Missing Links is a Goodson-Todman game show hosted by Ed McMahon which originally ran on NBC from September 9, 1963, to March 27, 1964, then moved to ABC for its final nine months, with Dick Clark replacing McMahon as host.
On December 30, ABC executives replaced Keys with Dick Clark's first foray into game-show hosting, The Object Is, which was cancelled after thirteen weeks.
Shortly after this, CBS began counterprogramming Missing Links with reruns of The Jack Benny Program and the ratings for the game show slid even further.
Toward the end of the pilot, host Ed McMahon can be heard summarizing the unusual story of contestant Gloria Steinem, then a magazine writer and editor who was known for having gone undercover as a Playboy Bunny at a Playboy Club.
A 1964 episode exists with host Dick Clark and panelists Sam Levenson, Kaye Ballard and Joel Grey.
An episode dated December 24, 1964 is held by the UCLA Film and Television Archive,[1] and the Library Of Congress.