Even More ‘Match Game’ Follies…The Oldest Trick In The Book

On September 1, 2014 - TV History


Even More ‘Match Game’ Follies…The Oldest Trick In The Book

As we all know, if nothing else works…banging on the side of the TV, or even the camera usually does it! Enjoy and share! – Bobby Ellerbee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1FDyV8kYSE

A behind-the-scenes look at how Christina the cameraman keeps Camera 3 working with a bang during a game round.

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8 Comments

  1. Mike Sanders September 6, 2014

    Gene Rayburn treated each show as though it was live. Johnny Carson did, too!

  2. Christina Skaggs September 4, 2014

    I really don’t remember but I think the banging came from behind me, somewhere backstage and the director probably Marc Breslow was roaring at me on headset to ‘act like I was banging on the camera’.

  3. Gustavo Borjalo September 3, 2014

    I liked the camera-person! Very cute girl!

  4. Christina Skaggs September 2, 2014

    Gene Rayburn was such a fun guy to work with. I had several on cameras on that show as Gene really liked women and I think he knew I got a great pay bump when I was on camera. He had a bunch of fun regulars on the panel like Charles Nelson Riley and I remember that Gene’s two teenage sons use to hang out back stage.

  5. Matt Patoray September 2, 2014

    I am a but curious as to what would cause such a malfunction in a PC-60?

  6. Kevin Vahey September 1, 2014

    Back in the NY days of Carson, one night during the monologue you heard a loud bang and Carson just stopped cold and then as the director cut to the camera operator Johnny joked that NBC had the best camera repairmen in the biz.

    The cameraman was around 60 and had white hair and the camera in question was a TK-41.

  7. Terry Drymon September 1, 2014

    thats how i get my tired ole macbook 2 work..works on most everything electronic..but the wife…not so much (LOL)

  8. Scott M Bryant September 1, 2014

    Percussive maintenance.