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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For other uses, see Password and Password(disambiguation).
Password

Password logo from 1967.
FormatGameShow
Created byBob Stewart
Presented byAllen Ludden
Country of originUnited States
No. of episodes1555 (1961-1967, CBS Daytime)
201 (1962-1967, CBS Nighttime)
1099 (1971-1975, ABC Daytime)
GRAND TOTAL: 2855
Production
Running time30 Minutes
Broadcast
Original channelCBS (1961-1967)
ABC (1971-1975)
Original runOctober 2, 1961 – June 27, 1975
Chronology
Followed byPassword Plus(1979-1982)
Super Password(1984-1989)
Million Dollar Password(2008-2009)

Password was an American televisiongame show which wascreated by Bob Stewart for Goodson-Todman Productions. The host was Allen Ludden, who hadpreviously been well-known as the host of the G.E. CollegeBowl.

Password originally aired for 1,555 daytimetelecasts each weekday from October 2, 1961 to September 15,1967 on CBS, along with weekly prime time airings fromJanuary 2, 1962 to September 9, 1965 and December 25, 1966 to May22, 1967.[1] An additional1,099 daytime shows aired from April 5, 1971 to June 27, 1975 on ABC.

The show's announcerswere Jack Clark; Gene Wood, Bern Bennett and LeeVines on CBS, and John Harlan on ABC.

Two revivals later aired on NBCfrom 1979-1982 and 1984-1989, followed by a prime time version onCBS from 2008-2009.[1]

  • 4Broadcast history
  • 5Otherversions
    • 5.3Million Dollar Password
  • 6Episode status
  • 8Foreign Versions
  • 11External links

Rules

Two teams, each consisting of one celebrity player and one regular contestant,competed. The word to be conveyed (the 'password') was given to oneplayer on each team and was shown to the studio audience and homeviewers. Game play alternated between the two teams. On each team,the player who was given the password gave a one-word clue fromwhich his/her partner attempted to guess the password. If thepartner failed to guess the password within the allottedfive-second time limit, or if an illegal clue was given (two ormore words, a hyphenated word, or any part or form of thepassword), play passed to the opposing team.

A game in progress in 1975.

The game continued until one of the players guessed the passwordcorrectly or until ten clues had been given. Scoring was based onthe number of clues given when the password was guessed, e.g. 10points 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 ABCversion a limit of six clues was imposed to expedite game play,with the last clue worth five points. In addition, teams were giventhe option of either playing or passing control of the first clueto the opposing team. Specifically, the team that was trailing inscore, or who had lost the previous game was offered the pass/playoption; when the score was tied, the team that failed to get thepassword was awarded the pass/play option.

On the daytime edition, the first team to reach 25 points wonthat 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 civiliancontestant on the prevailing team tried to guess five passwordswithin 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 'Big-Money Lightning Round' from 1975.

The Lightning Round was among the first bonus rounds on atelevision game (along with the phrase game on the original Beat theClock). On the ABC version from 1971-1974, immediatelyafter completing the Lightning Round the player wagered any amountof his/her winnings on his/her celebrity partner's ability to guessa 'Betting Word' within 15 seconds.

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On each episode from 1961-1975, Ludden would caution the playersabout unacceptable clues by stating, 'When you hear this sound (abuzzer would sound) it means your clue has not been accepted by ourauthority, (name of word authority).' Word authorities on the CBSversion included New York University professor David H. Greeneand World Book Encyclopedia Dictionary editor Dr. Reason A.Goodwin. Robert Stockwell from UCLA and CarolynDuncan served as word authorities during the ABC version.

The practice of the announcer whispering the password to thehome audience—as well as displaying it on screen—was devised bycreator Bob Stewart for thebenefit of his mother, who could speak but not read English. Clark,Vines, and Harlan did this on the first two versions of the show,but the practice was discontinued during the final months of theABC run. However, GeneWood began whispering the words on Super Passwordstarting on November 3, 1986.

During the last few weeks before its cancellation in 1969, theset of the Goodson-Todman game Snap Judgment on NBC changed toresemble the look of the CBS Password. Goodson-Todman didthis to correspond to rule changes that, in fact, made SnapJudgment identical to Password.

