List of Match Game panelists and other key personnel

The following is a list of panelists, hosts, announcers, and other key personnel used during the various runs of Match Game, a popular game show that had contestants match fill-in-the-blank answers with celebrities.

The Match Game (1962-69)

Host: Gene Rayburn

Announcers: Johnny Olson (regular), Don Pardo, Wayne Howell (substitutes)

Executives in charge of production: Mark Goodson, Bill Todman

Panelists: (1962-64) Carmel Quinn, Peggy Cass, Peter Lind Hayes, Bennett Cerf, Henry Morgan, Robert Q. Lewis, Joan Fontaine, Betty White, Orson Bean and Jayne Mansfield

Match Game 73 through 79, Match Game PM, Match Game (1973-82)

Host: Gene Rayburn (regular)

Announcers: Johnny Olson (regular), Bern Bennett (substitute)

Executives in charge of production: Mark Goodson, Bill Todman (until 1979)

Other staff: Dick DeBartolo (writer), Ira Skutch (judge), Roger Dobkowitz

Regular panelists: Charles Nelson Reilly, Brett Somers, Richard Dawson (until 1978), McLean Stevenson (1981-1982)

Semi-regulars: Steve Allen, Patty Duke Astin, Orson Bean, Joyce Bulifant, Gary Burghoff, Bill Daily, Patti Deutsch, David Doyle, Fannie Flagg, Eva Gabor, Arte Johnson, Elaine Joyce, Lee Meriwether, Scoey Mitchell, Mary Ann Mobley, Richard Paul, Jo Ann Pflug, Nipsey Russell, Avery Schreiber, Debralee Scott, Connie Stevens, Marcia Wallace, Betty White, Mary Wickes

