@barbarapaton4005]

Of all the stars on the panel my favorites were CN Reilly and Betty White. They both had such genuine smiles and gave out good vibes. Loved them!

[@obiedrier4841]

That was cute of charles to.draw those pictures for Peggy. Peggy is humble , people are drawn to that.

[@sddwtbnofather]

Aaww, Peggy crying-so glad she won-you know by her tears she really needed it.

[@jacobestevez7570]

... are you serious ...

[@GizmoFromPizmo]

She's a very good player. She went with Richard and guessed London Bridge, which could have easily been a cultural unknown to her. She's plugged into the culture and she's an excellent player!

[@deanstrand4260]

She said that her kids wanted a piano. I think Peggy had tears of joy because after she won, she could afford one.

[@alexeimscruz2893]

dreams can come true & Peggy deserves it... come on guys...

[@chrismayer3919]

That dude in the control room LOVES playing with the soundboard's reverb control!

[@earlofopsis1307]

I think he was warming up for the question during the slate intro.

[@RobertBowman-j7c]

It helped Gene on certain occasions! It added to the humor.

[@autumnlover5784]

Peggy has to be may fav win so far!! Most people on here are already in hollywood or working towards it but this lady and her family seemed to really have a “REAL WIN” here! 🌹 I cried with her 🥳

[@kathycobb4451]

I love when it all comes together! Congrats to Peggy.

[@beckydutra6543]

Richard is intuitive, why I believe many of his answers are purposeful. 😊

[@jvolgelstein6278]

Love Debbie's hair ahhhhhh the 70s

[@edwardlozano8807]

"The Belle of Amherst"....which would become a TV movie in 1976 and had CNR as its Artistic Advisor....www.imdb.com/title/tt0202812/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_41

[@kevansf]

Richard scored his 23rd head-to-head match today. Here's the updated accuracy leader board for the 7 celebs to have scored 3 or more matches so far: Orson - 100% (3 wins in 3 attempts). Betty - 50% (8 wins in 16 attempts). Jo Ann - 46.7% (7 out of 15 attempts). Charles - 42.9% (6 wins in 14 attempts). Bert - 33.3% (5 wins in 15 attempts). Richard - 29.5% (23 wins in 78 attempts). Brett - 22.2% (4 wins in 18 attempts). *These stats include every head-to-head match from episode 1 through 203, excluding the lost/missing episodes 31, 32, 33.

[@pencils812]

I love Charles' red sweater.

[@GizmoFromPizmo]

"They probably looked like Monroe there, right?" That could VERY EASILY have disqualified the question and in fact, it did just that when Orson Bean, on an earlier show, made a smart aleck quip in response to a question.

[@earlofopsis1307]

I notice Gene hears it, asks the contestant if he heard it, then looks to Ira to see what he wants to do about it. There is a pause and it looks like Ira gives Gene the OK to keep going. I agree though, the question should have been thrown out.

[@barbarajohnson3781]

Rip Richard Dawson very good actor on hogan heroes

[@RobertBowman-j7c]

And the funniest comedian ever on television!

[@margaretkinnaman3154]

Richard was really pulling for Peggy, I think he often feels a real connection to the contestant. He just cares so much for them. Lovely man.

[@obiedrier4841]

He had a heart for the average person

[@jacobestevez7570]

humility

[@RobertBowman-j7c]

He was great.

[@paulcaron400]

This episode turned out to be one of my favourite

[@Floymin]

I was expecting the "hell" question to be a dig at Brett. I wonder when those start.

[@mosseisleyYT]

I wondered if Richard Dawson would answer "General Burkhalter". I mean this guy (just in case you were never a Hogan's Heroes fan): www.flickr.com/photos/faves_of_vicki12692/26654947462

[@cinemaholic730]

There was an earlier episode where everyone answered Brett for a question. I'm surprised more of them didn't answer Brett.

[@beckydutra6543]

I did think Betty would say Brett, she likes to get back at Brett that way. 😉😄

[@pencils812]

That was a mean question.

[@Echognomics101]

I wondered if anyone would say that in "the other place" everybody looks like Bobby. Elaine married fellow panelist Bobby Van in 1968 and they remained together until his passing in 1980. Bobby was a good looking man, the connection would just have been funny to play off.

[@earlofopsis1307]

@21:05 as Gene wraps the show with the contestants, Brett tells Charles, "4 down, 2 to go". I guess she really didn't want to be there this week.

[@DoloresRoberts-hy5uy]

@earlofopsis1307--Perhaps the wig was bothering her. Too tight.

[@thehouseof5gables388]

I'd love to know what Richard and Betty were whispering about during the whole show.

[@donaldleroy6502]

I really 💘 Peggy, she's a natural beauty with an equally beautiful soul, I first saw her shows on buzzr. I'm sorry to see Debbie go, such a girl next door beauty. So as not to single anybody out I'd say in the other place everyone looks like hell

[@mittens4kittens435]

Weren't Bobby and Elaine married at this time?

[@heathertanner5833]

Hell looked like Kaye Stevens.

[@WienerVL]

The Firefighter makes me......i say it in my language…...wuschelig!

[@amandajstar]

I thought London Town, then London fog. Then London Tower (even though it's the Tower of London). Didn't think of London Bridge, and I'm from London originally.

[@kevansf]

As a kid in the US, I heard the song/nursery rhyme "London Bridge is Falling Down" (My Fair Lady) countless times, so it was the first thing that came to mind.

[@storylass9071]

at last some decent prizes for the losers: a lawnmower, an in-sink-erator, and luggage, so much better than a loaf of bread (that no one ever heard of, try cashing that coupon at stop and shop).

