Hollywood Squares

The Hollywood Squares is a American television comedy and game show in which two contestants play tic-tac-toe to win money and prizes. The "board" for the game is actually a 3 × 3 vertical stack of open-faced cubes, each occupied by a celebrity seated at a desk and facing the contestants. The celebrities are asked questions and the contestants judge the veracity of their answers in order to win the game.

Reruns

• It was believed that NBC destroyed the whole Marshall version, but during a search for original master tapes of the soap opera Dark Shadows, at least 100 network master tapes of the classic Hollywood Squares episodes (the exact figure is still disputed) were discovered, thus the Marshall version would be seen for the first time in almost two-and-a-half decades (and to a whole new generation of fans whose previous one grew up on the classic incarnation). This discovery was a surprise to game show fans, even Peter Marshall himself. A majority of these episodes, which aired on GSN in 2002 and 2003, were of the 1970s syndication run, while others were of the network nighttime version shown in the late 1960s. One episode, aired on GSN for Halloween 2002, was of a special 1977 Storybook Squares week.
• All of the Bauman version's episodes are assumed to be intact, but the Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour has never been rerun on any network, primarily because of cross-ownership issues between MGM and FremantleMedia (successor-in-interest to Goodson-Todman Productions). There have also been rumors that co-host Gene Rayburn (whom reportedly hated working with Bauman) requested that the show not be aired again, but this has not been confirmed. However, in 2004, The World of Soap Themes web site featured a selected episode with soap opera stars during one of its theme weeks. Episodes of the show can also been seen at both branches of the Museum of Television and Radio.
• Episodes hosted by Davidson were rerun on the USA Network for a few years after the show's cancellation.
• The Bergeron episodes continue to air on GSN.