No one can say "Come on Down" like Johnny Olsen. He is loved by all of us. R.I.P.

I love Gary Burghoff's impersonation of a price is right contestant.

Completely lost it at Gary acting like a crazy contestant.

R.I.P. Bob Barker. Say hello to Gene, Brett, Charles, and the rest of the Match Game gang for the rest of us.

Johnny Olson was a great announcer!

Nice tribute to Johnny Olson. Gary really nailed it!

Gary Burghoff did a perfect impression.

Of all the "Come on Down-ers" there have been, Johnny Olson was and still is the COME ON DOWN-IEST!!!

Youngsters have ABSOLUTELY No clue/ideal or appreciation of TRUE talented cast of shows like this. They can NEVER be replaced, only poor imitations. Gene,Richard, Bret, Bonnie Olson etc..you are ALL deeply missed. R.I.P 😢

Well if there had to be a different answer Johnny could have been saying "This is Johnny Olson speaking" or "A Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Production".

Gary Burghoff's Johnny Olson imitation & mockery of your typical TPIR contestant were priceless. You also got to love how blunt Gene Rayburn was.

I love Johnny's reaction to the answer. It's like he's saying "what else would I say"?

Rest In Peace Johnny we miss you

And the award for best impersonation of a contestant on The Price Is Right goes to.....Corporal Water Eugene O'Reilly!

Johnny was one of the best announcers on radio, and televison. He was also the anouncer on a few other game shows such as Tattle Tales, Now You See It, and To Tell The Truth.

Glad to see Scoey is finally getting the hang of the game.

RIP Scoey Mitchell!!!! Always enjoyed him on Match Game & Tattletales!

When Gary gave his answer at 2:57, he just moved his lips while Johnny Olson himself said "Come on down!"

More Price is Right references on Match Game, can't get enough of those!!!

I cannot believe how many panel members missed this one. Very sad

At the time of this show, Johnny was also shouting "Come On Down!" on the night time TPIR with Dennis James, as well as the two Jack Narz-hosted shows, "Concentration" and "Now You See It".

The best episodes of "Match Game" were the ones where the contestants were on the ball and knew how to give answers that fit the scenarios that Gene Rayburn would give. ;D

One of the best from the original "Match Game" in 1968 was when the question was "Name the most common ingredient in a salad other than dressing." Team captain Michael Landon gave the ridiculous answer "peanut" and his team matched across the board! Gene told the other team that if one more person answered "peanut," he'd quit on the spot. Needless to say, another "peanut" showed up, and Raybern swapped places with Johnny Olsen. Such spantaneous antics were typical in NBC Studio 8H in 1968-69.

He was married to his wife penny from 1939 until his death. He was married to her for 46 wonderful years. He would fly from Los Angeles or New York, and on weekends fly back to West Virginia to spend precious hours with her. And he was cremated and flown back to Lewisburg West Virginia. On May 22 next month, he would have been 106 years. Our IP johnny.

1:12 : Daffy Duck meets Gary Broghoff!!!

Match Game is the greatest game show ever even for reruns on GSN. It is so funny watching the reruns today.

Hey I know a good answer. " A Mark Goodson/Bill Todman Production!!!!

Match Game '7x was also taped at the Bob Barker studios.

Johnny Olson will be missed!

R.I.P. Scoey Mitchell who passed recently

Damn what'cha heard, it can't NOBODY do it like Johnny Olson!

The audio quality is AWESOME in this...classic clip, thanks so much for posting!! :)

One thing I've always liked about Match Game--if the contestants or the celebrities gave a rotten answer, the audience let them know it!

RIP John Leonard (Johnny) Olsen and Eugene Rubessa (Gene Rayburn)!

RIP Johnny Olsen

Good imitation Gary.

@Lectronimo Although Johnny Olson did initially say,"STAND UP!" after he called a contestant's name on TPIR for the first year or so,"COME ON DOWN!" was still his most popular and synonymous catch phrase in 1975.

COME ON DOWN! Will always be etched into television memory thanks to Johnny O! BTW,was it said due to slanted aisles at CBS Television City?

1:13 COME ON DOWN!!! Then Gary Burghoff does a magnificent The Price Is Right "Double Showcase Winner" contestant impression.

Radar, well into it, obviously!!!

Radar O'Reilly "COME ON DOWN" ..😊

I'm a little surprised no one thought of "Get ready to match the stars"

This very clip explains why no one will EVER be able to duplicate Johnny O's famous rallying cry on "TPIR" (Rich Fields - eat your heart out!)

If that is true, then as somebody said on another video, he is now up in Heaven making his living out of saying, "John Smith, COME ON UP! You're the next resident in the Promised Land!" :)

Gary Burghoff... nails the "TPIR" reax to "COME ON DOWN!" to a TEE!

