I know I was a bit too harsh when I first contacted you. I am a doctor, I might be able to help you, no charge.

I’m so glad to hear your opinion mine too😮

It's really a game within a game. The two contestants are playing tic tac toe but Peter and the celebrities are playing 20 questions.

Drugs destroyed Wally cox's life in 1973, Charley Weaver went through two devestating strokes in 1973 and 1974 and Paul Lynde died just several months after HS ceased production. If he had lived a little longer, would have he starred in the Match Game Hollywood Squares Hour? Perhaps.

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Your post states "After nearly a thirteen month absence, he [Paul Lynde] returned as a center square on the second week of our 1980-1981 and final season of syndicated daily shows . . . " Why did you write "our 1980-1981 and final season?" Were you actually an employee of the production staff for the original syndicated version (and daytime version too, for that matter) of "The Hollywood Squares?" Inquiring minds want to know. And if you were a member of "THS" staff, do you happen to know why none of the videos of the original version of "THS" here on KZfaq seem to feature the theme music at the beginning of each episode? To my recollection, at least for many of the earliest years (1966-71or so anyway) of the show, an abbreviated version of the theme music was played at the program's beginning and the full theme music over the credits' roll at the program's conclusion. Of course I understand sometimes the final theme music and credits roll would be cut occasionally, if a program ran slightly overtime on the network, to allow enough time for commercials and local cut-ins before the next program. Although, in the case of "THS," at least on the East coast, the next program in most media markets would have been the local noontime news, since for most of its run (1966-76) the original "THS" aired 11:30 a.m.-noon on NBC. But I also know, at least for some of those years, NBC did offer programming at noon for the East coast, including "Jeopardy!" from 1965-74. And sometimes media markets (such as Boston) would preempt "Jeopardy!" (in those years of the original version hosted by Art Fleming)) for a noon newscast on NBC affiliate WBZ and air "Jeopardy!" on a delayed basis in off-network times mornings or late afternoons, or even not air Jeopardy!"at all for a few years. That situation woudl be unthinkable now, with the Alex Trebek-hosted "Jeopardy!" in syndication, which, along with "Wheel of Fortune' make a lot of ad revenues for affiliates. so much so that when preemption are necessary affiliates will even air the show in the overnight hours among a graveyard of infomercials.

+shoredude2 Did you allow for the year being 1979?

The price includes unwon secret squares

The secret squares not won, rolled over

It says 1979 in the title

is that peter marshall's real name

Yes

His son is former baseball player Pete LeCock.

@@armorybrunotjr.3204 I remember having the baseball card, a Topps 1981 card which displays Pete LeCock happily smiling in the photo card shoot. Only paid 16 cents for it back in 1987 but the portrait of him was priceless!!

Something happened to the company

Lynde left the daytime show that summer.

The original Teen Wolf movie: "An explanation is probably long overdue!"

Also Bugler Hannibal Dobbs on F-Troop.

It ended on NBC in 1980. The series ended the next year.

He did appear as a celebrity panelist on and off on Match Game in 1980 and 1981. But my guess is someone from Orion and not Heater-Quigley wanted Bowser from Shanana. Bad move! He never hosted a game show before or since. Also hosted the Pop and Rocker game as well. He should have at least some active employment. Why not host Joker's Wild instead of Bill Cullen for instance? I guess we will never know unless......

THE NBC HEADS DID NOT WANT PETER MARSHALL AGAIN!!--ALSO BECAUSE THE ORIGINAL EXECUTIVE PRODUCER THE LATE MERRILL HEATTER WASN,T INTERESTED IN REBOOTING 'SQUARES' AGAIN!! WHEN PETER MARSHALL GENE RAYBURN & ORIGINAL JEOPARDY HOST ART FLEMING WERE GUESTS ON JOAN RIVERS, TALK SHOW---PETER MARSHALL E PLAINED HOW HE TRIED TO GET SQUARES BACK ON THE AIR BUT MARK GOODSON & NBC WENT WITH JOHN BOWZER BAUMAN.BIG MISTAKE!!

@@meyerj75 and @bradhamilton4405 I remember reading somewhere on the net (it might have been on another clip here on youtube) that when Pete heard there was gonna be a format change for the game when it was to be rebirthed as Match Game/Hollywood Squares hour eliminating the bluffs and making most of the questions multiple choice or 50/50 (yes or no, true or false, etc.) type answers, he refused to do it. To him and many fans, the zingers were what made the show last so long. Not to mention that a player didn't have to earn a star themselves to win, if the other player made the wrong decision on a block question.

He left due to a salary dispute will Merrill Heatter.

not to embarrass you, but your question was asked answered 6 years before you reasked it, scroll up

Do you when they did their set change that fall?

***** I think it was early January 1980 when they changed the set.

+Lupton2000 Too bad it was only used for 5 months after the original set lasted 13+ years. I like the disco theme, though I'm not a big fan of disco music in general.

Notice above the dollar amounts. It says "won one game". On the daytime "Squares" , they played best two out of three. And she probably had already won a game prior.

That was the whole point.

@@brianoneill7186 Not for the contestants.

ya what happened to paul lynde

@Dimitri Borozny The 90s show sucked!

Merrill and Heater's Theme prior to this was the best. They should never had changed it.

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