{"id":736887,"date":"2022-01-06T01:15:38","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T01:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/06\/betty-white-memorial-match-game-marathon-to-air-saturday-on-gsn\/"},"modified":"2022-01-06T01:15:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T01:15:38","slug":"betty-white-memorial-match-game-marathon-to-air-saturday-on-gsn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/06\/betty-white-memorial-match-game-marathon-to-air-saturday-on-gsn\/","title":{"rendered":"Betty White memorial &#039;Match Game&#039; marathon to air Saturday on GSN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Jan. 5 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> Game Show Network announced Wednesday it will air a marathon of Betty White episodes of <i>Match Game<\/i>. The eight hour marathon begins Saturday at 9 a.m. EST.<\/p>\n<p>White appeared as a celebrity guest frequently on <i>Match Game<\/i> from 1963-1969. In the game, host Gene Rayburn would give the contestant and celebrity a fill in the blank phrase. each would independently write an answer and hope their answers matched. Mismatches often led to comedic situations.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to <i>Match Game<\/i>, White also appeared on game shows like <i>Password, The $10,000 Pyramid, The Hollywood Squares<\/i>, an evening edition of <i>Match Game<\/i> and many more.<\/p>\n<p>As an actor, White starred on <i>The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Betty White Show, Hot in Cleveland <\/i>and <i>The Golden Girls<\/i>. She appeared on episodes of <i>The Love Boat, Boston Legal, That &#8217;70s Show<\/i> and many more and movies like <i>The Proposal, Lake Placid, Hard Rain<\/i> and <i>You Again<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>White was also an advocate for animal welfare. She died Dec. 31 at age 99, weeks before her 100th birthday.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"slide-image-container\">\n\t\t\t<img class=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Notable-deaths-of-2021_1_1.jpg\" width=\"647\" height=\"431\"><\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"stph_caption\">Betty White attends the media preview for the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association&#8217;s Beastly Ball fundraiser at the Los Angeles Zoo in Los Angeles on June 11, 2015. The actress died December 31. She was 99 years old.  Photo by Jim Ruymen\/UPI | License Photo<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 5 (UPI) &#8212; Game Show Network announced Wednesday it will air a marathon of Betty White episodes of Match Game. The eight hour marathon begins Saturday at 9 a.m. EST. White appeared as a celebrity guest frequently on Match Game from 1963-1969. In the game, host Gene Rayburn would give the contestant and celebrity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":736888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}