The syndicated "Match Game" helped exacerbate the perception of the 4:00 p.m. time slot being a "death slot" for network programming. After CBS canceled "Match Game 79", the network moved the long-running soap opera "Love of Life" into the vacant time slot. Although the syndicated "Match Game" was not a direct cause of the ratings problems "Love of Life" faced—the 4:00pm time slot, the last network daytime slot, had been a problem for all three networks for years and "Love of Life" had seen a precipitous drop in ratings since the April 1979 move to the late afternoon—many stations ran the syndicated "Match Game" against the veteran soap opera, and several more stations, including many CBS owned stations and affiliates, dropped "Love of Life" in favor of the new "Match Game". ("Love of Life" aired its final episode on February 1, 1980, 5 months after the debut of the new "Match Game".) The daytime syndicated show produced 525 episodes, running until September 10, 1982 – exactly three years after its debut.