Betty White also participated in the version of Match Game that Gene Rayburn tried to kickstart in the 1960s. The 1960s Match Game wasn’t nearly as funny as these from the 1970s. Point is…Betty was with the show from beginning to end.
Another set of notes, and Charles is back! Recorded on 5th January 1974, the first recording of the year. First up, it's the only week of character actor Joe Flynn, forever immortalised in his role as Captain Binghamton in the sitcom McHale's Navy. He also appeared in many Disney films including The Love Bug, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, The Barefoot Executive and Superdad, the latter of which he promotes in this episode. He also hosted a television revival of the radio panel show It Pays To Be Ignorant, of which Charles was a semi-regular. Later in the year Flynn would go on to record his role as Snoops, the dogsbody to Madame Medusa, in the animated film The Rescuers. Sadly, shortly after finishing work on the film, Flynn was found dead in his swimming pool, the official report saying he had a heart attack while swimming and drowned. He was 49. Also the only week for actress and singer Linda Kaye Henning, the daughter of TV producer Paul Henning, creator of sitcoms The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres and Petticoat Junction, the latter of which starred Linda. She has also made guest appearances on The Tonight Show, The Ed Sullivan Show, Adam-12, Happy Days and Mork & Mindy. Her game show appearances were numerous to say the least, as she's been on Hollywood Squares, Family Feud, Tattletales, Showoffs, Body Language, Password and Password Plus. Linda Kaye Henning and Betty White are still with us as of March 2018. Speaking of Betty, it's her Ninth week, and this episode was broadcast on 17th January 1974, her 52nd birthday. Technical note: This is the first episode in which Gene collects his ECM-51 wand from the panelists' desk rather than carrying it on with him.
Bless her, Betty White... her youthful joyful spirit is what kept her alive for 99 years... How old are you, Betty? 21:14 "I'm too old!!!" such a joy to watch her here... 👏👏👏👏
This is the earliest episode of Match Game that Game Show Network airs. The network airs the episodes from this one (from January 1974) to episode 246, from July, 1974, then skips to episode 921 from March, 1977 and airs a block ending with episode 1215 from May, 1978 (right before Richard started getting really dour).
I think I remember seeing Joe Flynn in a Disney film that was shown on TV while I flipped through the channels one day. It was called "The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes", and its star back in 1969 was a young man named Kurt Russell.
Joe Flynn was all over sitcom television and Disney movies throughout the 60s (1950s-early 70s), and Kurt Russell was in tons of Disney programs as well as some movies. He was in so many Disney productions that I was surprised to find him in anything else back then.
The scene that you marked is (in my opinion) one of the funniest in all of Match Game history. The way Joe busted up laughing cracked up the entire audience.
Ira should have also explained that sock hops were done because the schools didn’t want GYN floors scratched and scuffed up by the kids wearing their shoes.
Joe Flynn was only 49 in this episode! (and had just turned 49 two months earlier) look at a 49 year old now, in 2021! Joe would look like a much older man compared to someone that age now.
brachio1000 Right. They were unaware of most music. They didn’t even know jazz references. I guess they mostly listened to big band/swing era and show tunes as they seemed pretty knowledgeable of those kinds of songs. It would always be maybe one or two panelists who were somewhere near the know.
@@MsTexas73: At various times, I've noticed, they were unaware of "The Book of Love," Smokey Robinson, Chuck Berry, and SERGEANT PEPPER, among much else. Irritating to me, but it probably shouldn't be; I'm the same with today's music.
Charles is frequently last one done as well. The acoustics must've been horrible as evidenced by how often the celebs or contestants ask for the questions to be repeated.
Since the only middle finger I see in the intro belongs to Richard Dawson, I'll guess that that's who you mean. People didn't used to be so neurotic about using their middle finger for typical finger 'activities' such as pointing, which makes sense because it's the longest finger on most hands. My father regularly used his middle finger as a pointer. Sometimes a finger is just a finger.
I really don't think that's Richard giving anyone the finger. He had an unusual way of stretching out his hands -- it might have been a nervous tic? -- and he often used his middle and ring finger in the pincer grasp. (Very noticeable on Hogan's Heroes when he does this -- there are a lot of closeups of his hands because he was playing a safecracker/pickpocket.) I agree it's unusual, but I think it's a mistake to read anything into it.
