The class back then was unreal! Wish it was like that today

This has to be one of the best played evening Password episodes that I've ever seen. Four complete games. Wow! A record maybe? I love how calm the celebrities and contestants were.

This brings back happy childhood memories. Eydie’s hair is so smooth and shiny! I wonder if it was a wig? She was talented and charming!

Watching these old B&W episodes of Password in no particular order, it amazes me how many stockbroker trainees have appeared on the show as contestants. After this episode, Gene Woods says that the contestants were selected and interviewed in advance. Did some training school for brokers have an inside connection to Goodson-Todman? When I became a stockbroker in 1983, someone gave me training course materials and I studied on my own (and passed the test first try, even leaving early). I would have loved to have been a contestant on Password, and I'd feel bad if I missed out because I didn't go to the right training school in Manhattan (not far from where I lived). But the timing would have been wrong. Password Plus had its final episode in March 1982 and Super Password didn't have its first episode until September 1984. And by then the shows were done in Burbank, California rather than in NYC.

@timothyhughes1904

2 жыл бұрын

Lighten up...PLEASE!

Frank Junior looks just like his dad. Same demeanor also.

Holy cow, Frank Jr looks so much like his dad!! Yikes!! Now I have to look him up and hear him sing! Didn’t know about him!

@joeambrose3260

4 жыл бұрын

Didn't know about Junior ? You must be visiting from Mars

@scotnick59

2 жыл бұрын

He looks like an exact cross between mom Nancy and Frankie

@staciebonner3411

2 жыл бұрын

He was a good actor, he was on a couple of episodes of Adam-12.

Password was very early in Gene Wood's career as a game show announcer. He's great on "Family Feud" and he had some wonderful repartee with Richard Dawson. But I think his voice isn't right for saying the words on Password. Jack Clark had a magnificent voice for it, almost like the voice coming down from the mountaintop.

@thewipsportstalkfan3160

3 жыл бұрын

This was one of Genes first announcing assignments for Goodson Todman, he wasnt as polished nor was his style established then.( He was filling in for Jack ). He seemed to be creepyish whispering but he still did a decent job cutting his teeth announcing.

Sinatra Jr. was kidnapped at the age of 19, on December 8, 1963.

@joeambrose3260

4 жыл бұрын

No shit, Sherlock

Although I'm almost 60 I can't recall ever hearing Frank Jr sing anything

@jamesmcinnis208

2 жыл бұрын

He fizzled.

@donaldleroy6502

2 жыл бұрын

@@jamesmcinnis208 I've been thinking about that, it does make perfect sense because his sister Nancy sizzled

@gusloader123

2 жыл бұрын

Hi. I agree. It seems that he was active in live performances on stages and music venues. I never heard him on the radio.

Eydie didn't CHEAT. As previously stated. Allen said watch your hands. I watched the whole show. She never did it again.

Gene Wood was the announcer. He later announced Password Plus in 1979.

Patricia and Peter were excellent, I would have liked to see them as partners! 👏👍👍🙂

Gene Wood's the announcer. He would host his own game show "Beat the Clock" in the 70s.

@joeambrose3260

4 жыл бұрын

I remember Jack Narz hosting BTC but not Gene Wood, must have been short lived

I lived in Libertyville il myself

Remember the fake Frank Jr kidnapping? lolololol

@OkMaRcOs11

2 жыл бұрын

how did people find out it was fake ? 😀

@user-rh2io7gm1l

5 ай бұрын

The kidnapping was not fake. It's just that the kidnappers were incompetent. Afterward, the defense tried to argue that 19-year-old Junior had orchestrated the kidnapping as a publicity stunt, but the kidnappers were all convicted.

OMG, Frank looked just that when i met him in 1968, approx.

Latin Casino was in Cherry Hill New Jersey

I like Gorme. She was so perky and cute.

@gusloader123

2 жыл бұрын

She was continually cheating but A.L. let her get away with it. No Gestures, but W O R D.

Edie’s a Bit of a dork, and a bit of a cheater. But she’s a pretty good player

Eydie looks so much like my neighbor. It blows my mind. I wonder if she (my neighbor) would take it as a compliment if I told her so?

