Does anyone know how many pilots that Bert Convy hosted Match Game before Ross Shaffer?

Yes, there was in fact a pilot for MG '90 that happened I think in late '89 or so. There were some differences between the actual version w/ Ross Shafer and the pilot.

1). Instead of the sliding breakaway strips that melded the celebrities faces, they actually had them on a turning sphere, almost similar to the '70s version turning screen.

2). The circular round neons actually flashed.

3). There was no "Match-Up!" round, I think.

4). The game was palyed like its' '70s counterpart, but with a few differences. They did not play for dollars like it did when it made it to air.

Those are the only differences I can think of for now.

Where there actually 5 pilots of this version?

No, just part of the description for the above statements that I've just mentioned.

But at the game show pilot light page that said... The one I saw was marked as Pilot #5. There's just more than a pilot.

Yes, actually there were five pilots made for Match Game in 1989, including the pilot #5. This was a pilot "week."

It was set to be with Bert Convy as the host, but as the pilot light site says, he became ill with a cancerous tumor in his brain and Ross Shafer was selected for the job afterwards.

What were the clebrities names in the unaired pilots of Match Game refore Ross Shafer...

They were: Brad Garrett, Marsha Warfield, Charles Nelson Reilly, Khrystyne Haje, Jerry Van Dyke, and Teri Copley.

There was a clip of it featured on VH-1's Game Show Moments Gone Bananas, episode 1.

What else were the others..?

Those were apparently all the celebs for those pilot episodes.

Remember: for a game show, they usually tape 5 episodes (a week's worth in one day), constituting an end result of said pilot "week" for this version.

I should have stated that there is a clip of ONE of the pilots on the episode one of the VH-1 series.

Ah, A pilot "week" they were unaired. But speaking of pilots, What The Blank was NOT picked up!

The Pilot week has never aired for Match Game '90. Hasn't It?

People..?

Only a clip of one of them has been aired so far, like I mentioned on VH-1's Game Show Moments Gone Bananas episode #1.

I saw a clip of it on the 10 most embarrassing Game show moments. I recognized Nell Carter.

Was there an attempted remake?

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Match Game returns to CBS primetime this summer with Ricki Lake as the host