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Contestants

On the CBS daytime version, contestants played two matches, winor lose, with each game awarding $100 to the winner. During thefirst few months of the CBS nighttime version, the same two playersstayed for the entire show, playing as many matches as timeallowed. However, after a contestant from South Carolina won $1,250on an August 1962 episode, this practice was soon changed to havingtwo new contestants play each game (generally, three pairs ofcontestants competed in the course of each show), with winningcontestants receiving $250 and losers receiving $50. For only twoshows in July 1965, the nighttime version experimented with a'championship match' format, in which the winners of games 1 and 2would return to compete against each other in the final game. Alsoin 1965, the show adopted an annual 'Tournament of Champions' wherecontestants on the daytime version who won both their games wereinvited back to compete for more money.

Early on the ABC version, winning contestants could stay untileither defeated or win a maximum of 10 games, thus retiring them asundefeated champions. From 1973-1974, the first contestant to win atwo-out-of-three match played the Lightning Round.

Every three months, the four top winners during that periodwould return for a quarterly contest. The winner would earn $1,000and the right to compete in the annual Tournament of Champions. Thewinner of the annual contest won $5,000 and faced the previousyear's champion in a best-of-seven match for $10,000.

Formatchanges

From November 18, 1974 to February 21, 1975 Passwordbecame Password All-Stars, where teams of celebritiesplayed for charity in a tournament-styleformat. At the end of each week, the highest scorer would win$5,000 and advance to the Grandmasters' Championship, which wouldaward the winner another $25,000. The first tournament's finalistswere Dick Gautier, James Shigeta, Peter Bonerz, and Don Galloway, with Shigeta winning thechampionship; the second tournament's finalists were Richard Dawson,Bill Bixby, Hal Linden, and Betty White, withDawson winning the championship (Dawson had almost made it to thefirst tournament finals, but Gautier beat him out during theirpreliminary week by just one point).

After the celebrity format modification proved unpopular withfans, Goodson-Todman made Password All-Stars simplyPassword again, but the show carried over elements ofAll-Stars mainly in order to use the set that had beenredesigned for the all-celebrity period. Among these were anelimination round in which four contestants (two new players andthe two players from the previous game) competed with the help ofthe two celebrities in the first round. In the qualifying round,one of the two celebrities used a one-word clue to a password (withboth celebrities alternating turns on giving clues), and the fourcontestants would ring in with the password. A correct responseearned that contestant one point, with three points needed toqualify for the regular game. An incorrect response locks thatplayer out of the word in play. The first two contestants to reachthree 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 wordvalue to 20 points by giving only one clue; if that word wasmissed, the other team could score the 20 points with a secondclue. The first team to reach 50 points or more could win thousandsof dollars in the Big Money Lightning Round, using athree-step structure in which the winning team attempted to guessthree passwords within 30 seconds per step. The contestant was paidas follows:

  • Part One: Each password paid $25. Guessing all three passwordsin 30 seconds further netted $5 for each second left on the clock.The round ended if the contestant was unable to guess at least oneof the three passwords.
  • Part Two: The money earned in part one would be multiplied bythe number of passwords guessed here. Naming all three passwordsthis time added $10 for each second left. If the receiver failed toidentify at least one of the passwords here, the round ended andthe contestant still kept all part-one winnings; they then returnedto the elimination panel to compete for the right to play the maingame again.
  • Part Three: Naming all three passwords in 30 seconds multipliedthe contestant's part-two winnings tenfold (meaning if a playeraccumulated $500 after two parts, guessing all three passwords inthis part would earn $5,000).

Broadcasthistory

CBS:1961-1967

With Goodson-Todman established as a reliable packager ofhigh-rated games for CBS like What's My Line?, To Tell theTruth, and I've Got a Secret, the networkconfidently gave the new word-association game the 2:00 PM (1:00Central) time slot, replacing the courtroom-themed game Facethe Facts. As television's first successful celebrity-civilianteam game, Password attracted a large and loyal audiencethat made it into a solid Nielsen favorite for nearly five yearsas shows came and went with great frequency on the other networks.A concurrent prime time version which debuted in January 1962 wasalso successful, albeit somewhat less than the daytime show;despite this, both versions performed strongly in the ratings andlooked to run well past the late 1960s.

But on July 11, 1966 CBS preempted Password in favor oflive coverage of a press conference held by Secretary of DefenseRobert McNamaraon the progress of the Vietnam War. Because the other two networksdid not grant their news divisions anywhere near the power that CBSdid in making programming decisions, they went ahead with theirregular schedules instead of the conference. A new show beginningthat day on ABC—The NewlywedGame—caused some frustrated Password fans tobegin defecting immediately; NBCalso benefited from CBS' mistake, experiencing success with theirrecently-launched soapoperaDays of our Lives.

