Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour

Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour is an American television panel game show that combined two panel games of the 1960s and 1970s – Match Game and Hollywood Squares – into an hour-long format.

The series ran from October 31, 1983, to July 27, 1984 on NBC. Gene Rayburn reprised his role as host of the Match Game and Super Match segments, while Jon Bauman hosted the Hollywood Squares segment. Gene Wood was the show's regular announcer with Johnny Olson and Rich Jeffries substituting during the run.

The series was credited as a Mark Goodson Television Production. Orion Television, then-owners of the Hollywood Squares format rights, licensed the format to Goodson.

Each day began with two new contestants playing Match Game, hosted by Rayburn and with Bauman sitting in the bottom left seat of a six-celebrity panel.

Three rounds were played, with one question per contestant in each round. A coin toss determined who played first in round one, and the high scorer at the end of each round played first in the next one. In the event of a tie, the contestant who had not played first in that round did so in the next one.

Rayburn read a humorous fill-in-the-blank question, and each celebrity wrote down a response. The contestant provided a verbal response after they had all finished; the celebrities then revealed their answers one at a time, and each match scored a point. Only the celebrities who had not yet matched a contestant played on subsequent turns by that person. The leader after the third round advanced to face the returning champion in the second half of the hour on Hollywood Squares. Any contestant who reached the maximum score of six in either the first or second round sat out the rest of the game.

If the game ended in a tie, one Super Match-style question was posed to the contestants (e.g., "_____, New Jersey"). Instead of writing down an answer, the contestants were shown a board with four numbered responses pre-selected by the writers (e.g., "Atlantic City", "Hoboken", "Newark", "Trenton") and kept out of sight of the panel. A backstage draw conducted before the game determined which contestant chose first, and each contestant chose a response by calling out its number. After both contestants made their choices, Rayburn polled the panel one at a time for their own responses. The first contestant to match any celebrity became the winner.

The Hollywood Squares half of the show, hosted by Bauman, pitted the Match Game winner against the previous day's champion.