Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour: Difference between revisions

The '''''Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour''''' is a [[Game Show]] segment hosted by [[Mark Goodson]] that ran on [[NBC]] and combined two great games into a single show. Two new contestants began by playing ''[[Match Game]]'', using the same format as its 1973-82 era, with the only difference being the tiebreaker — while played the same as before, the contestants now chose from a list of four possible answers.

The winner of ''Match Game'' played against the returning champion on ''[[The Hollywood Squares]]'', with three more celebrities joining the group. The champion always played X, the challenger played O, and there was no Secret Square. Each captured square awarded $25, with victory in each round awarding a prize equal to that round number times 100 ($100 for Round 1, $200 for Round 2, etc.) until time ran out; whoever had the most cash became champion and played in the Super Match.

But whileWhile the concept was sound, the lack of regular panelists and a major senior moment by Goodson (inexplicably failing to understand what made ''Squares'' work) doomed the show to a single season from October 31, 1983 to July 27, 1984 (39 weeks/191 episodes). Further complicating matters was [[Gene Rayburn]], who hated [[Jon Bauman]] and (according to announcer [[Gene Wood]]) had been "dragged, kicking and screaming" into this mess.