Over the next year, Newlywed and Days woredown Password. CBS daytime head Fred Silverman, who was not a personalfan of the genre, had seen enough by Spring 1967 and decided tocancel Password. The cancellation occurred after squabblesover where the show would be taped (New York City or Hollywood). Silvermanwanted the show permanently moved to CBS Television City (where itwas moved for part of the 1966-1967 season to allow the show totape in color, as CBS' New York studios had dragged out its fullswitch to colorization). Host Ludden had moved to California atthat time, and commuted back to New York for the last part of the1966-1967 season. During that season, Bern Bennett and Lee Vines(who replaced Jack Clark as primary announcer) shared West Coastannouncing duties, and when the show returned to New York, Vinesmade the commute as well.

Password was most often taped in New York at CBS-TVStudio 52 (later converted to the Studio 54 discotheque) and CBS-TV Studio 50(the EdSullivan Theater) until the end of the daytime run in 1967. Theoriginal CBS version made annual trips to CBSTelevision City during the 1960s, including once when the CBSNew York studios were refurbished for color TV.

As Mark Goodson opposed a permanent move of the show toHollywood, Silverman canceled the series on September 15, 1967.Password was replaced by a CBS-produced soap, Love is a Many Splendored Thing, whichhad a five-and-a-half-year run.

ABC:1971-1975

As part of the farewell on the ABC version, Mark Goodsonmentioned that numerous elementary schoolteachers in the U.S. usedthe various editions of the Milton Bradley-packaged homegame as a tool to teach their pupils English.

In the meantime, though, Goodson-Todman sold reruns of the CBSversion to local stations via syndicationin the late 1960s, and in some markets they performed quite well inmid-morning or late-afternoon slots. This prompted ABC to contactMark Goodson about reviving the game; this time around, Goodsonagreed to have the show tape in Hollywood per ABC'swishes. Password (commonly called PasswordABC to distinguish it from the CBS run) would becomeGoodson-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 the1970s. The show was taped at ABC Studio TV-10, 'The Vine StreetTheater,' in Hollywood and the ABC Television Center.

The network and packager faced an unusual and potentiallydisturbing obstacle, however. The network slated Passwordto replace the cult soap Dark Shadows at 4:00 PM (3:00Central) on April 5, 1971. Some of the more devotedShadows fans threatened ABC with physical disruption ofthe first tapings of Password at the Hollywood studios.However, these plans apparently never materialized and ABC wentahead, 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 strongerchallenges in the form of CBS' long-running Search forTomorrow and NBC's The Who, What, or WhereGame, which had been on for two years at this point.Nonetheless, Password held up well there for six monthsuntil the network moved it up a half-hour to 12:00 Noon (11:00 AMCentral) on March 20, 1972 for the new Hatos-Hall game Split Second.

At Noon, Password came in a solid second to NBC'sJeopardy! buteasily defeated the three-year-old CBS soap Where the HeartIs. However, CBS would replace Heart on March 26,1973 with the youth-oriented The Young and theRestless, causing Password and Jeopardy!to hit ratings trouble that Summer—in large measure due to thecollege and high school-aged viewers being lured away from theintellectual pair to the serial.

Even though NBC moved Jeopardy! on January 7, 1974 fromNoon to 10:30 AM (9:30 Central) in favor of Jackpot!, the ABCPassword was sliding into third place. During this time,Password won the first-ever Daytime Emmy Award for OutstandingGame Show; from that point until the overhaul in November, a largeEmmy statue became part of the set's backdrop.

Beginning on July 15, 1974 several gimmicks were tried to boostratings.[2] Thisincluded:

  • Monty Hallguest-hosting for several weeks; from July 15-26 he did two weekswith Ludden and Elizabeth Montgomery as the celebrities, while thethird (September 23-27) was a 'Four-Celebrity Charity Week' withLudden and his wife Betty White competing as a team againstcelebrities including Richard Dawson, Arlene Francis,VickiLawrence, and even Betty's mother Tess.
  • Several other celebrity-filled weeks for charity were also heldfrom July 29 to August 2, September 16-20, and October 14-18.
  • A week (September 2-6) in which Joyce Bulifant and JosephCampanella played with their children ('Celebrities and TheirChildren Week'); this was followed by 'Celebrities and Their WivesWeek' from September 9-13 and a 'Celebrity Husbands & WivesCharity Week' from September 30 to October 4.
  • Two weeks containing big winners from throughout the show's runaired from October 21 to November 1; this was followed fromNovember 4-8 by a week in which the show's producers and writersplayed the game for charity with George Peppard and Linda KayeHenning.

