In my long, long post about Laff-a-Lympics, I mentioned the Heatter-Quigley game show company working with Hanna-Barbera to try and create a game show for kids on Saturday morning. They did this a few times without Hanna-Barbera. In 1979, Heatter-Quigley produced one for NBC — The Storybook Squares. It was Hollywood Squares with each of the nine celebs portraying some fictional character.
It was a weird show. Setting up the "storybook" identities and introducing them all took up a lot of time so there wasn't much left to play the game. And the stars for the most part seemed awkward in the costumes and unsure how much they were suppose to act like the characters. Here…you wanna see an episode of this? Just watch the opening at least where they introduce the stars. It's…weird…