Match Game through the ages

As a faux tweet noted, GSN has released the schedule for the Christmas Day Match Game marathon, including the 1962 pilot and the 1973 pilot.

The marathon covers every version of the show, from the 1960s through the ill-fated 1998 revival. Naturally, though, most of the episodes come from the show's 1973-82 heyday. GSN's Internet board is buzzing with the news, and I buzz right along...

The 4:00PM hour has a 1998 episode and a "TBD" episode, as listed in the GSN press release going around the Interwebs. (The release even landed in my inbox, and lots of other people got it. Chad Mosher used it for his post on BuzzerBlog.) Once the "TBD" is filled in, they'll probably send out a new pdf schedule.

I'm not sure, but has the 1998 version been shown on GSN? I don't recall it ever showing up on the schedule. The episode in the marathon features host Michael Burger and regular panelists Nell Carter, Judy Tenuta, George Hamilton, Vicki Lawrence and Rondell Sheridan.

Other poster: For the Match Game marathon, I noticed that the 1990 episode listed on the PDF is marked "New".

Hard to believe that GSN has never shown this episode of MG90, because the show's had a few go-rounds on the network. The episode will certainly be new compared to the last few years.

Match Game '90 turned up in the montage that launched GSN back in December, 1994. The show goes way back on the network. I think it might have been on the original schedule. Well, yes it was.