If you’re like me, when you hear the name Gene Rayburn, you think about the 1970s game show Match Game. This was the show to ...

Gene Rayburn hosted Match Game from 1962-1968 and again from 1973-1984, and he presided over the lunacy with an impish glee and a refreshingly impatient attitude. Match Game could be a circus.

On and off between 1962 and 1982, Gene Rayburn served as the host of various versions of the Classic TV game show Match Game. In between, he got his start in radio, worked with Steve Allen on The ...

Gene Rayburn gave his all to hosting Match Game for more than two decades. As an alluring and influential figure in the game show circuit, Gene earned the love of millions of fans all over the world.

GENE Rayburn was the most frightening of all game-show hosts. Unlike most of the other hosts of the 1960s and ’70s – beaming mannequins such as Bob Eubanks (“The Newlywed Game”) or Wink ...

Rayburn was known, though, for never condescending to contestants in the manner of some quiz show hosts of the time. “Oh, I couldn’t have done that. I think it was a natural thing for me.

– I was shocked and saddened to learn that Gene Rayburn had passed on. When was he born, and how did he die? The veteran game-show host — best-known for presiding over “Match Game” — was ...

When Gene Rayburn hosted ‘The Match Game” in the 1970s, the celebrities on the panel, such as Brett Somers and Charles Nelson Reilly, were infamous, and probably inebriated to say the least ...

You remember Gene Rayburn, the quizmaster of ‘‘The Match Game’’? The premise of this long-running show was delightfully simple. Gene would ask six celebrities a question, often a fill-in ...

Back in the 1970s, genial Match Game host Gene Rayburn became famous for having the longest microphone in the business, an ungainly, antenna-like apparatus that he sometimes wielded like a broadsword.