Password (American game show)
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Created by | Bob Stewart |
Presented by | Allen Ludden |
Narrated by | Jack Clark Gene Wood Bern Bennett Lee Vines (1961–1967) John Harlan (1971–1975) |
Country of origin | United States |
No. of episodes | 2,855 |
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Running time | approx. 26 minutes |
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Network | CBS (1961–1967) ABC (1971–1975) |
Release | October 2, 1961 – June 27, 1975 |
Password is an American television game show which was created by Bob Stewart for Goodson-Todman Productions. The host was Allen Ludden, who had previously been well known as the host of the G.E. College Bowl.
Password originally aired for 1,555 daytime telecasts each weekday from October 2, 1961 to September 15, 1967 on CBS, along with weekly prime time airings from January 2, 1962 to September 9, 1965 and December 25, 1966 to May 22, 1967.[1] An additional 1,099 daytime shows aired from April 5, 1971 to June 27, 1975 on ABC.
The show's announcers were Jack Clark and Lee Vines on CBS and John Harlan on ABC.
Two revivals later aired on NBC from 1979–1982 and 1984–1989, followed by a prime time version on CBS from 2008–2009.[1]
Rules
Two teams, each consisting of one celebrity player and one regular contestant, competed. The word to be conveyed (the "password") was given to one player on each team and was shown to the studio audience and home viewers (also they get to hear it). Game play alternated between the two teams. On each team, the player who was given the password gave a one-word clue from which their partner attempted to guess the password. If the partner failed to guess the password within the allotted five-second time limit, or if an illegal clue was given (two or more words, a hyphenated word, or any part or form of the password), play passed to the opposing team.
The game continued until one of the players guessed the password correctly or until ten clues had been given. Scoring was based on the number of clues given when the password was guessed, e.g. 10 points were awarded for guessing the password on the first clue, nine points on the second clue, eight points on the third clue, etc., down to one point on the tenth and final clue. On the ABC version a limit of six clues was imposed to expedite game play, with the last clue worth five points. In addition, teams were given the option of either playing or passing control of the first clue to the opposing team. Specifically, the team that was trailing in score, or that had lost the previous game, was offered the pass/play option; when the score was tied, the team that failed to get the password was awarded the pass/play option.
On the daytime edition, the first team to reach 25 points won that contestant $100. On the nighttime edition, the winner won $250. The winning team earned a chance to win up to an additional $250 by playing the "Lightning Round", in which the civilian contestant on the prevailing team tried to guess five passwords within 60 seconds from clues given by his/her celebrity partner. $50 was awarded for each correctly guessed password (increased to $100 from 1973 to 1974).
The Lightning Round was among the first bonus rounds on a television game (along with the scrambled phrase game on the original Beat the Clock). On the ABC version from 1971–1974, immediately after completing the Lightning Round the player wagered any amount of his/her winnings on his/her celebrity partner's ability to guess a "Betting Word" within 15 seconds. This increased the maximum bonus prize to $500 ($1,000 from 1973 to 1974 when the regular Lightning Round values were doubled).
On each episode from 1961–1975, Ludden would caution the players about unacceptable clues by stating, "When you hear this sound (a buzzer would sound) it means your clue has not been accepted by our authority, (name of word authority)." Word authorities on the CBS version included New York University professor David H. Greene and World Book Encyclopedia Dictionary editor Dr. Reason A. Goodwin. Robert Stockwell from UCLA and Carolyn Duncan served as word authorities during the ABC version.
The practice of the announcer whispering the password to the home audience—as well as displaying it on screen—was devised by creator Bob Stewart for the benefit of his mother, who could speak but not read English[citation needed]. Clark, Vines, and Harlan did this on the first two versions of the show, but the practice was discontinued, beginning with Password All-Stars, when a computer (referred to as "Murphy" on-camera by Allen Ludden) was incorporated; it would display the password, one letter at a time (like a typewriter), followed by the quotation marks. A beeping sound would accompany each letter as they appeared on the screen. A final beep would act as a signal that the password was revealed to the home viewer, and play would start. On Password Plus, a bell would ring when the password was revealed. On Super Password from September 24, 1984 to October 31, 1986, a chirping sound was heard when the password was revealed. However, Gene Wood began whispering the words on Super Password just like in the original, starting on November 3, 1986.
