Match Game 76 (Episode 786) (Welcome Lynn Deerfield)
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- This is pretty neat. Lynn Deerfield was a contestant on the original Match Game!
Joey Bishop, Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly, Lynn Deerfield, Richard Dawson, and Betty White
H/H match update and preview of the week ahead:
...
Here we go with week 158 of our favorite classic game show (the final week will be 291). These episodes were taped on July 11, 1976 and first aired in early September of 1976.
Our three stalwart regulars are all in fine fettle and joined by:
~~~Semi-regular Betty White, back after two weeks off. This will be her 39th week (of 75). Betty sits at a comfortable 50% accuracy rating, between Charles with 51.0% and Fannie with 48.0%. ---- Betty White trivia: She always held down the sixth seat (all 75 weeks), and she and Fannie - the two most frequent semi-regulars - never once appeared together on the Match Game '7x panel!
~~~Joey Bishop, who will be appearing for his 4th week of 5 total. He last visited in 746-750, and his final week will come in episodes 871-875. He has yet to have a shot at the head-to-head.
~~~And Lynn Deerfield, another one-and-done guest panelist.
Last week we had a rare treat seeing Fannie play the head-to-head twice (chosen by two different contestants, no less). Even so, looking back at the past ten weeks, the H/H has been an almost exclusive Richard Dawson segment - the only other celebs who played during all that time were Fannie (4 times) and Brett (5 times). That left Richard with the lion's share: 43 questions. But he's done well, matching an impressive 20 of those 43 times.
This week, my top H/H wish is for Charles to play again. It's well past time. He hasn't been called on since his mega-run of 7 + 2 attempts back in 707-717, so we're looking at nearly 70 episodes with no CNR H/H action! How is that even legal?
Betty would be a welcome choice, as always.
And of course, I always get a kick out seeing Brett freak out about being chosen to play the head-to-head.
Anyway, whatever happens in the H/H this week, I plan to just sit back and enjoy some 1976-style ________!
~~~Today's action:
We start right off with the Super-Match because our new champion won his first game in the waning moments of the prior show.
Today's audience match question: "________ Lark" (My thoughts: Sky, Happy as a, On a)
The celebs: Brett (Sky), Betty (Meadow), and Richard (Mud)
The choice: Meadow
The answers: Happy as a, Sky, Meadow
(I just remembered that Meadowlark Lemon was a well-known personality around that time, playing for the Harlem Globetrotters. There were even two Saturday-morning Hanna-Barbera cartoon series about the Globetrotters in the 1970s, as well as a live-action Saturday-morning TV show in 1974-75 on which Lemon appeared. I'm sure all that helped make "meadowlark" more memorable to the audience polled for this question.)
Well, our champion chose the best suggestion (from Betty). Now who will he choose for the head-to-head? He called on Brett first, so she's possible. He took Betty's suggestion (and he goes up for his hug/kiss), so she's a possibility. And you can never rule out Richard. A lot of contestants "save" him for the third suggestion, but still end up going with him for the head-to-head.
If I were forced to guess, I'd say Betty, with Brett my number two guess. Let's see...
Well I'm doubly wrong! It's Richard again. ("Quelle surprise!") As I reported in the preview above, Richard has played 43 of the past 52 head-to-head questions, and he's matched an impressive 20 of those 43 times. However, he's missed the last five in a row. He rarely misses six in a row (his record is 8 misses in a row).
Today's H/H question: "Boxing _______ "
(My first thought was Helena. Just kidding. I'll say Glove. That's got to be the definitive answer because it's the most generic, common expression, no? -- I doubt Richard would say Boxing Day because he would know that an American would be unlikely to think of it.)
Richard doesn't take long to think. His answer is definitely longer than "day," and I have a feeling he wrote "glove," but I can't rule out "ring."
The champion says "Ring." The camera cuts to Richard quickly, and he winces, which is uncharacteristic of him (usually he hides any telling reaction). This leads me to believe they didn't match, but you can never be sure with Richard. (He is an actor after all!) The audience voices displeasure with the contestant's answer. I honestly think it's possible, but I still think "glove" is the better choice...
