Off to meet Gene Rayburn in that big shag-carpeted rotating set in the sky

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That’s Brett Somers kicking butt again in the upper middle tier of Match Game. She died Saturday at 83, according to the NY Times. (via).

The man on her right is Charles Nelson Reilly, who in addition to providing a wicked commentary with Brett on Match Game was Horatio Hoodoo on Lidsville, one of the trippiest of the Sid & Marty Krofft TV shows. Charles Nelson Reilly died in May of this year.

I’m not sure who the Tony Danza looking fellow is, but the rest are in severe danger if the rule of three is working.

Eva Gabor died in 1995. Sister Zsa Zsa, now 90, is going into the hospital for surgery.

Bill Daily (I Dream of Jeanie, Newhart) is now 80.

Fannie Flagg turned away from acting and became a wildly successful author. She’s just shy of 63.

Richard Dawson (a very regular Match Gamer) is pushing 75. With his British idiom he frequently veered off from answers that, you know, matched, but the starstruck ladies tended to pick him anyway.

Beware all. Ask not for whom the buzzer tolls.

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