Gene would use his index finger as well when pushing the button on the toaster, I guess that wasn't a bird back then.. Althou I have seen Gene scratch his forehead with his middle finger at times.. ;0)
Joe Flynn died just a few months after taping this episode, of a heart attack in his swimming pool. According to IMDb : “he had a cast on his broken leg, and his body was found at the pool’s bottom, held down by the weight of his cast.” He was 49 years old.
10-12 years ago, I saw a documentary about Match Game. In the documentary, one of the ex-contestants confessed that for lunch, the entire group usually went to a restaurant together. Often their lunch was a “liquid lunch”. When they came back from lunch to continue the show, it sometimes got pretty loud and zany. My guess is that this episode is one of those “after lunch” shows.
Part of the story sounds very possible, but I'd seriously doubt the contestants would be asked to pal around with the celebs. In the MatchGame documentary, one of the crew stated there were a lot of pills on the set. That shouldn't have surprised anyone (it was the 70's) but it did surprise me. Most of the celebs had a squeaky clean images. It'd explain a lot of the over the top behavior though.
He did. And he apologized, but the die was cast. Lol. One of my BFFs got her PhD at Eastman and although it was a long-ass drive from NYC, I always enjoyed visiting her there. It's a cool city. Actually I trekked up there to see two other friends several years prior (my memory has now been jogged) and I thought it was great. This is the first time I've heard anyone utter the word "Rottenchester." But it's just one of those dumb things people say, like "Homebroken" instead of Hoboken, even after Sinatra's hometown became unaffordably upscale.
@@annika_panicka That area will always have a special place in my heart, it's home to some of the warmest and friendliest people I've ever met. Must be something in the water.
@@npxmnpxm Oh - I just realized I sing in a choir with a soprano who's from there. (None of the people I mentioned were natives.) She's totally the type to say "Rottenchester" for shits-n-giggles. Next time I'm allowed out of my padded cell, I'll bring it up before rehearsal. (Natch, we're on coronahiatus.)
Richard was so lively and animated when he was second banana and working hard to get his own show. It was almost an anticlimax when he finally landed one and he allowed himself to power down.
Yeah, I am not feeling the little girl look on a grown ass woman. But I know that was the style then. And some hairstyles today seem too young for certain age groups; and yet people still wear them.
FYIZ: I can't be 100% sure, but A sock hop was most likely created for a school dance in the school gym where street shoes were not allowed , so everyone just took off their shoes.
I recently noticed that, lol Seems like alot of the celebrities on this show had trouble spelling , Gene's always saying spelling doesn't matter,, lol, Either the celebrities went to some bad schools or most of them were just messing with us, but Brett, I think she truly was illiterate, lol
This polyester is killing me!!! I remember wearing things like that. Just awful. The suits don't move. The ties are 8 inch thick and those collars. Why did we wear those collars.
Right now in America Celebrates are not looking so good! There are a few looking really good. Like Stallone And Mel Gibson and a few others. Betty white was a class act!
ROFL! Another fine episode! ;0) ROFL! Love ya Gene! ;0) ROFL! Love ya Betty! ;0) ROFL! Love ya Charles! ;0) ROFL! Love ya Joe! ;0) Just two weeks Gene. ;0) bra.. Psoris! Dialerria! rear! Love your slip up Gene! ;0) Love that you don't take yourself too seriously.. ;0) I thought they couldn't sing that song on tv as it would cost them too much money.. ;0)
Meriwether-Iverson, round 1, question A: "The truth is, Lola doesn't have much of a body, so the best part is what her GRASS SKIRT says." (Bzzt!) Round 2, question B: (lay out; see previous video) Question A: "They said she could wash bowls in it, so she assumed that included her TOILET BOWL. Not a pretty sight." (Bzzt!) Super Match: BUNNY Meriwether-Videl, round 1, question B: "So are you saying frog legs *don't* make you TURN GREEN?" (Bzzt!) Question A: "For the record, Joe, it's THE *HEARTBREAK* OF P-S-O-R-I-A-S-I-S." (Bzzt!) Round 2, question B: "Am I the only one who remembers the actual story? His MAGIC RING, of course." (Bzzt!)
