TV game shows the week of April 2, 1973

 I am rebooting my 1973 replay, but with a difference: I will start including some of the pop culture and sports items of the particular week or day, just as a frame of reference. I am including the more well-known celebrity game shows of that era from that week in question. Match Game did not premiere until June, so it will be included when we get to the June schedule of games. The game shows are, $10,000 Pyramid, Password and of course, Hollywood Squares.

$10,000 Pyramid: Nancy Dussault and Nipsey Russell. Dussault was an actress/singer who at the time was on "The New Dick Van Dyke Show" and would later become the inaugural co-hostess of Good Morning America and Ted Knight's wife on Too Close for Comfort. Russell was a beloved comedian who graced many a game show and because of his rhyming style, got the much-deserved title of "The Poet-Laureate of Comedy" from Pyramid host Dick Clark.

Password: Elizabeth Montgomery and Carol Burnett. 2 of the more well-known Password players, Montgomery would help launch the puzzle incarnation of Password, Password+ in 1979. This version ran on ABC until 1975.

Hollywood Squares: Ernest Borgnine, Pearl Bailey, Jan Murray, Karen Valentine, Paul Lynde, Dick Enberg, Charley Weaver, Shelley Fabares, Ricardo Montalban. Enberg had just begun hosting Baffle the week before, also on NBC and was about to start another season as the California Angels p-b-p voice. Fabares appeared on "The Little People" at the time and was also the niece of Squares semi-regular Nanette Fabray. 

Baffle: Jo Ann Pflug and Ross Martin. The NBC word-association game had premiered the week before. Pflug was married to future Wheel of Fortune host Chuck Woolery at the time. Martin played Artemus Gordon, a master of disguise on the Western/Secret Agent show "The Wild Wild West" with Robert Conrad.

Source of reference: Fandom and their respective game show pages.

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