PASSWORD 1962-09-30 Polly Bergen & Raymond Burr

[@TRoth858]

My mum was a huge Raymond Burr fan. I'm guessing my mum probably watch this back in the day. What a handsome man!

[@wolfgangholtzclaw2637]

Rare to see a beauty such as Polly Bergen, very impressed by her presence and beauty. Also Raymond Burr, a favorite actor of mine, always displays a man of tremendous charm and intelligence. What a lovely show this was way back when!

[@eviesmail5447]

She wrote a beauty book back in the day

[@eviesmail5447]

I no watched him in re run Don’t forget Rear Window !

[@richrol58]

Burr could play a great heavy too...pre-PM of course

[@nandofigueira2005]

Raymond Burr was an extraordinarily generous man, donated large sums of money to charity, a wonderful person.

[@Deken]

Polly Bergen was such a lovely and delightful woman. She's from my hometown and was a friend of one of my aunts. They kept in touch long after Polly left Tennessee. I'm going to share these episodes with my aunt. I'm sure she'll be thrilled to see Polly in them!

[@bethjones6104]

I live in Tennessee! Poly Bergen was beautiful and elegant. Raymond Burr was handsome and gentlemanly

[@timippolito1182]

Nice your Aunt is still with you..

[@BillyAlabama]

That’s wonderful!

[@Agent77X]

Polly Bergen quite stunning!

[@2009cochinos]

Gorgeous

[@TSquare7741]

Huh, interesting. I don’t agree at all - her features are rather harsh imho, compared to a number of other ladies in these old clips…

[@narrowgate528]

You never got a chance to see Raymond smile, he has a handsome one.

[@smadaf]

Most episodes of Perry Mason, at least in the seasons I've watched a lot of, ended with him and Della Street and Paul Drake grinning and laughing in the comic relief after the heaviness of a murder and a confession.

[@jamesmcinnis208]

As a child, I thought he was creepy, and a perfect casting choice for the villain in "Rear Window."

[@pikemeredith5604]

Just loved Raymond Burr as Perry Mason & Ironside. He was a very intense actor. He was also very good but very evil as the killer in Rear Window. Sad that most of these celebrities have now passed except for Carol Burnett & Jane Fonda.

[@roseannsanders2778]

Same here! Loved him in both Perry Mason & Ironside. Interestingly, Rear Window is my favorite Hitchcock film, and it's such a disconnect in my head seeing him play a bad guy in that movie!

[@BillyAlabama]

Polly Bergen is hysterical!

[@andreaidesalvo9738]

Ray Burr was perfect as " perry mason" he was born to play that pat!! All the supporting cast on the show were just as great as he was on that great show!!!

[@lindaroper2654]

Raymond got so happy when he won. 😁

[@pamhi7633]

It show Raymond does have sense of humor. I miss his 2 hour tv movies

[@janeiwasduncan8463]

I did too! So when I found them on sale @ WalMart l bought them. Now I can watch them any time:) :)

[@danielthompsonmoviestravel8254]

Raymond Burr was very generous. He gave a lot of money to charities.

[@johnc.bojemski1757]

He was a GREAT comedian when given the chance to shed his "serious" persona. His guest appearances on variety TV shows in the 50's, 60's and 70's are LEGENDARY!

[@m.e.d.7997]

He reminds me of George Clooney

[@terencedove5047]

Burr AND Bergen? In the same game episode together? This was a ‘Burr-gen’ episode of PASSWORD that really was worth watching - and very well played!

[@magnificentfailure2390]

Another great show

[@lpayjohn]

I think Raymond Burr was so handsome

[@aileen694]

This was so great to see Raymond Burr in this silly, fun game! For awhile there at the beginning, he seemed sort of "miffed" at Karen's answers, which were indeed, weird! (And incorrect). Then he lightened up and actually laffed and had a ball. How strange to watch an actor for so many years in one particular serious type of role, then suddenly see him perplexed and guffawing!!! Love it! And poor Pollywog was really hyper tonite!

[@richrol58]

Karen wasn't putting together the clues to get the overall meaning... I hate that..

[@jp0308]

I love these old shows as I watched them as a kid in the 60's but now I see the how contrived they were in this day and time.... Nonetheless, its still a joy to see them !

[@lynnturman8157]

How were they contrived?

[@smadaf]

Aren't most games contrived? Normal behavior is constricted to a framework, a set of rules, a series of responses to artificial inputs (such as being handed a password).

[@reginariley6620]

I used to watch Perry Mason when i was little, i became quite the detective!!😂😂😂❤❤

[@randysills4418]

When I was growing up we always watched this show on Monday nights!

[@nadiazahroon6573]

Raymond looks a little like my dad, very handsome.

[@mattikaki]

Hi from Finland. Me and my dad watched Perry Mason frequently in the 60’s. Raymond Burr was really convincing in his role. Another TV show was the Four Men of Just.

[@waldolydecker8118]

12:35 Contestant Bill broke the SOP with a couple of ad libs of his own, including a great one referencing Polly's prior tease that 'Perry Mason' always wins: "I know he always wins, but..." lol

[@politicallyincorrect869]

Raymond Burr from New Westminister B.C Canada. Great actor and want to visit his grave site here locally in British Columbia

[@lindaf4836]

POLLY BERGEN, not a swede like Candace, but a Jew. RAYMOND BURR, is it short for BURLINGER or whatever? Is he Jewish too, or not?

[@ambientrelaxingandhealingm7552]

I'm not sure if lobster bibs were popular/known with that name back in 1962, but is so I think "Lobster" would've been one good clue for "Bib."

