Game, Set, Match

(Props to Don)
Brett Somers could not bear life without common law wife Charles Nelson Reilly and succumbed to a broken heart at the age of 83. Colon and stomach cancer didn’t help. Richard Dawson better get a physical. Somers parlayed a bunch of Broadway flops and TV cameos into a permanent spot top center on The Match Game as the raspy foil to Reilly’s camp, with the two providing most of the show’s best moments with double and single entendres. When Somers wasn’t trying to guess what Dumb Donald was doing, she was seducing Adama on Battlestar Galactica as Siress Beloby, was assistant to Monte Markham’s New Perry Mason, and played Oscar Madison’s ex-wife on The Odd Couple, a role she was uniquely suited for, having separated from Jack Klugman in 1974, although the two never consummated the separation with a divorce.

Don was the only Pooligan to fill in the correct blank and notches his 3rd hit in 4 years to take 28th.

With 2 and a half months to go, there are 7 entries within 1 hit, albeit it has to be the right one, from the lead, and 12 more are within 2.