The Hollywood Squares - WABC Channel 7 [New York, NY] (Complete Broadcast, 10/2/1978) đș âŠ
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- Here's a complete (apart from a few seconds at the open) edition of The Hollywood Squares on WABC Channel 7 (sister station to our own WLS-TV), hosted as always by Peter Marshall, with the squares (as introduced by voiceover Kenny Williams) consisting of Robert Urich, Karen Grassle, Vincent Price, Caren Kaye, Dick Clark, Marcia Lewis, George Gobel, Scott Baio, and Paul Lynde.
(note: some details of game description here had to be omitted due to space constraints)
Includes:
Contestants Cynthia Agenna (sp?), an air hostess from Tahiti (as the 'O') and Don DeGrasse (sp?), merchandise salesman and father of five (as the 'X'), before first break.
Commercials for:
Wrigley's Gum - a "wholesome" Halloween treat
Handi Wipes - "The Handiwipes Magician"
Peter gives rules for 'Secret Square' round, followed by plugs for Tappan kitchen appliances, La Machine by Moulinex, Denby dinnerware, Sharp Electronics, Twizzlers and Nibs, Tente building set, and Time Life books (all prize voiceovers by Kenny Williams);
The next 'Secret Square' round, with plugs for Friendly Holidays, Aeromexico, Agree Shampoo, Dentyne chewing gum, Eumig 31XL Super 8 camera and 820 Sonomatic sound projector, S&H Green Stamps, and Helbros diamond watches
Promo for Match Game PM for Tuesday at 7:30pm (voiceover by Ernie Anderson) (ending voiceover by Gilbert Hodges)
Commercial: Bowery Savings Bank (with Joe DiMaggio) - about saving for retirement
Peter mentions each contestant has envelopes with $5,000 in prizes, followed by plugs for Sunbird by Pontiac, Gumout carburetor cleaner, Simoniz car wax, and Queen Elizabeth 2 cruises
Commercial: Ivory Soap (with Marcia Van Dyck of Kenmore, NY)
Next round
Commercial: Savings Bank Life Insurance (for women)
Theatrical trailer for TV for "Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?" (ending voiceover by Howard Reig)
Commercial: Fazi Battaglia
Eyewitness News preview with Bill Beutel for after Monday Night Football (lead story: Yankees beat Red Sox in 1-game playoff)
Plugs for Samsonite furniture, Wintuk yarns, Woolite spray foam rug cleaner, Jeno's Italian bread pizza, Ben Gay, and Zales jewelry
Disclaimer notice on celebrity answers, followed by ending credits (voiceover promos for Hollywood Squares for Wednesday at 7:30pm, Match Game for Tuesday and upcoming Welcome Back, Kotter by Gilbert Hodges)
Commercials for:
Manufacturers Hanover (with Tim Conway)
Thom McAn ultraSole
PSA for McMahon Services for Children (voiceover by Gilbert Hodges)
Animated "circle 7" station ID / promo for Match Game PM and time check (voiceover by Gilbert Hodges)
This aired on local New York TV on Monday, October 2nd 1978 during the 7:30pm to 8:00pm (EDT) timeframe.
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Vincent Price may have been the king of horror movies, but he was HILARIOUS on Hollywood Squares đđđ
Weâll never have celebrities like these again.
Loved this show since the 60s 70s and 80s !
Watched all 16 seasons of the Hollywood squares from 1966 to 1982 was not a fan of the remakes nothing beats the original đ
@@brianserpente4366 I agree I only watched the show from 1966 till 1982 After Paul Lynde left and a newer crowd came in they dont compare to the original I agree !
Buzzr really should get this for a future schedule.
Between this and the complete Sha Na Na episode, I can almost feel like I'm back in the late '70s, having finished the early fringe and continuing through the prime access time slot, waiting for prime time to start. All I'd need are some local reruns added in, like Hogan's Heroes, MASH or Adam-12. Of course, I'm no longer the TV addict I was back then as none of today's TV shows have any attraction to me today - prime time, daytime, late night or otherwise. It's actually more pleasant to relive the TV of the past with these videos. Thanks for all your work, guys.
Thank you for posting this I am a huge fan of Paul Lynde's. Love the Hollywood Squares great memories. The actor on the Thom McAn shoe commercial is Charles Kimbrough who played Jim Dial on Murphy Brown.
These are all of the living celebrities from this show as of 10-8-19: Peter Marshall (93), Karen Grassle (77), Caren Kaye (68), and Scott Baio (59).
Thank you! Peter Marshall still alive! Love it! Btw...do u know what year this episode is?