Before the cancellation of the Goodson-Todman game show Snap Judgment on NBC in 1969, they changed their set in order to make it resemble the look of the CBS Password. Goodson-Todman did this to correspond to rule changes that, in fact, made Snap Judgment identical to Password.
Contestants
On the CBS daytime version, contestants played two matches, win or lose, with each game awarding $100 to the winner. For most of the CBS nighttime version's first year, the same two players stayed for the entire show, playing as many matches as time allowed. However, after three contestants managed to break the $1,000 mark (which made CBS nervous in the early post-quiz show scandal days), this practice was changed in November 1962 to having two new contestants play each game (generally, three pairs of contestants competed in the course of each show), with winning contestants receiving $250 and losers receiving $50.
For only two shows in July 1965, the nighttime version experimented with a "championship match" format, in which the winners of games 1 and 2 would return to compete against each other in the final game. Also in 1965, the show adopted an annual "Tournament of Champions" where contestants on the daytime version who won both their games were invited back to compete for more money.
Early on the ABC version, winning contestants could stay until either defeated or win a maximum of 10 games, thus retiring them as undefeated champions. Later on, the limit was dropped, and champions stayed on the show until defeated. From 1973–1974, the first contestant to win a two-out-of-three match played the Lightning Round.
Every three months, the four top winners during that period would return for a quarterly contest. The winner would earn $1,000 and the right to compete in the annual Tournament of Champions. The winner of the annual contest won $5,000 and faced the previous year's champion in a best-of-seven match for $10,000. Lewis Retrim, from Boston, won the Tournament of Champions three years in a row.
Format changes
From November 18, 1974 to February 21, 1975 Password became Password All-Stars, where teams of celebrities played for charity in a tournament-style format. At the end of each week, the highest scorer would win $5,000 and advance to the Grandmasters' Championship, which would award the winner another $25,000. The first tournament's finalists were Dick Gautier, James Shigeta, Peter Bonerz, and Don Galloway, with Shigeta winning the championship; the second tournament's finalists were Richard Dawson, Bill Bixby, Hal Linden, and Betty White, with Dawson winning the championship (Dawson had almost made it to the first tournament finals, but Gautier beat him out during their preliminary week by just one point).
After the celebrity format modification proved unpopular with fans, Goodson-Todman made Password All-Stars simply Password again, but the show carried over elements of All-Stars mainly in order to use the set that had been redesigned for the all-celebrity period. Among these were an elimination round in which four contestants (two new players and the two players from the previous game) competed with the help of the two celebrities in the first round. In the qualifying round, one of the two celebrities used a one-word clue to a password (with both celebrities alternating turns on giving clues), and the four contestants would ring in with the password. A correct response earned that contestant one point, with three points needed to qualify for the regular game. An incorrect response locks that player out of the word in play. The first two contestants to reach three points went on to play the regular Password game.
In the regular game, an addition to the rules was the "double" option, which the first clue giver could ask to increase the word value to 20 points by giving only one clue; if that word was missed, the other team could score the 20 points with a second clue. The first team to reach 50 points or more could win thousands of dollars in the Big Money Lightning Round, using a three-step structure in which the winning team attempted to guess three passwords within 30 seconds per step. The contestant was paid as follows:
- Part One: Each password paid $25. Guessing all three passwords in 30 seconds further netted $5 for each second left on the clock. The round ended if the contestant was unable to guess at least one of the three passwords.
- Part Two: The money earned in part one would be multiplied by the number of passwords guessed here. Naming all three passwords this time added $10 for each second left. If the receiver failed to identify at least one of the passwords here, the round ended and the contestant still kept all part-one winnings; they then returned to the elimination panel to compete for the right to play the main game again.
- Part Three: Naming all three passwords in 30 seconds multiplied the contestant's part-two winnings tenfold (meaning if a player accumulated $500 after two parts, guessing all three passwords in this part would earn $5,000).
