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===''Match Game PM'' (1975–81, weekly syndication)===
On September 8, 1975, the first syndicated version, a weekly nighttime series dubbed ''Match Game PM'' premiered. The series, sold to many ABC affiliates (including the network's owned and operated stations such as [[WABC-TV]] in New York), was produced by Goodson–Todman and distributed by Jim Victory Television, G-T's syndication partner for ''[[Concentration (game show)|Concentration]].''

''Match Game PM'' was the first version of the game with self-contained episodes. The front game was originally played the same way as the daytime ''Match Game'' with two rounds of questions, but in the second season, the third round of questioning was added to fill time in the half-hour. The maximum score a contestant could achieve remained six points, with matched celebrities not playing subsequent questions.

Beginning with the second season, tiebreakers were conducted differently from the daytime version. A "Super Match"-style question was asked, and the contestants wrote their answers, then called on celebrities for a match. Originally, only Somers, Reilly and Dawson played in the tiebreaker, but after Dawson's departure in 1978, all six celebrities played.

''Match Game PM's'' Super Match used two audience matches, with the answer values combined and multiplied by ten for the head-to-head match, with a maximum of $10,000 available. When the star wheel was introduced, that potential payout grew to $20,000 if a contestant spun a double.

''Match Game PM'' ran until the end of the 1980–81 TV season. For its last two seasons, the show's affiliate count went down significantly due in large part to a daily syndicated version that debuted in September 1979, although some markets kept both shows on the air–in New York, [[WCBS-TV]] ran the daily syndicated version as WABC-TV continued to air episodes of ''Match Game PM'' into its final season. The show aired 230 episodes over six seasons, and remains the longest-running version to air in syndication.