Loving this, miss the Old days . Really glad you have this channel!
God bless Peter Marshall
@@AB-tf6er 1978 is the year of this show.
Too bad that 90% of the stars are gone!
This is a fascinating episode to me for the following reason. The introduction is not the classic one with Kenny Williams starting, "One of these stars is sitting in the secret square, and the contestant who picks it first could win.....which star is it? [trombone climbing the scale as the introductions circle the board and perennially end with] or Paul Lynde, all in The Hollywood Squares..." Instead, the closing "Bob and Merrill Theme" music is playing during the introduction. I wonder why, and I wonder how often that happened.
I sure loved this show
Thanks for posting this. Grew up on Long Island, NY. Also work for Manufactures Hanover Trust for several years in the 80's.
TO THE MASTER OF THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES PETER MARSHALL WHO,S NOW 97 YEARS OLD!!--FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART THANK YOU FOR BEING A PART OF MY LIFE!! & ALSO THANK YOU FOR CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD SQUARES !! THE JOHN DAVIDSON & TOM BERGERON VERSIONS WERE OKAY BUT THE ORIGINAL WAS THE BEST!!
It's amazing to think that Peter Marshall said, "Object for the players...." more than 3500 times!
Almost like poetry.
Iâm sure he could recite it in his sleep even now.
Considering he was saying that more on the Nighttime version than he did on the Daytime
Much like Charlie O'Donnell and Jack Clark did with Wheel Of Fortune during the NBC daytime run.."The prices of the prizes were furnished to the contestants prior to the show and have been rounded off to the nearest dollar,gift certificates do not include sales tax."
@@NEPatriot Like Bob Barker would remind the contestants to bid on the item up for bids in dollars because we round off the prizes to the nearest dollar.
Thanks for posting like yesterday I may have watched this !!
From a Long Island native:
Thanks for NOT being a Chicago exclusive station and covering something from the City that Never Sleeps! ESPECIALLY if said footage is older than I am! :D
Also, gameplay details were not needed, because spoilers. The commercial descriptions can stay. :D
The only part of Chicago that "never sleeps" as I can see, are the Red and Blue Lines of the Chicago 'L'.
Is one of the rules that they can't start with the middle square until 2 boxes have been filled already?
Sometimes I wonder what happened to the guests in life. Especially the air stewardess and that salesman.
Loved Paul Lynde and the gang back in those days when they were first on ! Paul helped me cope got and gets me out of my depression puts a smile on my face and I laugh so hard !
I was happy to see George Gobel on the Match Game Hollywood Squares Hour recently on Buzzr.Still had his comical touch.He was on both shows..Match Game in 1981 and HS as the permanent replacement for Charley Weaver.
Funny you should say that ., Paul Lynde is one of the few that really helps with my depression.. I wish heâd not died too soon ., he was unique
RIP, Peter Marshall.
Scott Baio starred in the 1976 ABC Afterschool Special Drama titled "Luke was here" in which Nickelodeon has occasionally aired as part of Special Delivery on and off in 1989.
Dick Clark must have been a workaholic back in '78. In additional to Dick Clark Live, he also hosted American Bandstand on the West Coast (in the process of getting a disco-like makeover)and the $20,000 Pyramid on the East Coast.
That'd be too much work & too much travelling back & forth across the country for me, clearly it wasn't for him
Marcia Lewis played "Lady Bags", a hobo, on a very rare TV show called, The Good Book (Traveling Show), which played on an obscure UHF channel that had to be unscrambled by a cable box sold by Selectv. Robert Morse of How to Succeed... and Mad Men, was also on the show, playing a hobo named "Sage".
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Absolutely Fantastic Show! Thank you for sharing.
Marsha in the Ivory commercial has imperfect teeth. Back then perfectly normal, however, today sheâd be rejected for this ad. But to me this natural look is beautiful. Too bad everyone these days must have that uniform look. It takes away individuality.
Aired on ABC Channel 13 (KTRK) in Houston, TX from 1971 to 1980. Season 3 of "Match Game PM" wasn't seen in this city until 1998 via GSN.
Caren Kaye is quite lovely. She was only 27 in this episode.
1978 ? That's many years ago. Good old days.
And this aired right after the historic 1 game playoff between the Red Sox and Yankees!
So long ago, it seems like only a few years.
The show would have aired in Buffalo,NY on WGR TV2 (now WGRZ)
That is Charles Kimbrough is in the Thom McAn commercial.
KGO in San Francisco did not air it that night, due to MNF.
