Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour

The Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour was an American television game show that combined two long-running 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 Bauman hosted the Hollywood Squares segment. Gene Wood was the show's regular announcer with Johnny Olson, Rich Je... more

The Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour was an American television game show that combined two long-running 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 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, who owned the rights to Squares at the time. The show began with two new contestants playing a round of Match Game with a panel of five celebrities and Jon Bauman. The object was the same as the 1970s version: it was up to the contestant to match as many of the panel's responses to fill-in-the-blank questions, with three rounds played and matched celebrities not playing subsequent questions. In cases of ties a... less