Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Game shows were 'appointment television' and dominated the free-to-air Australian TV landscape. Alongside Perfect Match, you can see more of your favourites in the NFSA Game Shows collection. https://www.nfsa.gov.au/collection/curated/australian-tv-game-shows-1950s-now [ Perfect Match TV Special: Was there any romance?, 2002, NFSA ID: 1547204, courtesy Fremantle ] | NFSA - National Film and Sound Archive of Australia

If you were short one Valentine in 1986, you might brave the bar stools of the dating game show ‘Perfect Match’, where bouffant bangs and electric-blue sequins went with skinny ties and spiral perms like … an oyster round a pearl. In this excerpt, we meet Ron (‘a photography manager who wants to own a business), Trevor (‘a sales manager who wants to become a Formula One driver’) and Glen (‘a fireman who wants to climb Mt Everest’). Later in the show, they will try and match with Leslie, a Scotti