Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour

TV Series
1983–1984
TV-PG
1h

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Rod Arrants in Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour (1983)

Afternoon game show which combined elements of two classic game shows "Match Game" and "Hollywood Squares" into one.Afternoon game show which combined elements of two classic game shows "Match Game" and "Hollywood Squares" into one.Afternoon game show which combined elements of two classic game shows "Match Game" and "Hollywood Squares" into one.

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6.2/10

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Gene Rayburn

Hollywood Squares Panelist…

Jon 'Bowzer' Bauman

Match Game Panelist…

Gene Wood

Self - Announcer

Nedra Volz

Self - Panelist

Leonard Frey

Self - Panelist

Charles Nelson Reilly

Self - Panelist

Marty Cohen

Self - Panelist

Johnny Olson

Self - Announcer

Fred Travalena

Self - Panelist

Richard Kline

Self - Panelist

Jimmie 'JJ' Walker

Self - Panelist

Arsenio Hall

Self - Panelist

Tom Poston

Self - Panelist

Phyllis Diller

Self - Panelist

Tom Villard

Self - Panelist

Marcia Wallace

Self - Panelist

Fannie Flagg

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Bruce Baum

Self - Panelist

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Trivia
As of 2021, this is the only version of Hollywood Squares in which contestants could answer the question of a deciding square incorrectly and the opponent could win the square and the game. In all other versions, the contestant had to earn the square on their own by answering the question correctly.

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Followed by The New Hollywood Squares (1986)

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Rayburn = Good, Bauman = Bad.

I admit, I've seen Rayburn doing the Match Game a number of times on GSN. That was a really good show, pretty funny. He continues this on the Match Game-Hollywood Squares hour.

Bauman on the other hand. Why did NBC get this guy to do Hollywood Squares? Granted I never saw the Marshall version of Hollywood Squares (I wasn't even born before he aired) but with Marshall just coming off a huge run on it, it would seem that he would get the nod for this. The questions were more funny then the celebrities, which is one bad thing, but Bauman ran the Hollywood Squares part at a slow pace, much slower than what I would have expected.

Super Match, no real comment on it, not a bad bonus game.

Overall, not a bad show, but Bauman was awful.