"of segments of the introductory shots of female celebrities on the television game show ""Hollywood Squares"", in which they greet the audience with exaggerated body movements and facial gestures. These segments are repeated throughout the video, and are often rewound giving a ""jerky"" appearance to these shots. The face shots are accompanied by panning shots of the tic-tac-toe board of the ""Hollywood Squares"" set, showing the entire grid and the celebrities within. In between ""Hollywood Squares"" footage, Birnbaum places black screens with white layers displaying the lyrics to songs used in the video. Two of these songs are by amateur"
"host and two female assistants – that shared hosting duties: In all seasons, at least one celebrity was invited as a guest host per episode, and was brought out several times to explain and/or participate in some of the challenges. Four adult contestants, two men and two women, played a giant board game based on the centuries-old children's game, ""Juego de la oca"" (Game of the Goose). A 63-space game board was set up around the perimeter of a large arena, with the object being to reach space 63 by exact count. Contestants earned money with each roll of the"
"Tic-Tac-Dough Tic-Tac-Dough is an American television game show based on the paper-and-pencil game of tic-tac-toe. Contestants answer questions in various categories to put up their respective symbol, ""X"" or ""O"", on the board. Three versions were produced: the initial 1956–59 run on NBC, a 1978–86 run initially on CBS and then in syndication, and a syndicated run in 1990. The show was produced by Barry & Enright Productions. Jack Barry, the co-producer, was the original host of the 1950s version, followed by Gene Rayburn and then Bill Wendell, with Jay Jackson and Win Elliot hosting prime time adaptations as well."
"Celebrity Squares Celebrity Squares was a British comedy game show based on the American comedy game show ""Hollywood Squares"". It first ran from 20 July 1975 to 7 July 1979 and was hosted by Bob Monkhouse, then from 8 January 1993 to 3 January 1997 and was also hosted by Monkhouse. On 10 September 2014, a revival of the show produced by September Films and GroupM Entertainment debuted on ITV, hosted by Warwick Davis. On 13 November 2015, DCD Media confirmed that the show had been cancelled. The show is based on Tic-tac-toe. Inside each box is a celebrity. The"
"version started). Kids played the game, but for prizes instead of money. This series ran from 13 November 1957 to 29 June 1967. Presenters on the children's version were: Jeremy Hawk, Chris Kelly, Bob Holness, Mike Sarne, Chris Howland, Gordon Luck, Peter Wheeler, Bill Grundy, Danny Blanchflower and Barbara Kelly. The game was basically the same as the American ""Tic Tac Dough"" with a similar set. Two contestants played the game with the champion playing cross (""X""), and the challenger playing noughts (""O""). They faced a noughts & crosses (tic-tac-toe) game board of nine subjects. Player took turns (starting with"
"in the square, and the process repeats. If the team can obtain a tic-tac-toe in five spins, the team's winnings from the main game are doubled. Also unlike the bonus round from ""All-Star Blitz"", a spin of the board cannot land on a square that has been occupied by a symbol. In Season 2, the Bonus Round is called ""Pick That Dough"". In the round, the audience member chooses 3 celebrities to form a tic-tac-toe on the board. Each celebrity is holding a record sleeve which contains a disc. 8 of the discs contain a cash prize ranging from $1"
"of the quiz show format, ""Information Please"" added the key element of a panel of celebrities, largely writers and intellectuals, but also actors and politicians. Listeners would mail in questions, winning prizes for stumping the panel. U.S. panel shows transferred to television early in the medium's history, with the first known example being ""Play the Game"", a charades show that aired on DuMont and ABC beginning in 1946. The celebrity charades concept has been replicated numerous times since then. The most popular adaptation was ""Pantomime Quiz"", airing from 1947 to 1959, and having runs on each of the four television"
"and two games won the match. The bonus round was also changed so that the team could always see either the eyes, nose, or mouth and had to guess which celebrity that body part belonged to. However, there was now a 60-second time limit. $50 was awarded for each correct guess, with $500 awarded if all four were correctly guessed. If a celebrity was not guessed within 10 seconds of the body part being shown, the full face was revealed, and play continued with another body part. The pilot was filmed early in 1966 with Jack Clark as host; Betsy"
