Hollywood Squares

Overview

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.

Roughly 56h 30m to watch every episode. This is an estimate: 113 episodes at the typical episode runtime of 30 minutes.

Series cast and crew

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  Peter MarshallSelf - Host
  113 episodes

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  Kenny WilliamsSelf - Announcer (voice)
  113 episodes

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  Cliff ArquetteSelf - Charley Weaver
  109 episodes

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  Wally CoxSelf
  100 episodes

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  Morey AmsterdamSelf
  77 episodes

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  Rose MarieSelf
  75 episodes

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  Abby DaltonSelf - Center Square
  74 episodes

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  Ruta LeeSelf
  25 episodes

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  Jan MurraySelf - Center Square
  25 episodes

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  Michael LandonSelf
  20 episodes

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  Zsa Zsa GaborSelf
  19 episodes

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  Paul LyndeSelf - Center Square
  18 episodes

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  Judy CarneSelf
  15 episodes

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  Michael CallanSelf - Center Square
  14 episodes

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  Shelley WintersSelf
  14 episodes

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  Robert MorseSelf - Center Square
  12 episodes

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  Agnes MooreheadSelf
  11 episodes

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  Eartha KittSelf
  10 episodes

Created by

Bob Quigley and Merrill Heatter

Network

Syndication, NBC

Seasons and episodes

• Season 11966 · 113 episodes