Favorite "regular" or "semi-regular" on the classic "Match Game"

[WI_DEM]

Poll question: Favorite "regular" or "semi-regular" on the classic "Match Game"

Ah, thank goodness to the Game Show Network for reminding us how goofy we looked in the 70's, but "Match Game" was one of my favorite afterschool treats--it still is fun to watch in reruns. If you recall it who is your favorite regular or semi-regular panelist?

[flamingyouth]

1. Charles Nelson Reilly

I mean, is there really any competition? :D

[WI_DEM]

2. I like "Big Chuck" best too, but why

did the contestants always, well, 90% of the time always call on Richard Dawson for "the big money?"

[flamingyouth]

4. I don't know, but you're right, they did

Ah, the simpler days! :D

[tcfrogs]

6. Because Richard was money!

He almost always matched, unless the contestant was a little dense.

Which is why they changed the format eventually.

[Sabriel]

18. He was HOT, that's why

Hot with the ladies, but he's a man's man, too. If you notice, both genders pick him. (Seeing as how I had a crush on him during the Hogan's Heroes run, I can foggily remember why.)

[Doctor Smith]

3. Elaine Joyce

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/matchgame/3X5Pictures-joyce.html

[Lefty48197]

13. Elaine, Fanny, and Joyce

babes a trois.

[madrchsod]

5. Brett and Charley

dam they were really funny when they started going after each other....
and i can`t forget betty-i bet with a couple of drinks in her she was quite the party girl...

[Magrittes Pipe]

7. Charles Nelson Riley, he's our man.

Can't heal the sick with a touch of his hand.
Can't walk on the water, can't make wine flow,
Just another B actor on the late, late show.

I can't piss, I can't shit, I'm getting no relief;
People shake their heads in disbelief.

It's just me on a hilltop with fifteen girls
In a Nelson Riley orgy that'll make your hair curl.

[MrSandman]

8. Liking them all...

Richard Dawson was a favorite...reminded me of Sgt. Schultz(sp?)

"I know nottthhhhink"

[bigwillq]

9. Brett always cracked me up (nt)

[VolcanoJen]

10. Dawson. Dawson, 100%.

Because Dawson was the go-to guy in the final round. He kicked ass at it. I always felt sorry for the players who were left Dawson-less when he'd go on vacation and what-not.

As another poster in this thread put it, Dawson was money.

How's come Joyce Bulifant didn't make the poll? :+

[Zomby Woof]

17. LOL!

She was the mother of the kid needing the heart transplant in "Airplane!"

And true, Dawson was a solid choice for getting the right answers. You went to Reilly when you wanted snark. :-)

[tcfrogs]

11. Hey neighbor to the north!

Best poll I've seen in the lounge in a while!

[WI_DEM]

15. thanks!

[NewHampshireDem]

12. Charles Nelson Reilly ... without a doubt!

And as an added bonus, he starred in one of the best X-Files episodes ever as well--'Jose Chung's "From Outer Space"'

[TroubleMan]

14. Richard Dawson was the funniest for me.

And like it was mentioned before, he was good at the game, and the contestants trusted him.

[Zomby Woof]

16. Charles Nelson Reilly

AKA, The Match God.

[Zomby Woof]

19. Fannie Flagg was always great

And here is some trivia - she wrote the novel and the screenplay for "Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistlestop Café". (the movie abbreviated the title).

[LoZoccolo]

20. I used to wonder...

...what did Charles Nelson Reilly actually do to be famous, or was he just famous for being famous and that's why he was on both The Match Game and Hollywood Squares? My grandma told me, and I think she said he's a playwright...do I have that right?

[Reverend_Smitty]

21. Dawson was the reason why MG had to bring in the wheel...

in the later episodes. However Richard was already on the outs with the show when they brought it in, and he didn't stick around much longer. An ironic bit of trivia for you...the first time a contestant spun the wheel on Match Game, the person it landed on was coincidentally Richard Dawson. What can I say even the gods wanted this man to compete in the super match!

Richard Dawson was the shiznit on that show, and nobody can tell me anything different!

[mitchum]

22. Tie between ALL of them (some of my fondest memories of growing up in 70s)

[CrownPrinceBandar]

23. Joyce Bulifant..................

She was so PERKY! Also, we share a birthday - though her's was thirty years before mine.

[Reverend_Smitty]

24. My mom told me that she used to get pissed off at Nixon...

because the Watergate investigations would pre-empt Match Game.

[richmwill]

25. How??

How could Fannie Flagg have no votes? My all-time favorite, no question.