Although Peter Marshall's career encompassed Broadway, movies, TV and radio, he is undoubtedly best known as the straight man to the tic-tac-toe board panelists on "Hollywood Squares" during its original 15-year run on NBC daytime and syndication--his stint as the straight man to comedian Tommy Noonan in nightclubs and film put him in good stead for his role hosting "Squares", which he followed with two less successful series for co-creator and producer Merrill Heatter, "Fantasy," a variety-game hybrid for NBC, and "All-Star Blitz," a twist on the "Squares" format for ABC (the less said about "The Reel to Reel Picture Show" on what was then PAX-TV and now Ion, the better)--at his home in Encino, no doubt near the motel that Gene Rayburn and Brett Somers were always talking about (he joked about being mistaken for Rayburn--he couldn't appear on "Match Game" until "Squares" had ended for contractual reasons):
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