"pieing trademark was forgotten. It was later revived through the Nick-themed resort and cruise line. During the show, viewers would phone in to play interactive games with players on the show. The most common game was to make a match of Nicktoons from off of a Tic-tac-toe grid. The board was scrambled before game play and if a match was made, the home player would win a prize and the contestant would be slimed and often pied as well. If they did not make a match, host Dave Aizer would receive a pie in the face. Later when the mystery"
"and musicians. For a comedian appearing on the show, getting him to laugh and being invited to the guest chair were considered the highest honors. Most notable among these were David Letterman, Jay Leno, Jerry Seinfeld, Jeff Foxworthy, Ellen DeGeneres, Joan Rivers, David Brenner, Tim Allen, Drew Carey, and Roseanne Barr. Carson was successor to ""The Ed Sullivan Show"" as a showcase for all kinds of talent, as well as continuing a vaudeville-style variety show. In 1966, Carson popularized Milton Bradley's game Twister when he played it with actress Eva Gabor. Not widely known at the time, the game skyrocketed"
"of contestants available, and some specials had seen celebrities compete in pairs. Prizes for these specials were either donated to a charity of the celebrity's choice, or awarded to randomly chosen home viewers. A ""Temptation"" board game was released by Crown and Andrews in 2006. The following contents are in the board game: playing board, electronic umpire (an electronic item that determines which player buzzed first), six buttons, a 'Question and Answer' book, six score markers, 16 Show Prize cards, 24 Leader Prize cards, 26 Winner Prize cards, card tray and the rules. A picture of the game can be"
"Ontario where he joined ""Toronto Star"" and developed his first student quizzes. In the early 1950s, Dickson moved from radio to television with the TV show ""What d'you Know?"", followed shortly afterwards by the world's first panel game, ""Claim to Fame"". Over the next four decades, Roy devised and hosted numerous popular and successful television shows, in both Britain and Canada. Among his most famous shows were the long-running ""Fun Parade"", which successfully transitioned from radio to television. His television quiz show ""Take a Chance"" was broadcast on CTV from 1961 to 1965 where at one point 438,000 viewers participated"
"contestant against one another. The contestants took turns calling out numbers on a large board with 20 numbered trilons, laid out in four rows of five. The celebrities sat in positions along the top and left edges of the board, so that every number was in one celebrity's row and another's column. When either a money box or the Wild Card was uncovered, a question was asked to the two celebrities connected to that number. Both of them gave an answer, but only one was correct. (On rare occasions, both celebrities would give a bluff answer, forcing the question to"
"Celebrity Poker Showdown Celebrity Poker Showdown is an American celebrity game show on the cable network Bravo. It was a limited-run series in which celebrities played poker, with eight tournaments during its five-season run. In each show, five celebrities played a no limit Texas hold 'em tournament for charity. The winners of each qualifying game won a silver commemorative poker chip and advanced to the championship game. The winner of the championship game won the grand prize for his or her charity as well as a gold commemorative poker chip. Each tournament featured 25 celebrities and consisted of six episodes,"
"Funny You Should Ask (1968 game show) Funny You Should Ask is an American television series that aired from 1968 to 1969 on ABC. Hosted by Lloyd Thaxton, it was a comedy game show featuring celebrities, and aired as part of a programming block that also included ""The Newlywed Game"" and ""The Dating Game"". The series debuted on October 28, 1968, and was produced by Heatter-Quigley Productions. Among the show's frequent celebrity guests were Jan Murray, Rose Marie, Stu Gilliam, and Jim Backus. Additionally, many of the celebrities were fixtures on fellow Heatter-Quigley game show ""Hollywood Squares"" and several other"
"for a number of shows. Isla St. Clair was Grayson's hostess throughout his tenure on the show. Rosemarie Ford supported Forsyth on his second stint as host. Sally Meen, Melanie Stace and Leah Christiansen were Davidson's hostesses. In 1975, Strawberry Fayre and Denys Fisher published a board game (simply called ""Generation Game"" with host Bruce Forsyth on the cover) featuring a three-dimensional diorama of the set, a working countdown clock and the famous sliding doors. In 1990, Rainbow Games published another board game (only this time as ""Bruce Forsyth's Generation Game"" still with Forsyth on the cover) featuring 20 fun"
"in many ""Star Trek"" TV episodes and movies, starting with (TOS) and proceeding in updated forms throughout the subsequent movies and spinoff series. The original ""Star Trek"" prop was crafted using boards from 3D Checkers and 3D Tic-Tac-Toe sets available in stores at the time (games also seen in TOS episodes) and adding chess pieces from the futuristic-looking ""Classic"" chess set designed by Peter Ganine in 1961. The design retained the 64 squares of a traditional chessboard, but distributed them onto separate platforms in a hierarchy of spatial levels, suggesting to audiences how chess adapted to a future predominated by"
