My TV show review: "Password Plus" and "Super Password..."

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Some time, somewhere, some day there will be another game show, but never one with the class of this one.

Mary Tyler Moore on the set of game show 'Password' c. 1972

Elaine Stritch at an event for Password (1961)

Allen Ludden

Jack Clark

John Harlan

Two celebrity-contestant teams compete to guess words by giving one-word clues in this all-time classic game show.

Password

At the top of the heap ...

... with Jeopardy. They are the two &quot;pure&quot; game shows in the history of television. No gimmicks and very little luck were involved to succeed at this game. What contestants needed was a good command of language and quick wits to come up with clues and guess the password.

Stars like Elizabeth Montgomery, Carol Burnette, Tony Randall, and Peter Lawford excelled at the game, with Lawford owning the record &quot;Lightning Round&quot;, getting 5 passwords in 12 seconds.

The show was also notable as the venue where Alan Ludden first met Betty White. A few years later they married and remained so until his death eighteen years later, in 1982.

I was fortunate to see the show during the summers as a kid, and watched it again on the Game Show Network. Unfortunately, many episodes were lost when the network reused the tapes for Family Feud!

... with Jeopardy. They are the two "pure" game shows in the history of television. No gimmicks and very little luck were involved to succeed at this game. What contestants needed was a good command of language and quick wits to come up with clues and guess the password.

Stars like Elizabeth Montgomery, Carol Burnette, Tony Randall, and Peter Lawford excelled at the game, with Lawford owning the record "Lightning Round", getting 5 passwords in 12 seconds.

The show was also notable as the venue where Alan Ludden first met Betty White. A few years later they married and remained so until his death eighteen years later, in 1982.

I was fortunate to see the show during the summers as a kid, and watched it again on the Game Show Network. Unfortunately, many episodes were lost when the network reused the tapes for Family Feud!

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