Studio 8H is NBC's largest studio and is the home of "Saturday Night Live." Although 8G was "The Match Game's" regular studio, it occasionally shifted over to 8H. While shows did have their regular studio assignments, they occasionally shifted when their regular studios were used for seasonal sports shows or special news broadcasts. Even "Jeopardy!" moved up to 8H for some of its Tournament of Champion shows. During the 1960s, 8H was more popularly known as The Peacock Theatre.

No,but Charles Nelson Reilly and Paul Lynde were!LMFAO

can you imagine if Barker and Rayburn switched shows for a week? It would have been epic hilarity and an uprorious treat.

"Yolanda Bowersley, come on down".

Wonderful clip!!

2:56 COME ON DOWN!!!!!!

That was great!! Thanks for posting!

TPIR was not far away from being an hour show.

Gary Burghoff + COME ON DOWN =ROFLLMAOLOL!!!

Or: "A NEW CAR!"

Gary Burghoff was really spazzin' lol!

I love how Johnny says this. I wish Rich Fields was as enthusiastic!

Richard Dawson didn't see that enthusiastic here unless the Super Match was "Survey BLANK".

@StukInBuf I thought when I first heared that Johnny V/O that for him! I was shocked to hear how well he did it!

RIP Scoey Mitchell

Price Is Right and Match Game for many years shared studio 33 at CBS Television City

Come on down

So of course I fugured out Kennedy was based in Hollywood, which is where "You Don't Say" was taped. But eventually, what most people think of as the best version of "Match Game" (the 1973-79, CBS version) WAS recorded in Hollywood, at CBS' famed Television City.

"ARE YOU HAPPY?! Where the heck did you get that dumb idea from?"

This was my second-favorite question on the show. My favorite went: John said, "This box of Rice Krispies is really old. Instead of going 'snap, crackle, pop,' it goes 'snap, crackle, ________" Answers from the panel: "Snap, crackle, flop." "Snap, crackle, poop." "Snap, crackle, zzzzzz." "Snap, crackle, 'Vote for Wendall Wilkie!'"

It looks like the "dinner break" never ended.LOL

I noticed that,now that you mention it.I'd love to go to L.A. just to tour through CBS Television City alone!

You know what ? I think everyone just filled in the BLANK & I think that question should've been thown out . ( Mann ! that Gary went crazy when Johnny said Co'mon Down Gene Rayburn ! )

The "Yolanda Incident" episode by saying "Bob they're giving their all for you".

But a few yaers ago I obtained a DVD set of Betty White's first, syndicated sitcom,. :"Life With Elizabeth" (which began as a local, Los Angeles program), and who is announcing the program but veteran game show host Jack Narz! In short order, after that, I obtained a DVD set of White's next series, ABC's "Date With The Angels," and who is the pitchman on that show but one Tom Kennedy (real name "Tom Narz," and brother of Jack).

Gary!!!!!! Hilarious

Ok, there are 3 on the panel that deserve the wet noodle treatment.

From 1:17 to about 1:30... the "TPiR Come On Down" theme we all know so well!

Fanny answer Bret reaction. And gray impressions is beyond the best

That makes perfect sense.

RIP Gene and Bob

This was hillarious!

wow i never realized how much Johnny Olson looks like Jack Nickelson

Those of us that remember these shows, hosts, announcers, and celebrities back in this day are very fortunate. I feel sorry for those that are my age now, when I was back then. You've lost out on true talent in these current days. My advice: Turn off your media device and hop onto KZfaq and look up these shows from back then. You'll thank me for it.

He will me missed lke rod

Fannie looks so sadd when he says dumb idea =0[

@baarbear Well Johnny Olson does say "This has been a Mark Goodson/Bill Todman Production" at the end of Match Game or any other program....but "Come on Down" was the winner in my book.

You see Gary Burghoff talking with Johnny Olson at 0:49 to ask him to speak while Gary reads his answer.

I couldn't have said it better myself!

And LOOKED like him, too!! lol!!

Did Gene ever appear on TPIR. I know CNR did.

Such an obvious answer, I don't know how three of the panelists got it wrong!

HI Johnny Olsen from JB3

i rember when he died and rod roddey took over... it was a sad day and was never quite the same!

"Go on down!!!"

@ruedydude NO! Johnny was one of a kind!

@netsurferx1 that was him. he was a production assistant for Match Game '75

Yeah Scoey, Brett, and Fannie deserved those BOOs. Fannie's answer was the worst one of the bunch.

Walter O'Reilly, COME ON DOWN!

Yes,I saw that in reruns i watched of that era.That also could have been a logical response.

Scoey, Brett, and Fannie, GO ON HOME! Imagine Gary's reaction if Johnny told him "You're going to play PLINKO!".

Oh, boo your blank!! lol

Come on Down !!!!

Well, in their defense, TPIR was only three years old at that point and "Come On Down" wasn't the iconic catchphrase it is now.

The tube top of course when she came on down they came on out.