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  Hollywood Squares - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Squares ran for one more year in syndication (this last year of shows was taped at the Riviera Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada) before it was canceled for good.
This version of Squares became noted for gimmickry a la I've Got A Secret, such as musical questions (wherein Davidson, a former recording artist, sang songs for the celebrity to finish), questions involving props in a panelist's square or presented as skits involving outside actors, "surprise" special guests, and so on.
A UK version of the show, called Celebrity Squares and hosted by Bob Monkhouse, appeared on ITV from 1975 to 1979; it was revived with the same host from 1993 to 1995, the 1993 series named New Celebrity Squares.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hollywood_Squares   (3745 words)

  
 Hollywood Squares for Mobile Review - Mobile Hollywood Squares Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Hollywood Squares may not have the same value as its TV counterpart, but it's an amazingly well-polished and thoughtful trivia game.
Hollywood Squares may not have the same value as its TV counterpart, but it's an amazingly well-built and thoughtful trivia game.
Hollywood Squares, or celebrity tic-tac-toe, is a long-running game show that takes B- and C-list movie stars, older celebrities, and other minor Hollywood nobles, and allows them to test out their acting skills in public yet again.
www.gamespot.com /mobile/puzzle/hollywoodsquares/review.html?part=rss&tag=gs_reviews&subj=6127593   (775 words)

  
 Hollywood Squares - Nostalgia Central   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Hollywood Squares is one of the most popular and longest running daytime game shows in television history.
Much of the success of the show can be attributed to the humorous answers given by the celebrities in the squares on the board.
One of the most popular celebrities was Paul Lynde, who occupied the centre square for most of the series' initial run.
www.nostalgiacentral.com /tv/variety/hollywoodsquares.htm   (164 words)

  
 Hollywood Squares-Weeknights at 7:00pm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
To the millions of viewers globally who tune in to Hollywood Squares daily, the secret to the series' ongoing success is really no secret at all: You start with a classic game format, tic-tac-toe, loved the world over.
Hollywood Squares also takes its show literally on the road for the first time in the 2000-2001 season when it tapes three weeks of episodes in New York City.
And fresh from the last Hollywood Squares family reunion, the stars will once again treat their Moms for a special Mother's Day Week; other holidays to be fested (and jested) the Squares way will be Halloween and Thanksgiving.
www.wchs8.com /synd_prog/squares   (674 words)

  
 Hollywood Squares Tickets for Free by TvTix.com
Last tapings of Hollywood Squares was last Feb. 21, 22 and 23rd.
If you are at least 18 years of age, not affiliated with anyone associated with the production or broadscast of Hollywood Squares, and have not been a contestant on any game show broadcast within one year of taping - call (323) 850-0707 to set up a contestant interview.
Hollywood Squares first aired in 1966 with comedian Paul Lynne as the center square.
www.tvtix.com /show.php?eventID=5   (369 words)

  
 math lessons - Hollywood Squares
Hollywood Squares is a American television comedy and game show in which two contestants play tic-tac-toe to win money and prizes.
A UK version of the show, called Celebrity Squares and hosted by Bob Monkhouse, appeared on ITV from 1975 to 1979; it was revived with the same host from 1993 to 1994, the 1993 series named New Celebrity Squares.
Since the center square is the most strategic in tic-tac-toe, it is treated as the position of honor on the show.
www.mathdaily.com /lessons/Celebrity_Squares   (1316 words)

  
 Hollywood Squares
Exception: If the contestant lost a square that would give their opponent the win if he or she lost it, the square was not given on a missed question.
If time ran out, squares were worth either $200 or $100, depending on the time in the run.
Starting in 1999, Hollywood Sqares held the Tournament of Champions in May. Two of the players would face off each day, and the Secret Square would be worth $2,500.
www.angelfire.com /wa/gsjackpot/hollywoodsquares.html   (758 words)

  
 Hollywood Squares   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Hollywood Squares jumped the shark when they had John Davidson host the show.
Hollywood Squares was a big deal way back when there were only 3 major networks - people watched it because it was one of the only things on.
The original "Hollywood Squares" JTS when it became apparent that Peter Marshall was simply too "be-yoo-ti-ful" for words.
www.jumptheshark.com /h/hollywoodsquares.htm   (9491 words)

  
 Hollywood Squares
As part of the production team for "Hollywood Squares," their job was to keep the audience's attention on the stars of the TV game show.
While Biondi said he was having fun performing for "Hollywood Squares," he added that he didn't want to make a career of it.
Louganis is the reigning sports veteran on "Hollywood Squares," having appeared on the show two times previously.
jaehakim.com /articles/tv/features/hollywood.htm   (813 words)

  
 The Hollywood Squares
If the contestant was correct in their judgment, they got the square; if not, it was awarded to their opponent (unless awarding that square gave them the game).
I’ll tell you what that means: that little statement, flashed in the end credits of Hollywood Squares, was H-Q’s way of admitting, however obliquely, that many of the stars weren’t that clever on their own; that their quips and actual answers were written for them in advance.
In any case, Squares’ time was running down, despite a you-can’t-lose end game added in 1976 (after winning a match, the contestant picked any of the nine celebrities, whose envelope on their desk described a bonus prize).
www.curtalliaume.com /squares.html   (3373 words)

