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.
Release Date: October 17, 1966
Last Aired: January 20, 1967
July 21, 2005
September 19, 1983
May 28, 2006
April 26, 2013
April 10, 1999
July 13, 2018
August 08, 2003
September 28, 1990
December 27, 1993
November 04, 2022
November 21, 2022
October 26, 2021
October 29, 2021
October 24, 2022
September 26, 2023
October 17, 2021
October 10, 1986
July 03, 2000
October 02, 2006
May 31, 2006