@@calvada1 Which Bobby Jo? There were two. Pat Woodell and Lori Saunders. For the record, there were also three Billie Jos. Jeanine Riley, Gunilla Hutton, and Meredith MacRae. Linda Kaye Henning (Betty Jo) was the only Bradley girl to last for the entire run of the series.
Lol - it took me around 75 episodes before I started to really understand peoples' grievances with her, but she can be terribly annoying, disruptive, egocentric and disrespectful, mainly of the fact that time is limited and that contestants are nervous and taking the game seriously (while still being part of the mayhem and fun) as they stand to win a fair amount of money. I used to defend her because she can be quite witty and does occasionally try to be a team player, and she can be very sweet toward some of the contestants (even pretty young things, which is surprising), but right now she is working my last nerve. And the sparring with Betty White that she started has reached a point where Betty can no longer let it just roll off her shoulders. It's really unpleasant to watch that. And yet the viewership of the day seemed to love Brett Somers. She was a fan favorite in the '70s and into the '80s, I think. Most of them must have been inebriated on one substance or another. Lol
annika Have you watched Behind the Blanks? If not I highly suggest. It will clear you A LOT of your misunderstanding with this show and the main people.
@@MsTexas73 I have not. I didn't realize I had made enough opinionated comments to reveal my ignorance, but the one above is pretty long. I must have been after-lunch drunk, although I don't drink so whatever the equivalent level of incoherent is for me, I was.
Fun fact. The contestant, Les, went on to win the next game then match Betty White twice to win another $5,000. This took his total winnings to over $14,000 which at the time set the record for Match Game.
Richard Dawson seemed quite happy in this episode. Maybe because he enjoyed the break in filming. Last episode 12/23/73 this one 1/5/74. He’ll soon start getting a bit fed up again perhaps.
Didn’t Gene make a really big mistake here? I thought whenever there was a tie game they wiped the slate clean and started from scratch. Instead he gave it to Brenda be telling her she only needed one to win, which of course she did win. I wonder if they called the other contestant back later on. Or am I totally wrong about this? Enlighten me please.
This must have aired on 17 January. That was Betty's actual birthday. That was a Thursday, by the way. The numbering indicates that this should have been a Monday.
Too early, only the first taping of the day.. Gene was just silly sometimes, part of his charm, at least to me.. ;0) It also came out depending who was on the panel that week, like this week Betty is back.. ;0)
This show was so full of bloopers, and that's what made it so funny
She was always absolutely wonderful.
And Gene was right, Betty would be with the show until the very end, appearing on the last week of Match Game.
And surviving in general.
Thriving.
Brad Stephan Richard Dawson once said Betty is the happiest person he knows. Gene said not a cruel thingto say about anybody.
Betty White also participated in the version of Match Game that Gene Rayburn tried to kickstart in the 1960s. The 1960s Match Game wasn’t nearly as funny as these from the 1970s. Point is…Betty was with the show from beginning to end.
Another set of notes, and Charles is back! Recorded on 5th January 1974, the first recording of the year.
First up, it's the only week of character actor Joe Flynn, forever immortalised in his role as Captain Binghamton in the sitcom McHale's Navy. He also appeared in many Disney films including The Love Bug, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, The Barefoot Executive and Superdad, the latter of which he promotes in this episode. He also hosted a television revival of the radio panel show It Pays To Be Ignorant, of which Charles was a semi-regular. Later in the year Flynn would go on to record his role as Snoops, the dogsbody to Madame Medusa, in the animated film The Rescuers. Sadly, shortly after finishing work on the film, Flynn was found dead in his swimming pool, the official report saying he had a heart attack while swimming and drowned. He was 49.
Also the only week for actress and singer Linda Kaye Henning, the daughter of TV producer Paul Henning, creator of sitcoms The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres and Petticoat Junction, the latter of which starred Linda. She has also made guest appearances on The Tonight Show, The Ed Sullivan Show, Adam-12, Happy Days and Mork & Mindy. Her game show appearances were numerous to say the least, as she's been on Hollywood Squares, Family Feud, Tattletales, Showoffs, Body Language, Password and Password Plus. Linda Kaye Henning and Betty White are still with us as of March 2018.
Speaking of Betty, it's her Ninth week, and this episode was broadcast on 17th January 1974, her 52nd birthday.
