2020 was supposed to be much more exciting than this

When we were in high school my brother, Cam, and I would watch a TV game show called Match Game, hosted by Gene Rayburn, after we got home from school. Does anyone remember this show? It wasn’t incredibly compelling television but it beat doing homework and, at that time, it seemed to be the only interesting show on the tube. (We only had 4 or 5 working channels.)

The past few nights, while eating supper, I have watched Match Game, hosted by Gene Rayburn. Yes, I am talking about reruns of the original show from the mid-70s on some obscure Game Show cable channel.

What’s going on? It’s hard to believe, huh? I now have scores and scores of available channels but after flipping around the dial, once again, Match Game seems to be the only interesting show on the tube. (To be fair, Richard Dawson and Charles Nelson Reilly were pretty witty.)

The thinking in 1975 was that the year 2020 was supposed to involve zipping around in flying cars with wisecracking interplanetary sidekicks and, frankly, be much more exciting than this.