Editing Gene Rayburn (section)

===Other game shows and television appearances===
[[File:Dennis Weaver Gene Rayburn Michael Landon Match Game 1964.JPG|thumb|right|With [[Dennis Weaver]] and [[Michael Landon]] during a 1964 ''Match Game'' episode]]
During and between his ''Match Game'' years, Rayburn served as guest panelist on two other Goodson-Todman shows: ''[[What's My Line?]]'' and ''[[To Tell the Truth]]''. Also during the run of the 1970s ''Match Game'', Rayburn and his wife Helen appeared on the game show ''[[Tattletales]]'', hosted by [[Bert Convy]]. Rayburn also hosted some episodes of ''Tattletales''. Three years after the original ''Match Game'' was canceled, Rayburn hosted the short-lived [[Heatter-Quigley Productions]] show ''[[The Amateur's Guide to Love]]''. In 1983, he hosted a pilot for [[Reg Grundy Productions]] titled ''Party Line'', which later became ''[[Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak]]''.

In 1980, Rayburn was a guest star on the television show ''[[The Love Boat]]''. Rayburn appeared as a contestant during a tournament of game show hosts on the original version of ''[[Card Sharks]]'' in 1980 and was a celebrity guest on ''[[Password Plus]]'' several times between 1980 and 1982. He appeared on ''[[Fantasy Island]]'' as a game show host—he and another host, played by [[Jan Murray]], were game show rivals who vied to win the woman they both loved by creating the ultimate game show, with life-or-death consequences. He once hosted a local New York City show on [[WNYW|WNEW-TV]], ''Helluva Town'', and between game show stints in 1982–1983, he returned to WNEW-TV as host of a weekly talk and lifestyles show titled ''Saturday Morning Live''. He ended his brief tenure to return as co-host of ''Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour''.{{citation needed|date=July 2018}}

Rayburn's last game show hosting duties were on 1985's ''[[Break the Bank (1985)|Break the Bank]]'' (he was replaced by [[Joe Farago]] after 13 weeks), and ''[[The Movie Masters]]'', an [[American Movie Classics|AMC]] game show that ran from 1989 to 1990.{{citation needed|date=July 2018}} Just before production was to begin on a new Rayburn-emceed ''Match Game'' revival in 1987,<ref>{{cite magazine| magazine=Broadcasting & Cable| date=January 19, 1987| volume=112| issue=3| pages=108–109| title='Match Game' advertisement| url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1987/BC-1987-01-19.pdf| access-date=April 29, 2023}}</ref> an ''[[Entertainment Tonight]]'' reporter publicly disclosed that Rayburn was 69 years old, much older than many believed. Rayburn had trouble finding jobs after that, blaming the reporter for revealing his age and subjecting him to [[ageism|age discrimination]].<ref name= Woo/> His daughter Lynne blamed this and the subsequent lack of work he received for sending him into a downward spiral.<ref name=behindtheblank/>

Rayburn portrayed himself on a ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' sketch in 1990, which featured [[Susan Lucci]] (as her character from ''[[All My Children]]'', [[Erica Kane]]). He returned as one of Kane's many previous husbands, to stop another marriage (officiated by his old ''[[Choose Up Sides]]'' co-star [[Don Pardo]]) with the host of a game show portrayed by [[Phil Hartman]]. He also continued to make appearances on talk shows throughout the late 1980s and 1990s, usually to discuss classic game shows, including appearances on ''[[Vicki Lawrence|Vicki!]]'' and ''[[Maury (TV series)|The Maury Povich Show]]'' and ''[[The Late Show (1986 TV series)|The Late Show with Ross Shafer]]'' (Shafer hosted the 1990 ''Match Game'' revival). In 1992, Rayburn also made an appearance on New York shock jock [[Howard Stern]]'s [[The Howard Stern Show (WWOR)|late-night TV variety show]] as one of the stars of his ''Hollywood Squares'' parody, ''Homeless Howiewood Squares'', in which homeless people were supposedly the contestants.{{citation needed|date=July 2018}}

Rayburn co-hosted—with his wife and Peter Emmons—the [[Drum Corps International]] finals of the DCI Championship for two years, which were telecast on PBS from Philadelphia's [[Franklin Field]] in 1976 and Denver's original [[Mile High Stadium]] in 1977.{{citation needed|date=July 2018}}