Hollywood Connection

The Hollywood Connection
Genre	Game show
Directed by	Richard S. Kline
Presented by	Jim Lange
Narrated by	Johnny Gilbert (1977) Jay Stewart (1977-1978)
Country of origin	United States
Production
Producer(s)	Ron Greenberg
Running time	approx. 22 minutes
Production company(s)	Jack Barry-Dan Enright Productions Golden West Broadcasters
Distributor	Colbert Television Sales Sony Pictures Television
Release
Original network	Syndicated (daily)
Original release	September 5, 1977 – March 3, 1978

The Hollywood Connection is an American game show that ran in syndication from September 5, 1977 to March 3, 1978. Jim Lange hosted the series, while Jay Stewart (Johnny Gilbert in earlier episodes) announced. The series was produced by Barry & Enright Productions in association with Golden West Broadcasters.

Two contestants faced a panel of six celebrities in game of answering questions about the stars themselves, a concept similar in format to Match Game. As in Match Game, the contestants' goal is to match the stars' answers in order to score points; this is classified as "making a connection".

The player who won the coin toss choose which row of celebrities (either the top or bottom) to play with. Lange then read a question to the celebrities with two possible answers, after which the stars wrote down their response. When finished, the player in control chose one of the answers that they think the star would say (unlike Match Game, the contestant gave an answer for each individual panelist, rather than the entire panel). Each time the player made a connection, they earned 1 point. After the first player was done, their opponent then had a chance to play with the other row of three celebrities.

Played in the same manner as Round One, except the player who didn't start the last round went first in this round. That player chose to either play with the male stars or the female stars. Each question had three choices, and each connection was worth 2 points.

In Round Three, either the player who was behind or, in case of a tie, whoever didn't go first last round, went first. Each question still had three choices and each connection was worth 3 points. Whoever scored more points at the end of the game won, receives some prizes, and played the bonus round. In the event of a tie, sudden death was played to determine the champion.

The celebrities and the champion were shown a picture of a famous person, place or thing, then the celebrities wrote down a word or phrase associated with the picture. The champion wrote down three answers of their own and placed them next to the values of $300, $200 and $100, with the answer marked at $300 the one the contestant thought the panel would be most likely to write down.

The champion called on the stars one-by-one and tried to match what they had written. Each time the panelist's answer matched one of the champion's, the champion won the money attached to that answer. After all the stars have shown their answers, if the champion reached at least $1,000, they won $2,000 and a trip.

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