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 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 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.

Here are eight tidbits you may not have known about “Match Game,” its original host, Gene Rayburn, and the other crazies who appeared on the show. 1. BEFORE “MATCH GAME,” THERE WAS “THE ...

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.

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 ...

The classic game show’s panelist Charles Nelson Reilly was fond of saying, ... He even sent a lengthy memo to Gene Rayburn once, chastising him for clowning around and “getting laughs.” ...

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 ...

Richard Dawson was most famous for Family Feud, but he was the most fun on Match Game, the party show of the '70s. ... Match Game was hosted for most of its run by Gene Rayburn, ...

– 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 ...

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 ...