Technical note: This is the first episode in which Gene collects his ECM-51 wand from the panelists' desk rather than carrying it on with him.
High schools were holding sock hop dances even after this program aired. Dancing in socks didn't scrape or scratch wooden gymnasium floors.
We even had them occasionally at the roller skating rink.
Happy Brithday to Betty! Shes 99 today
One of the best shows ! So much fun to watch ,miss it!
20:18 Time is Up, Ladies
Bless her, Betty White... her youthful joyful spirit is what kept her alive for 99 years...
How old are you, Betty? 21:14 "I'm too old!!!" such a joy to watch her here... 👏👏👏👏
This is the earliest episode of Match Game that Game Show Network airs. The network airs the episodes from this one (from January 1974) to episode 246, from July, 1974, then skips to episode 921 from March, 1977 and airs a block ending with episode 1215 from May, 1978 (right before Richard started getting really dour).
It's funny that they plugged the Disney movie _Superdad_. It also starred Bob Crane.
I think I remember seeing Joe Flynn in a Disney film that was shown on TV while I flipped through the channels one day. It was called "The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes", and its star back in 1969 was a young man named Kurt Russell.
You're correct, that was Joe Flynn.
He also played Mr. Snoops in animated classic Disney's The Rescuers.
Joe Flynn was all over sitcom television and Disney movies throughout the 60s (1950s-early 70s), and Kurt Russell was in tons of Disney programs as well as some movies. He was in so many Disney productions that I was surprised to find him in anything else back then.
COOL learning about Gene's Slavic roots, his real last name Rubessa, pronounced: Rubesha. :)
Sad to learn about the short life of Joe Flynn. The man seemed to have, if not the right answers, the funniest (16:30).
The scene that you marked is (in my opinion) one of the funniest in all of Match Game history. The way Joe busted up laughing cracked up the entire audience.
Richard Dawson jokes about dishwasher bras with cups and saucers! Lol 9:23
He was one of the quickest wits in the West [and East, down South or up North]. I adore him. I want to go back in time and have him fill in my blank.😉
And now Betty White is 99 years young
So, if you didn’t win any money, your consolation prizes were some bed linens, floor wax shine, and Rice a Roni. 😂
Not too bad huh? LoL
Better than Lee press-on nails.
We had sock hope at my high school in the 70's. Of course I wasn't in cool LA like these folks
Ira should have also explained that sock hops were done because the schools didn’t want GYN floors scratched and scuffed up by the kids wearing their shoes.
16:34 oh the heartbreak of psoriasis
Watching this on what would have been Betty's 100th birthday.
I think everyone in the world was hoping she would make 100.
Just 2 more weeks and she woulda made it
@@kristabrewer6736 with leap years, she more than made it
A huge bday party was planned for her 100th too
"Tale" was damn clever!
I thought that Janet girl was Punky Brewster! LOL
What lovely and uniquely designed blazer outfits this lovely lady Brenda Lee wore !
Brett may be a pain but she can take a joke to herself.
Yes, she laughs as hard as the others.
Joe Flynn was only 49 in this episode! (and had just turned 49 two months earlier) look at a 49 year old now, in 2021! Joe would look like a much older man compared to someone that age now.
Gene and the panelists, particularly Brett, are always utterly unaware of rock and roll, even when it's in the past -- 11: 25.
brachio1000 Right. They were unaware of most music. They didn’t even know jazz references. I guess they mostly listened to big band/swing era and show tunes as they seemed pretty knowledgeable of those kinds of songs. It would always be maybe one or two panelists who were somewhere near the know.
@@MsTexas73: At various times, I've noticed, they were unaware of "The Book of Love," Smokey Robinson, Chuck Berry, and SERGEANT PEPPER, among much else. Irritating to me, but it probably shouldn't be; I'm the same with today's music.
As a group they seemed seemed very tuned into Broadway theater but they seemed clueless on current events.
I've watched a few of these tonight, and I've noticed that Brett is almost always the last one writing XD
she drives me nuts
Charles is frequently last one done as well. The acoustics must've been horrible as evidenced by how often the celebs or contestants ask for the questions to be repeated.
Someone told Janet she looks like Mary Anne from Gilligan’s Island.
