Hollywood Connection was an American game show

Game show

A game show is a type of radio or television program in which members of the public, television personalities or celebrities, sometimes as part of a team, play a game which involves answering questions or solving puzzles usually for money and/or prizes...

 that ran in syndication from September 5, 1977 to April 1978. Jim Lange

Jim Lange

Jim Lange is a former American game show host and disc jockey. He was particularly well known to listeners in the San Francisco and Los Angeles radio markets with stints at several stations in both markets, racking up over 45 years on the air...

 hosted the series, while Jay Stewart

Jay Stewart

Jay Fix , known professionally as Jay Stewart, was an American television and radio announcer known primarily for his work on game shows. One of his longest-lasting roles was as the announcer on the game show Let's Make a Deal, which he announced throughout the 1960s and 1970s...

 (Johnny Gilbert

Johnny Gilbert

John L. "Johnny" Gilbert III is an American show business personality who has worked mainly on television game shows. Originally a nightclub singer and entertainer, he has hosted and announced a number of game shows from various eras, dating as far back as the 1950s...

 in earlier episodes) announced. The series was produced by Barry & Enright Productions

Barry & Enright Productions

Barry & Enright Productions , was a United States television production company that was formed in 1947 by Jack Barry and Dan Enright.-History:Jack Barry and Dan Enright first met at radio station WOR in New York, where...

 in association with Golden West Broadcasters

KTLA

KTLA, virtual channel 5, is a television station in Los Angeles, California, USA. Owned by the Tribune Company, KTLA is an affiliate of the CW Television Network. KTLA's studios are on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, and its transmitter is located atop Mount Wilson...

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Premise

Two contestants faced a panel of six celebrities in game of answering questions about the stars themselves, a concept similar in format to Match Game

Match Game

Match Game is an American television game show in which contestants attempted to match celebrities' answers to fill-in-the-blank questions...

. As in Match Game, the contestants' goal is to match the stars' answers in order to score points; this is classified as "making a connection".

Round 1

The player who won the coin toss choose which row of celebrities (either the top or bottom) to play with. Lange then read a question to the celebrities with two possible answers, after which the stars wrote down their response. When finished, the player in control chose one of the answers that they think the star would say (unlike Match Game, the contestant gave an answer for each individual panelist rather than the entire panel). Each time the player made a connection they earned 1 point. After the first player is done, their opponent does the same thing with the other row of three celebrities.

Round 2

Played in the same manner as Round One, except the player who didn't start the last round went first in this round. That player chose to either play with the male stars or the female stars. Each question had three choices and each connection was worth 2 points.

Round 3

In Round Three, the player who was behind went first. Each question still had three choices and each connection was worth 3 points. The player with the most points at the end of the game won, receives some prizes, and played the bonus round.

Format #1 (first week only)

The celebrities & winning contestant were shown a picture of a famous person, place or thing, then the celebrities wrote down a word or phrase associated with the picture. The winning player wrote down three answers of their own and placed them next to the values of $300, $200 and $100, with the answer marked at $300 the one the contestant thought the panel will most-likely write down.

The contestant called on the stars one-by-one and tried to match what they've written. Each time the panelist's answer matches one of the contestant's, the contestant wins the money attached to that answer. After all the stars have shown their answers, if the winning player reaches $1,000 or more, they won $2,000 and a trip.

Format #2

The contestant still wrote down three key words as above, except each connection was worth $250 instead of the original scoring format. Three connections won the contestant $750 and a trip. After winning the trip, the contestant earned a chance to make two more connections; each one doubled the contestant's money, meaning that the first one doubled to $1,500, and one more doubled to the maximum amount of $3,000.

If at any time the contestant was unable to make a connection, the bonus round ended and the money was lost (although the trip was not in jeopardy). The contestant had the option before each double round to stop and take the money already won, as well as the trip.

Music

• The theme song used on the show is "Virgo" by Robert Ascot. It was previously the theme music for an earlier Jack Barry game show, Hollywood's Talking
  Hollywood's Talking
  Hollywood's Talking is a short lived American game show based the 60s quizzer, Everybody's Talking, and produced by Jack Barry. It ran on CBS for three months in 1973, debuting on March 26 and ending on June 22 to make room for a new version of Match Game.It was hosted by Geoff Edwards, with...
  
  (albeit with a slightly different arrangement).
• The think music which plays while the stars write down their responses ("Gamineries" by Jean Leroi) would later be heard as the category reveal music on another Barry & Enright game show, The Joker's Wild
  The Joker's Wild
  The Joker's Wild is an American television game show that aired at different times during the 1970s through the 1990s. Contestants answered questions based on categories that were determined randomly by a mechanism resembling a slot machine....
  
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• The think music played during the bonus round was "Gentleman Jim" by Bert Kaempfert
  Bert Kaempfert
  Bert Kaempfert was a German orchestra leader and songwriter. He made easy listening and jazz-oriented records, and wrote the music for a number of well-known songs, such as "Strangers in the Night" and "Spanish Eyes".-Biography:He was born in Hamburg, Germany - where he received his lifelong...
  
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Episode status

All episodes seem to exist. The series has been reran on GSN

Game Show Network

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