[@kentetalman9008]

I remember buying a loaf of that bread once. Was NOT impressed.

[@randomvintagefilm273]

I'm so glad that lady won, she was crying 😢

[@sallyversace]

Clyde looks like a Ken doll.

[@ShortyGirl63]

Sally Versace Only blonde.

[@christinao1787]

Clyde looks like a "The Dating Game" bachelor contestant.

[@helenlogsdon7822]

Gary Collins

[@angelaroseneder7980]

Elaine Joyce is the only one still alive. Kind of scary to think she'll be 80 next year

[@kentetalman9008]

So will I. Not scary at all.

[@angelaroseneder7980]

Good for you

[@neversaygoodbye4]

The male contestants hair looks like Lego hair.

[@helenlogsdon7822]

Gary Collins

[@mosseisleyYT]

I've noticed that, as of the last episode, you don't hear "bing!" anymore when the $5000 sign lights up. Did they get tired of hearing Brett (or somebody else) saying "bing!"?

[@deanstrand4260]

Gene even started saying it the last few episodes. I'm guessing somebody (Ira?) told Gene and the celebs to stop. It was starting to get old.

[@StLawrencePlace]

Brett throws shade to her ex husband and Charles returned the shade back to Brett.

[@sarahkinsey5434]

I love their banter!

[@HansDelbruck53]

Ex-husband? I think she was still married to Jack at the time.

[@brettmiddleton7949]

@@HansDelbruck53 Yes. According to wiki, they didn't divorce until 1977. But she's been taking shots at him on Match Game for many months at this point, so the marriage was obviously in trouble at that time. Some people just can't help airing dirty laundry in public, I guess.

[@Echognomics101]

I believe Brett and Jack split in 1977, so he was still her husband at the time of this taping/airing.

[@wattsjetton3027]

Panelists: 1. Bobby Van 2. Brett Somers 3. Charles Nelson Reilly 4. Elayne Joyce 5. Richard Dawson 6. Betty White

[@markjamesmeli2520]

❤

[@pencils812]

Gene's pants. He's worn those before.

[@mittens4kittens435]

Clive (Clyde?)...woo hoo! flame emoji!

[@pattypark8548]

Bad publicity is still notoriety!

[@bribabytt]

Boy, Brett wasn't happy about something in the last third of the show; I don't know if it was Elaine or what.

[@DoloresRoberts-hy5uy]

@bribabytt- they took her alcohol away. Or Wouldn't let her drink on set??

[@SpidersHandle]

CLYDE!!! HOLY MOTHER OF GOD!!! What a gorgeous man.

[@Tre404]

Belle. Not "Bell."

[@michaelunderwood6658]

Ever notice Gene cuts off conversations Brett butts into ?

[@sdlively27]

YEA!! I know you tried of me saying it so I won't but it is my favorite strange combo of suit.. ;0)

[@johniringan8460]

All of the panelists wanted Peggy to win except Richard.

[@sdlively27]

Free spirit flying with my favorite suit! ;0) ROFL! Another fine episode! ;0) ROFL! Love ya Gene! ;0) ROFL! Love ya Charles! ;0) ROFL! Love ya Betty! ;0) bed? Love the reveb ;0) music started too soon.. ;0) I wouldn’t touch that... ;0) Love the silliness.. ;0) I believe station 27 is the home station for the tv show Emergency! Station 51.. ;0) Bobby beat Richard! ;0) the broad on my right.. ;0) ears.. Nose..head..Bobby, Charles and Brett beat Richard.. ;0) chopped liver?? ;0) I didn't think that The Bell Of Amherst wasn't until 76?

[@ShortyGirl63]

Why couldn’t Gene say hell in the question? That was just silly.

[@obiedrier4841]

Julie Overright he might have had a superstition about the word.

[@sdlively27]

Maybe that is how the question was written, heaven and the other place.. They might not being able to say that word on the air back then..

[@brettmiddleton7949]

@@sdlively27 It was on the brink, but not one of George Carlin's "Seven Words You Can't Say on Television". Certainly not a word to be used casually. Nowadays it seems that no words are forbidden, but somehow I don't think the culture is better off because of it.

[@dmnemaine]

I grew up in Massachusetts, and as far as I know Amherst is pronounced just as it's spelled. No silent "h".

[@mittens4kittens435]

I went to college near there and people told me it was pronounced "AM-urst." But what do I know? I'm a Californian.

[@perpieta]

@@mittens4kittens435Same here. I'm not from Mass., but I went to college near Amherst too, and everyone pronounced it without the "h" sound.

[@preyzcruz]

First question should have been thrown out because Joyce mentions Monroe

[@pattondiorama7136]

Don't go Debbie!

[@kristabrewer6736]

I'm gettin FED UP with them making fun of the Bible! Also Elaine ruined it for him. She KNEW ENOUGH not to put a name he would never think of in million years! (Jack Klugman was no better, but at least HE was an improvement over Magnet Main!

[@patcrites5274]

So they are making fun of the bible, that is why they make fun of every subject including the bible, so get ov r it

[@thejetset3357]

​@@patcrites5274The blue hair, nose ring, tolerant lefty chimes in! No thanks. 👎🏼

[@billericaysteve]

Water turned to wine. The Red Sea parting. Jonah in the stomach of the whale. etc. etc.... What is there to make fun of?

[@daviddriver2692]

Getting rid of Debbie was a blessing, she was so "Stand offish" ,when she matched,refused to "go over" thanking star and VERY stand off ish to poor Gene, glad she lost

[@pencils812]

This heaven and hell question is mean.

[@geneburn5769]

Yea, yea only for the females I see.. (rolls eyes...)