Hollywood Squares

6.8IMDb1.1K votes1966 – Ended1 Seasons68 EpisodesFamily,Reality,ComedyGeneral audience

6.8IMDb1.1K votes

7.7TMDB

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 truthfulness of their answers in order to win the game. Although Hollywood Squares was a legitimate game show, the game largely served as a backdrop for the show's comedy in the form of joke answers, often provided by the stars before their "real" answer. The show's writers typically supplied the jokes. Additionally, the stars were given question topics and plausible incorrect answers prior to the show. The show was scripted in this way, 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 before the show to help them with bluff answers, but they otherwise heard the actual questions for the first time as they were asked on air.