@floris.927

7 жыл бұрын

I'd like to think she would ... even the air around her was lovely.

@joeambrose3260

4 жыл бұрын

Go for it, bring a cup of sugar

just love eydie gorme

With dictionaries/lexicons full of common, everyday words in the English language, I see many of the same words being played over and over as I watch random B&W episodes of Password. Did they test out words in informal play to choose the ones to use? Or was it a matter of budget: saving the expense of having to create physical copies of the words (one for lightning round words; four for the words used in competitive play: one copy for each contestant, one copy for Allen Ludden or other announcer, and one copy to be used to display the word on the screen)?

@gusloader123

2 жыл бұрын

It is amazing how many times the lazy PW staff reused words. Seems the PW staff never opened up a Dictionary or a thesaurus. Watching many of these PW episodes from my childhood is good. PW started when I was in 1st grade, and when I got home from school, Mom would be watching PW as she was ironing and folding laundry. Thanks to the person(s) who put these on You Tube. It does get annoying watching the rampant cheating of Eydie Gorme and Carol Burnett and Robert Goulet, Angie Dickinson, Eva Gabor, Lawrence Harvey, and many other Celebs, but the words are still words. Solution to stop the Celebs cheating with gestures and mannerisms & charades: What A.L. and the show producers should have done to STOP the Celebs cheating was to NOT mention what TV show, Movie. Play or Sing-Song-Music place the Celeb was going to appear. Cut their free advertising! I've been watching You Tube quite a lot the last few months because the Over-the-Air TV antenna on the roof does not work well in bad weather. I have noticed several words being recycled. This episode it was "Sweepstakes" and "Prohibition". {[ BTW - Not once I have seen the word "Alcoholism" or "Sobriety" or "Repent", "Repentance", Holy, "Sacred", "Righteous", "Faithful", "Bible" on PW, makes one wonder about the PW staff habits and biases.]} Other words used multiple times have been --> Banana, Tomato, Cat, Dog, Salt, Whiskey, Coat, Yarn, Salad, and others. Hmmm? Did the produce stand / Grocery store near the PW studio office only sale tomatoes and bananas? No Turnips, or Corn or Beans or Artichokes, or Broccoli, Apples, Celery, Blueberries?

Everyone's commenting on how "classy" we were back then. It's not that we were so "classy" - but, that we've become such uncouth slobs by comparison. But, I'm reminded of something else that defined how we saw ourselves (I'm paraphrasing, as it comes up often on Password). ALLEN LUDDEN: "And what does YOUR husband do? . . . . Oh, that's a very important job . . . . and you are such a PRETTY GIRL!" All that's missing is "Have a cookie!"

Eddie is quite the squirmer

@scotnick59

Жыл бұрын

Edie!

My grandma is Patricia Long omg

Good to see a contestant from Nyack. I have lived for most of my life in neighboring towns and visit there often. Some nice things have happened to me in Nyack. And even though the marriage didn't last, meeting my ex there was one of the nice things.

@joeambrose3260

4 жыл бұрын

I saw Helen Hayes in Nyack

@loissimmons6558

4 жыл бұрын

@@joeambrose3260 She lived there for many years. She had a second house on her property that my friend's parents lived in. I visited there many times.

@joeambrose3260

4 жыл бұрын

@@loissimmons6558 Wow. Did you meet her and her son ?

@loissimmons109

2 жыл бұрын

@@joeambrose3260 Unfortunately no, I never met Helen Hayes or any of her family members. The story of my life: always one degree of separation from a celebrity.

This episode was better than usual. {Except for E.G.'s rampant cheating. 🤕} Kid Sinatra did well. The contestants did mostly "Okay". Several re-used words in the episode which have been used before. The PW staffers needed to buy a Dictionary and a Thesaurus.

Imagine how much Junior inherited..he didn't really have to do anything..guess he did PW just to promote the family name.

@gusloader123

2 жыл бұрын

The Mafia bosses who backed Daddy Sinatra probably got any $ that Daddy Sinatra had.

For "cheat", Eydie should've said: me

Who is the announcer here. He sounds kind of young.

45 years ago

On the word 'CHEAT' Eydie should have said 'ME' when giving the clue. probably would have been guessed right away.