A game which neither future Hall of Famers Theismann nor Staubach could produce a touchdown.
Someone mentioned some time ago with that MG promo that the reason we haven't seen it is because while many celebrities have given the okay to have the reruns shown, Valerie Bertinelli has not.
Iâve Met Peter Marshall
Thank you for posting. Can you find the episode from October 1975 with Karen Grassle and Michael Landon? I can't find it anywhere.
That is Charles Kimbrough ("Murphy Brown") on the Thom McAn ad.
And I recognize where it was filmed: At what's now Vietnam Veterans Plaza, on Water Street near Hanover Square in Lower Manhattan. I worked in the building across from the plaza for three years.
27:18 - The cast of "Soap" joins the regulars when "Hollywood Squares" returns Wednesday at 7:30.
Incidentally . . . the Fazi Battaglia voiceover was Stan Z. Burns, former DJ-turned news anchor at 1010 WINS, to his death in 1990.
Hum sounds like Eye witness news voice over Scott Vincent at the end
@@louistenore2185 - No, his ultimate "EWN" announcer successor, Gilbert Hodges, was at the announcing booth all through this stretch.
Do the advertisers realize nobody watches the commercials?
WABC earlier that afternoon aired the Yankees-Red Sox playoff game and that night aired Dallas-Washington on Monday Night Football.
Boston fans were not in the mood to watch anything that night after the epic game, including one certain SS that Sox fans' need not to be reminded of. (Bleep)
The funny thing though is it was Reggie's homer in the 8th that provided the margin. :)
Also, the game was seen on WPIX channel 11.
...pre-empting ABC's One Life To Live, General Hospital and Edge Of Night. Sox fans weren't the only ones ticked off that afternoon.
Many questions were in ERROR.
It very well had a match game pm promo on Monday October 2 1978 on wabc 7 Nya as well
I remember those Tim Conway Manufacturers Hanover spots that aired locally in NY. Each Conway commercial had two versions, one 30 seconds the other 60 seconds and were alternate take versions. I have several copies of the 30 second version of the one we see, but that's the first time I've seen the "long" version of that one.
Bill Haley and HIS Comets.
That Tim Conway MHT ad was and is great
Scott Baio is my Brother
"Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!" Some will remember what this means.
This was another episode that it was never shown on GSN back around 2002 or 2003.
GSN only focused on the first 6 seasons. The game show didn't do well on GSN because its time slots were placed against giant powerhouses like The Price Is Right, Wheel Of Fortune, Jeopardy, and even the Tom Bergeron version of HS which explains why their run lasted 18 months with only 130 episodes aired, a fraction of the total # of surviving episodes that date back from 1968.
@@meyerj75 They Didn't Air the Spring 1973-Fall 1974 Episodes.
@@300zxbear2 They only aired a total of 130 episodes starting @ around April 2002 from the first 6 seasons in syndication (1971-7) as well as the 1968 NBC nighttime version. So if you take 130 divided by 5 episodes a week, you have 26 weeks there.But GSN allegedly reran the already aired episodes previously on the 27th week and kept on doing it until October 2003, resorting towards the later abysmal Tom Bergeron-Henry Winkler version of Hollywood Squares from then on. As you mentioned, none of the 130 are from the 18 month time period between 1973-4. For years, GSN has been accused of "Rerun Abuse", reairing The 3rd season of The Newlywed Game (1979-80), the 6th season of Wheel of Fortune (1988-89), the first season of Win, Lose, or Draw (1987-88) and the second season of "Tic Tac Dough" (1979-80) over and over again, for instance.
@@meyerj75 Buzzr does a lot of that rerun abuse too. While Match Game has greatly expanded its repertoire of episodes shown (from just 73 and 78 to all of 73-78 and MGHS), they rerun the same episodes of Password, Family Feud, What's My Line/To Tell the Truth 70s edition, and so forth over and over again.
@@meyerj75I hope maybe all of the 130 syndicated episodes from 1971 through 1977 and a few from the daytime NBC version from 1968 since it was aired on GSN back in 2002 is considering to be adding to the âHollywood Squaresâ channel on PlutoTV in the future along with the John Davidson and Tom Bergeron versions. For now, PlutoTV is now showing just the Tom Bergeronâs âHollywood Squaresâ episodes.
Dick Clark was hosting American Bandstand and the Pyramid when he did this Show
27:46 - Audio promo for "Match Game PM" and "Welcome Back, Kotter"
18:44-18:48 BUCKY F--ING DENT
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Time goes by too fast!
