Celebrity Bowling (1977) Archive Collection

Four celebrities played each game, separated into two pairs (usually each pair included one man and one woman). The rules of the game were known as "best ball"; for each frame, both members of each team would roll a ball on their own lane. If neither of the two teammates rolled a strike, then the person who rolled the worse shot (either a split or whoever knocked down the fewest pins) would then roll for the spare on the other lane. Players alternated lanes after each frame.

Each team was tied to a person in the audience, who would win prizes based upon the score the pair accumulated in the game. The viewer would win increasingly valuable prizes, mostly home appliances, if a team scored 1, 120, 150, 180, or 210 points (with the highest category usually resulting in the viewer winning a car or vacation; the top category was reached only once in the show's history). A bonus prize would also be awarded to the audience member whose team bowled the most strikes.

Another prize could be won for scoring a “Turkey” (three consecutive strikes).

To accommodate the half-hour time slot, the sixth and seventh frames of each game were typically not televised.

This Collection Has 44 Episodes