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The Match Game-Hollywood Squares Drinking Game
calliaume:
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--- Quote from: JMFabiano on October 21, 2019, 03:26:31 PM ---Question: how often, on the Marshall version, did we see what was between the squares and the contestant/host area?
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I imagine never. You never even saw a wide shot of the set the way you did on subsequent versions. But, I believe that was due to staging; IIRC, the board directly faced the contestant area, as opposed to being about 90-degrees from Davidson and Bergeron.
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There are pictures showing what it looked like (one is here), but they never showed it on the air.
https://eyesofageneration.com/ultra-rare-hollywood-squares-in-studio-shot-the-first-and-only-yesterday/
Neumms:
--- Quote from: calliaume on October 21, 2019, 06:16:48 PM ---There are pictures showing what it looked like (one is here), but they never showed it on the air.
https://eyesofageneration.com/ultra-rare-hollywood-squares-in-studio-shot-the-first-and-only-yesterday/
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Interesting panel. I assume this came between Wally Cox's death and Charley Weaver's, so in 1973 or '74. Paul Lynde was entrenched as a regular but must've been taking the week off.
BrandonFG:
--- Quote from: calliaume on October 21, 2019, 06:16:48 PM ---
--- Quote from: BrandonFG on October 21, 2019, 05:01:54 PM ---
--- Quote from: JMFabiano on October 21, 2019, 03:26:31 PM ---Question: how often, on the Marshall version, did we see what was between the squares and the contestant/host area?
--- End quote ---
I imagine never. You never even saw a wide shot of the set the way you did on subsequent versions. But, I believe that was due to staging; IIRC, the board directly faced the contestant area, as opposed to being about 90-degrees from Davidson and Bergeron.
--- End quote ---
There are pictures showing what it looked like (one is here), but they never showed it on the air.
https://eyesofageneration.com/ultra-rare-hollywood-squares-in-studio-shot-the-first-and-only-yesterday/
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My memory was off. Looks like the contestant area was 90 degrees from the big board in the Vegas season.
clemon79:
--- Quote from: BrandonFG on October 22, 2019, 12:05:26 PM ---My memory was off. Looks like the contestant area was 90 degrees from the big board in the Vegas season.
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Staging is gonna have to be a little different there, though, because it's being blocked as a Vegas stage show in addition to a TV taping.
TimK2003:
The only time I recall seeing the area between the host/contestant area and the grid was whenever they did a Storybook Squares with the stage-level entrances.
As far as MG/HS, They had static Christmas Tree graphics on the back wall around that time of year as I recall.
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