Hmm. Richard rattles off an impressive list, including "glove," but he wrote "Match." (I think that was a better choice than "ring," but I maintain that my answer is still the best!)
No match today.
(Richard maintains a razor-thin lead over Brett.)
Here's our updated leader board showing the 11 celebs with at least 3 H/H matches, ranked by accuracy:
(Note: An asterisk before a celebrity's name signifies that she has "retired" from the show and her H/H stats are now complete.)
(Note: For tied scores, I consider the one with the greater number of matches to be higher; if the matches are equal, the celeb who first achieved that score goes on top.)
Orson Bean - 100% (4 wins in 4 attempts).
Gary Burghoff - 83.3% (5 wins in 6 attempts).
TIE: (*)Jo Anne Worley - 75% (3 wins in 4 attempts).
TIE: Joyce Bulifant - 75% (3 wins in 4 attempts).
Charles - 51.0% (27 wins in 53 attempts).
Betty - 50.0% (18 wins in 36 attempts).
Fannie - 48.0% (12 wins in 25 attempts).
Jo Ann Pflug - 44.4% (8 wins in 18 attempts).
Richard - 41.3% (195 wins in 472 attempts).
Brett - 41.3% (26 wins in 63 attempts).
Bert Convy - 33.3% (5 wins in 15 attempts).
*These stats include every head-to-head match from episode 1 through 786, excluding the lost/missing/damaged episodes: 31, 32, 33, 311, 312, 313, 324, 325, and 645. (As per MatchGameProductions, these episodes "are nowhere to be found and also aren't in the Goodson/Todman Library. Sadly, looks like they are lost forever!")
Betty While passed on December 31, 2021, at the age of 99 years old. She would have been 100 years old on January 17, 2022. They were planning a birthday celebration for her, and are still going to do some kind of tribute for her.
Funny, after Ms White took the Covid shot, she died a month later.
Oh Betty, you're so amazing
I watch one of these episodes just about every night--pretty good stuff.
It's a great little escape from the nightmare of 2021.
You can stop after just one?
Lynn Deerfield, who played Holly on the soap opera "Guiding Light" during the 1970s, died Nov. 11, 2011, of undetermined causes at her home in University City. Ms. Deerfield, whose original name was Rosalind Jane Hirschfeld, was 61.
Mike is adorable!
I love Joey's humor. Grumpy old man 😄
Brett is totally right about him being cute whenever he acts all huffy, haha!
Kudos to Betty for her lesson on primatology!
Dang ... Lynn Deerfield was a little hottie ... sure miss the 60's and 70' they were such simpler times.
Lynn Deerfield played the role of Holly Bauer on the Guiding Light. She was replaced by Maureen Garrett about a year later. Which would be 1977 when the character was then married to Roger Thorpe.
She looks a bit like Jessica Lange.
I'd never heard of Lynn Deerfield,but then to be fair--she'd never heard of me either.
I miss this show
RIP Betty
Lynn Deerfield was so lovely.
Mikes a nice guy
12:28 I like how Brett is reaching over and messing with Joey's paper, haha... I honestly find their dynamic so endearing; her rowdy mischief-making is a perfect juxtaposition for his dour, deadpan style. And they're even wearing complementary shirts here: Joey with the vertical stripes, and Brett with the horizontal stripes!
Lynn Deerfield, who played Holly on the soap opera "Guiding Light" during the 1970s, died Friday (Nov. 11, 2011) of undetermined causes at her home in University City, her family said Monday.
Ms. Deerfield, whose original name was Rosalind Jane Hirschfeld, was 61.
Ms. Deerfield was the youngest of three children born to Madelienne Moscowitz and antiques dealer Richard Hirschfeld. She graduated in 1967 from Ladue Horton Watkins High School, where she starred as Emily in "Our Town," and in other productions. Her family also recalled her as a gifted pianist.
After a year at St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley, she moved to New York City, where she trained as an actor at the prestigious Neighborhood Playhouse. Her classmates included Meryl Streep and Diane Keaton.
