Hollywood's Talking

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Hollywood's Talking
Genre	Game Show
Creator(s)	Jack Barry
Starring	Geoff Edwards
Country of origin	United States
Production
Running time	30 Minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	CBS
Original run	March 26, 1973 – June 22, 1973

"Hollywood's Talking" was a short lived American game show produced by Jack Barry that ran on CBS for three months in 1973, debuting on March 26 (alongside The $10,000 Pyramid and The Young and the Restless) and ending on June 22 to make room for a new version of Match Game.

1 Gameplay
- 1.1 Short Subjects
2 Trivia
3 Episode Status
4 External links

[edit] Gameplay

In this game three contestants viewed videos of famous celebrities, all of them talking about different subjects, and it's up to the contestants to buzz-in and identify what subject they were talking about. Correct answers won money for the players according to how long the video was played. The value started at $150, and decreased by $50 for every 1/3 of videotape it took to take a guess. The first player to reach $200 won the game.

[edit] Short Subjects

The winning player played a bonus game called "Short Subjects". In this bonus, 15 second videotapes of celebrities were shown one by one. The winning contestant can buzz-in and answer as much as they want on each clip. Each correct answer won the money won in the main game, and solving five subjects won an extra $1,000 bonus.

[edit] Trivia

The series was the first national game show hosted by Geoff Edwards who would become notable for his next two hosting jobs, The New Treasure Hunt and Jackpot. He did, however, do two pilots that failed, Says Who in 1971 and Cop Out, before getting this job.
A slightly different arrangement of the theme music for the show was used for a later Barry & Enright game, Hollywood Connection.