| 1 | !! For the GameShow: |
| 2 | * KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Only 12 episodes are known to exist. |
| 3 | ** Seven circulate among collectors: March 15 and December 17, 1973 (both as master copies), plus February 6-8/11-12, 1974. |
| 4 | ** The other five (March 12/20/28 and April 5/13, 1973) are held by the UCLA Film & Television Archive. |
| 5 | * ScrewedByTheNetwork: Aside from its third-place ranking, then-NBC daytime programming chief Lin Bolen was trying to rid the network's schedule of games hosted by middle-aged men on technologically-obsolete sets, as part of an aggressive attempt to bolster ratings among women aged 18-34 (she had already done this in March 1973 with ''Series/{{Concentration}}''); this may explain why two months before the show ended, the format was changed significantly to remove the bidding and true/false elements from the front game and replaced with more "traditional" buzz-in questions. At the beginning of July 1974, ''Series/ThreeOnAMatch'' was replaced by ''Series/WinningStreak'' (with the same producer, host, and announcer) in a timeslot swap with ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'' Neither game made it past January 3, 1975. |
| 6 | * SimilarlyNamedWorks: With the 1932 pre-code movie ''Film/ThreeOnAMatch''. |
| 7 | * WhatCouldHaveBeen: A revival was attempted for syndication in Fall 1983 as part of a 90-minute block with revivals of ''Series/ChainReaction'' and ''Series/EyeGuess'' (hosted by Jack Clark, Geoff Edwards, and Nipsey Russell respectively), but Syndicast decided against it after just 70 markets (no major ones) signed on. They tried it again for 1984-85, but still failed. For such a trio of beloved games, [[RuleOfThree third time may have been the charm]] [[DownerEnding had Syndicast not given up]]...and in the end, only ''Chain Reaction'' managed to get a revival. |
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