On November 18 (after one final week of unknown content) theshow decided to take a risk, at the insistence of ABC, on anall-celebrity format called Password All-Stars. AlthoughGoodson-Todman had success with celebrity-driven formats such asMatch Game(which debuted in 1973) and Tattletales (which began earlier inthe year) through the late 1970s, the lack of civilian contestantsand significantly-altered rules on Password drove evenmore viewers away.

On February 24, 1975, Goodson-Todman abandoned the format (butchanged the contestant configuration in order to avoid another setredesign) in a last-ditch effort to save the program, but it wastoo late – although Password was given another eighteenweeks, ABC had all but given up on the show. Aside from a week inwhich Betty White hosted while her husband played (March 24-28), nomore 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 LightningRound;[3] MarkGoodson then appeared to declare Ludden 'Mr. Password', after whichLudden and White gave an emotional farewell. All was not lost forGoodson-Todman, however, as Password was replaced with anew game—their ill-fated Showoffs, which lasted six months.

In 1978, Goodson-Todman tried again and successfully broughtPassword to NBC on January8, 1979—with several new elements, the series was now titled PasswordPlus.

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PasswordPlus

NBC brought Passwordback as Password Plus on January 8, 1979 with Allen Luddenreturning as host. It was originally announced in Variety magazine asPassword '79, in the manner that Match Game named its 1973 version withthe year. The show ran until March 26, 1982.

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SuperPassword

On September 24, 1984 NBC brought the format back as SuperPassword with BertConvy hosting (Ludden died in June 1981) and Gene Woodannouncing. RichJeffries was the announcer for the first ten weeks and filledin for Wood sporadically thereafter. Bob Hilton also filled in forone week in 1985 or 1986.

Super Password ran until March 24, 1989 and wascanceled on the same day as another NBC game show, Sale of theCentury (which was itself a revival). In some markets inthe Eastern time zone, the show was preempted by local news due toits Noon time slot. NBC stations in the Central and Pacific timezones usually preempted Scrabble at 11:30 for localnews and aired Super Password at 11:00.

Million DollarPassword

Main article: Million Dollar Password

CBS picked up a new version ofthe show entitled Million Dollar Password,hosted by RegisPhilbin, which premiered on June 1, 2008 and ran for 12episodes over two seasons.[1]The series is taped in New York, and was the second million-dollargame show that Philbin has hosted (the first being the Americannetwork version Who Wants ToBe A Millionaire?). This version taped at the Kaufman Astoria Studios in New York City.

Episodestatus

CBS

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All of the CBS prime time episodes were preserved on videotape, currently airingon GSN. The final year of the CBS daytime version and the secondprime time version were preserved on color videotape, as theproducers chose to syndicatethose reruns following the program's first cancellation. Most ofthe earlier daytime episodes are presumed lost; at least twodaytime episodes are available on home video, each one as part of ageneral 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: Volume2 in 2006. GSN aired the complete Somers/Klugmanepisode on September 11, 2006 in the early morning hours as part ofits weekly overnight classic game-show programming (and aired itagain in tribute following Somers' death).

A second studio master from February 14, 1972 with Sheila MacRae andMartin Milner isalso known to have survived; the opening of that episode can beseen on YouTube. Threeepisodes from 1975 circulate amongst collectors, as recorded byhome viewers: the Password All-Stars Finale; Episode #15of the big-money revamp (March 14, 1975) with Betty White and Vicki Lawrence;and the June 27, 1975 Finale with Kate Jackson and SamMelville. 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 ABCPassword were recycled and reused for the Dawson version ofFamilyFeud, which began on July 12, 1976.

DVDrelease

On December 2, 2008, BCI/Eclipse released a DVD box set 'TheBest of PASSWORD: The CBS Years 1962-1967'. The setpredominately features the nighttime show, with most of the finaldisc containing daytime episodes from 1967; notably, despite theirexistence, neither the nighttime or daytime finales arepresent.

Although Password began in 1961, the DVD setconsistently states 'The CBS Years: 1962-1967'; this misleadingtitle may be due to the earliest episode on the set being thenighttime premiere, which aired in early 1962.

An early mock-up of the packaging showed host Ludden on thelater 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 listedon the bottom of the cover. Further, the press release stated thatset would range 'from the early60s all the way up to the mid70s', indicating that ABC episodes would be included.[4] A laterupdate to the box art removed the celebrity list and clarified thatthe set would only cover the CBS era, although the ABC logo wasstill present (the front cover now had it in place of the CBS logoabove Ludden).[5] The ABClogo was omitted altogether when the DVD set was released, with theCBS logo behind Ludden in the original picture being enlarged.