She changed her name and chose Deerfield because Hirschfeld, when translated from German to English, is Deerfield, said her sister-in-law, Adrienne Hirschfeld.
In 1970, she was cast as a new star in the long-running CBS soap opera "Guiding Light." She was a regular on the show for about six years.
Ms. Deerfield married three times. Her first husband was Paul Mates, a Wall Street lawyer who survives her.
In 1975, Ms. Deerfield married Bill Beutel, the late ABC news anchor. After they divorced, Ms. Deerfield married Michael Kelly. He preceded her in death.
She returned to St. Louis in the mid-1980s.
The only panelist who's still alive as of 06/26/2020 is Ms. Betty.
Still going strong Dec 2021 at 99 years old.
Sad, but she just missed the century mark by a couple of weeks.
Not anymore 0:34
The funniest show ever created
Gene would agree.
14:58 Betty, "Yes, just reminiscing"! 😂
Lynn Deerfield is adorable.
Was she ever on the show again?
@@sdlively27 No , died at 61 in 2011
@@joeambrose3260 How sad, thank you! ;0)
I love Brett's "Good Gravy Marie".
Me, too!
Me too
But what does it mean?
Only Betty White still with us from this lineup as of April 2017.
born in 1922, she's now *95*!!.....
I adore Betty ! But WHO DOESN'T ? :)
She already had been appearing on television for over 30 years when this was filmed.
Dec 2021 still around at 99 y.o.
Unfortunately, didn't quite make it to the century mark. Sad.
Panelists:
1. Joey Bishop
2. Brett Somers
3. Charles Nelson Reilly
4. Lynn Deerfield
5. Richard Dawson
6. Betty White
Lynn Deerfield died in 2011 at age 61. RIP.
😥
Never heard of her until I saw her here, was married to Bill Beutel, who was an ABC newsman in NYC
R I P
I'm feeling a lot of love and attraction to Mike Eskew! Such a nice, sweet man. And so cute!
I'm pretty sure he was a closeted gay man. I was married to a man very much like Mike. I just read Mike's obituary online. He was married to a woman nine years his senior and they had no children. She died in 1976, same year Mike was on Match Game. He loved dogs, which was his source of unconditional love ❤ He moved to California to start a new life.
Love you, Mike!
Any of his relatives reading this, who disagree with me. Well, that's too bad. I have a lot more experience in this area than you.
That's interesting because in episode 785 when it was suggested he could move to California he said he would if it had coal mines. Looks like that put a seed in his mind.
@@tmayorca8770 yep
Did you ever hear from any of his relatives?
Decent outfit for Gene, finally.
Gene: "It´s so much fun being in show business". Gene has no handle how to steer the show - he`s like one of the six "stars" or guests: just having fun - like a sergeant being buddies with the recruits. Well, he´s not there just to have fun - he supposed to be WORKING.
Gene *is* doing his job. Match Game was popular because of the fun and camaraderie of the host, the panelists, and the contestants.
not all life is Hollywood gene, some people live in the real world and it sucks.
But when life sucks, many of us look to Hollywood for the entertainment and distraction from the ‘suckiness’ 🙃😊🙃😊🙃
Dracula and the real world both BLANK.
Lynn Deerfield was a panelist on Match Game not contestant.
Brett looks like the Wicked Witch of Maine with that hairdo. Poor Jack Klugman, geez.
Yea, that's a lot of hair. Weren't they divorced at this point?
@@pencils812 Not sure. I hope so. lol
Well poor your wife, or whoevers married to you, Mike Hunt.
@@beckydutra6543 Ha ha ha so we got another woman whose feelings get hurt when I make fun of Brett Somers?
@@mikehunt4986 of course my feelings aren't hurt. I just don't like mean people period, But it's one thing to say you don't like her hair, it's another to say you feel bad for the man who married her. Now that's uncalled for. I feel sorry for my employee who married a jackass narcissist, abuser. That's the kind of person you feel bad for.
Portland Maine-iacs unite!
Starting at 8:49, was Richard, in the process of giving Lynn advice, rubbing her back?