Panelists:
1. Joe Flynn
2. Brett Somers
3. Charles Nelson Reilly
4. Linda Kate Henning
5. Richard Dawson
6. Betty White
Charles seems to show more “Gay” in this episode 😂✅👍🏻
Rotton-chester, NY.
“No you’re not hallucinating”
That subtle bird flip in the intro
Since the only middle finger I see in the intro belongs to Richard Dawson, I'll guess that that's who you mean. People didn't used to be so neurotic about using their middle finger for typical finger 'activities' such as pointing, which makes sense because it's the longest finger on most hands. My father regularly used his middle finger as a pointer. Sometimes a finger is just a finger.
I really don't think that's Richard giving anyone the finger. He had an unusual way of stretching out his hands -- it might have been a nervous tic? -- and he often used his middle and ring finger in the pincer grasp. (Very noticeable on Hogan's Heroes when he does this -- there are a lot of closeups of his hands because he was playing a safecracker/pickpocket.) I agree it's unusual, but I think it's a mistake to read anything into it.
Gene would use his index finger as well when pushing the button on the toaster, I guess that wasn't a bird back then.. Althou I have seen Gene scratch his forehead with his middle finger at times.. ;0)
16:10 I'd like to see the melodramatic old commercials they're referencing
Another scene from the MG funnies moments and bloopers video on youtube.. ;0) I need to write these down sometime.. ;0)
Brett coughing all the time, annoying while using my headphones. lol
Joe Flynn died just a few months after taping this episode, of a heart attack in his swimming pool. According to IMDb : “he had a cast on his broken leg, and his body was found at the pool’s bottom, held down by the weight of his cast.” He was 49 years old.
So ssd as i never heard about his cast. He died a few months after this show. So sorry. I enjoyed him in mchales navy.
10-12 years ago, I saw a documentary about Match Game. In the documentary, one of the ex-contestants confessed that for lunch, the entire group usually went to a restaurant together. Often their lunch was a “liquid lunch”.
When they came back from lunch to continue the show, it sometimes got pretty loud and zany. My guess is that this episode is one of those “after lunch” shows.
Part of the story sounds very possible, but I'd seriously doubt the contestants would be asked to pal around with the celebs. In the MatchGame documentary, one of the crew stated there were a lot of pills on the set. That shouldn't have surprised anyone (it was the 70's) but it did surprise me. Most of the celebs had a squeaky clean images. It'd explain a lot of the over the top behavior though.
Linda Henning was the voice of Jethrine on the Beverly Hillbillies, her dad created the show
She was Betty Jo Bradley on "Petticoat Junction", the youngest Bradley sister.
I know. It always amazed me how Jethine's mouth was always in sync with Linda K's voice
8:00 - No, you're not hallucinating 😂
Did he really say "Rottenchester"?! How dare you!
He did. And he apologized, but the die was cast. Lol. One of my BFFs got her PhD at Eastman and although it was a long-ass drive from NYC, I always enjoyed visiting her there. It's a cool city. Actually I trekked up there to see two other friends several years prior (my memory has now been jogged) and I thought it was great. This is the first time I've heard anyone utter the word "Rottenchester." But it's just one of those dumb things people say, like "Homebroken" instead of Hoboken, even after Sinatra's hometown became unaffordably upscale.
@@annika_panicka That area will always have a special place in my heart, it's home to some of the warmest and friendliest people I've ever met. Must be something in the water.
@@npxmnpxm Oh - I just realized I sing in a choir with a soprano who's from there. (None of the people I mentioned were natives.) She's totally the type to say "Rottenchester" for shits-n-giggles. Next time I'm allowed out of my padded cell, I'll bring it up before rehearsal. (Natch, we're on coronahiatus.)
Joe passed away in July of 1974, just a few months after this show
I started school in the 80's and WE had sock hops
January 17, 2021: Happy 99th Birthday, Betty!
Wish she lived to a 100 at least. Sadly missed!! Feb 23 2022
Love this episode . Happy Birthday Betty
Richard was so lively and animated when he was second banana and working hard to get his own show. It was almost an anticlimax when he finally landed one and he allowed himself to power down.
I always thought of him as first banana and then the other but then I not sure.. ;0)
Sick of listening to Somers coughing.
Love you Betty White!
