WHAT THE....? Paul Lynde is NOT the center square (?) WOW!

Today Peter Marshall turned 98 and he's still kickin'.Happy Birthday!!

May 2020, just checked wiki to see when Mr. Peter Marshall died, guess what, he's still around! 94 god bless him.

Imagine winning that red 68 Firebird convertable today - would be one of the hottest cars on the road!

Is anyone else binge watching this game show? I’ve been watching for hours.

Wally Cox-the voice of Underdog!!!

Love how you could win a trip around the world and a firebird with true or false questions. Those were the days :)

A brand new 1968 Firebird convertible? Awesome!

I watched Hollywood Squares during it's entire run and Wally Cox was one of the most intelligent celebrities on the show. Vincent Price and Charley Weaver as well.

Loved Paul Lynde ! He made me laugh Wally Cox Charlie weaver too !

That had to be the most incredible day in that girl's life. Engaged that morning then wins a trip around the world for her honeymoon and a host of other valuable prizes. And she's the only contestant I've seen personally to get every single answer right except the last one. I'll bet she looks back at that time in her life with extra fond memories.

Loved Paul Lynde ! He was funny

Wow - if that young lady got married the following year...and her marriage survived, she would be married 46 years. What a story to tell the kids and grandkids about the day she got engaged.

Great to see Kaye Ballard. I really like the early years. Too bad most of the tapes are gone for good from those years.

That 1968 Firebird convertible they were giving away would probably exceed the budget for the show and a few of the stars salaries today...

That Game got me started on the Hollywood Squares Syndication in the 1970s at first I didn't understand it but the more I Watch I decided to become part of the Trivia world

I miss them all. Thanks for sharing.

I keep waiting to hear "Dicker and Dicker of Beverly Hills"🤓

Wow! That young lady that got engaged that morning really cleaned up! Good for her!

What great fashions. Really Glamorous time to be in show biz

Paul lynde was the best on there

There's no need to fear, Wally Cox is here!

This episode I watched from May of 1968 was very good episode I can tell you that that one contestant really got engaged right before the show it tells me that that was a way for her to get some presents on the way out and clean her car around the world and the piano to go with it. Now That's what I call wedding gifts from Hollywood squares. A trip around the world, a 1968 Pontiac firebird, and a piano for $600 that's close enough to $8,000 or more back then. I think with the 68 firebird she drove it for a while and then she had to get rid of it nearly the mid-70s because it was getting old. But that's what happens when you win an automobile from Hollywood squares!

My wife applied for personal assistant to ZaZa having been Hal Holbrook's assistant for yrs. But ZaZa was so cheap my wife turned her down.🤣. Thank God cause she got a job at Sony Pictures in the Script developmentt Dept. doing films like The Last Emporer and Sex,Lies and Videotapes.

Bring this show back! 2019

Damn, Abby Dalton was gorgeous.

in my comparison between Buddy Hackett and Paul Lynde as the Center Square, Paul Lynde is better than Buddy Hackett or any of those center squares after he left.

Wally Cox (aka Underdog) was a very witty person.

Never disagree with Charley Weaver!

Thanks for uploading this bodacious "blast from the past" ! That contestant Priscilla was quite a lovely young lady !

Wow this show is 53 yrs old. 1968, I came to USA June 1, 1968 . That is lady is lucky winning .all those prices on her engagement day. Her fiance is lucky guy. Happy for them.

Wow I was 4yrs old in May 1968 when this episode aired 😊

Zsa Zsa Gabor! ♡♡♡

I was overseas when this funny episode aired. Glad to see it now.

So glad she won she played well, and probably did need a cool car AND a piano! :)

Damn! This show was swinging as hell! I really like this theme song, I like the famous one from 1969-79 or ‘80 a lot more but the stars were great and Peter Marshall was one of the coolest game show host!

I just noticed something interesting. These 1968 camera angles seem to be different from those of later years, at least as far as the middle and top tiers were concerned. I noticed that when Wally Cox was answering the question about lightning strikes, the camera was aimed UP at his square, as if the camera was on the studio floor. Later on, no matter on what tier the star is, the angle always looked LEVEL, as though the camera was on some sort of scaffolding, or a camera boom.

Peter messed up his explanation of the question, perhaps causing Zsa Zsa to get it wrong. In his explanation he said, "It wasn't Volgograd then, was it Leningrad, Stalingrad...?" It is of course the other way around. It was Stalingrad then, Volvograd in 1968. Zsa Zsa, thinking it out, realized -- correctly -- that there was no Stalingrad in 1968, (Stalin having been posthomously purged in the mid-50s) and searched for another answer. Peter may have been flustered by 1) an incorrectly spelled question; 2) Zsa Zsa's problems with English.

Wow, Priscilla was smoking hot. And the reason she looks and sounds so good is that she was a drama student at San Diego State. So she was used to being in front of an audience, and was pretty good at it. She also appeared on another game/talent show in 1968 called Your All-American College Show, hosted by Dennis James. Info courtesy of the Times-Advocate in Escondido, CA.

