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Meet Earl…The ‘Match Game’ Answer Board Operator
This is part of the reason Gene Rayburn and ‘The Match Game’ were such a perfect match, and hit! More clips from the show to come today! Stay tuned, enjoy and share! – Bobby Ellerbee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Up_ONDV22E
Gene Rayburn provides the audience with a rare glimpse of Earl.
Does anyone know Earl’s last name? I’m a game show historian (I’ve researched for/contributed to “The Encyclopedia of TV Game Shows Vols. 2 and 3,”) and have asked numerous people, to no avail. Earl’s last name would make a great factoid for any subsequent game show book.
I always loved Gene’s antics on the Match Game set!
I always thought that hosting Match Game from Los Angeles really perked up Gene Rayburn, and his funny bone. It was in January 1975 that NBC Radio decided to end ‘Monitor’, the network weekend service out of Radio City New York for 20 years, of which he was one of their hosts.
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