Hollywood Squares
TV Show| Title | Hollywood Squares |
| User score | 7.9 |
| Release date | Oct 17, 1966 |
| Release date of last episode | Jan 20, 1967 |
| Genre | Comedy, Reality, Family |
| Director | Merrill Heatter , Bob Quigley |
| Production country | United States of America |
| Production companies | Orion Television, Filmways Television, Merrill Heatter-Bob Quigley Productions, Rhodes Productions, Four Star Television, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, NBC |
| Series status | Ended |
| Seasons count | 1 (List of episodes) |
| Episodes count | 68 |
| Run time | 30 min. |
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.
Latest episodes
List of episodesS1.E68 ∙ THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Friday January 20, 1967)
Jan 20, 1967
S1.E67 ∙ THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Thursday January 19, 1967)
Jan 19, 1967
S1.E66 ∙ THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Wednesday January 18, 1967)
Jan 18, 1967
S1.E65 ∙ THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Tuesday January 17, 1967)
Jan 17, 1967
S1.E64 ∙ THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Monday January 16, 1967)
Jan 16, 1967
S1.E63 ∙ THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Friday January 13, 1967)
Jan 13, 1967
S1.E62 ∙ THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Thursday January 12, 1967)
Jan 12, 1967
S1.E61 ∙ THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Wednesday January 11, 1967)
Jan 11, 1967
S1.E60 ∙ THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Tuesday January 10, 1967)
Jan 10, 1967
S1.E59 ∙ THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Monday January 9, 1967)
Jan 9, 1967
S1.E58 ∙ THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Friday January 6, 1967)
Jan 6, 1967
S1.E57 ∙ THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Thursday January 5, 1967)
Jan 5, 1967
S1.E56 ∙ THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Wednesday January 4, 1967)
Jan 4, 1967
S1.E55 ∙ THE HONLLYWOOD SQUARES (Tuesday January 3, 1967)
Jan 3, 1967
S1.E54 ∙ THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Friday December 30, 1966)
Dec 30, 1966
S1.E53 ∙ THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Thursday December 29, 1966)
Dec 29, 1966
S1.E52 ∙ THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Wednesday December 28, 1966)
Dec 28, 1966
S1.E51 ∙ THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Tuesday December 27, 1966)
Dec 27, 1966
S1.E50 ∙ THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Monday December 26, KWANZAA 1966)
Dec 26, 1966
S1.E49 ∙ THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Friday December 23, 1966)
Dec 23, 1966
