• Source: Storybook Squares

Storybook Squares is an American game show. It is a spin-off of Hollywood Squares. The series featured celebrities dressed up as famous people and characters from history and various forms of media.
Peter Marshall served as host of these episodes. The panelists were introduced by "The Guardian of the Gate", who announced their characters' presence by reading their names from a scroll. The Guardian was played by regular Hollywood Squares announcer Kenny Williams, and the character was similar to his "Town Crier" character from Video Village.
The series ran on NBC on Saturday mornings from January 4 to April 19, 1969, with repeats airing until August 30. The concept was revived during the 1976-1977 season as a series of special theme weeks on the daytime Hollywood Squares.




Format


On the original edition of Storybook Squares, the game was played in the same manner as the regular game, with celebrities in the squares dressed as storybook and nursery rhyme characters. Two children competed, always boy vs. girl. Like on the regular Hollywood Squares, boys played X and girls played circle. Instead of playing for money, each game was played for a prize.
The first two games on each episode of Storybook Squares were, as on Hollywood Squares, Secret Square games. Each game was
played for a different prize, and if the first prize was unclaimed it could be won along with the second prize in the second game.




= Panelists (1969)

=

The only panelist from the adult show who played as he normally would was Cliff Arquette, who carried his "Charley Weaver" persona over to Storybook Squares. The other panelists played characters from fairy tales and books, historical figures, or in some cases the characters they played on television.
Unlike the parent series, on Storybook Squares each panelist/character was given an elaborate introduction as they entered the set and took their place on the board, allowing for a brief comic interaction with host Marshall as they did so. Some of the celebrities who appeared were:

Marty Allen as Tarzan and Cupid
Jim Backus as Mr. Magoo (animated character for whom he provided the voice) and Thurston Howell III (his character from Gilligan's Island)
Ted Cassidy as Tarzan
Charo as Isabella
Wally Cox as Paul Revere and Davy Crockett
Bob Crane as Colonel Hogan (his role on Hogan's Heroes)
Abby Dalton as Little Miss Muffet
Barbara Eden as Jeannie (her role on I Dream of Jeannie)
Nanette Fabray as The Old Woman Who Lived in the Shoe
Stu Gilliam as Merlin
Arte Johnson as Wolfgang the Nazi from Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, referred to herein as the "'Very Interesting' Soldier"
Paul Lynde as Frankenstein's monster and the Evil Queen from Snow White
Paul Winchell as Romeo and Dr. Jekyll (with Tessie Mahoney- Jerry Mahoney in a blond wig- as Juliet and Jerry Mahoney as Mr. Hyde)
Carolyn Jones as Morticia Addams (her role on The Addams Family)
Rose Marie as Pocahontas and Annie Oakley
Roy Rogers and Dale Evans
Soupy Sales as Henry VIII and Thomas Edison
William Shatner as James T. Kirk (his character from Star Trek)
Leslie Uggams as Snow White




1976-1977 return


When the daytime series brought back Storybook Squares, its format was changed slightly. Instead of a two-player match featuring boys playing girls, the matches used a team format with the boys playing with their fathers and grandfathers and the girls with their mothers and grandmothers.
The children played the first game of the match, with the parents playing the second and the grandparents each subsequent game as time permitted. $300 was awarded for each game won, with $50 awarded per square if time was called during a game.
The team with the most money at the end of the game won a large prize, such as a car or exotic vacation.




= Panelists (1976–1977)

=
Marty Allen as Tarzan
Milton Berle as Old Mother Hubbard
Valerie Bertinelli as Little Miss Muffet
Caroll Spinney as Big Bird (Muppet character which he controlled from 1969 to 1998)
Hal Smith as Mother Goose
Paul Lynde as Attila the Hun, Frankenstein's monster, The Wicked Witch, Davy Crockett, and Paul Bunyan
William Shatner as Captain Kirk
Elke Sommer as Guinevere
Susan Seaforth Hayes as Eve and Cleopatra
Bill Hayes as Adam and Caesar
Connie Stevens as The Queen of Hearts
Karen Valentine as Mona Lisa
Anson Williams as Simple Simon
Florence Henderson as Belle Starr
Doc Severinsen (with his trumpet) as The Pied Piper and Gabriel
George Gobel as Henry VIII
Vincent Price as Captain Hook
Pat Harrington (Jr.) as Leonardo da Vinci
Rip Taylor as General Custer
Joan Rivers as The Old Woman Who Lived in the Shoe
Bonnie Franklin as Goldilocks and Peter Pan
John Byner as Long John Silver
Roddy McDowall as Sherlock Holmes and Pinocchio
Arte Johnson as Beethoven
Jo Ann Worley as Martha Washington
Soupy Sales as Thomas Edison
Rich Little as Noah
Julie McWhirter(-Dees) as Glinda the Good Witch (though referred to as "the Good Fairy") and Dorothy Gale
Charo as Lady Godiva (she wore a sparkly flesh-toned bodysuit rather than appear actually nude)




Set


The 1969 set was decked out in a medieval theme for the host and players' podiums, while the gameboard remained the same as on the adult version. The 1970s sets extended the medieval theme to the entire set, with a sweeping castle facade built around and behind the "Squares".




References






External links


Storybook Squares at IMDb

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Paul Lynde
• Storybook Squares
• Hollywood Squares
• Storybook
• List of American game shows
• Peter Marshall (entertainer)
• Paul Lynde
• Ted Cassidy
• Tic-tac-toe
• Carolyn Jones
• Belle Starr