I got to see Rod and Rich warm up the audience for TPIR. Rod asked us how many people had been to a taping of a TV show before. Less than half of the audience raised their hands. Rod then said "I see we have a studio full of virgins here today!"
At the closing we could even hear Johnny Olson saying "THIS IS JOHNNY OLSON SPEAKING FOR THE MATCH GAME-HOLLYWOOD SQUARES HOUR, A MARK GOODSON TELEVISION PRODUCTION!" so it could cut off by the end.
I think Johnny was "slowing down" a bit in the last year of his life. Here he is, a guy in his mid 70s, and he's running around the audience getting them excited during warmups. It was not at all lack of enthusiasm, it was just being tired.
Well, when you work for Mark Goodson and Bill Toddman TV Prod., You're an "automatic" announcer for every game show on the list, stationary or substitute.
If you read the book "The Matchless Gene Rayburn", Marshall should have been involved. The book said Marshall owned a piece of Hollywood Squares from the original run. He was shopping a revival and was going to partner with Century Towers Productions who owned most of the show. He was a little naive however and signed his share of the show over to them on a promise they would keep him as a partner, instead they through him over for Goodson to produce.
He had been announcing since 1946. He was the most popular announcer for nearly 40 years. I believe he was on radio before then. His voice always sounded the same, so you knew it was Johnny O even without having to hear him say his name at the end of a show! I bet if he was still alive, he's still be announcing!
Haha, love hearing during the closing that classic cheesy NBC "whistling" audience sweetener. They seemed to use that on every game show during that period!
At 1:14, Charles looks sooooo bored. 😑 I remember seeing this show as a kid and being impressed by the graphics, the enormous set and mostly remembered the part where they reveal the multiplier for the Super Match jackpot. Interesting experiment, to say the least. Might have done better as a weekly series or summer series in order to attract bigger names.
Airtimes for Dream House and MG/HS Hour depended on your local listings. I grew up in the New York market. Dream House aired for 15 months at 11:30AM Eastern and MG/HS aired at 3:00PM Eastern after Another World.
Well, Match Game was a part of Goodson before they got absorbed into Freemantle Media and Hollywood Squares, at the time, was a part of Filmways before they reorganized into Orion Television, now part of MGM.
This episode in full(except for the fee plugs part) will be airing on Buzzr tonight or perhaps on Monday night, since Bob Eubanks is in the Match Game portion and Erin Moran is introduced in the Hollywood Squares portion.
Never mind, I can see that this episode will be airing on Monday night on Buzzr. Here's the pattern, March 7, 1984 also had Erin Moran for the Match Game portion and Bob Eubanks for the Hollywood Squares portion, and Johnny Olson is once again filling-in, I believe the daytime Family Feud is getting ready to tape the Grand Old Opry vs. Soap Opry week when these episodes were taped so once again, this week had 2 announcers.
johnny o just seems a better fit than regular gene wood for this show, much as i also love gene wood -- he makes this sound as credible as the '70s match game.
I think this was a great show, and not a too far fetched idea. A Rayburn/Marshall pairing would've been more ideal. Bauman is not as horrible as a lot of people made him out to be, clearly they lacked chemistry, but I think Bauman did a fair job as a match game panelist (not as the host of HS). Also, even though its an hour long show, the HS portion seemed so rush. Loved the set, but it looked just too expansive especially during the MG segment. Its like they were in outer space or something.
The book "The Matchless Gene Rayburn" said this idea started because Peter Marshall was trying to reboot Hollywood Squares. At the time, he owned a piece of the show from the years he hosted it and was looking for a partner. He made a deal with Orion Productions and trusted them a little too much and ended up signing away his piece of the show. Orion teamed with Goodson and it went from there.
Just my opinion, but Jon was a terrible host. I saw many episodes of this series when it first aired, and didn't care for it because of Jon and the booking of D-list 'celebrities'. Gene seemed embarrassed to be there, but did the best he could do with what he was given.
MGHS was a better idea than execution. Done right it could make for an awesome show. But between Bauman being picked over Marshall, the lackluster celebrity guests and Mark Goodson absolutely refusing to do Hollywood Squares like Hollywood Squares, the series as-aired was doomed from the start.
I'd have to say the best thing that came out of the MG/HQ Hour was the theme for Johnny O, Rod Roddy, Rich Fields and George Grey can say "Not 1, not 2, not 3 but 4 BRAND NEW CARS!"