"subsequent version as a panelist. (Two former hosts had appeared on the same run of that series as panelists.) A board game was released by Lowell in 1957. During the run of the 2000 version, a single-player online game was offered by the short-lived website Uproar.com, and promoted by John O'Hurley at the end of each episode. A video slot machine game, based on the 1969 version, was released to American casinos nationwide by Bally Gaming Systems in 2002. To Tell the Truth To Tell the Truth is an American television panel game show in which four celebrity panelists are"
"TV Scrabble TV Scrabble was a British television version of the popular board game, which aired on Challenge TV from 1 October 2001 to 2003. Four players competed in two games on each show. Two players play each game facing each other one-on-one with the winners playing in the daily final at the end of the show. In each game there were two rounds. In this round, the players had the same seven tiles and had to try to find the best scoring combination possible within 20 seconds (25 seconds in series 2). They inputted their moves with a touch"
"tie, the winner of the most games decided who chose a square for the $250 tie-breaker. The player with the most cash kept their winnings and chose a celebrity, each of whom held an envelope concealing a card with the description of a major prize which the champion would win by correctly judging that celebrity's answer. Win or lose, the carryover champion returned on the following show to face another opponent. Prior to this there were two other versions that aired from the 1960s to the mid 1980s. Personality Squares originally aired on Network Ten from 1967 hosted by John"
"1962, he began his most famous hosting assignment on ""The Match Game"". Almost two decades after its original cancellation, the game was reborn as ""The New Tic-Tac-Dough"" on CBS gave it a place on its daytime schedule. The series ran from July 3 to September 1, 1978 at 10:00a.m. Eastern/9:00a.m. Central, replacing the Bill Cullen-hosted ""Pass the Buck."" Coincidentally, that timeslot had been occupied from September 1972 to June 1975 by the original version of Barry's ""The Joker's Wild."" However, the CBS ""TTD"" ran only nine weeks because of the high popularity of its competition on NBC, ""Card Sharks"". It"
"whether they ""agree"" or ""disagree"" with the answers and if they are correct, their ""X""/""O"" symbol lights up in the celeb's box. The first to get three in a row or a five-square win succeeds and wins money. Bluffs and zingers made this the essential show to watch on afternoons. In the mid-1970s ""Match Game"" (CBS) was the most popular game show (it was #1 among them from 1973 to 1977), in a time when there were many of them. Players must match the answers of panelists like Brett Somers and Charles Nelson Reilly. Fill-in-the-blank questions involving crude humor, zany"
"paid. So, he let the plan to have Twister played on the Tonight Show go forward. On May 3, 1966 Johnny Carson, the host of the show, was enticed by the Twister mat and demonstrated the game along with Eva Gabor. The next morning there were 50 people standing in line to buy the game at Abercrombie & Fitch where a few games had not been returned. Three million Twister games were sold in the following year. Several spin-off games have followed over the years such as: Twister Moves, Twister Dance, Twister Hoopla, and many others. In 1967 Twister was"
"pyramid-shaped gameboard, featuring six categories arranged in a triangular fashion. The various ""Pyramid"" series have won a total of nine Daytime Emmys for Outstanding Game Show, second only to ""Jeopardy!"", which has won 13. Dick Clark is the host most commonly associated with the show, having hosted every incarnation from 1973 to 1988, with the exception of the original version of The $25,000 Pyramid, which aired in weekly syndication from 1974 until 1979 and was hosted by Bill Cullen. The $100,000 Pyramid was revived for a brief 1991 run with John Davidson hosting. In 2002 the series was revived as"
"a faster tempo was used during the pricing game Switcheroo on the Tom Kennedy version of ""The Price Is Right"" which in turn it was also the theme of the unsold game show pilot called ""Babble"" also hosted by Tom Kennedy in 1984. The second (and most recent) version aired five episodes from June 20 to 24, 2005 on the AMC television network in America. The show stemmed from a private series of parties hosted by actor Chad Lowe and his wife, actress Hilary Swank. On the show, celebrity teams of five were sent into two separate rooms. In each"
