[quote name=\'Craig Karlberg\' date=\'Jan 21 2005, 06:07 AM\']Actually, MG'73('74 if you wanna get technical) was so new back then that it probably either didn't get enough votes or wasn't nominated in time for the March 1974 poll. Actually, the ratings for MG weren't all that great in the early years. Once 1975 came along, it started picking up steam & zoomed near the top of the heap.[/quote]
Match Game was only about two months newer than Pyramid, which made their list. It would be vaguely interesting to know when the survey was taken, since by the March 74 cover date, WWW was already of the air, and 3oaM was on its last legs. Jimmy might very well be right about a confused editor making a mistake. Hollywood Squares was second, suggesting that the mag's audience prefered celeb games. Since their editors were probably soap people a lot more than game people, I could see a mistake like that getting through.
Even I realize that there's no logical way an inconsequential show like Three on a Match would win a popularity contest over Squares, Jeopardy or Password, in 1974 or anytime else.