Perfect Match is an American game show that was hosted by Bob Goen and announced by Johnny Gilbert, which aired from January 13 to September 12, 1986, in syndication.
A year before Perfect Match debuted, Telepictures developed another game show, Catch Phrase, and sold it to stations with what they called an "insurance policy".
Catch Phrase faced ratings trouble from the start, and in November 1985 Lorimar-Telepictures commissioned a pilot for what was initially called Make a Match, with Jim Lange hosting.
[1] Entering December 1985, according to a report in Broadcasting Magazine, Lorimar-Telepictures vice president Peter Temple said the ratings for Catch Phrase were showing "no upside".
[2] Telepictures president Dick Robertson confirmed this in a videotaped message he sent to stations around this same time, saying that the lack of growth in the ratings proved the show "wasn't working" and that the company was taking the drastic step of putting the insurance policy into effect immediately.