Pure Gene!
As you watch Gene Rayburn cut promos for ‘The Match Game’ at WBZ in Boston, you’ll see him transform into his “hosting personality” right before your very eyes. This is fun! Thanks to Kevin Vahey for the clip. Enjoy and share! – Bobby Ellerbee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HljIGil9i3s
1982 Gene Rayburn/WBZ-TV Promos
These are excerpts from a promo record session that Gene Rayburn taped at WBZ TV-4 in Boston in the spring of 1982. The spots highlight the station’s afterno…
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“You can’t smoke that!”
Gene Rayburn and Bill Cullen-two of the best.
What a career that guy had. I remember watching at that appointed time on WBZ in Boston.
This must have been just before Match Game was canceled.
It would be great to see photos or videos of the Match Game gang at lunch in between tapings drinking it up! MG was truly one of the best game shows ever produced in my opinion!
Love that show. Enjoyed seeing him go into ‘host mode’.
It’s good to see he even had a sense of humor and improvisation off-camera.
Ron Sanders, Newsman at WBZ and I and a mutual friend were very close during his time at WJBK TV 2 in Detroit. I saw his EMMY role and it included a clip of him with a guitar. Well, that’s what we did. My friend had a TEAC 3440 and we created some tunes with Ron. And by the way my friends name was Ron. So 2 Rons and me. Then add Curtis Gadson Also in TV at WDIV now, I believe, The creator of BET TV.. It’s weird to see Sanders with that Brush of a moustache. But we were so young then. 78 -80.
I always loved watching talent “dial in”. But always liked those that didn’t need to better.
Here is a unique “Match Game” video to complement the WBZ-TV promo shoot that was posted here. I think this episode was recorded close to the end of the program’s CBS run. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9oSM6pXUE8&sns=em
What fun to see these promos again.
Rayburn was my broadcasting hero, growing up.