  
 02.27.2002 - Engineering freshman takes on ‘Hollywood Squares’
When audition staff at “Hollywood Squares” asked Woody Hartman to pose for a Polaroid, he decided he wouldn’t be chosen for the game show’s fourth annual college tournament, airing Feb. 11 to 22.
“Hollywood Squares” put Hartman and 13 other U.S. college students up in a nice hotel, chartered limos and provided spending money for four days “so we could live it up a little,” he says.
A little miffed that the round was called early, after his rival had had one more chance to win a square than he had, Harman was philosophical.
www.berkeley.edu /news/berkeleyan/2002/02/27_square.html   (427 words)

  
 Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour
Squares part, with Gene sitting on the bottom left side of the board.
Regardless of winning or losing the bonus round, the player came back to be the returning champ on the Hollywood Squares segment the next day.
Later after Match Game-Hollywood Squares, the Squares would come back in 1986 with John Davidson as host and again in 1998 with Tom Bergeron as host, with movie star Whoopi Goldberg in the center square.
www.gameshow-galaxy.net /mghs.htm   (830 words)

  
 Toeth's Game Show Insights
3 squares across, up, down or diagonally or acquire the squares as they can (i.e.: 5 squares).
For 1st or 2nd games was "The Secret Square": The contestant that picked that same square wins a prize package from $2000 to $5000 and so on.
In 1976-1977, "The Bonus Squares" were introduced on the program.
www.angelfire.com /tx5/imander/gameshows/classic/hollywoodsquares.html   (126 words)

  
 Funagain Games: Hollywood Squares
The questions are usually multiple choice, true/false or yes/no, making it easy for the MC to give a bluff if he or she chooses.
Players are able to select from 12 different stars to place in the 9 squares, each with a biography for added fun.
Static cling X and O symbols are stuck to the board when a player 'gets the square.' The first player to win 2 out of 3 games wins the match.
www.funagain.com /control/product/~product_id=00627/~affiliate_id=LUDI   (385 words)

  
 Hollywood Squares
If a player chose the "Secret Square" which was a randomly chosen square, they then had a chance to win a prize package.
Paul Lynde was the center square on the Hollywood Squares for most of it's run.
In his career, Paul is probably most famous, besides the Squares, for playing Uncle Arthur on the television series "Bewitched." Paul died of a heart attack in 1982 in Beverly Hills, but many other theories have come up about his death.
www.gameshow-galaxy.net /squares.htm   (1394 words)

  
 Nicole Sullivan on Hollywood Squares
Nicole Sullivan appeared as a guest panelist (square?) on Hollywood Squares; the episodes aired the week of July 8, 2001.
The new Hollywood Squares, like the previous incarnations, has had several regular panelists: until recently, Whoopi Goldberg was the center square, and Caroline Rhea was a regular panelist for the first three years.
Sullivan displayed an ability to extemporize which was on a par with several of the regular panelists.
www.nic0lesullivan.org /nicolehollywoodsquares.html   (389 words)

  
 Hollywood Squares - Wikiquote
Hollywood Squares is a American television comedy game show which had three major incarnations under hosts Peter Marshall, John Davidson, and Tom Bergeron.
Nick Adams...Agnes Moorehead...Charley Weaver...Pamela Mason...Wally Cox...Rose Marie...Morey Amsterdam...Abby Dalton...or Ernest Borgnine...all in The Hollywood Squares!
And now, here's the master of The Hollywood Squares, Peter Marshall!" --Announcer Kenny Williams' opening to the very first Hollywood Squares, October 17, 1966.
en.wikiquote.org /wiki/Hollywood_Squares   (864 words)

  
 Hollywood Squares   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
As the 3 time Hollywood Square champion, he had become a bigger celeberty than most of the the ones on the show.
Also, I think the game is set in the future, since there aren't really any stars in the game, and this is just a glimpse as to who will be the stars of 2050.
In the Secret Square round, you have to guess the correct celeberty, and if you get their question right, you'll win an imaginary trip that doesn't benefit you in the game in any way.
sweetbee.silius.net /hollywoodsquares.html   (330 words)

  
 KC on Hollywood Squares   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Venerable "Hollywood Squares" opens its cubicles Tuesday night to Chaka Khan, UFO, Kiki Dee, the Commodores and Todd Rundgren in the first of four rock-centered programs.
During each half-hour episode, host Marshall made sure each "Squares" contestant got ample opportunity to plug his or her latest recordings.
"Hollywood Squares" has occasionally booked country and rock performers, including Roy Clark and Alice Cooper, but the rock series is the furthest it has moved into the pop arena.
harrywaynecasey.com /hollywoodsquares.html   (747 words)