Broadcast history
CBS: 1961–1967
With Goodson-Todman established as a reliable producer of high-rated games for CBS, including What's My Line?, To Tell the Truth, and I've Got a Secret, the network confidently gave the new word-association game the 2:00 PM (1:00 Central) time slot, replacing the courtroom-themed game Face the Facts. As television's first successful celebrity-civilian team game, Password attracted a large and loyal audience that made it into a solid Nielsen favorite for nearly five years as shows came and went with great frequency on the other networks. A concurrent prime time version which debuted in January 1962 was also successful, albeit somewhat less than the daytime show; despite this, both versions performed strongly in the ratings and looked to run well past the late 1960s.
But on July 11, 1966, CBS preempted Password in favor of CBS News' live coverage of a press conference held by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara on the progress of the Vietnam War. Because the other two networks did not grant their news divisions anywhere near the power that CBS did in making programming decisions, they went ahead with their regular schedules instead of the conference. A new show beginning that day on ABC—The Newlywed Game—caused some frustrated Password fans to begin defecting immediately; NBC also benefited from the CBS programming decision, experiencing success with their recently launched soap opera Days of Our Lives.
Over the next year, Newlywed and Days wore down Password. CBS daytime head Fred Silverman, who was not a personal fan of the genre, had seen enough by Spring 1967 and decided to cancel Password. The cancellation occurred after squabbles over where the show would be taped (New York City or Hollywood). Silverman wanted the show permanently moved to CBS Television City (where it was moved for part of the 1966–1967 season to allow the show to tape in color, as CBS' New York studios had dragged out its full switch to colorization). Host Ludden had moved to California at that time, and commuted back to New York for the last part of the 1966–1967 season. During that season, Bern Bennett and Lee Vines (who replaced Jack Clark as primary announcer) shared West Coast announcing duties, and when the show returned to New York, Vines made the commute as well.
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 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)[2]
As Mark Goodson opposed a permanent move of the show to Hollywood, Silverman canceled the series on September 15, 1967. Password was replaced by a CBS-produced soap, Love is a Many Splendored Thing, which had a five-and-a-half-year run.
ABC: 1971–1975
In the meantime, though, Goodson-Todman sold reruns of the CBS version to local stations via syndication in the late 1960s, and in some markets they performed quite well in mid-morning or late-afternoon slots. This prompted ABC to contact Mark Goodson about reviving the game; this time around, Goodson agreed to have the show tape in Hollywood per ABC's wishes. Password (commonly called Password ABC to distinguish it from the CBS run) would become Goodson-Todman's first show to be staged in Los Angeles full-time rather than New York City; eventually the company moved almost all production to southern California during the 1970s. The show was taped at ABC Studio TV-10, "The Vine Street Theater," in Hollywood and the ABC Television Center.
The network and packager faced an unusual and potentially disturbing obstacle, however. The network slated Password to replace the cult soap Dark Shadows at 4:00 PM (3:00 Central) on April 5, 1971. Some of the more devoted Shadows fans threatened ABC with physical disruption of the first tapings of Password at the Hollywood studios. However, these plans apparently never materialized and ABC went ahead, managing strong results against NBC's Somerset and reruns of Gomer Pyle, USMC on CBS.
Pleased with its performance, ABC promoted the show to 12:30 PM (11:30 AM Central) on September 6, where it faced stronger challenges in the form of CBS' long-running Search for Tomorrow and NBC's The Who, What, or Where Game, which had been on for two years at this point. Nonetheless, Password held up well there for six months until the network moved it up a half-hour to 12:00 Noon (11:00 AM Central) on March 20, 1972 for the new Hatos-Hall game Split Second.
At Noon, Password came in a solid second to NBC's Jeopardy! but easily defeated the three-year-old CBS soap Where the Heart Is. However, CBS would replace Heart on March 26, 1973 with the youth-oriented The Young and the Restless, causing Password and Jeopardy! to hit ratings trouble that Summer—in large measure due to the college and high school-aged viewers being lured away from the intellectual pair to the serial.