The show was underrated!. This would have sparkled if Peter Marshall hosted the HS segment. The theme is my all time fav, too. The set what pretty advanced for mid 80's considering technology for the time. Gene Wood, Johnny O, all great announcers and there are none currently who have honed their craft to their perfection. FYI: Notice the camera work in the star entrances - very well done tracking "moving targets" - you rarely see shots like that one shows today! Thanks for posting this clip.
Well just so ya know, when Erin Moran aka Joanie Cunningham appeared on the show, Happy Days was in its 11th and FINAL Season on abc Primetime I think that the contestant should've picked Erin since she had the BIG 30
I loved this show as a kid. I wish it would have lasted longer than it did. Also looking back, they should have had Peter Marshall. It would have lasted a lot longer.
being a child of the 70s it is sometimes hard to distinguish johnny olson, rod roddy, and don pardo. but make no mistake...the late mr. olson was the real deal.
If you ask me, a revival of this should have Ross Schaffer and Peter Marshall since he IS the original master of HS. As for Johnny O, he was a great announcer no matter what show he was doing, but Gene Wood was also a great announcer.
And also Tattletales was still in production during its 1980s return when MG/HS was on too and like MG/HS, Tattletales was airing in the late afternoon slots.
That's why I've said numerous times that this would have been better in a syndicated format since NBC was naturally partial to their own stars.I didn't really think Jon Bauman was so terrible of a host but Peter Marshall would have naturally been better as he was the original.
@@DBR00 To be fair, this version of HS was terrible because they were multiple choice answers and all the humor was taken out because they had to fit both games in with time left over for the super match. MG got top billing and pretty much all remaining time (about 20 minutes) was left to HS. That's why there was no secret square and you could get default wins (not earning the tic-tac-toe by yourself).
What was Bowzer doing there in the first place? I guess someone at Orion wanted viewers to forget about Peter Marshall hosting the Hollywood Squares during the 80s. If I was in charge of selecting hosts for Orion, I would've wanted Marshall to host both this version and the 86 version that JD otherwise hosted.
@Will N Makes sense. The Squares portion was swished too much. Still, Bauman didn't work, but at least JD was still awesome when he got the gig on the next standalone version.
Plus, Peter appeared during one week of MG(Syndicated obviously, because Squares was on NBC). He was a better player than Bowzer was. Rayburn was great on Password Plus because Allen had done his show..surely he and Marshall would have been great. Both were about the same age and it'd have made a fine ending to their careers....but instead they had Yahtzee(Peter) and Break the Bank(Gene)
John W Landry Peter Marshall and Bert Convy were friends at one time. The reason for the falling out between them was over the game show “3rd Degree.” Peter Marshall was named the host of the pilot and was promised to become the host of the series. Later, Bert Convy decided to leave Win, Lose, or Draw and host 3rd Degree himself. The offer to Peter Marshall as host was rescinded. Peter Marshall turned around and sued Bert Convy’s production company for breach of contract. He eventually dropped the lawsuit when Bert Convy was diagnosed with cancer.
@@kenman923 Buena Vista Television, the distributor of WLoD, was also partially indirectly responsible too. Bert didn't fully leave WLoD on his own terms, instead Buena Vista wanted to go for a younger host, which turned out to be a one Robb Weller, then a correspondent of Entertainment Tonight and the gameplay changes too. When Buena Vista scuttled Bert, Bert ended up taking the hosting gig of 3rd Degree at the last minute.
Too bad the show didn’t last long. I felt it could’ve lasted for two or three more years. They should’ve had Brett Sommers, Orson Bean, Soupy Sales, Betty White on the show. Along with these other guests; like Casey Kasem, Rick Dees, Annette Funicello, Deney Terrio, Bob Barker, Jack Narz, and have Bob Hilton as an alternate announcer.
makes me wonder which day of the week this ep was taped for. johnny sounds a little slurred, as if it were an "after-dinner" taping ;-) still great reads, of course, just not typical johnny o great.
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Johnny O will always be my favorite announcer, probably till the end of my days.
The late greats Gene Wood & Rayburn, and Johnny Olsen; along with the music and lights were my happy place in my sad 😭 childhood.📺
I got to see Rod and Rich warm up the audience for TPIR. Rod asked us how many people had been to a taping of a TV show before. Less than half of the audience raised their hands. Rod then said "I see we have a studio full of virgins here today!"