Rest In Peace
I almost saved 21:27 as a screen shot to make it my laptop's wallpaper. Almost.
It's funny when you come up with answers and they're things that haven't been invented yet. Blank Hop. I said Hip Hop.
Pigtails and yellow cottons ribbons, damn. My sister had those in 1094, and she was four years old, lol.
1094?! How the hell old *are* you two now?!
Barbe 🤣
Yeah, I am not feeling the little girl look on a grown ass woman. But I know that was the style then. And some hairstyles today seem too young for certain age groups; and yet people still wear them.
I heard that pigtails and yellow ribbons were the style back in the 1090s. Lol
@@dannyboyy8465 Hard to tell. They covered them up with those tall pointy hats.
Happy 52nd Birthday Betty 🥳 🎊🎉🎂🎁🎈
Lol
Betty White - she’s awesome
Betty White and Rice A Roni are all that’s still around. Gene was right, she be there til the end!
Rice A Roni aint bad. I have some in the kitchen cabinet. It's the San Francisco treat you know?
So Gene knows the answers in advance? He says he didn’t understand sock hop even after Ira explained it to him before the show.
He lived through the 50s when sock hops started. He also had a daughter who wouldve probably used the term sock hop.
FYIZ: I can't be 100% sure, but A sock hop was most likely created for a school dance in the school gym where street shoes were not allowed , so everyone just took off their shoes.
Brett's hacking up lung butter into the microphone is enough to make anyone want to fro up.
20:57 BAck then you had the family of the Smith Sisters $100 for singing that
Holly crap! Don Draper appears on Match Game.
Maybe Mad Men patterned Draper after this guy, they just changed the local from Rochester to Madison Avenue!
Gotta love the after lunch shows...
Too early, just the first taping of the day..
2022 answer: HIP hop..
Not in 1974.
Brett and her backwards "Y"'s
I wonder if that's a left-handed thing. I know another leftie who writes her y's like that.
graperonto No. I am left-handed and I form my letters correctly.
I recently noticed that, lol
Seems like alot of the celebrities on this show had trouble spelling , Gene's always saying spelling doesn't matter,, lol,
Either the celebrities went to some bad schools or most of them were just messing with us, but Brett, I think she truly was illiterate, lol
@@graperontoBrett went to school in the 1800's she only got to the 6th grade. It was sad.
This polyester is killing me!!! I remember wearing things like that. Just awful. The suits don't move. The ties are 8 inch thick and those collars. Why did we wear those collars.
It was cool at the time. Don't forget the plaids and platform shoes. It was a crazy time.
Right now in America Celebrates are not looking so good! There are a few looking really good. Like Stallone And Mel Gibson and a few others. Betty white was a class act!
Linda Kaye Henning not Kate as printed above
The participants’ hairstyles are very 70s
Just imagine living to 99 and even making a comeback to showbiz at the age of 90. The Snickers commercials.
Super Dad's main star was Bob Crane that Flynn left failed to mention.
ROFL! Another fine episode! ;0) ROFL! Love ya Gene! ;0) ROFL! Love ya Betty! ;0) ROFL! Love ya Charles! ;0) ROFL! Love ya Joe! ;0) Just two weeks Gene. ;0) bra.. Psoris! Dialerria! rear! Love your slip up Gene! ;0) Love that you don't take yourself too seriously.. ;0) I thought they couldn't sing that song on tv as it would cost them too much money.. ;0)
Meriwether-Iverson, round 1, question A: "The truth is, Lola doesn't have much of a body, so the best part is what her GRASS SKIRT says." (Bzzt!)
Round 2, question B: (lay out; see previous video)
Question A: "They said she could wash bowls in it, so she assumed that included her TOILET BOWL. Not a pretty sight." (Bzzt!)
Super Match: BUNNY
Meriwether-Videl, round 1, question B: "So are you saying frog legs *don't* make you TURN GREEN?" (Bzzt!)
Question A: "For the record, Joe, it's THE *HEARTBREAK* OF P-S-O-R-I-A-S-I-S." (Bzzt!)
Round 2, question B: "Am I the only one who remembers the actual story? His MAGIC RING, of course." (Bzzt!)
It was Betty White's 52nd birthday! If she only knew she was only half way there!
