I got this E-mail today:



The afternoon movie in question would be from either D.C. or Baltimore? Since I don't recall music from the few episodes I've seen, I can't help her. Can anyone else help her?


--Mike

If memory doesn't play me false. there was no music while the contestants wrote their answers during the 60s version; Gene read the question and we heard the pens scribble, drop and the contestants raised their hands to show they were done. The only music was the "Swingin' Safari" theme.

Nope, it doesn't.

The two episodes I have use no music while the players write down their answers.

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If memory doesn't play me false. there was no music while the contestants wrote their answers during the 60s version; Gene read the question and we heard the pens scribble, drop and the contestants raised their hands to show they were done. The only music was the "Swingin' Safari" theme.
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While the theme song was the only music heard on the show, a new theme song was used starting around 1967 or 1968. I believe there is a color episode of original Match Game, featuring the second theme song, in the library of the Museum of Television and Radio.

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If memory doesn't play me false. there was no music while the contestants wrote their answers during the 60s version; Gene read the question and we heard the pens scribble, drop and the contestants raised their hands to show they were done. The only music was the "Swingin' Safari" theme.
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While the theme song was the only music heard on the show, a new theme song was used starting around 1967 or 1968. I believe there is a color episode of original Match Game, featuring the second theme song, in the library of the Museum of Television and Radio.
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The later theme was first used sometime around 1968, if not exclusively in 1969. In 1967 I was still getting it locally in KC (albeit in black and white at 3:30 on a one-day delay because of "Matches N' Mates" at 3:00) and it still used "Swingin' Safari" that year. It's unfortunate no one can get ahold of that later theme music as a recording with an actual name; I want to hear it and getting to the Museum is literally a distant dream for me.