Sure looked like it. Good old Dicky, charter member of the Hollywood Hornballs along with Jack Cassidy and Bob Crane
@@joeambrose3260 And God bless him!!!!
Can't stand Richard.
For some reason Lynn Deerfield's career ends in 1976 the same year as this.
Hmm no one for Tarzan pulling a SNAKE out of his loincloth?
That's the first thing I thought too!
That was my answer. Too risqué even for MG?
@@CousinOresama I'm pretty confident they could get away with saying "snake" because it's ambiguous enough that only people with a "dirty" mind would even make the connection. Little kids and very innocent people could easily interpret it as a jungle animal to substitute for rabbit. Now, if someone had said "one-eyed trouser snake," then I think they definitely would have cut that segment and re-taped a different answer for broadcast.
ROFL! Another good episode I think.. ;0) Sigh and it begins..
14:55 😂
With respect, never found Joey Bishop that phunny
Meadlark
Hey match game productions I got a question I can’t believe gene Rayburn yells and tells Brett to shut up in the 1978 episode did gene Rayburn apologize to Brett after the show and did he know she got 2 sons and a ex husband jack kugman I’m shocked
Oh my, Richard getting testy. At around 10:47, he snaps at Gene, calling him "Twerp-o," after Gene implies he has a bad answer. I wonder how much he was kidding there, or if he lost it for a moment.
Yes he lost it. He did look like he was containing something
Well Gene often called everybody dummies and other insults.
He can't stand anyone to say he has the wrong or bad answer. He totally dissed a contestant after she snubbed one of his answers.
Richard really did miss the point of the question in this case (as did Lynn). Steamroller = flat as a pancake. Pizza was okay, but pancake had to be the definitive answer. That said, it's hard to gauge how serious Richard was here (he is an actor, after all, and part of his job was to be a personality) but he did genuinely seem a little testy until the very end when he gave a knowing glance to the camera that suggested he was just playing. To be fair, Richard has often denigrated contestants and their "bad" answers, so he should be able to take a little criticism and/or ribbing on those rare occasions when he doesn't get a question.
Great banter ❤😂😂😂
Cough drops hadn’t been invented yet?
I don't think that would've helped her much.
And Gene yelled at her if he saw her eating anything.
I guess Joey Bishop was in the Rat Pack because they needed someone to fetch drinks and hold the coats, maybe?
JB CAN be funny..but here, as Brett said, more testy than funny...
@@dannyhill8797 I think he is stupid.
With respect, agreed
Rayburn is SO creepy and predatory
Gene was a very kind & a very funny man
Was Gene's sneeze connected to Lynn's kiss?
Seriously? 🙄
Not unless he was allergic to her perfume or cosmetics. Maybe he was allergic to Mike, the contestant he was next to at the time.
Joey Bishop is insufferable. 🙄
Probably tanked ! I think a lot of them were ! ;)
He was great with his shtick.
Akward kiss😑
Super Match, part 1: (if asked before Brett) SKY
(if asked between Brett and Betty) MEADOW
(if asked after Betty) WOOD
Part 2: MATCH
Askew-Duplessie, round 1, question B: "So the riddle is, what's flat, tasty, and goes with mashed mother-in-law? And her answer is good, but what I thought of was an OMELET." (Bzzt!)
Question A: "Hang on a second. If chimp is a match, why isn't Jane? Isn't she a primate, too? …Well, anyway, I went for a real feat of magic, and said he pulled an ELEPHANT out of there." (Bzzt!)
Round 2, question B: "Okay, judges, if you counted chimp last time, you'd just better count this one: TOOTHMARKS!" (Ding!)
Question A: "In the immortal words of John Travolta, 'Up Edna's nose with a RUBBER hose.'" (Ding!)
Joey Bishop was never funny.
I totally agree!
Totally disagree.
He was the type you either found hilarious, or not funny at all. Many comedians are that way.
The audience either loved or hated them.
Very dry humor
My kind of humor.
Has anyone seen the episode that Betty is talking about at the end of the video at 2:50?
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