Betty Jo Bradley was always so hot. "lots of curves you bet, and even more when you get, to the Junction, Petticoat Junction."
max stax Bobby Jo for me.
@@calvada1 Which Bobby Jo? There were two. Pat Woodell and Lori Saunders. For the record, there were also three Billie Jos. Jeanine Riley, Gunilla Hutton, and Meredith MacRae. Linda Kaye Henning (Betty Jo) was the only Bradley girl to last for the entire run of the series.
I was d cups in the dish washer...
Happy birthday to the amazing Betty white. Love to see Joe Flynn.
time was called
She’s amazing!
I'm pretty sure I hear Marlena laughing in the audience...
Brett needs to go, that coughing and need for attention was as annoying as anything I can stand. It was infernal.
Gene Rayburn didn't appear to have any great love for her, I was always surprised she was a keeper.
Lol - it took me around 75 episodes before I started to really understand peoples' grievances with her, but she can be terribly annoying, disruptive, egocentric and disrespectful, mainly of the fact that time is limited and that contestants are nervous and taking the game seriously (while still being part of the mayhem and fun) as they stand to win a fair amount of money. I used to defend her because she can be quite witty and does occasionally try to be a team player, and she can be very sweet toward some of the contestants (even pretty young things, which is surprising), but right now she is working my last nerve. And the sparring with Betty White that she started has reached a point where Betty can no longer let it just roll off her shoulders. It's really unpleasant to watch that. And yet the viewership of the day seemed to love Brett Somers. She was a fan favorite in the '70s and into the '80s, I think. Most of them must have been inebriated on one substance or another. Lol
annika Have you watched Behind the Blanks? If not I highly suggest. It will clear you A LOT of your misunderstanding with this show and the main people.
@@MsTexas73 I have not. I didn't realize I had made enough opinionated comments to reveal my ignorance, but the one above is pretty long. I must have been after-lunch drunk, although I don't drink so whatever the equivalent level of incoherent is for me, I was.
@@bradstephan7886 Well they were friends but I guess sometimes she even gets on his nerves on set.. ;0)
Betty is still alive and working, even during the pandemic, in the summer of 2020!
She was the best!
20:18
Fun fact. The contestant, Les, went on to win the next game then match Betty White twice to win another $5,000. This took his total winnings to over $14,000 which at the time set the record for Match Game.
20:19
She’s so pretty
This is obviously a game after they drank a bit
Brett drank every after every game.
Richard Dawson seemed quite happy in this episode. Maybe because he enjoyed the break in filming. Last episode 12/23/73 this one 1/5/74. He’ll soon start getting a bit fed up again perhaps.
RIP BETTY WHITE 🥰
What the heck is wrong with Breannas hair ?Elizabeth 😇
Happy birthday Betty white
I love Charles but he never quite mastered wearing a toupee.
Didn’t Gene make a really big mistake here? I thought whenever there was a tie game they wiped the slate clean and started from scratch. Instead he gave it to Brenda be telling her she only needed one to win, which of course she did win. I wonder if they called the other contestant back later on. Or am I totally wrong about this? Enlighten me please.
You would be right, except it was only half way through the round when he pointed out the tied score.
Melissa Ellen you’re right - how did I miss that?!?!? Duh. Thanks Melissa.
@@mlg1948 It all happened kind of quickly, so it would be easy to get mixed up.
Betty is not 73
no time to continue the game
Sally Field?
This must have aired on 17 January. That was Betty's actual birthday. That was a Thursday, by the way. The numbering indicates that this should have been a Monday.
BRETT always tries her best NOT TO MATCH THE CONTESTANTS! The drunker she gets the worst she gets. She is not funny whatsoever.
I never liked the practice of changing panels in the middle of the game.
If Betty was 73 in 1974, that means she would have been 120 today.
She was 52
@@engenestanley5871She looked older. She had that grandma look about her.
i think they had that drink on a break,Gene acts a little too silly...
Too early, only the first taping of the day.. Gene was just silly sometimes, part of his charm, at least to me.. ;0) It also came out depending who was on the panel that week, like this week Betty is back.. ;0)
Gene mentioned many times that he couldn't drink. He had a bad liver.
they all seem kind of tipsy....
Stupidest game show ever made.
And Thank God for that.
My mom hated it. She said it promoted conformity.