PASSWORD 1962-04-03 Ann Sothern & Alan King

[@TheMaggiemay77]

That female contestant was very smart!

[@randysills4418]

I looked up information on the contestant Jack Ballard and he was Pastor of The Mount Carmel Christian Church of Decatur, Georgia for 44 years!

[@wendelynanderson9517]

This aired just a couple of weeks before my 2nd birthday 😮

[@ChrisHansonCanada]

Four years later, Ann Sothern would be the voice of the car in one of television's all time sitcom turkeys, "My Mother the Car".

[@marycook1644]

This is one of the most entertaining games I’ve seen ! Very charismatic players. I enjoyed it alot. 🐢

[@Teri_Berk]

Just agree.

[@randysills4418]

Ann Sothern was so talented! Her Mother was a professional musician and Ann was taught piano, singing and music theory at a young age. She won awards for original compositions two years in a row!

[@randysills4418]

To see and hear Ms. Sothern sing beautifully, put in "The Last Time I Saw Paris" Ann Southern on KZbin.

[@zeldasmith6154]

Ann Sothern is so beautiful. And her hair style is perfect.

[@mikegarippo7815]

The word "mother" is a common noun; it doesn't get capitalized.

[@donaldleroy6502]

Even if Pat wasn't a boxing fan I woulda used the clue Cassius for clay in the 🌩 round. Blunder is one of the toughest words to convey to your partner, I couldn't think of anything other than mistake or error

[@nibsvkh]

Ann is very luscious! Surprised how badly Alan did in the first lightning round..as an author and career based on words how could he be so slow?

[@hortondlfn1994]

I agree! It was painful to watch him.

[@donaldleroy6502]

How do you hold up under pressure?

[@Teri_Berk]

Slow but, steady

[@JasmineSurrealVideos]

The Southern lady was a great player, I was rooting for her when Ann said she couldn't understand her accent, I could understand it perfectly well and I'm English! Alan's clues were good towards the end very inventive, blunderbuss. Wow she won a lot of money for the time. The minister was strange he kind of permasmiled, there's something about people who smile all the time, I don't trust them.

[@magnificentfailure2390]

I was surprised Ann couldn't understand Patricia's Virginia accent. I thought she was Sothern?

[@password5737]

Nice pun... Bennet Cerf would approve

[@magnificentfailure2390]

Higher praise I could not ask for.

[@dougduvall7825]

Very punny!!

[@kenbrown438]

Ha ha ha ha ha !!!!

[@kenbrown438]

@@dougduvall7825 : what is 2/3 's of a pun ?

[@robertward8130]

The southern gal (not Ann, but the contestant) should've been in show biz.

[@balconi89]

first time seeing added time. Allen explained it nicely.

[@Teri_Berk]

It was just right to add 15 more seconds cos it wasn't lost in gaming.

[@TheMaggiemay77]

I actually said out loud that they need to add some time because they goofed around on that one and then they ended up doing it!

[@randysills4418]

To hear Ann Sothern's wonderful singing put "The Last Time I Saw Paris" Ann Sothern on KZbin!

[@voicetube]

Speaking of skinny, that contestant Pat had a very nice figure. I also dug her southern accent (quite charming :-)

[@sailorbychoice1]

15:20 Wow! That may be the worst lightening Minute I have ever seen... Wow! I feel bad for both of these ladies. Wow! That was bad beyond bad...

[@dinacox1971]

Ahhhhh Ann in that first lighting round...eeeekkkkkk

[@markdigiorgio9136]

She won a lot of money for 1962: using an inflation calculator of 792% cumulatively, she earned $9,368 dollars -- more than double the average wage Americans made in 1962!

[@hairyscotman]

my grandmother looked just like Ann Sothern....

[@mikegarippo7815]

Outside of your family, nobody cares how your grandmother looked.

[@LadyHeathen82]

He’s always Mel Bushman to me 😊

[@hayleywise7403]

"Bushman awaits..."

[@mikegarippo7815]

Pat the contestant was the star of this episode.

[@lawsonj39]

You don't see normal folk rubbing elbows with stars like this much these days.

[@m.e.d.7997]

True! Stars today would rarely if ever appear with regular people.

[@wagonstation3709]

At least once in this episode, (so far), Mr. Ludden said "watch the hands." In reality, most everybody uses their hands. If they wanted nobody to use their hands, they should have had them put their arms in something.... maybe something amusing like brightly colored tubes.

[@voicetube]

Of course I'm almost 100% certain this business did not become extant until the late 1970s at the earliest, nowadays you can say, for "Secret" the clue, "Victoriaaaaa's?"

[@moonlightray8493]

If you listen closely, you can hear someone in the audience shouting the words "vaudeville" and "tear" during their respective rounds... I'm surprised Allen didn't catch onto that, and chide the audience members for unfairly helping the players.

[@voicetube]

Possibly even as a 1st clue, for "Secret" I would think the word "Hidden" or even said slowly "Hidden-ness" (as they do seem to allow made-up words as clues as long as they are single and I think Hiddeness would count).

[@Teri_Berk]

Hidden would be a perfect clue. I think only the word hidden would suffice.

[@voicetube]

@@Teri_Berk another?: = "Clandestine"

[@TheMaggiemay77]

I was thinking for secret “seclusion“ or “rendezvous“. We should be on the show! Ha ha ha.

[@lynettepalecek3141]

I would have said "confidential" and "shhh" for "secret."

[@r.p.mcmurphy6623]

Not one single person cares

[@lynettepalecek3141]

@@r.p.mcmurphy6623 I don't care about your OPINION!

[@johnsarkissian5519]

Secret = confidential!

[@laneh6816]

Anybody Who Owns His Own Home Deserves It

[@michaelwascom62]

One nice compliment to "PassWord" was the contestants were (generally) quite literate, and could readily pick up on the clues. I would imagine it had much to do with the producers' screening of contestants. But .... embarrassingly, the celebrity team-captains were (all too) often illiterate and "dumb as a stump!"

[@timothywills7709]

Parliament. Cigarette

[@andraspongracz5996]

'clay' why not pottery?

[@verity3616]

Ann Sothern came across as a little brutal here. Maybe it was a bad day, but she was almost rude in the beginning with Alan and kept pursuing her lips, not smiling. Her lightening round was funny, but when she stopped laughing she went back to complaining. Felt sorry for her partners, she was cold with them rather than fun.

[@lawsonj39]

I could have slapped her for freezing so much during the lightning round.

[@rosered103]

I think every person, at the legal age, in the southern states was on this show.

[@r.p.mcmurphy6623]

🥱

[@mikegarippo7815]

Alan King was too slow for Pat, who was sharp.

[@nanaberry4120]

This was not a good episode.

[@poetcomic1]

If they are going to have one guest for the whole show they should make sure its not as bad a player as the minister was.

[@TheMaggiemay77]

I think in later years, they became more savvy in choosing better players for the contestants. They must’ve figured out that it’s really irritating to watch when you have dumb players.

[@mollyquinn1823]

I am creeped out by Rev. touchy feely & Miss pawing flirt. It makes the show come across as weird & perverse.

[@BillyAlabama]

Northerners always tried to be so clever mimicking southern accents. It didn’t work in their favor.

[@miyakawaso]

"Woman" for "tear"? Not a PC guy but that's awful.

[@nancyhowell4505]

Blunder = mistake + stupid