This is hard to believe that this is 50 years old. Jan Murray was nice unlike Zsa Zsa to make it easy for the contestant to win the Secret Square. He made a great difference to her life.

Cool to watch these shows from the late 1960s, specially when I was barely out of dippers at the time and now I am almost 60. The shows look like they could have been made in the 1980s.

Paul brought class to the center square.

One of the rare times Paul Lynde was on Hollywood Square, but is NOT the center square. Also notable is Rose Marie is not in this particular show either.

i forgot that Paul wasn't always the center square.

What memories the game show.

The Hollywood Squares premiered today (January 12) on NBC in 1968.

That self centered question is very objective.

This primetime episode was aired on May 31, 1968 JTLYK Ken.

Buddy Hackett would become too good for the show later on that by 1974, he left the show to become a regular panelist on Celebrity Sweepstakes. He died on the Fourth of July, 2003, another dark year.

Funny talent ... not like today

May of 1968 I was just about to graduate grammar school, and I had just started studying karate. Can you believe it? Not to mention, the girl just started taking piano lessons.

They never let female celebrities sit on the corners. I always noticed that as a kid.

Abby Dalton was such a Babe!

68 Firebird!

Hackett has some serious Moe Howard hair going on here.

Forget the TWA trip. I'll take the Firebird.

Good ol' 2" quad videotape.

25:13 - This has been a Merrill Heather/Bill Quigley Production.

Paul Lyndes meter maid joke was very good

Abby Dalton! Geez, what's her deal? Wish more of these people were like Lorne G. Paul Lynde is the perfect balance of funny and answer the question.

0:45 Wow, I haven't thought about Kay Ballard in 40 years!

Dang, Paul sure was a cutie

Zsa Zsa Gabor was around back then too.

I never noticed what a rude jerk Buddy Hackett was.

Peter totally screwed up the question about Volgograd and Stalingrad. Zsa Zsa really goofed the answer. During WWII Stalingrad became the turning point of the war. After Stalin died it was changed to Volgograd.

Pete is 97 still going strong

He Paul Lynde was awesomley Funny

51 yrs old damn .

0:46 kany Ballard has removed the elbows

It’s rare to hear the pre-1969 theme song.

My Three Sons ;)

Those Gabor ladies are FINE.🥰

Paul lynde Templeton and Vincent price as ratigan

0:44 why does Wally Cox do that weird hang gesture when he's called upon on the Hollywood squares?

Damn, Zsa Zsa just wouldn't shut up! I'm surprised she didnt slap Peter for saying something!

You can really see Peter's resemblance to his sister Joanne when he's young and sans glasses.

buddy hacket is so annoying......

Firebird is worth 25k. Today.

Peter Marshall always shakes the hand of the male contestants, but never the female. Wonder if shes still married.

Yep Peter, she was cute as hell (what a day!). :D

First time I've seen Paul Lynde not be the center square.

Buddy knows his Torah.

Buddy Hackett...brilliantly funny guy - great character - very colorful.

I wasn't even born yet!!

The male contestant resembles an adult Michael J Fox.

David's mother was not Bathsheba. Her name was Nitzevet. How did they ever get any of these questions right before the internet??

The Quaker oats man was on Hollywood sqaures

8:45 I think they gave Jan Murray Paul Lynde's question.

Peter Marshall was sometimes tongue tied and confusing with longer questions. The question concerning Stalingrad was a complete mess. You'd have to ignore the question, remember the turning point battle on the Eastern Front was Stalingrad, and that's what they'd want to memorialize.

8:00 Charley- very funny

Notice that the theme music is a precursor to the Bob and Merrill's Theme that most of us recognize from 1969-1979. It's similar, but (and maybe because I don't remember the pre-'69 one because it is so similar) I have to say I prefer the classic used from 1969-1979.

Now, I know that, on top of all his awards/accolades, Tom Hanks is third-cousin, four times removed, of Abraham Lincoln. Thanks, HS!

Abbie Dalton was not the swiftest panelist.

Wally Cox bottomed for Marlon Brando. Lucky bastard!

Wow Zsa Zsa Gabor is gorgeous!!! and she is in her early 50’s when this episode aired… I can see why she had a whopping 9 husbands during her lifetime lol

Do you have the episode with Abe Vigoda and Dom Deluise? From 1978

I wonder if the contestant Priscilla is still married?

3:17 Leningrad and St. Petersburg are the same city. Volgagrad was called Stalingrad was changed to Volgagrad in 1961 by Khrushchev who acknowleged Stalin's massive crimes. But in 1968 this wasn't common knowledge in the West. 24:00 $7000 is about $50,000 in 2024 money.

This is quite different without Paul lynde as the center square. I've read alot of comments berating Buddy Hackett, I think he's so wacky that it puts off lots of people, I used to feel like that but I've since changed my mind

52 yrs old contests are probably 70 pllus yrs old if still alive