Hollywood Showdown Episode Guide

While most, if not all, of the GSN originals from 2002 onward have been pretty well-documented, it always struck me as bizarre how Hollywood Showdown, by far and away the most successful original of the Michael Fleming era, has so little information available online. With that in mind, I decided to begin the monumental task of constructing an episode guide for Hollywood Showdown in the spring of 2018 by using both what little information exists online and the relatively small number of episodes available on the trading circuit.

Credit for most of the information that was retrieved online goes to posts made on alt.tv.game-shows in 2000 and 2001. Credit for some of the Season 1 air dates and contestant info goes to Steve Beverly's former website and Ian Wallis' collection page, while credit for most of the undated weeks goes to Vernon Metcalf's collection page, Gregory Alan Diener's abandoned collection page, Tammy Warner's former website, and Tim Connolly's former collection page. Credit for most of the Season 2 air dates and contestant info goes to Matt Kaiser's former website, with Brandon Bolton's collection page filling in some of the gaps.

Credit for the January 2000 production codes goes to the U.S. Copyright Office Public Records Catalog, while the production codes for most of January 2001 were logically figured out by me; the Air Force Week production codes and VTR date come from the circulating studio master copy of the 1/25/01 episode. Credit for the Friday payoff format used on Air Force Week goes to Travis Eberle's rules page, while credit for the Out-of-Towners Week VTR date goes to this Entertainment Wire article from October 2000.

As you will notice, this episode guide is very, very incomplete, so if you have any information that I don't have (presumably from a copy of an episode from a week that isn't fully documented in the episode guide), please feel free to leave an edit to add the missing information! Of course, don't be surprised if I try to inquire a trade with you afterwards. ;)

The original air dates for Season 1 are from the PAX airings, with the exception of the week of June 12-16, 2000. "Seating order confirmed?" refers to the seating order at the beginning of the Monday episode, with the contestant in control listed first and the contestants in the gallery listed afterwards from left to right.

Undated weeks
Note: Many of these weeks may, and most likely will, overlap with each other and/or any of the weeks listed above that is missing contestant info.