Even though NBC moved Jeopardy! on January 7, 1974 from Noon to 10:30 AM (9:30 Central) in favor of Jackpot!, the ABC Password was sliding into third place. In May, the show won the first-ever Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Game Show; from that point until the overhaul in November, a large Emmy statue became part of the set's backdrop.
Beginning on July 15, 1974 several gimmicks were tried to boost ratings.[3] This included:
- Monty Hall guest-hosting for several weeks; from July 15–26 he did two weeks with Ludden and Elizabeth Montgomery as the celebrities, while the third (September 23–27) was a "Four-Celebrity Charity Week" with Ludden and his wife Betty White competing as a team against celebrities including Richard Dawson, Arlene Francis, Vicki Lawrence, and White's mother Tess.
- Several other celebrity-filled weeks for charity were also held from July 29 to August 2, September 16–20, and October 14–18.
- A week (September 2–6) in which Joyce Bulifant and Joseph Campanella played with their children ("Celebrities and Their Children Week"); this was followed by "Celebrities and Their Wives Week" from September 9–13 and a "Celebrity Husbands & Wives Charity Week" from September 30 to October 4.
- Two weeks containing big winners from throughout the show's run aired from October 21 to November 1; this was followed from November 4–8 by a week in which the show's producers and writers played the game for charity with George Peppard and Linda Kaye Henning.
On November 18 (after one final week of unknown content) the show decided to take a risk, at the insistence of ABC, on an all-celebrity format called Password All-Stars. Although Goodson-Todman had success with celebrity-driven formats such as Match Game (which debuted in 1973) and Tattletales (which began earlier in the year) through the late 1970s, the lack of civilian contestants and significantly altered rules on Password drove even more viewers away.
On February 24, 1975, Goodson-Todman abandoned the format (but changed the contestant configuration in order to avoid another set redesign) in a last-ditch effort to save the program, but it was too late – although Password was given another eighteen weeks, ABC had all but given up on the show. Aside from a week in which Betty White hosted while her husband played (March 24–28), no more gimmicks were attempted for the rest of the run.
On June 27, 1975, four members of the show's staff played a "mock game" which filled some time after the final Lightning Round;[4] Mark Goodson then appeared to declare Ludden "Mr. Password" and mentioned that numerous elementary schoolteachers in the U.S. used the various editions of the Milton Bradley-packaged home game as a tool to teach their pupils English. Ludden and White then gave an emotional farewell. All was not lost for Goodson-Todman, however, as Password was replaced with a new game—their ill-fated Showoffs, which lasted six months.
In 1978, Goodson-Todman tried again and successfully brought Password to NBC on January 8, 1979. Originally titled Password '79, celebrity guest Carol Burnett remarked during a run-through that with the various new elements the show had adopted, it was "Password Plus".
Other versions
Password Plus
NBC brought Password back as Password Plus on January 8, 1979 with Allen Ludden returning as host. It was originally announced in Variety magazine as Password '79, in the manner that Match Game named its 1973 version with the year. The show ran until March 26, 1982. Ludden had left the show for several weeks in 1980 due to undisclosed surgery (he had stomach cancer) and Bill Cullen substituted for him. Allen Ludden returned for a time afterwards, until it was reported he had suffered a stroke; he died from his cancer in June 1981. It was reputed that he had hoped to recover and return to the show, but in the event that wouldn't happen, he had specifically requested that Tom Kennedy succeed him, as Cullen was at the time already hosting Blockbusters.
Super Password
On September 24, 1984 NBC brought the format back as Super Password with Bert Convy hosting. Rich Jeffries was the first announcer until November 23, 1984 and filled in for Wood sporadically thereafter. Bob Hilton also filled in on occasion on the show.
Super Password ran until March 24, 1989 and was canceled on the same day as another NBC game show, Sale of the Century (which was itself a revival). In some markets in the Eastern time zone, the show was preempted by local news due to its Noon time slot. NBC stations in the Central and Pacific time zones usually preempted Scrabble at 11:30 for local news and aired Super Password at 11:00.
