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Brett Somers, the gravely voiced wiseacre to naughty Charles Nelson
Reilly on TV's Match Game, died last Saturday at her Connecticut home of
stomach and colon cancer. She was 83.

Reilly died in May at age 76. GSN will remember Somers, and, in turn,
Reilly, in an all-day Match Game marathon this coming Saturday, the
cable network said Monday.

While Reilly's Match Game run obscured his Tony-nominated stage work,
Somers' tenure shined a light on a woman best known for a time as actor
Jack Klugman's wife.

It was Klugman, TV lore says, who suggested Somers for Rayburn's panel
after appearing himself on the game-show's first episodes.

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If I were Rayburn or Richard Dawson I'd be really nervous about now.
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They needed her for their Heavenly revival of BIRDIE.