At the closing we could even hear Johnny Olson saying "THIS IS JOHNNY OLSON SPEAKING FOR THE MATCH GAME-HOLLYWOOD SQUARES HOUR, A MARK GOODSON TELEVISION PRODUCTION!" so it could cut off by the end.
I think Johnny was "slowing down" a bit in the last year of his life. Here he is, a guy in his mid 70s, and he's running around the audience getting them excited during warmups. It was not at all lack of enthusiasm, it was just being tired.
After the McCormick spice rack plug - johnny seemed to speed up the “match game Hollywood square hour” that light board was changing fast to keep up.
Well, when you work for Mark Goodson and Bill Toddman TV Prod., You're an "automatic" announcer for every game show on the list, stationary or substitute.
If they really wanted this to succeed, Peter Marshall should have done the Hollywood Squares part.
If you read the book "The Matchless Gene Rayburn", Marshall should have been involved. The book said Marshall owned a piece of Hollywood Squares from the original run. He was shopping a revival and was going to partner with Century Towers Productions who owned most of the show. He was a little naive however and signed his share of the show over to them on a promise they would keep him as a partner, instead they through him over for Goodson to produce.
I don't think Goodsoywanted to admit someone else's show was as good as MG.
* Goodson wanted
And they'd have used Erik Mokracek's version of the theme with lyrics.
I agree
The other announcer Gene Wood was not available to announce was Rich Jeffries (of Blockbusters and Pasword Plus).
He had been announcing since 1946. He was the most popular announcer for nearly 40 years. I believe he was on radio before then. His voice always sounded the same, so you knew it was Johnny O even without having to hear him say his name at the end of a show! I bet if he was still alive, he's still be announcing!
Yes, this is truuuuuue
Johnny Olsen will be missed!!
2:17 he says "The Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour" too fast
Obviously Charles Nelson Reilly Just Had To Have An Appearance On The Show
JO's first appearance on MG/HS just aired tonight on Buzzr!
IMO, this show was underrated. I watched this when I was a kid and I liked the 80s upkeep. My only wish was they had some better panelists.
This was a great show! They should bring it back!
Yes, with new hosts, same theme song for this new generation!
...also to be more 'family-friendly' too!
Haha, love hearing during the closing that classic cheesy NBC "whistling" audience sweetener. They seemed to use that on every game show during that period!
If NBC did another mash-up in 1984, they could've teamed "Card Sharks" with "High Rollers" with Bob Eubanks and Jim Lange.
At 1:14, Charles looks sooooo bored. 😑
I remember seeing this show as a kid and being impressed by the graphics, the enormous set and mostly remembered the part where they reveal the multiplier for the Super Match jackpot.
Interesting experiment, to say the least. Might have done better as a weekly series or summer series in order to attract bigger names.
This is a rare treat, thanks a lot!
This week this episode will be seen!
TPIR still uses that cue for cars too.
@Tina Marie, Dream House, it was a short-lived NBC game show, I believe it following MGHS hour on NBC.
Airtimes for Dream House and MG/HS Hour depended on your local listings. I grew up in the New York market. Dream House aired for 15 months at 11:30AM Eastern and MG/HS aired at 3:00PM Eastern after Another World.
Well, Match Game was a part of Goodson before they got absorbed into Freemantle Media and Hollywood Squares, at the time, was a part of Filmways before they reorganized into Orion Television, now part of MGM.
I miss him!! He was the best annoucer, next to Jay Stewart and Gene Wood!!!
Yes, Gene was the usual announcer and Eubanks was from Dream House.
I would love to see the entire episode.
This episode in full(except for the fee plugs part) will be airing on Buzzr tonight or perhaps on Monday night, since Bob Eubanks is in the Match Game portion and Erin Moran is introduced in the Hollywood Squares portion.
Never mind, I can see that this episode will be airing on Monday night on Buzzr. Here's the pattern, March 7, 1984 also had Erin Moran for the Match Game portion and Bob Eubanks for the Hollywood Squares portion, and Johnny Olson is once again filling-in, I believe the daytime Family Feud is getting ready to tape the Grand Old Opry vs. Soap Opry week when these episodes were taped so once again, this week had 2 announcers.
johnny o just seems a better fit than regular gene wood for this show, much as i also love gene wood -- he makes this sound as credible as the '70s match game.
