If the question is, "Name a TV personality whose easy charm and wry demeanor made him an emblematic game-show host of the format's '70s golden age," the no. 1 answer would have to be Richard Dawson, the Match Game panelist, Family Feud host, and all-around home-sick-from-school-watching-daytime-TV staple, who died Saturday of complications from esophageal cancer at the age of 79.