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TV series

Hollywood Squares

1966 · TV-PG · 1 season · 113 episodes

Created by Bob Quigley and Merrill Heatter

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Synopsis

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.

About 56h 30m to watch every episode. An estimate: 113 episodes at the typical episode runtime of 30 minutes.

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Main cast

  • Peter Marshall
    Self - Host
    113 episodes

  • Kenny Williams
    Self - Announcer (voice)
    113 episodes

  • Cliff Arquette
    Self - Charley Weaver
    109 episodes

  • Wally Cox
    Self
    100 episodes

  • Morey Amsterdam
    Self
    77 episodes

  • Rose Marie
    Self
    75 episodes

  • Abby Dalton
    Self
    74 episodes

  • Ruta Lee
    Self
    25 episodes

  • Jan Murray
    Self
    25 episodes

  • Michael Landon
    Self
    20 episodes

  • Zsa Zsa Gabor
    Self
    19 episodes

  • Paul Lynde
    Self - Center Square
    18 episodes

  • Judy Carne
    Self
    15 episodes

  • Michael Callan
    Self
    14 episodes

  • Shelley Winters
    Self
    14 episodes

  • Robert Morse
    Self - Charley Weaver
    12 episodes

  • Agnes Moorehead
    Self
    11 episodes

  • Eartha Kitt
    Self
    10 episodes

Seasons