I think this was a great show, and not a too far fetched idea. A Rayburn/Marshall pairing would've been more ideal. Bauman is not as horrible as a lot of people made him out to be, clearly they lacked chemistry, but I think Bauman did a fair job as a match game panelist (not as the host of HS). Also, even though its an hour long show, the HS portion seemed so rush. Loved the set, but it looked just too expansive especially during the MG segment. Its like they were in outer space or something.
The book "The Matchless Gene Rayburn" said this idea started because Peter Marshall was trying to reboot Hollywood Squares. At the time, he owned a piece of the show from the years he hosted it and was looking for a partner. He made a deal with Orion Productions and trusted them a little too much and ended up signing away his piece of the show. Orion teamed with Goodson and it went from there.
Just my opinion, but Jon was a terrible host. I saw many episodes of this series when it first aired, and didn't care for it because of Jon and the booking of D-list 'celebrities'. Gene seemed embarrassed to be there, but did the best he could do with what he was given.
MGHS was a better idea than execution. Done right it could make for an awesome show. But between Bauman being picked over Marshall, the lackluster celebrity guests and Mark Goodson absolutely refusing to do Hollywood Squares like Hollywood Squares, the series as-aired was doomed from the start.
I'd have to say the best thing that came out of the MG/HQ Hour was the theme for Johnny O, Rod Roddy, Rich Fields and George Grey can say "Not 1, not 2, not 3 but 4 BRAND NEW CARS!"
For the 'Race Game' on The Price is Right. Over $85,000 worth of cars and the contestant won on the first run.
It also makes a great song about Jason from the Care Bears Movie.
To this day I'll never understand why they didn't just have Gene host the whole thing.
Good question! I think its really awkward when the hosts change in the middle of the show.
One less star to pay on the panel I guess?
Fits the gimmick?
The show was underrated!. This would have sparkled if Peter Marshall hosted the HS segment. The theme is my all time fav, too. The set what pretty advanced for mid 80's considering technology for the time. Gene Wood, Johnny O, all great announcers and there are none currently who have honed their craft to their perfection. FYI: Notice the camera work in the star entrances - very well done tracking "moving targets" - you rarely see shots like that one shows today! Thanks for posting this clip.
Some parts of this are cut out of Buzzr reruns.
@NDW85 So did Bob Hilton.
From "Dream House" (game show), game show hosting legend Bob Eubanks.
Johnny died a couple years latter (1985) at the age of 75.
Dream House, Bob Eubanks was hosting that in 1983-84.
Yes, he was.
Johnny Olson would hear the theme song on another show...
I admit Johnny Olson sounds a little slurred but I think he did a good job.
Olsen died of a brain hemorrhage about a year or so after this. May have been already showing of signs of it.
Well just so ya know, when Erin Moran aka Joanie Cunningham appeared on the show, Happy Days was in its 11th and FINAL Season on abc Primetime
I think that the contestant should've picked Erin since she had the BIG 30
I loved this show as a kid. I wish it would have lasted longer than it did. Also looking back, they should have had Peter Marshall. It would have lasted a lot longer.
being a child of the 70s it is sometimes hard to distinguish johnny olson, rod roddy, and don pardo. but make no mistake...the late mr. olson was the real deal.
If you ask me, a revival of this should have Ross Schaffer and Peter Marshall since he IS the original master of HS.
As for Johnny O, he was a great announcer no matter what show he was doing, but Gene Wood was also a great announcer.
I wouldn't call Eubanks or CNR "B-list."
Of course, Johnny wasn't the only sub for Gene. Rich Jeffries and Bob Hilton also filled in for Gene on occasion.
Probaby because Johnny was working on Price is Right at the time and could only work on other game shows as a substitute announcer.
And also Tattletales was still in production during its 1980s return when MG/HS was on too and like MG/HS, Tattletales was airing in the late afternoon slots.
And he would announce Body Language not long after this and Tattletales ended their runs.
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That's why I've said numerous times that this would have been better in a syndicated format since NBC was naturally partial to their own stars.I didn't really think Jon Bauman was so terrible of a host but Peter Marshall would have naturally been better as he was the original.
J.O. Johnny Olsen died two days after Orson Welles, OW!!!!
June 1984
Rayburn and Bowzer? Not quite my idea of a match made in heaven...
Jon was not a good host for this show.
@@DBR00 To be fair, this version of HS was terrible because they were multiple choice answers and all the humor was taken out because they had to fit both games in with time left over for the super match. MG got top billing and pretty much all remaining time (about 20 minutes) was left to HS. That's why there was no secret square and you could get default wins (not earning the tic-tac-toe by yourself).
