Hollywood Squares — Season 1, Episode 67: THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Thursday January 19, 1967)

Episode synopsis

JAMES DRURY, RUTA LEE, CHARLEY WEAVER, ABBY DALTON, WALLY COX, ROSE MARIE, MOREY AMSTERDAM, PHYLLIS DILLER & DENNIS JAMES.

About 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.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Debut in living color on NBC-TV.) Monday October 17, 1966.
• E2THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Tuesday October 18, 1966)
• E3THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Wednesday October 19, 1966)
• E4THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Thursday October 20, 1966)
• E5THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Friday October 21, 1966)
• E6THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Monday October 24, 1966)
• E7THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Tuesday October 25, 1966)
• E8THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Wednesday October 26, 1966)
• E9THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Thursday October 27, 1966)
• E10THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Friday October 28, 1966)
• E11THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Monday October 31 Halloween 1966)
• E12THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Tuesday November 1 All Saint's Day 1966)