Million Dollar Password
CBS picked up a new version of the show entitled Million Dollar Password, hosted by Regis Philbin, which premiered on June 1, 2008 and ran for 12 episodes over two seasons.[1] The series was taped in New York, and was the second million-dollar game show that Philbin has hosted (the first being the American network version Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?). This version taped at the Kaufman Astoria Studios in New York City.
Episode status
CBS
All of the CBS prime time episodes were preserved on videotape, and have aired on GSN. The final year of the CBS daytime version and the second prime time version were preserved on color videotape, as the producers chose to syndicate those reruns following the program's first cancellation. Most of the earlier daytime episodes are presumed lost; at least two daytime episodes are available on home video, each one as part of a general game show compilation package.
ABC
The ABC version is considered to be almost completely gone. Clips from the December 7, 1971 episode featuring Brett Somers and Jack Klugman were featured on VH1's I Love the '70s: Volume 2 in 2006. GSN aired the complete Somers/Klugman episode on September 11, 2006 in the early morning hours as part of its weekly overnight classic game-show programming (and aired it again in tribute following Somers' death).
A second studio master from February 14, 1972 with Sheila MacRae and Martin Milner is also known to have survived; the opening of that episode can be seen on YouTube. Three episodes from 1975 circulate amongst collectors, two as recorded by home viewers: the Password All-Stars Finale; a studio master of episode #15 of the big-money revamp (March 14, 1975) with Betty White and Vicki Lawrence; and the June 27, 1975 Finale with Kate Jackson and Sam Melville. An audio recording of an episode featuring Jack Klugman and Loretta Swit from 1975 is also known to have survived. A few more episodes from this run are held in UCLA's film and television archive.
It is believed that the videotapes that were used for the ABC Password were recycled and reused for the Dawson version of Family Feud, which began on July 12, 1976.
DVD release
On December 2, 2008, BCI/Eclipse released a DVD box set "The Best of PASSWORD: The CBS Years 1962–1967". The set predominately features the nighttime show, with most of the final disc containing daytime episodes from 1967; notably, despite their existence, neither the nighttime or daytime finales are present.
Although Password began in 1961, the DVD set consistently states "The CBS Years: 1962–1967"; this misleading title may be due to the earliest episode on the set being the nighttime premiere, which aired in early 1962. A rerelease by Mill Creek (which acquired the rights to the Fremantle game-show DVD sets following BCI's collapse) corrected this error.
An early mock-up of the packaging showed host Ludden on the later CBS set with the original ABC logo on the front of the desk (as well as on the spine), while a slew of celebrities were listed on the bottom of the cover. Further, the press release stated that set would range "from the early 1960s all the way up to the mid 1970s", indicating that ABC episodes would be included.[5] A later update to the box art removed the celebrity list and clarified that the set would only cover the CBS era, although the ABC logo was still present (the front cover now had it in place of the CBS logo above Ludden).[6] The ABC logo was omitted altogether when the DVD set was released, with the CBS logo behind Ludden in the original picture being enlarged.
Theme music
The theme song used on Password from 1961–1963 was called "Holiday Jaunt", composed by Kurt Rehfeld. That theme was followed later by "You Know the Password", composed by Bob Cobert, which was used from 1963 until the CBS version's cancellation in 1967. When Password returned on ABC in 1971, Score Productions composed "The Fun of It". The theme used later in that version's run, beginning with Password All-Stars in 1974, was called "Bicentennial Funk", which was used until the ABC version's finale in 1975. That theme, as well as the themes for Password Plus and Super Password, was also composed by Score Productions.
Foreign versions
- In Brazil,an old version was called Passe A Palavra("Spread The Word") hosted by Silvio Santos;another version is called MegaSenha, airs Saturdays on RedeTV!.
- In France, a version called Pyramide, inspired both by Pyramid and Password series, aired on Antenne 2 then France 2 from 1991–2003. An adaptation of the 'Million-Dollar Password' format currently airs on France 2, where it is called 'Mot de Passe'.[7] The show is rebroadcast in Canada on TV5.[8]
- In Mexico, a version called Password, la palabra secreta, produced by TV Azteca, airs Saturdays on Azteca 13.[9]
- In New Zealand, a Maori-language version has aired since 2006.