"The Celebrity Game The Celebrity Game is an Australian game show based on the game of charades, involving two teams of celebrities. The original series was hosted by Bert Newton on the Nine Network in 1969. A revived series hosted by Mike Preston on Network Ten ran from 1976-1977. Two teams of three celebrities and a contestant competed in the game of charades, where one player acts out a word or phrase, often by pantomiming similar-sounding words, and the other players guesses the word or phrase. The celebrity regulars included Joy Chambers, Joe Martin, Johnny Pace, Harriet, Stuart Wagstaff and"
"Barry Creyton. The Celebrity Game The Celebrity Game is an Australian game show based on the game of charades, involving two teams of celebrities. The original series was hosted by Bert Newton on the Nine Network in 1969. A revived series hosted by Mike Preston on Network Ten ran from 1976-1977. Two teams of three celebrities and a contestant competed in the game of charades, where one player acts out a word or phrase, often by pantomiming similar-sounding words, and the other players guesses the word or phrase. The celebrity regulars included Joy Chambers, Joe Martin, Johnny Pace, Harriet, Stuart"
"Clark Productions and MCA TV called ""Double Up"" which was not picked up). The latter two returned in 1988, joined by Vicki Lawrence, Jim Lange, Wink Martindale, and Jeff MacGregor. Summers hosted during the 1987 week when Chuck Woolery played segments of the game. A board game based on this version was released by Selchow & Righter as ""TV Scrabble"" in 1987. It was the only home version which was originally a board game itself until ""Trivial Pursuit: Game Show"" released by Parker Brothers in 1993 and ""Celebrity Name Game"" released by ""Playmonster"" (formerly ""Patch"") in 2016. All episodes still"
"""Tic-Tac-Dough"" and ""Twenty-One"". Concentration (game show) Concentration is an American television game show based on the children's memory game of the same name. Matching cards represented prizes that contestants could win. As matching pairs of cards were gradually removed from the board, it would slowly reveal elements of a rebus puzzle that contestants had to solve to win a match. The show was broadcast on and off from 1958 to 1991, presented by various hosts, and has been made in several different versions. The original network daytime series, ""Concentration,"" appeared on NBC for 14 years, 7 months, and 3,770 telecasts"
"Players (2002 TV program) Players (styled Player$ for logos) is an American television program focused on video games that aired on G4 (formerly G4techTV) starting in 2002. It was one of the launch programs for the G4 network. The main premise of the show was to interview famous celebrities and see if they played video games or not, what their favorite ones were, etc. The show was cancelled in December 2004, but still aired occasionally until January 6, 2006. Celebrities featured included Vin Diesel, Robin Williams, Asia Carrera, David Arquette, David Hoffman, Alec Baldwin, Chris Carmack and the Barenaked Ladies."
"Players (2002 TV program) Players (styled Player$ for logos) is an American television program focused on video games that aired on G4 (formerly G4techTV) starting in 2002. It was one of the launch programs for the G4 network. The main premise of the show was to interview famous celebrities and see if they played video games or not, what their favorite ones were, etc. The show was cancelled in December 2004, but still aired occasionally until January 6, 2006. Celebrities featured included Vin Diesel, Robin Williams, Asia Carrera, David Arquette, David Hoffman, Alec Baldwin, Chris Carmack and the Barenaked Ladies."
"containing three possible answers. Otherwise, gameplay was unchanged; the first celebrity to win two games became champion and continued playing until beaten. Celebrities who played included Daryl Anderson, F. Lee Bailey, Meredith Baxter, Ernest Borgnine, Jim Brown, Jack Coleman, Doug Davidson, Phyllis Diller, Max Gail, Lynda Goodfriend, Shecky Greene, Rosey Grier, Richard Kline, Harvey Korman, Diane Ladd, Gloria Loring, Tina Louise, Jerry Mathers, Rue McClanahan, Brian S. Mitchell, Rita Moreno, Greg Morris, Donna Pescow, Lynn Redgrave, Roxie Roker, Nipsey Russell, Lilibet Stern, Fred Travalena & Patrick Wayne. All episodes exist, with reruns airing on CBN Cable (1982–1984) and USA Network"
"jackpot instead of being awarded directly to the contestant. The original 1984-90 version was the very first successful ""board-game-turned-game-show"" in history, the second was ""Family Game Night"" on The Hub (now Discovery Family) from 2010 until 2014 and the third was ""Celebrity Name Game"" (Based on the board game ""Identity Crisis"") from 2014 until 2017. For three months in 1985, contestants not only had to guess each word correctly, but also had to spell the word one letter at a time. Similar to the format used during the first week, each correct letter added money to a pot: Regular squares"