Thememusic

The theme song used on Password from 1961-1963 wascalled 'Holiday Jaunt', composed by Kurt Rehfeld. That was followedlater by a catchy swing theme composed by Bob Cobert called 'You Know thePassword', which was used from 1963 until the CBS version'scancellation in 1967. Viewers would often see emcee Allen Luddensnapping his fingers to the swing tune as the closing credits wereshown, and, at one point, celebrity guest Bob Crane had suggested recording a vocalversion.

When Password returned on ABC in 1971, ScoreProductions provided a theme with a synth arrangement similarto the cues later heard on ThePrice is Right called 'The Fun of It'. The theme usedlater in that version's run, beginning with PasswordAll-Stars in 1974, was called 'Bicentennial Funk', and wasused until the ABC version's finale in 1975. That theme, as well asthe themes for Password Plus and Super Password,were also composed by Score Productions.

ForeignVersions

  • In France, a versioncalled Pyramide, inspired both by Pyramid and Passwordseries, aired on Antenne 2 then France 2 from 1991-2003.
  • In New Zealand,a Maori-language version has aired since 2006.
  • In Spain, theMillion-Dollar Password format has been adapted for theiraudience. The program, entitled Password, premiered onJuly 7, 2008.[6] Hostedby Luján Argüelles, it is nearly identical to the American revival.The biggest differences include the top prize of €25,000 and changing the program to a forty-fiveminute (with commercials) weekday broadcast. It airs on thecountry's Cuatro channel.[7]
  • In Turkey, a MehmetAslantuğ version called Parola is aired weekdays onKanal 6.
  • In the UnitedKingdom, versions of Password were produced by the BBC in the 1970s, and by ThamesTelevision for Channel4 which was hosted by Tom O'Connor and UTV for ITV in the 1980s which was hosted by Gordon Burns.

Homegames

Although Password can be playedwithout any equipment, commercial versions of the game have beensuccessful.

The Milton Bradley Companyintroduced the first home version of Passwordin 1962 and subsequently released 24 editions of the game until1986. (Owing to common superstition, these releases were numbered1-12 and 14-25, skipping 13.) It was tied with Concentration as themost prolific of Milton Bradley's home versions of popular gameshows, and was produced well into the Super Password eraof the television show. Milton Bradley also published threeeditions of a Password Plus home game between 1979 and1981, but never did a version for Super Password.

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More recently, Endless Games has released seven editionsof Password since 1997, including a children's edition(with gameplay closer to the various incarnations of Pyramid) and a DVD editionfeaturing the voice of Todd Newton (notably, the latter uses theoriginal ABC logo on its packaging). In addition, Endless releaseda 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 IIand Commodore 64,shortly before the series was canceled; a Nintendo EntertainmentSystem version was also planned but never released. TigerElectronics released an electronic hand-held 'SuperPassword' game in the late 1990s, many years after the showhad been canceled. More recently, Irwin Toys released anew hand-held electronic version featuring a touch screen withstylus 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 emceesthe proceedings, with the voices and caricatures of Rose Marie, Dawn Wells, Adam West, and Marty Allen. One bonusround offers the player free spins; the other involves choosingfrom four envelopes offered by the celebrities. Finding the'Password' envelope advances the player to a new level with fourmore envelopes, worth more prize money.[2]

References

  1. ^ abBreaking News - CBS UNVEILSITS 2008 SUMMER SCHEDULE TheFutonCritic.com
  2. ^The 'Password ABC' Page:Celebrity listings for 1974
  3. ^Only three words were played in the time allowed. All normal ruleswere in effect, however no mention was made of what would happenhad one team reached the 50-point goal.
  4. ^TVShowsOnDVD: 'Password' pressrelease and DVD box
  5. ^TVShowsOnDVD: 'Password' DVDpackaging update
  6. ^'Cuatro estrena el lunes sunuevo concurso, Password'. Ojotele. 07-05-2008. http://www.ojotele.com/2008/07/06-cuatro-estrena-el-lunes-su-nuevo-concurso-password. Retrieved01-09-2009.
  7. ^'Password'. Cuatro. http://www.cuatro.com/programas/programas/entretenimiento/password/. Retrieved01-07-2009.

Externallinks

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Password The Game Show

  • Password at theInternet Movie Database
  • Password Plus atthe Internet Movie Database
  • Super Password atthe Internet Movie Database
  • Million DollarPassword at the Internet Movie Database

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