Hollywood Squares
Hollywood Squares is an American panel game show, in which two contestants play tic-tac-toe to win cash and prizes. The "board" for the game is a 3 × 3 vertical stack of open-faced cubes, each occupied by a celebrity seated at a desk and facing the contestants. The stars are asked questions by the host, or "Square-Master", and the contestants judge the veracity of their answers in order to win the game. Although Hollywood Squares was a legitimate game show, the game largely acted as the background for the show's comedy in the form of joke answers, often given by the stars prior to their "real" answer. The show's writers usually supplied the jokes. In addition, the stars were given question subjects and plausible incorrect answers prior to the show. The show was scripted in this sense, but the gameplay was not. In any case, as host Peter Marshall, the best-known "Square-Master" and the man in whose honor the show's first announcer, Kenny Williams, actually "coined" the term, would explain at the beginning of the Secret Square game, the celebrities were briefed prior to show to help them with bluff answers, but they otherwise heard the actual questions for the first time as they were asked on air.
First Aired
1966-10-17
Status
Ended
Network
NBC
Seasons
Season 1 Episodes
Watch All →E1. THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Debut in living color on NBC-TV.) Monday October 17, 1966.
The 1st 9 Stars are NICK ADAMS, SALLY FIELD, CHARLEY WEAVER, ABBY DALTON, WALLY COX, ROSE MARIE, MOREY AMSTERDAM, AGNES MOREHEAD & ERNEST BORGNINE.
★ 10.0
E2. THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Tuesday October 18, 1966)
NICK ADAMS, SALLY FIELD, CHARLEY WEAVER, ABBY DALTON, WALLY COX, ROSE MARIE, MOREY AMSTERDAM, AGNES MOOREHEAD & ERNEST BORGNINE.
★ 10.0
E3. THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Wednesday October 19, 1966)
NICK ADAMS, SALLY FIELD, CHARLEY WEAVER, ABBY DALTON, WALLY COX, ROSE MARIE, MOREY AMSTERDAM, PAMELA MASON "THE PAMELA MASON SHOW" & ERNEST BORGNINE.
★ 10.0
E4. THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Thursday October 20, 1966)
NICK ADAMS, SALLY FIELD, CHARLEY WEAVER, ABBY DALTON, WALLY COX, ROSE MARIE, MOREY AMSTERDAM, PAMELA MASON & ERNEST BORGNINE (The Center Square.)
★ 10.0
E5. THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Friday October 21, 1966)
NICK ADAMS, SALLY FIELD, CHARLEY WEAVER, ABBY DALTON, WALLY COX, ROSE MARIE, MOREY AMSTERDAM, PAMELA MASON & ERNEST BORGNINE.
E6. THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Monday October 24, 1966)
MICHAEL LANDON "BONANZA," EARTHA KITT, CHARLEY WEAVER, ABBY DALTON, WALLY COX, ROSE MARIE, BOB CRANE "HOGAN'S HEROES," GISELE MacKENZIE "YOUR HIT PARADE" & PAUL LYNDE "Bewitched." PAUL LYNDE's 1st SHOW and Sits The Center Square.
Cast
Peter Marshall
Self - Host
Kenny Williams
Self - Announcer (voice)
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