- In Spain, the Million-Dollar Password format has been adapted for their audience. The program, entitled Password, premiered on July 7, 2008.[10] Hosted by Luján Argüelles, it is nearly identical to the 2008 Philbin version. The biggest differences include the top prize of €25,000 and changing the program to a forty-five minute (with commercials) weekday broadcast. It airs on the country's. Cuatro channel.[11] It was canceled in 2010.
- In Turkey, a Mehmet Aslantuğ version called Parola airs weekdays on Kanal 6.
- In the United Kingdom, versions of Password were produced by BBC2 in 1973, then by BBC1 from 1975–76, then by Thames Television for Channel 4 from 1982–83, and then by UTV for ITV from 1987–88.
- other foreign versions of Password have also aired in:
- Denmark
- Germany
- Ireland
- Portugal
- Sweden
Home games
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The Milton Bradley Company introduced the first home version of Password in 1962 and subsequently released 24 editions of the game until 1986. (Owing to common superstition, these releases were numbered 1-12 and 14-25, skipping 13.) It was tied with Concentration as the most prolific of Milton Bradley's home versions of popular game shows, and was produced well into the Super Password era of the television show. Milton Bradley also published three editions of a Password Plus home game between 1979 and 1981, but never did a version for Super Password.
More recently, Endless Games has released seven editions of Password since 1997, including a children's edition (with gameplay closer to the various incarnations of Pyramid) and a DVD edition featuring the voice of Todd Newton (notably, the latter uses the original ABC logo on its packaging). In addition, Endless released a home version of Million-Dollar Password in 2008.
A computer version of Super Password was released by GameTek for MS-DOS systems, as well as the Apple II and Commodore 64, shortly before the series was canceled; a Nintendo Entertainment System version was also planned but never released. Tiger Electronics released an electronic hand-held "Super Password" game in the late 1990s, many years after the show had been canceled. More recently, Irwin Toys released a new hand-held electronic version featuring a touch screen with stylus to enter words.
As with several other Goodson-Todman game shows, Password has been adapted into a slot machine by WMS Gaming. A simulated Allen Ludden emcees the proceedings, with the voices and caricatures of Rose Marie, Dawn Wells, Adam West, and Marty Allen. One bonus round offers the player free spins; the other involves choosing from four envelopes offered by the celebrities. Finding the "Password" envelope advances the player to a new level with four more envelopes, worth more prize money.[2]
List of Celebrity Panelists
A
- Edie Adams
- Julie Adams
- Eddie Albert
- Edward Albert
- Jack Albertson
- Alan Alda
- Elizabeth Allen
- Marty Allen
- Woody Allen
- Fran Allison
- Don Ameche
- Nancy Ames
- Tige Andrews
- Alfred Andriola
- Paul Anka
- Eve Arden
- Elizabeth Ashley
- Ed Asner
- John Astin
- Jean-Pierre Aumont
B
- Lauren Bacall
- Jim Backus
- Max Baer, Jr.
- Barbara Bain
- Carroll Baker
- Lucille Ball
- Kaye Ballard
- Anne Bancroft
- Adrienne Barbeau
- Joanna Barnes
- Orson Bean
- Bea Benaderet
- William Bendix
- Joan Bennett
- Mimi Benzell
- Polly Bergen
- Shelley Berman
- Joey Bishop
- Bill Bixby
- Amanda Blake
- Claire Bloom
- Larry Blyden
- Ray Bolger
- Peter Bonerz
- Richard Boone
- Teresa Brewer
- Lloyd Bridges
- James Brolin
- Georgia Brown
- Joyce Bulifant
- Carol Burnett
- Raymond Burr
- Abe Burrows
- Red Buttons
C
- Joseph Campanella
- Dyan Cannon
- Al Capp
- Kitty Carlisle
- Diahann Carroll
- Pat Carroll
- Johnny Carson
- Jack Carter
- Peggy Cass
- Jack Cassidy
- Bennett Cerf
- Wilt Chamberlain
- Carol Channing
- Sydney Chaplin
- Rosemary Clooney
- Dorothy Collins
- Joan Collins
- Chuck Connors
- Shirl Conway
- Bert Convy
- Barbara Cook
- Peter Cook
- Jackie Cooper
- Joseph Cotten
- Wally Cox
- Jeanne Crain
- Bob Crane
- Joan Crawford
- Richard Crenna
- Hume Cronyn
- Gary Crosby
- Bill Cullen
- Robert Culp
D
- Arlene Dahl
- Abby Dalton
- Bill Dana
- Bobby Darin
- Sammy Davis Jr.