Two great stand-alone shows. Together, not so much.
Is John Bauman the she person who played Bowser?
It was
I wonder how many game show Johnny Olsen and Gene Wood have announced on. Probably hundreds each.
If they ever revive this, put one person in charge.
1:33 what you mean there's other fee plugs? Buzzr's been mindwiping me this last year!
GSN has done this too. Its just so they can add more commercials, its fine with me.
@@mrmatchgame It beats credit crunching.
I agree, he just didn't have his heart in it.
That part was missing when I got the video, if it was in it I would of added it.
From what I've read, Gene and Peter are brothers - it would have been fun to see them together.
They do sort of look alike.
But Peter Marshall was born Ralph Pierre LaCock and Gene Rayburn was born Eugene Rubessa.
Eugene Petr Rubessa
What year was this show on?
On Match Game, Bauman was okay..but I though he was MUCH better on P+.
PRice is RIght also uses that cue in some showcases.
AMEN to that!!! : )
1984....after NBC bought the right to MG.
What was Bowzer doing there in the first place? I guess someone at Orion wanted viewers to forget about Peter Marshall hosting the Hollywood Squares during the 80s. If I was in charge of selecting hosts for Orion, I would've wanted Marshall to host both this version and the 86 version that JD otherwise hosted.
At least Davidson was competent. Bauman wasn't quite right for hosting "Squares" and the obvious lack of chemistry with Rayburn doesn't help matters
@Will N Makes sense. The Squares portion was swished too much. Still, Bauman didn't work, but at least JD was still awesome when he got the gig on the next standalone version.
"WHEE!"
Gotta love NBC's fake audience cues.
A panel full of B-list celebrities.
That is certainly the truth.
Plus, Peter appeared during one week of MG(Syndicated obviously, because Squares was on NBC). He was a better player than Bowzer was.
Rayburn was great on Password Plus because Allen had done his show..surely he and Marshall would have been great.
Both were about the same age and it'd have made a fine ending to their careers....but instead they had Yahtzee(Peter) and Break the Bank(Gene)
Peter Marshall is younger than Gene Rayburn and still with us. About 95.
Gene would be 103 this year if he were still living.
Okay then how about samples of Gene Wood announcing. By the way, sorry about me asking the same request on Rich Jeffries announcing.
Was this from 1983 or 1984?
Do you have some samples of rich Jeffries announcing this show? I mention this because he also subbed for Gene Wood.
And I think Bob Hilton did as well.
Hence why Peter Marshall doesn't speak highly of Bert Convy.
John W Landry Peter Marshall and Bert Convy were friends at one time. The reason for the falling out between them was over the game show “3rd Degree.” Peter Marshall was named the host of the pilot and was promised to become the host of the series. Later, Bert Convy decided to leave Win, Lose, or Draw and host 3rd Degree himself. The offer to Peter Marshall as host was rescinded. Peter Marshall turned around and sued Bert Convy’s production company for breach of contract. He eventually dropped the lawsuit when Bert Convy was diagnosed with cancer.
@@kenman923 Buena Vista Television, the distributor of WLoD, was also partially indirectly responsible too. Bert didn't fully leave WLoD on his own terms, instead Buena Vista wanted to go for a younger host, which turned out to be a one Robb Weller, then a correspondent of Entertainment Tonight and the gameplay changes too. When Buena Vista scuttled Bert, Bert ended up taking the hosting gig of 3rd Degree at the last minute.
Too bad the show didn’t last long. I felt it could’ve lasted for two or three more years. They should’ve had Brett Sommers, Orson Bean, Soupy Sales, Betty White on the show. Along with these other guests; like Casey Kasem, Rick Dees, Annette Funicello, Deney Terrio, Bob Barker, Jack Narz, and have Bob Hilton as an alternate announcer.
Why does GSN or Buzzr air this version
Orion Television owns the show. Fremantle doesn't want to buy the show back from them.
@@Lupton2000 35 years later, it's coming to BUZZR... clean and digitized!
I just hope Buzzr keeps the fee plugs on but obviously will remove the ticket plug.
@@darrenbernard8321 I highly doubt it.
@@Lupton2000 Actually, it's *MGM Television* who co-owns the Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour. Orion Television no longer exists now.
makes me wonder which day of the week this ep was taped for. johnny sounds a little slurred, as if it were an "after-dinner" taping ;-) still great reads, of course, just not typical johnny o great.
No I don't