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The Match Game consistently won its time slot from 1963 – 1966 and again from April 1967-July 1968, with its ratings allowing it to finish third among all network daytime games for the 1963 – 1964 and 1967 – 1968 seasons ( in the latter, the top two games were NBC's own, both of which would also enjoy long runs and multiple revivals: Jeopardy!

and Hollywood Squares ).

Although the series still did well in the ratings ( despite the popularity of ABC's horror-themed soap opera Dark Shadows ), it was canceled in 1969 along with other games in a major daytime programming overhaul, being replaced by Letters to Laugh-In which, although a spin-off of the popular prime time series Laugh-In, ended in just three months on December 26.