- Richard Dawson
- Ruby Dee
- Gloria DeHaven
- Olivia de Havilland
- Bob Denver
- Angie Dickinson
- Phyllis Diller
- Donna Douglas
- Patty Duke
- Sandy Duncan
- Dan Duryea
E
F
- Nanette Fabray
- Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
- Lee Falk
- Peter Falk
- Barbara Feldon
- Jose Ferrer
- Sally Field
- Rhonda Fleming
- Jane Fonda
- Peter Fonda
- Frank Fontaine
- Joan Fontaine
- Tennessee Ernie Ford
- John Forsythe
- Robert Foxworth
- Anne Francis
- Arlene Francis
- Penny Fuller
- Robert Fuller
- Betty Furness
G
- Martin Gabel
- Eva Gabor
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
- Don Galloway
- Dick Gautier
- John Gavin
- Ben Gazzara
- Lynda Day George
- Frank Gifford
- Anita Gillette
- Arthur Godfrey
- Eydie Gormé
- Frank Gorshin
- Robert Goulet
- Betty Grable
- Virginia Graham
- Joel Grey
- Merv Griffin
- Tammy Grimes
- George Grizzard
- Fred Gwynne
H
- Buddy Hackett
- Alan Hale Jr.
- Monty Hall
- George Hamilton
- James Hampton
- Carol Haney
- Ty Hardin
- Pat Harrington, Jr.
- Noel Harrison
- Laurence Harvey
- June Havoc
- Jill Haworth
- Peter Lind Hayes
- Mary Healy
- Tippi Hedren
- Florence Henderson
- Skitch Henderson
- Linda Kaye Henning
- Steven Hill
- Mimi Hines
- Celeste Holm
- Lena Horne
- Sally Ann Howes
- Gunilla Hutton
I
J
- Anne Jackson
- Kate Jackson
- Anne Jeffreys
- Arte Johnson
- Van Johnson
- Carolyn Jones
- Jack Jones
- Elaine Joyce
K
- Milt Kamen
- Danny Kaye
- Brian Keith
- Gene Kelly
- George Kennedy
- Tom Kennedy
- Dorothy Kilgallen
- Alan King
- Durward Kirby
- Lisa Kirk
- Phyllis Kirk
- Werner Klemperer
- Jack Klugman
- Susan Kohner
- Harvey Korman
- Nancy Kulp
L
- Martin Landau
- Michael Landon
- Abbe Lane
- Piper Laurie
- Peter Lawford
- Carol Lawrence
- Steve Lawrence
- Vicki Lawrence
- Gypsy Rose Lee
- Ruta Lee
- Janet Leigh
- Jack E. Leonard
- Sam Levene
- Sam Levenson
- Robert Q. Lewis
- Shari Lewis
- Beatrice Lillie
- Hal Linden
- Viveca Lindfors
- June Lockhart
- Richard Long
- Marjorie Lord
- Dorothy Loudon
- Paul Lynde
- Carol Lynley
M
- James MacArthur
- Gisele MacKenzie
- Gordon MacRae
- Meredith MacRae
- Sheila MacRae
- Dave Madden
- George Maharis
- Johnny Mann
- Jayne Mansfield
- Hal March
- Rose Marie
- E.G. Marshall
- William Marshall
- Dick Martin
- Ross Martin
- Lee Marvin
- Ron Masak
- James Mason
- Johnny Mathis
- Marilyn Maxwell
- Rue McClanahan
- Roddy McDowall
- Darren McGavin
- Phyllis McGuire
- Barbara McNair
- Audrey Meadows
- Jayne Meadows
- Anne Meara
- Sam Melville
- Lee Meriwether
- Dina Merrill
- Robert Merrill
- Theresa Merritt
- Vera Miles
- Mitch Miller
- Juliet Mills
- Martin Milner
- Elizabeth Montgomery
- Garry Moore
- Mary Tyler Moore
- Agnes Moorehead
- Rita Moreno
- Harry Morgan
- Jane Morgan
- Chester Morris
- Greg Morris
- Robert Morse
