Celebrity Bowling
| Celebrity Bowling | |
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| Genre | Game show |
| Directed by | Don Buccola |
| Presented by | Jed Allan and Cheryl Kaminski |
| Theme music composer |
Jack Palmer Spencer Williams |
| Opening theme | "Everybody Loves My Baby", by King Richard's Fleugel Knights (1967 recording) |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 8 |
| No. of episodes | 144 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Joe Siegman Don Gregory |
| Location(s) |
Metromedia Square Los Angeles, California |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) | 7-10 Productions |
| Distributor | Peter Rodgers Organization |
| Release | |
| Original network | Syndicated |
| Original release | January 16, 1971 – September 1978 |
Celebrity Bowling is an American syndicated bowling sports series hosted by Jed Allan that ran from January 16, 1971, to September 1978. The series was produced in Los Angeles at Metromedia Square, the studios of KTTV, now a Fox owned-and-operated station.
Each week, the show featured four celebrities, on a pair of AMF or Brunswick lanes installed inside KTTV's studios, pitted against each other in teams of two. Victorious teams won prizes for home viewers, based upon the level of winning scores; there was an additional prize for the viewer associated with the team that bowled the most strikes.
The weekly series was a by-product of The Celebrity Bowling Classic, a 90-minute TV special produced in 1969 for the Metromedia-owned stations, benefitting the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation. The series debuted at the same time the Prime Time Access Rule took effect, during which time a number of syndicated weekly programs went into production; its end came as weekly programs such as Celebrity Bowling were increasingly being replaced by twice-weekly and later stripped daily productions.
Joe Siegman created the series, and he and Don Gregory produced 144 episodes for their 7-10 Productions.
Four celebrities played each game, separated into two pairs (usually each pair included one man and one woman). The rules of the game were known as "best ball"; for each frame, both members of each team would roll a ball on their own lane. If neither of the two teammates rolled a strike, then the person who rolled the worse shot (either a split or whoever knocked down the fewest pins) would then roll for the spare on the other lane. Players alternated lanes after each frame.
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