I wonder why no one ever gave Volstead as a clue for Prohibition.

Frank Junior is just one of the many talented people we have lost this year. I wish it would stop for a while.

@jackanthony976

7 жыл бұрын

Yes. I agree. In my opinion many people do not know just how great of a singer Frank Junior was. As we get older the people we grew up with get old and die...something we never thought would happen.

@jamesmcinnis208

2 жыл бұрын

You wish people would stop dying, or just talented people? Would you prefer that they continued living in excruciating pain?

@marycook1644

2 жыл бұрын

And l watched an episode of a program called Mystery At The Museum. They told of the kidnapping of Frank Jr. He was so intelligent and had a fantastic memory that he gave the FBI very important details about what he remembered about it. And they were able to capture the kidnappers. So interesting. 🦉

@gusloader123

2 жыл бұрын

Well, the mortuaries never go out-of-business. It is a natural thing. In the County I live in each week at least 3 people are in the Obituary Pages of the Newspaper, but sadly, only about one baby is born every month or two. NOT good.

"Gas" "Chamber!" Holy shit. Lol.

@joeambrose3260

4 жыл бұрын

Not funny

@brockpruit9490

3 жыл бұрын

JFJSJFW I GASPED AT THAT PART- I DIDNT EXPECT IT 😂

What happened to the announcer Gary

@joeambrose3260

4 жыл бұрын

Owens ?

@KristaBrewer-rq7mo

5 күн бұрын

The announcer was Jack Clark

The contestants in round 4 must have been getting tipsy while they waited in the Green Room. ( I know, it's just a joke)

Frank JR has the dullest personality ever

@cmillerg6306

Жыл бұрын

Umm... Probably not THE dullest...

"Paratrooper" should have been disqualified because it contains part of the answer.

@kentetalman9008

3 ай бұрын

No, that's not how it works. Totally acceptable.

was password done in new York or l.a.?

@ItsFazsha

6 жыл бұрын

Password was most often taped in New York at CBS-TV Studio 52 (later converted to the Studio 54 discothèque) and CBS-TV Studio 50 (the Ed Sullivan Theater) until the end of the daytime run in 1967. The original CBS version made annual trips to CBS Television City in LA during the 1960s, including once when the CBS New York studios were refurbished for color TV. During its run, Password was taped in all four of the studios at different times (31, 33, 41 and 43). As Mark Goodson opposed a permanent move of the show to Hollywood, Silverman canceled the series on September 15, 1967.

Eydie was really good.

@gusloader123

2 жыл бұрын

She was cheating almost the whole game when she had the PW. It is supposed to be "Password" NOT Pantomime.

@ellengutknecht3149

2 жыл бұрын

@@gusloader123 Eydie is very expressive. She used her hands in the first game and Allen stop that. Later on Allen said she could use her hands in a lightening around but she didn't. Its just a game and not to be taken so seriously. She won most of the game and didn't cheat.

@gusloader123

2 жыл бұрын

@@ellengutknecht3149 - Beg to differ. If she was playing charades at her house with the neighbors, for "fun" and the other people also used gestures, then OK Fine. But, this is a game show on TV where the contestants are trying to win $$$. most folks are not well-to-do so $250. or $500. would have paid the mortgage and the car payment that month and maybe bought some groceries. It should be Equal rules for all the players. Celeb Paul Anka did not cheat, and he helped his partners win $$.

@ellengutknecht3149

2 жыл бұрын

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@ellengutknecht3149

2 жыл бұрын

@@gusloader123 Eydie was playing against Frank Sinatra Jr not Paul Anka.

Eydie needs to leave her nose alone. She just can’t keep her hand off it in all her episodes.

@alanhumphrey4198

2 жыл бұрын

That is rather irritating...

@wynnssecret8882

2 жыл бұрын

Carole........Do you think maybe she had recently gotten a "nose job"👃 so it was something new to her (????)

Edyie used her hands to show the words too often. That really wasn’t fair.

Peter the contestant was trying to be a comedian at times. It didn't work for me.

B. Franklin wasn't a president!

There is a lot of FS in FS, Jr. Ronan Farrow was his half brother. Were all three gay?

Why would Eydie CHEAT? All the time? how immature.... I never liked her anyway