- Gary Morton
- Bess Myerson
N
O
P
- Jack Paar
- Janis Paige
- Jack Palance
- Betsy Palmer
- George Peppard
- Anthony Perkins
- Tom Poston
- Jane Powell
- Otto Preminger
- Paula Prentiss
- Robert Preston
- Victoria Principal
- Juliet Prowse
Q
R
- Tony Randall
- Gene Rayburn
- Martha Raye
- Helen Reddy
- Lynn Redgrave
- Robert Reed
- Elliott Reid
- Carl Reiner
- Lee Remick
- Burt Reynolds
- Chita Rivera
- Pernell Roberts
- Cliff Robertson
- Ginger Rogers
- Wayne Rogers
- Mickey Rooney
- Steve Rossi
- Lillian Roth
- Barbara Rush
- Nipsey Russell
- Irene Ryan
- Bobby Rydell
S
- Soupy Sales
- Dick Sargent
- Allen Saunders
- Avery Schreiber
- Zachary Scott
- George Segal
- Rod Serling
- Artie Shaw
- Dick Shawn
- Allan Sherman
- James Shigeta
- Frank Sinatra Jr.
- Nancy Sinatra
- Roger Smith
- Brett Somers
- Ann Sothern
- Robert Stack
- Leonard Starr
- Jan Sterling
- Connie Stevens
- Kaye Stevens
- Jimmy Stewart
- Sandy Stewart
- Susan Strasberg
- Elaine Stritch
- Sally Struthers
- Barry Sullivan
- Frank Sutton
- Pat Suzuki
- Gloria Swanson
- Inga Swenson
- Loretta Swit
T
U
V
W
- Mort Walker
- Nancy Walker
- Robert Walker Jr.
- Marcia Wallace
- Eli Wallach
- Ray Walston
- Dionne Warwick
- David Wayne
- Dennis Weaver
- Adam West
- Betty White
- Cara Williams
- Paul Williams
- Guy Williams
- Shelley Winters
- Jo Anne Worley
- Martha Wright
- Jane Wyatt
- Gretchen Wyler
- Jane Wyman
- Keenan Wynn
X
Y
Z
References
- ^ a b Breaking News - CBS UNVEILS ITS 2008 SUMMER SCHEDULE | TheFutonCritic.com
- ^ "Shows–CBS Television City". Retrieved 25 July 2011.
- ^ The "Password ABC" Page: Celebrity listings for 1974
- ^ Only three words were played in the time allowed. All normal rules were in effect, however no mention was made of what would happen had one team reached the 50-point goal.
- ^ TVShowsOnDVD: "Password" press release and DVD box
- ^ TVShowsOnDVD: "Password" DVD packaging update
- ^ http://programmes.france2.fr/mot-de-passe/index.php
- ^ http://www.tv5.ca/emissions/mot-de-passe-100269741.html
- ^ "Password, la palabra secreta". TV Azteca. Retrieved 01-06-2010.
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External links
- Password at IMDb
- Password Plus at IMDb
- Super Password at IMDb
- Million Dollar Password at IMDb
- 1960s American television series
- 1961 television series debuts
- 1967 television series endings
- 1970s American television series
- 1971 television series debuts
- 1975 television series endings
- American Broadcasting Company network shows
- American game shows
- British game shows
- CBS network shows
- Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Game Show winners
- Television series by Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions
- Television series revived after cancellation
- Word games