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Title: eBay find: 1975 Hollywood Squares episode
Post by: Allstar87 on August 13, 2017, 10:12:35 AM
Episode 2326 from Oct. 9, 1975. Doesn't appear to be circulating.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/HOLLYWOOD-SQUARES-GAME-SHOW-ORIG-1976-NBC-Sony-Video-Tape/272798325142
Title: Re: eBay find: 1975 Hollywood Squares episode
Post by: snowpeck on August 13, 2017, 02:01:02 PM
Does anyone still have a working helical scan VTR? I would guess that would mean it's in black and white.
Title: Re: eBay find: 1975 Hollywood Squares episode
Post by: Matt Ottinger on August 13, 2017, 03:35:05 PM
As excited as I was for the 16mm pilot to turn up, I have a hard time getting worked up over just another Hollywood Squares episode.  Circulating or not, there are hundreds of others that pretty much look just like it.  And yeah, I've never been able to transfer that tape format.  Got a feeling this one will remain unclaimed.

Do we at least know who the guests were that week?
Title: Re: eBay find: 1975 Hollywood Squares episode
Post by: The Pyramids on August 13, 2017, 04:03:38 PM
Was wondering about that because this is something I would have liked to contribute toward to if someone had the resources and was willing to copy again. I understand that this sounds unworkable now.
Title: Re: eBay find: 1975 Hollywood Squares episode
Post by: WarioBarker on August 13, 2017, 04:32:06 PM
The seller's description notes that "I got it at an estate sale of a retired NBC Exec", which kinda leaves me wondering if this episode was saved for any particular reason.

Do we at least know who the guests were that week?
Per Dixon Hayes (via Internet Archive) (http://web.archive.org/web/20150920022826/http://www.classicsquares.com/archive7175.html), the celebs were Earl Holliman, Nanette Fabray, Robert Blake, Kevin Tighe, Paul Lynde, Kaye Ballard, George Gobel, Florence Henderson, and Harvey Korman.
Title: Re: eBay find: 1975 Hollywood Squares episode
Post by: snowpeck on August 13, 2017, 04:41:05 PM
I wonder why NBC would have made a helical scan copy of the episode in the first place.
Title: Re: eBay find: 1975 Hollywood Squares episode
Post by: Eric Paddon on August 13, 2017, 05:02:41 PM
If someone knew of a way to transfer I would contribute.     To me a lost episode from the daytime version is worth adding since our chief representation is the nighttime one for this era.
Title: Re: eBay find: 1975 Hollywood Squares episode
Post by: Chelsea Thrasher on August 14, 2017, 05:41:31 PM
Would offer to flat out pay for this outright IF I had a way to convert it to a suitable modern format.  Love this era of Squares, and definitely always game to help contribute to recovering/preserving episodes - even ones that might see fairly generic or common.

Title: Re: eBay find: 1975 Hollywood Squares episode
Post by: WhammyPower on August 14, 2017, 06:16:13 PM
Would offer to flat out pay for this outright IF I had a way to convert it to a suitable modern format.
A quick Google search leads me to this place (http://greentreeav.com/eiajreels) near St. Louis.  Anybody heard of it?
Title: Re: eBay find: 1975 Hollywood Squares episode
Post by: CarpetCrawler on August 15, 2017, 02:53:35 AM
Would offer to flat out pay for this outright IF I had a way to convert it to a suitable modern format.  Love this era of Squares, and definitely always game to help contribute to recovering/preserving episodes - even ones that might see fairly generic or common.

I'm in the same boat.  I'd be more than happy to pay for this outright; I love daytime Squares and would love to get this digitized and online for everyone to see.