Celebrity Bowling (1971)

Genre

comedy, reality

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 28 episodes

Rated

TV-14

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Four celebrities team up and bowl against each other in a studio. Winning teams give prizes to viewers at home. The show is a relaxed competition from the 1970s.

lightheartedcasualnostalgicslow-pacedplayfulcompetitiveeasygoingretro

What happens

Celebrity Bowling is an American syndicated bowling sports series hosted by Jed Allan that ran from January 16, 1971, to September 1978. The series was produced in Los Angeles at Metromedia Square, the studios of KTTV. Each week, the show featured four celebrities, on a pair of AMF or Brunswick lanes installed inside KTTV's studios, pitted against each other in teams of two. Victorious teams won prizes for home viewers, based upon the level of winning scores; there was an additional prize for the viewer associated with the team that bowled the most strikes. The weekly series was a by-product of The Celebrity Bowling Classic, a 90-minute TV special produced in 1969 for the Metromedia-owned stations, benefitting the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation. The series debuted at the same time the Prime Time Access Rule took effect, during which time a number of syndicated weekly programs went into production; its end came as weekly programs such as Celebrity Bowling were increasingly being replaced by twice-weekly and later stripped daily productions. Joe Siegman created the series, and he and Don Gregory produced 144 episodes for their 7-10 Productions. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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