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Post by tmann3x on Feb 1, 2019 18:16:50 GMT -5
Throughout much of the 1970s, Match Game and The Hollywood Squares were among the most successful game shows on TV (as well as a steady source of employment for a slew of C-list celebrities). So back in 1983, when NBC decided to combine the two programs into one — called, what else, The Match Game-Hollywood Square Hour — it seemed like a surefire winner. It wasn’t: Despite the presence of original Match Game host Gene Rayburn (and Sha Na Na icon Jon “Bowzer” Bauman as host of the Squares half of the show), ratings were meh, prompting the Peacock to pull the plug after just one season. But amazingly, unlike so many vintage shows — even the flops — the nearly 200 produced episodes of Match Game-Hollywood Squares never found a second life in syndication or cable. And much to the chagrin of game show nerds, they’ve been completely absent from the airwaves for 35 years. That’s finally about to change. Vulture has learned that Buzzr, a digital broadcast network devoted to the game show genre, will resurrect original episodes The Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour later this month. The network (available for free via the network’s website and over-the-air antenna, as well as on various cable systems, Samsung TVs, DISH, and the free Pluto TV and STIRR streaming platforms) will start with a four-hour mini-marathon of the show on Sunday, February 17. To read more about it, please click on this link-- www.vulture.com/2019/02/match-game-hollywood-squares-hour-streaming-buzzr.html |
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Post by asja2002 on Feb 1, 2019 22:08:28 GMT -5
Can't Wait!!!
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Post by mrb2000 on Feb 4, 2019 14:32:40 GMT -5
You don't know how excited I am for this!!
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Post by tmann3x on Feb 4, 2019 14:49:01 GMT -5
Here's a 30-second promo from BUZZR! |
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Post by tmann3x on Feb 17, 2019 15:11:48 GMT -5
We are now less than an hour away from the "Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour" 4-Hour Marathon on BUZZR TV!
If your antenna, cable, or satellite provider don't have BUZZR, go to buzzrtv.com or use the apps Pluto TV or STIRR.
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Post by nwostar on Nov 19, 2019 15:20:25 GMT -5
Not sure why this show bombed, seems pretty solid to me. The only thing that could have been better is if they had asked Peter Marshall back.
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Post by billmcdee on Nov 19, 2019 16:07:34 GMT -5
Not sure why this show bombed, seems pretty solid to me. The only thing that could have been better is if they had asked Peter Marshall back. That was a huge part of it. Also, a lot of the "stars" they featured made me and I'm sure made others scratch their heads and ask "Who is THAT? I never heard of them!" The other two weak points of the show, one was Goodson insisting on all questions being multiple choice or true/false so it diminished the bluffing of the stars, also the fact that a player could win by default rather than earn the square themselves I thought lent itself to making the game somewhat weaker. |
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Post by nwostar on Nov 21, 2019 11:59:08 GMT -5
Not sure why this show bombed, seems pretty solid to me. The only thing that could have been better is if they had asked Peter Marshall back. That was a huge part of it. Also, a lot of the "stars" they featured made me and I'm sure made others scratch their heads and ask "Who is THAT? I never heard of them!" The other two weak points of the show, one was Goodson insisting on all questions being multiple choice or true/false so it diminished the bluffing of the stars, also the fact that a player could win by default rather than earn the square themselves I thought lent itself to making the game somewhat weaker. Yes a lot of the "Stars" are questionable "Stars" lol....I personally did like not having to earn the square yourself rule of this game. It made more games possible to be finished and more cash. Since there was only a half hour available and the stars like to fool around which wasted a lot of time in the game. |
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Post by dougmorrisontheair on Dec 1, 2019 19:10:35 GMT -5
That was a huge part of it. Also, a lot of the "stars" they featured made me and I'm sure made others scratch their heads and ask "Who is THAT? I never heard of them!" The other two weak points of the show, one was Goodson insisting on all questions being multiple choice or true/false so it diminished the bluffing of the stars, also the fact that a player could win by default rather than earn the square themselves I thought lent itself to making the game somewhat weaker. If I'm not mistaken, Phil Proctor was MG-HSH's first center square. Then as now, I ask, "Who?" In watching reruns on Buzzr, I've also noticed early in the run HS questions posed to Gene weren't always multiple choice -- probably at Gene's insistence. With regard to bluffs, anyone remember "The Better Sex"? A member of the controlling team was asked a question -- and then given a card with the right answer and a wrong one. After choosing an answer, the controlling player's objective was to try to fool as many members of the opposing team as possible. With that, why not have someone hold up a cue card showing a celeb the right and wrong answers? In later airings of the Tom Kennedy-hosted "Break The Bank", this had to have happened -- especially when two celebrities offered different answers to a question requiring a numeric response. Credit the HS side of MG-HSH for getting in more questions over the course of three segments than, say, "Nashville Squares" or "Hip Hop Squares". |
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