clipped on his lapel and it seemed to do its job.
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Match Game
GhostPepperHot — 9 years ago(June 21, 2016 01:05 PM)
clipped on his lapel and it seemed to do its job.
Anyone know why he would prefer to adopt that long skinny microphone when he could just wear a clipon and forgetaboutit? -
horizonbeach — 9 years ago(June 21, 2016 03:03 PM)
Interesting. He must not have liked the body mic, because I saw an early episode from 1973 on Buzzr last night and he had a short, fat mic in his hand, so he didn't have the body mic but he didn't yet have his trademark long, skinny mic.
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horizonbeach — 9 years ago(June 26, 2016 04:10 AM)
It's like Bizarro World Match Game. Rayburn wears a clip-on mic. He switches to a fat mic so the contestant can be heard during the Head-To-Head match segments. The questions are simple one sentence questions like "Mary says John needs his BLANK examined". There is no funny story to the questions. The contestants don't pick Richard every time! During the Head-To-Head match, a contestant matched the $100 dollar answer and they never showed the $250 & $500 answers. I just watched an episode where three female contestants were named Stanley, Gary and Fil (pronounced Phil).
I totally agree! I cannot believe the difference between "Match Game '73" and "Match Game '78", it's almost like a completely different show.- I never realized how drastically clothing and hairstyles changed in those few short years. Once in a while on '78 you would see a bizarre outfit or hairstyle, but on '73 it's like every contestant! The early '70s had to be the tackiest time in history, bar none.
- Gene was so dull in the '73 episodes. Not that I ever thought he was LOL funny, but at least in the later shows he was laid back and kind of sarcastic and relaxed. In those '73 episodes he is so formal and professional acting that it almost seems like a different guy and I don't like him that way at all.
- What you said about the questions on the earlier show. They were so dumb and so impossible to try to match! "Jack said to Mary, 'I like your ________'." I mean, that could be a million different things, none of them funny. The contestant answered "dress" and he actually got one match with that answer, but what were the odds? Most of the celebrities said "face", and they probably looked at each others' answers. The questions came in other formats too, which was different. Last night the question was, "Name a person who is on the front page of the newspaper a lot", no blank really, just a random question.
- Richard Dawson actually seemed proud and happy to be on the show and tried hard to get into it and be funny. That whole thing ended sometime around the time when he started hosting "Family Feud" and by '78 he was sulking in dark glasses while on "Match Game" and purposely not being fun at all. He basically looked angry and miserable about being there.
- I also thought it was odd; women named Stanley, Gary, and Fil, but maybe that was just a coincidence. Did you happen to see the British lady, Sylvia, with the Carol Brady ultra-shag, ultra-ugly haircut? These were some interesting contestants, to say the least, but the celebrities were all so boring. John Boy Walton seemed really shy and self conscious which kind of surprised me, and Mama Walton didn't seem to have a funny bone in her body; very matter of fact and to the point. Della Reese's afro was quite unintentionally hilarious, though, as was Charles Nelson Reilly's pre-toupee' comb over. Not meaning to pick on them, as the clothing and hairstyles that I wore in elementary school in the early '70s were no doubt just as hideous.
Ah, the '70s!
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GhostPepperHot — 9 years ago(July 15, 2016 07:56 AM)
In fairness to Dawson and his habit of wearing sunglasses in '78, the redesign of the set had HARSH blinding lights to light up every corner. I remember hearing that Raymond Burr on "Ironside" suffered retina damage from sitting down all the time and acting looking up at the blinding lights. Prolly same thing.
Plenty of Youtube videos of Dawson blowing up, demanding the producers allow him to change his answer AFTER the panel had given their answer and it his turn because he had a brainfart and couldn't have meant to write what he did. Dawson genuinely seemed concerned for the players and fought the producers on both programs. Brett? She just seemed like a pickled old bitch enamored of her own drunken cleverness at the expense of the contestants. Match Game should have instituted the "Brett rule" an automatic score for the contestant while she rambled on and sipped her wine as a sideshow. -
Tobey — 9 years ago(September 08, 2016 11:32 PM)
This is just speculation, but with wired lapel microphones it's harder to manage the cable when you are moving around the set. He moved around a lot and it may have become a problem.
If it was a wireless unit, that would have been the early days of that technology and maybe there were issues.
As mentioned, he used the standard wired microphone when the contestants were standing with him. Even though he has a lapel one he still speaks into the handheld.
I always thought the skinny microphone was cool. His was always very long, compare to Bob Barker's on TPIR, but it kind of became his trademark. -
horizonbeach — 9 years ago(September 09, 2016 03:41 AM)
I always thought the skinny microphone was cool. His was always very long, compare to Bob Barker's on TPIR, but it kind of became his trademark.
I always thought that that was a solid mic made in that length until I started watching "Tattletales" on Buzzr a few months ago and saw Burt Convy's mic close up. It is also skinny and silver like Gene's, but it is much shorter. If you look at it close up, you can see that it is made in segments so that it telescopes and can be made as long or as short as the user prefers.
I then looked at Gene's mic close up on "Match Game" and it appears to have the same design, only he obviously liked to extend his to the longer length. It seems like he was more comfortable holding his hand at mid-chest level instead of up by his mouth like Burt did.
It makes sense that they would have used the same kind of mic too, because the shows were produced and edited by the same people and taped right next door to each other. That's probably also the reason why so many people who showed up on "Tattletales" made their way over to "Match Game" and vice versa. -
Tobey — 9 years ago(November 10, 2016 05:50 PM)
The mic reminds me of the old radio antennas that would extend. Car antennas usually only had a couple of sections but if it was power operated it would have a whole bunch.
In the early days of Barker's The Price is Right, they had the same style microphone at the Contestants Row podiums. I've also seen them on other game shows. Maybe the extension was to help accommodate the different heights of the people sitting at them. Alex Trebek also used that type of mic on Double Dare (not the Nickelodeon show).
Also, if you watch Richard Dawson's original run on Family Feud, his lapel mic is the the same as the top of these mics we're talking about.
I'm not positive but it looks like they are putting wireless mics on the contestants on The Price is Right. I've seen clip-ons, some cables and transmitter units. They still have the mics on Contestants Row and Drew still has a handheld and still holds it for the contestants when they talk but I think they're wired. I wonder when they actually wire them up? I haven't been to a taping for several years but the only "down" time was when they stop for the commercial breaks. They took more time that the eventual broadcast break will be because they roll out curtains to hide the stage so they can set it up for the next pricing game. It still went really fast, maybe 5 minutes or less.