Make the Connection

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Make the Connection
Format	Game show
Created by	Mark Goodson and Bill Todman
Starring	Jim McKay Gene Rayburn
Country of origin	United States
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	ABC
Original run	1955 – 1955

Make the Connection was an American game show that ran on Thursday nights during the summer of 1955 for 13 episodes. First hosted by Jim McKay, who years later, would be best-known for hosting ABC's Wide World of Sports, as well as that network's coverage of the Olympics, he was replaced by future Match Game host Gene Rayburn for the final seven episodes. There were four celebrity panelists. The object of the game was for the panelists to realize the connection between two people who would sit on both sides of the host. Like many of its sister panel shows, it also featured the obligatory appearance by a celebrity guest, who would play the game as a contestant. It was a Mark Goodson-Bill Todman production.

Like I've Got A Secret, there were four panelists who were each given a timed period in which to ask questions. Each panelist that was stumped earned the contestants money.

[edit] Trivia

Betty White makes one of her earliest game show appearances on this show, as a panelist. White would later on be a frequent panelist on every version of the Rayburn hosted Match Game.

[edit] Episode Status

Only a handful of episodes exist. GSN has occasionally shown an episode in its "black and white" programming blocks.