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Hollywood Squares

Hollywood Squares (1966)

October. 17,1966
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6.8
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TV-PG
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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.

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Seasons & Episode

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Seasons 1 : 1966

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68 Episode

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Episode 1 - Episode 1
October. 17,1966

Episode 12 - THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Tuesday November 1 All Saint's Day 1966)
November. 01,1966

DALE ROBERTSON, DELLA REESE, CHARLEY WEAVER, ABBY DALTON, WALLY COX, ROSE MARIE, SHELLEY BERMAN, AGNES MOOREHEAD & PAUL LYNDE.

Episode 22 - THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Tuesday November 15, 1966)
November. 15,1966

VERA MILES, RUTA LEE, FRED GWYNNE, PAUL LYNDE, WALLY COX, ROSE MARIE, MOREY AMSTERDAM, BARBARA EDEN & CHARLEY WEAVER.

Episode 23 - THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Wednesday November 16, 1966)
November. 16,1966

VERA MILES, RUTA LEE, FRED GWYNNE, PAUL LYNDE, WALLY COX, ROSE MARIE, MOREY AMSTERDAM, BARBARA EDEN & CHARLEY WEAVER.

Episode 24 - THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Thursday November 17, 1966)
November. 17,1966

VERA MILES, RUTA LEE, FRED GWYNNE, PAUL LYNDE, WALLY COX, ROSE MARIE, MOREY AMSTERDAM, BARBARA EDEN & CHARLEY WEAVER.

Episode 25 - THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Friday November 18, 1966)
November. 18,1966

VERA MILES, RUTA LEE, FRED GWYNNE, PAUL LYNDE, WALLY COX, ROSE MARIE, MOREY AMSTERDAM, BARBARA EDEN & CHARLEY WEAVER.

Episode 42 - THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Wednesday December 14, 1966)
December. 14,1966

MICHAEL LANDON, JUDY CARNE, CHARLEY WEAVER, ABBY DALTON, WALLY COX, ROSE MARIE, MOREY AMSTERDAM, PETER DEUEL & GLENN FORD.

Episode 47 - THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Wednesday December 21, 1966)
December. 21,1966

MR. JAN MURRAY, ROBERT MORSE, RUTA LEE, ABBY DALTON, WALLY COX, ROSE MARIE, MOREY AMSTERDAM, CHARLEY WEAVER & VERA MILES.

Episode 48 - THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Thursday December 22, 1966)
December. 22,1966

MR. JAN MURRAY, ROBERT MORSE, RUTA LEE, ABBY DALTON, WALLY COX, ROSE MARIE, MOREY AMSTERDAM, CHARLEY WEAVER & VERA MILES.

Episode 52 - THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Wednesday December 28, 1966)
December. 28,1966

PETER DEUEL, PATTY DUKE, CHARLEY WEAVER, ABBY DALTON, WALLY COX, JUDY CARNE, MOREY AMSTERDAM, SUSANNAH YORK & BILL BIXBY.

Episode 53 - THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Thursday December 29, 1966)
December. 29,1966

PETER DEUEL, PATTY DUKE, CHARLEY WEAVER, ABBY DALTON, WALLY COX, JUDY CARNE, MOREY AMSTERDAM, SUSANNAH YORK & BILL BIXBY.

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