Match Game PM

**Match Game PM** is the third version of the game show. It was hosted by Gene Rayburn. It ran 230 episodes over six seasons in syndication from 1975 through 1981.

The weekly nighttime series premiered 8 September 1975. It was produced by Goodson–Todman and distributed by Jim Victory Television to many ABC affiliates. This version was created with self-contained episodes. For its last two seasons, the show's affiliate count went down significantly due in large part to the daily syndicated version that debuted in September 1979

## Gameplay

The front game was originally played the same way as the daytime *Match Game* with two rounds of questions, but in the second season, a third round of questioning was added to fill time in the half-hour. The maximum score a contestant could achieve remained six points, with matched celebrities not playing subsequent questions.

Beginning with the second season, tiebreakers were conducted differently from the daytime version. A "Super Match"-style question was asked, and the contestants wrote their answers, then called on celebrities for a match. Originally, only Somers, Reilly, and Dawson played in the tiebreaker, but after Dawson's departure in 1978, all six celebrities played.

The Super Match used two audience matches, with the answer values combined and multiplied by ten for the head-to-head match, with a maximum of $10,000 available. When the star wheel was introduced, that potential payout grew to $20,000 if a contestant spun a double.

## Panelists

* Jonelle Allen
* Bill Anderson
* Daryl Anderson
* Loni Anderson
* Adam Arkin
* Ed Asner
* Patty Duke Astin
* Bob Barker
* Rona Barrett
* Jon 'Bowzer' Bauman
* Orson Bean
* Joey Bishop
* Bart Braverman
* Foster Brooks
* Joyce Brothers
* Joyce Bulifant
* Gary Burghoff
* Abe Burrows
* Jack Carter
* Brian Patrick Clarke
* Gary Collins
* Joan Collins
* Didi Conn
* Hans Conried
* Bert Convy
* Gary Crosby
* Pat Crowley
* Bill Cullen
* Jamie Lee Curtis
* Bill Daily
* Clifton Davis
* Phyllis Davis
* Richard Dawson
* Richard Deacon
* Lynn Deerfield
* Pat Delany
* Patti Deutsch
* Phyllis Diller
* Robert Donner
* Jody Donovan
* David Doyle
* Tom Dreesen
* Wesley Eure
* Melinda O. Fee
* Fannie Flagg
* Rosemary Forsyth
* Arlene Francis
* Bonnie Franklin
* Eva Gabor
* Don Galloway
* Joe Garagiola
* Dick Gautier
* Lynda Day George
* Ronny Graham
* Fred Grandy
* Holly Hallstrom
* Marvin Hamlisch
* Robert Hegyes
* Skitch Henderson
* Susan Howard
* Tab Hunter
* Peter Isacksen
* Kate Jackson
* Conrad Janis
* Arte Johnson
* Jack Jones
* Elaine Joyce
* Steve Kanaly
* Roz Kelly
* Betty Kennedy
* George Kennedy
* Sarah Kennedy
* Richard Kiel
* Dorothy Kilgallen
* Freeman King
* Jack Klugman
* Guich Koock
* Bernie Kopell
* Judy Landers
* David Landsberg
* Nancy Lane
* Ted Lange
* Brianne Leary
* Sheldon Leonard
* Bill Macy
* Lorrie Mahaffey
* Robert Mandan
* Peter Marshall
* Dick Martin
* Dolly Martin
* Lee Meriwether
* Ethel Merman
* Scoey Mitchell
* Mary Ann Mobley
* Rita Moreno
* Pat Morita
* Louisa Moritz
* Greg Morris
* Leslie Nielsen
* Alan Oppenheimer
* Ron Palillo
* Lorna Patterson
* Richard Paul
* Donna Pescow
* Jo Ann Pflug
* Robert Pine
* Tom Poston
* Sarah Purcell
* Della Reese
* Charles Nelson Reilly
* Barbara Rhoades
* Madlyn Rhue
* Susan Richardson
* Nipsey Russell
* Soupy Sales
* Joe Santos
* Avery Schreiber
* Debralee Scott
* William Shatner
* Charles Siebert
* Joe Silver
* Dick Smothers
* Brett Somers
* Jim Staahl
* Connie Stevens
* McLean Stevenson
* Susan Sullivan
* Don Sutton
* Loretta Swit
* Mel Tillis
* Burr Tillstrom
* Charlene Tilton
* Fred Travalena
* Robert Walden
* Jimmie Walker
* Marcia Wallace
* Marjorie Wallace
* Betty White
* Mary Wickes
* Anson Williams
* Paul Williams
* Alfie Wise