  
 The Hollywood Squares Home Game Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
On your turn, your opponent answers the question in the square you select, and you agree or disagree with that answer to earn the square.
None are supposed to represent actual celebrities, but it can't be a coincidence that an elderly, overall-wearing comic named "Hayseed" sits in the lower left corner, the TV home of the elderly, overall-wearing hayseed comic Charley Weaver.
According to the rules, some of the cards are marked as Secret Square cards, and you can win an extra $1000 for answering that question correctly (limited to the first Secret Square card that appears in each game).
userdata.acd.net /ottinger/inside/squares   (1250 words)

  
 IGN: Hollywood Squares Hip Hop Edition Review
April 11, 2006 - Hollywood Squares was a wonderful relic of the sorta-celebrity era, the days that also brought the deliciously campy Match Game show to the small screen.
Since Hollywood Squares licenses the actual likenesses of stars, making these personalities recognizable is incredibly important.
Sonic's Hollywood Square Hip Hop Edition is actually a pretty smart way to give the license relevance.
wireless.ign.com /articles/701/701226p1.html   (533 words)

  
 classicsquares
Second, I heard a recurring rumor that I eventually believed (but was later proven to be not necessarily true) that nearly all of the original Squares tapes were thought to be destroyed or otherwise lost forever.
The constant passing around of an email full of "zingers" from the show convinced me even more there is a modern, turn-of-the millenium audience for those original Paul Lynde/Charley Weaver, et.
"The Hollywood Squares: A Tribute to the Original" is a
www.classicsquares.com   (306 words)

  
 Hollywood Squares   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The best-known champions in their fields – who have won 44 medals among them – appeared as guest Squares in a special week of the hit nationally-syndicated game series, broadcast as a tribute to the 2000 Summer Games.
According to husband-and-wife gymnasts Nadia Comaneci and Bart Conner, who shared a Hollywood Square, “Olympic competition is brutal.
The episodes aired nationally the week of September 18-22, on stations representing more than 96 percent of the U.S. "Hollywood Squares" airs primarily in early evening or late afternoon.
www.louganis.com /hollywood_squares.htm   (284 words)

  
 News/Features | Hollywood squares   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
SINCE IT WAS founded in 1985, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has transformed itself from a rowdy, New York—based grassroots gadfly into a slick, bicoastal media operation.
But a growing number of critics have taken the group to task, questioning many of its decisions and wondering whether its judgment might be clouded by its hand-in-glove relationship with Hollywood — an industry that naturally tends to confuse its representations of the world with the real thing.
There may be special perils in handing that task to Hollywood career professionals, but the same minefield is frequently navigated — often unsuccessfully — by right-wing organizations.
www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/news_features/other_stories/multi-page/documents/01803486.htm   (1033 words)

  
 Hollywood Squares (1998-2004)
A big rules change: the end game was similar to the late 1970s version, but the contestant had to earn the prize in the envelope by deciding whether to agree or disagree with the celebrity's answer to a bonus question.
In fact, the rotating center square, while apparently helping the producers save money, also prevented the show from developing that very personality, and made it appear somewhat inconsistent in tone.
On the last show, Bergeron brought out the crew onstage--by now a Squares tradition, as Peter Marshall and John Davidson did this on their versions' finales--and ended the show by saying, "These are the people who have brought you Hollywood Squares.
www.classicsquares.com /sequelsiv.html   (1396 words)

  
 Hollywood Squares Game Show - Free TV Tickets, contestant & CBS info
in the center square, and an alternating cast of celebrity players in the eight squares surrounding her.
Hollywood Squares dates back to 1966, when the original show was hosted by Peter Marshall and featured celebrities such as Cliff Arquette (Charley Weaver), Paul Lynde, Wally Cox, Rose Marie, Dom Deluise and Rich Little.
It was resurrected again in the mid 80's with John Davidson as the host, and with JM J.
www.hollywoodsquaresinfo.com   (200 words)

  
 'Hollywood Squares' Challenges Contestants to Outwit, Outplay and Outlast The Cast Members From the Hit Series ...
I must be in that Center Square and I will do whatever it takes to get it." Decorated to evoke the plains of Africa, the "Hollywood Squares" set will become the backdrop for a series of special comedy sketches featuring both the Survivor cast members and other celebrities.
For the week of February 4-8, Squares invites viewers to "feel the love" with Be My Valentine Week, featuring celebrity couples and a Valentine's Day party atmosphere guaranteed to warm even the coldest heart.
For the two-week period of February 11-22, Squares will host its annual College Tournament, traditionally one of the series' most anticipated and highly-rated events.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/01-16-2002/0001649541&EDATE=   (621 words)

  
 Hollywood Squares quiz -- free game   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
With which group was "Hollywood Squares" host Jon Bauman once a singer?
You can't win a round of Hollywood Squares without getting 3 X's or 3 O's in a row.
Which former major league baseball player was the son of a "Hollywood Squares" MC?
www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=150215   (170 words)

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