Other panelists: Don Adams, Jack Albertson, Elizabeth Allen, Jonelle Allen, Morey Amsterdam, , Daryl Anderson, Loni Anderson, Lucie Arnaz, Ed Asner, Jim Backus, Kay Ballard, Adrienne Barbeau, Bob Barker, Rona Barrett, Jaime Lyn Bauer, Meg Bennett, Valerie Bertinelli, Joey Bishop, Amanda Blake, Charlie Brill, Tom Bosley, Bart Braverman, Foster Brooks, Richard Deacon, Dr. Joyce Brothers, Chelsea Brown, Johnny Brown, Raymond Burr, Abe Burrows, Judy Carne, Didi Carr, Pat Carroll, Jack Carter, Jack Cassidy, Brian Patrick Clarke, Marty Cohen, Gary Collins, Joan Collins, Didi Conn, Hans Conried, Bert Convy, Gary Crosby, Pat Crowley, Bill Cullen, Robert Culp, Jamie Lee Curtis, Abby Dalton, James Darren, Clifton Davis, Phyllis Davis, Lynn Deerfield, Gloria DeHaven, Pat Delany, Brenda Dickson, Phyllis Diller, Robert Donner, Jody Donovan, Tom Dreesen, Denise DuBarry, Nancy Dussault, Stephanie Edwards, Ann Elder, Cass Elliot, Wesley Eure, Michael Evans, Nanette Fabray, Gail Farrell, Sharon Farrell, Melinda Fee, Pat Finley, Gail Fisher, Joe Flynn, Anitra Ford, Rosemary Forsyth, John Forsythe, Arlene Francis, Bonnie Franklin, Don Galloway, Joe Garagiola, Beverly Garland, Dick Gautier, Lynda Day George, Bennye Getteys, Anita Gillette, Stu Gilliam, George Gobel, Sydney Goldsmith, Ronny Graham, Fred Grandy, Shecky Greene, Rosey Grier, Tom Hallick, Holly Hallstrom, Marvin Hamlisch, Pat Harrington, Julie Harris, Jo Ann Harris, Jenilee Harrison, Gina Hecht, Robert Hegyes, Marilu Henner, Linda Kaye Henning, Dwayne Hickman, Polly Holliday, Erica Hope, Larry Hovis, Susan Howard, Tab Hunter, Gunilla Hutton, Peter Isacksen, Kate Jackson, Conrad Janis, Dawn Jeffory, Carolyn Jones, Jack Jones, Jackie Joseph, Steve Kanaly, Alex Karras, Roz Kelly, Betty Kennedy, George Kennedy, Sarah Kennedy, Richard Kiel, Freeman King, Mabel King, George Kirby, Jack Klugman, Guich Koock, Bernie Kopell, Nancy Kulp, Audrey Landers, Judy Landers, Nancy Lane, Hope Lange, Ted Lange, Carol Lawrence, Vicki Lawrence, Brianne Leary, Michele Lee, Ruta Lee, Helaine Lembeck, Sheldon Leonard, Robert Q. Lewis, June Lockhart, Julie London, Richard Long, Allen Ludden, Janice Lynde, Kukla and Ollie, Bill Macy, Mitzi McCall, Edie McClurg, Barbara McNair, Meredith MacRae, Lorrie Mahaffey, Robert Mandan, Irlene Mandrell, Penny Marshall, Peter Marshall, Dolly Martin, Ron Masak, Anne Meara, Lee Meredith, Ethel Merman, Donna Mills, Juliet Mills, Scoey Mitchell, Rita Moreno, Henry Morgan, Pat Morita, Louisa Moritz, Greg Morris, Karen Morrow, Robert Morse, Jack Narz, Phyllis Newman, Leslie Nielsen, Ken Olfson, Johnny Olson, Alan Oppenheimer, Buck Owens, Ron Palillo, Lorna Patterson, Minnie Pearl, Janice Pennington, Donna Pescow, Robert Pine, Tom Poston, Juliet Prowse, Sarah Purcell, Lynn Redgrave, Della Reese, Alejandro Rey, Barbara Rhoades, Madlyn Rhue, Susan Richardson, Esther Rolle, Donald Ross, Soupy Sales, Isabel Sanford, Barbara Sharma, William Shatner, Charles Siebert, Joe Silver, Dick Smothers, Suzanne Somers, Joanie Sommers, Louise Sorel, Diana Soviero, Jim Staahl, Lilibet Stern, Connie Stevens, Kaye Stevens, Trish Stewart, Barbara Stuart, Susan Sullivan, Don Sutton, Loretta Swit, Rip Taylor, Melody Thomas, Mel Tillis, Charlene Tilton, Fred Travalena, Willie Tyler, Robert Urich, Bobby Van, Conny Van Dyke, Monique Van Vooren, Robert Walden, Jimmie Walker, Marjorie Wallace, Laurie Walters, Tudi Wiggins, Anson Williams, Paul Williams, Shelley Winters, Alfie Wise, Gene Wood, Lana Wood, Jo Anne Worley

Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour

Host: Gene Rayburn

Announcers: Gene Wood (regular), Johnny Olson, Rich Jeffries (substitutes)

Executives in charge of production: Mark Goodson

Regular panelists:

Semi-regulars: Charles Nelson Reilly, Fannie Flagg, Bill Daily

Match Game (1990-91)

Host: Ross Shafer

Announcer: Gene Wood

Executive in charge of production: Jonathan Goodson

Regular panelists: Charles Nelson Reilly

Semi-regulars: Bill Kirchenbauer, Vicki Lawrence, Brad Garrett, Sally Struthers, Ronn Lucas with various dummies (Scorch, Billy Boy & Chuck Roast), Bruce Baum

Other panelists: Brett Somers

Match Game (1998-99)

Host: Michael Burger

Announcer: Paul Boland

Regular panelists (1998-1999) Nell Carter, Vicki Lawrence, Judy Tenuta

Semi-regulars (1998-1999) George Hamilton

Other panelists (1998-1999) Rondell Sheridan, Coolio, John Salley

Match Game (2008, planned)

Host: Andrew Daly

Regular panelists: Sarah Silverman, Norm MacDonald

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