We've been hearing so many good things about a documentary special that's airing Sunday night, that we can't wait to sit in front of the television and ____.
The Real Match Game Story: Behind The Blank goes behind the scenes of the wild Seventies TV game show that played out more like a drunken swingers cocktail party and, as it turns out-- was!
In other hands, the Game Show Network's hour could be a Confessions of A Dangerous Mind or at least a Behind The Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Three's Company-- the material's that good. The Match Game was a run-of-the mill 1960s afternoon game show with host Gene Rayburn having civilians and celebrities match fill-in-the-blank questions. After the show was resurrected in 1973-- with the same host and same bland material-- it faced cancellation by CBS, until the writers began adding risqué humour to the questions (and the writers included Dick DeBartolo and other jokers from Mad magazine).
"Every morning, John puts ____ on his cereal" became "Every morning, John puts butter on his ____." The outrageous suggestiveness paid off and the show became the highest-rating afternoon show in history.
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Bill O'Reilly won't return my calls. I was the best intern I could be, but he has officially dropped me like a hot potato. Being the tricky dick that I am, I got in touch with my good friend Mike Wallace over at 60 Minutes and snagged one final interview. 