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''Match Game'' is an American television panel game show that premiered on NBC in 1962 and was revived several times over the course of the next few decades. The game featured contestants trying to come up with answers to fill-in-the-blank questions, with the object being to match answers given by celebrity panelists. The original ''Match Game'' ran on NBC until 1969. The show returned with a significantly changed format in 1973 on CBS and became a hit due to the looser nature of the questions. The CBS series, which was referred to on air as ''Match Game '73'' to start and changed every new year, ran until 1979 and spawned two separate series for local syndication. The first, called ''Match Game PM'', premiered in 1975 and ran weekly until 1981. The second, simply titled ''Match Game'', premiered in 1979 and aired daily until 1982. ''Match Game'' returned to NBC in 1983 as part of a sixty-minute hybrid series with ''Hollywood Squares'', then saw a daytime run on ABC in 1990 and another for syndication in 1998. The series was a production of Mark Goodson/Bill Todman Productions, along with its successor companies, and has been franchised around the world often under the name ''Blankety Blanks''. In 2013, ''TV Guide'' ranked it #4 in its list of the 60 greatest game shows ever.〔Fretts, Bruce (June 17, 2013). "Eyes on the Prize", ''TV Guide'', pp. 14 and 15.〕 ==''The Match Game'' (1962–69, NBC)== The pilot for the original version of ''The Match Game'', created by Goodson-Todman staffer Frank Wayne, bore little resemblance to its more famous descendant. Taped December 5, 1962 with Gene Rayburn as host, Peggy Cass and Peter Lind Hayes each headed a team of two non-celebrities who attempted to match answers to simple questions. All six contestants wrote down their answers to a question. If two team members matched answers the team earned 10 points and if all three team members matched, the team earned 20 points. The first team to score at least 50 points won the game and received $100. The winning team moved on to a bonus round, attempting to guess the answer to a recent audience survey. Each correct match was worth $25 for a possible top prize of $300.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.archive.org/details/The_Match_Game_Pilot )〕 The series premiered on December 31 with Arlene Francis and Skitch Henderson. The show was taped in Studio 8H at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, which was later used for ''The Phil Donahue Show'' and ''The Rosie O'Donnell Show'' and now houses NBC Sports at Studio 8G. A team scored 25 points if two teammates matched answers or 50 points if all three players 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 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 would later be used on ''Family Feud'' and ''Card Sharks''). Each player 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 commonplace: "Name a kind of muffin," "Write down one of 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 cancelled 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 the knowledge that the show couldn't be cancelled again, Goodson gave the go-ahead for the more risque-sounding questionsa 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 games for the 1963–64 and 1967–68 seasons (by the latter season, NBC was the dominant channel in the game show genre; ABC was still an also-ran and CBS had mostly dropped out of the genre). Although the series still did well in the ratings (despite the popularity of ABC's horror-themed soap opera ''Dark Shadows''), it was canceled in 1969 along with other games in a major daytime programming overhaul, being replaced by ''Letters to Laugh-In'' which, although a spin-off of the popular prime time 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 Central), running 25 minutes due to a five-minute newscast. Since announcer Johnny 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) would fill in for Olson when he could not attend a broadcast. On March 27, 1967 the show added a "Telephone Match" game, in which a home viewer and a studio audience member attempted to match a simple fill-in-the-blank question similar to the 70s' "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). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Match Game」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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