10/2/1978...the date Red Sox fans were introduced to Bucky "BLEEPING" Dent!!!!
is that Shelly Long in the life insurance commercial?
The Hollywood Square theme played during the introduction of the celebrities? What gives?
Like in later episodes of MATCH GAME, Kenny Williams would introduce the celebrities' projects or just have fun with Paul, George and the regulars.
To be fair these celebrities mostly were given some funny lines for their answers by writers on the show. They say they did not know the questions ahead but I have to wonder. Not all the stars but the ones who were supposed to be funny
Today's commercials : Car insurance and prescription drugs Back then actual household items and food
And commercials for personal injury and accident lawyers as well.
Back in the early-to-late 1970s, I had a fascination, or crush, on one of those Hollywood Squares, who was my favorite actor, Vincent Price. I always liked to hear his voice and his witty answers to the questions that he was being asked, and I wanted a decent father figure like him, and a classier one at that.
Vincent Price is my favorite square too!! Charming, funny (but never obnoxious like some can be ) and very intelligent. All class!
P. S. I loved the way Kenny Williams said "the ever-loving Vincent Price " in the intro to this particular episode.
Not used to seeing Vincent Price clean shaven.
Would it be fair to say it's all canned laughter?
Yep. I read that they sometimes had trouble getting a full audience on a weekend.
Along with the ever present Whistling track used on virtually every game show recorded at NBC Burbank Studios in that era.
Since ABC 7(WABC-TV)aired both HS and MGPM,could that have been sort of a Match Game Hollywood Squares Hour?
No, because each was on a different night.
The playing of the main theme during the intro is not something that I remember hearing in any episode. The trombone scale ascent was more dramatic.
In honor of The Yankees sweep!
Why did Peter hold two cards when asking the questions? He would then dispose of the question card in one slot and the other card in a different slot?
I believe the second card was a protection against the questions being seen by either contestant while the cards sat in the desk slots.
@@keithprivett3878 Thank you.
Do you have the episode with Abe Vigoda and Dom Deluise? From 1978
Or Joan Rivers wearing a Rabbit Test t shirt also from 1978.
There is a reason why Wally Cox is not in this episode.
Wabc was aring match game and Hollywood sqaures and lets make a deal at the same time on Monday October 2 1978 don't forget
Family feud Richard Dawson was 5 days a week as well also whell of fortune mad a clip on task episode as well wabc 7 nyc
Did you happen to record Match Game PM with Ed Asner and Valerie Bertinelli? We are hard at work trying to track this episode down!
D Heine thatâs very true! All match Game fans and archivists like myself are looking for this week like crazy!
@@MatchGameProductions That lost week has been a mystery ever since the Game Show Network debuted... Will it ever be solved? đ
Episode #127. GSN has still not aired the episode before or since.
That had to be one of the first ones without Richard if it's October 1978, right?
@@bethdibartolomeo2042 Richard Dawson's last appearance on Match Game PM happened on episode #121. (Bob Barker took his spot of #122) This was only the 6th episode w/o Dawson. In addition to Ed Asner and Valerie Bertinelli, there was Brett and Charles, Nipsey Russell and Patty Duke Astin.
Can anybody advise as to which Chicago station aired the syndicated "Hollywood Squares" at this point - was it still WMAQ Channel 5 or somewhere else?
On another tangent . . . NBC (and WNBC Channel 4) announcer Howard Reig handled almost all theatrical trailer ads airing on every NYC commercial station. I seem to notice Chicago stations, for such trailers, each used their own announcers who would've been on duty at the time they aired (i.e. WLS's Al Parker in the 6:30-7:00pm time frame, or Wayne Atkinson late at night, or George Bauer and other WGN announcers on that station).
Also . . . wasn't it via ABC's use of that Eremitage font that Field Communications adopted it for both their logo post-1977 and their stations' post-'78?
My guess is that WLS aired the syndicated Squares at this point--perhaps as part of a group-wide purchase by the ABC O&Os.
I wasn't able to double-check this earlier, but I was able to now confirm that a couple of videos here indicate that KABC aired the syndicated version in the fall of '78. I doubt that it would've still been airing on WMAQ, but not on either WNBC or KNBC.
I have a TV Guide from March 1978. It lists Hollywood Squares airing on WLS channel 7 at 6:30 pm on Saturdays and 10:30 pm on Sundays. (The daytime network version aired on WMAQ at 9:30 am M-F)
Billy Graham was a door-to-door fuller brush salesman not a cosmetic salesman
Guess who is Marcia Lewis's daughter?
How dare you