Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour
| The Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour | |
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| Created by | Mark Goodson, Bill Todman, Merrill Heatter and Bob Quigley |
| Based on |
Match Game Hollywood Squares |
| Directed by | Marc Breslow |
| Presented by |
Gene Rayburn (Match Game segments) Jon Bauman (Hollywood Squares segment) |
| Narrated by | Gene Wood |
| Composer(s) | Edd Kalehoff |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 191 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Robert Sherman |
| Location(s) |
NBC Studios Burbank, California |
| Running time | approx. 48 Minutes |
| Production company(s) | Mark Goodson Productions Orion Television |
| Distributor |
MGM Worldwide Television FremantleMedia North America |
| Release | |
| Original network | NBC |
| Original release | October 31, 1983 – July 27, 1984 |
The Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour is an American television game show that combined two game shows of the 1960s and 1970s – Match Game and Hollywood Squares – into an hour-long format.
The series ran from October 31, 1983 to July 27, 1984 on NBC.Gene Rayburn hosted the Match Game and Super Match segments, while Jon "Bowzer" Bauman hosted the Hollywood Squares segment. Gene Wood was the show's regular announcer with Johnny Olson, Rich Jeffries, and Bob Hilton substituting during the run.
The series was a joint production of Mark Goodson Productions and Orion Television, which owned the rights to Squares at the time.
The show began with two new contestants playing a round of 1970s-style Match Game with a panel of six celebrities, including Bauman in the bottom left seat. The game-play format was the one used on the syndicated Match Game PM; it was up to the contestant to match as many of the panel's responses to fill-in-the-blank questions as possible, with three rounds played and matched celebrities not playing subsequent questions. After three rounds, the contestant with the higher score won the game.
In case of a tie, a modified version of the Match Game PM tiebreaker was used. As before, a Super Match-like question (example: "_____, New Jersey") was played. The difference was that instead of writing their answers on a card, the contestants were secretly shown four possible answer choices (examples: "Atlantic City", "Hoboken", "Newark", "Trenton"). Once both contestants had chosen an answer, Rayburn read the question to the panel and polled them, one at a time. The first contestant to match his/her answer against any panel member won the game.
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