[@tarnsand440]

Raymond Burr gave great clues....some responses however didn't even make sense as Allen Luden's expressions convey.

[@litlgrey]

This particular tape is in excellent shape, considering its age, and compared to most of its Password day-to-day or week-to-week contemporaries.

[@ambientrelaxingandhealingm7552]

For "Election" I was thinking "Rigged…"… Yet that hadn't happened yet. (Well, at least discovered in this country, very often, at that point :-)

[@robertward8130]

Yummy yummy its Ramond Burr!!😍

[@randilevson9547]

He might have liked you, too.

[@m.e.d.7997]

Polly Bergen had a great personality

[@gabe-po9yi]

That woman gave some of the weirdest answers to clues. Alfalfa: Weed Hay:Trash Feather: Tie Her mind must’ve been a scary place to be at times.

[@bowman4275]

Amazing how touchy-feely these people are. How times have changed.

[@paulj0557tonehead]

Polly Bergen passed 10 years ago today. Born: July 14, 1930, Knoxville, TN Died: September 20, 2014 (age 84 years), Southbury, CT

[@petermaxwell2965]

Polly was in a great episode of the sapranos !

[@randysills4418]

Sopranos

[@rr8960]

I love her in this, she's so animated!

[@GiftSparks]

Yes, she was! The episode was “In Camelot. “ Even as an older woman she was gorgeous.

[@randallgrant6175]

Raymond Burr was from the city of Burnaby in British Columbia, Canada (same as Michael J. Fox)

[@janeiwasduncan8463]

Didn't he become a citizen???

[@randallgrant6175]

I believe he did get his american citizenship papers as well, yes

[@kathybartlett761]

Anyone else come up with great clues while playing along, LOL!! My brain would freeze up if I actually played on TV!

[@kevinfitzmaurice4072]

I didn't realize "Password" ever aired on Sunday afternoons, as did Ludden's previous show, "The G.E. College Bowl."

[@lindaosika7648]

Could never answer the questions on College Bowl

[@justinmay3451]

it started on Tuesday nights and then moved to Sunday afternoons in September 1962. This was the 3rd Sunday episode.

[@karencollins2661]

Loved Raymond Burr.

[@jeprice08]

19:17 - 19:19 It sounded like someone said the word before the contestant did. Maybe it's a delayed reaction in the recording, I don't know.

[@voicetube]

I can explain that (being of the era of magnetic tape) : you actually heard the audio "image" of Alan Ludden yelling "pail!!" Imprinted on the reel of tape which carried over to that portion of tape where you heard it (just before the contestant got it right). I remember I think even with cassettes but certainly reel to reel recording, when anybody would yell or do something that was really loud, you would barely hear it either just before or just after the main imprint. I hope that explains it :-)

[@p.v.5142]

Ooh. That was weird.

[@smadaf]

It's print-through on the tape. It's essentially like writing with a marker on a roll of toilet paper: the ink bleeds through from the paper you're writing on to other layers; if the tape sits wound on the reel for a long time without being played, the magnetization bleeds through from the part that it was recorded on to other bits that are lying just above or below that bit when the tape is all wound up; if the signal is very strong, it can bleed through more than one layer, in both directions, so that you might get something like this, in chronological order: - faint echo of a faint echo of the original - faint echo of the original - original - faint echo of the original - faint echo of a faint echo of the original.

[@smadaf]

@@voicetube , the same thing has happened on at least one of my Compact Cassette audio tapes. It's also on the oldest surviving magnetic sound recording, a piece on wire from 1900.

[@gregfrank4115]

When it was pointed out that he always won on Perry Mason, we only saw the cases he tried on Saturdays(later on Thursdays and Sundays)!

[@voicetube]

I have never been so confident as to say for the second clue for the word "Justice" if the woman had said "scales!" The contestant would have gotten it :-)

[@sheristewart3940]

Me too! I kept saying scales to the screen, as if they could hear me LOL

[@smadaf]

I probably would have offered judge, magistrate, righteousness, rectitude, fairness, blind, scales, lady, chief-but whether any of those would have gotten the right response would have depended on the other team's clues and on the mind of my teammate.

[@donaldleroy6502]

Nice job with this picture quality, the audio is pretty good too considering this is from 62. Polly is awesome, not familiar with her career though. Justice was a real toughy pollys partner just pulled that one out of thin, so it turned out luck was a lady that night

[@GiftSparks]

She was pretty amazing. As an older woman, she was in a very memorable episode of “The Sopranos”, playing Tony’s father’s old mistress.

[@rayizard5687]

16:56 Polly's face LOL

[@kokoken1]

It's interesting to notice how the sequence of words in the lightning round changed over the years. "Suds" and "drift" would never be near the end of the list later on. The fourth word might be tougher, but never the fifth.

[@sheristewart3940]

I just thought of float, as a clue for "drift."

[@lindaf4836]

I don't recall this one. But since i was 3 years old, probably wasnt paying attention when first on.

[@voicetube]

I don't know if they had bail bonds back then but maybe saying "bonds…" In the musicality of a second word…

[@williamdunphy352]

From CBS Television City in Hollywood.

[@xenafan234]

Which was Sold last week to Developers! :/

[@HansDelbruck53]

@6:39 I couldn't fathom why that clown gave Barometer as a clue for Altitude. A barometer measures atmospheric pressure, not altitude. A perfect clue would have been Altimeter.

[@Nancie680]

Raymond Burr is my moms favorite ❤️ Lebanese man

[@Tim1963-u6n]

This was a off day for Perry I mean Raymond usually he doesn't loose

[@kimfuhrmann7700]

oooh, I don't think it's a good idea to switch in the middle of a game to homophones, like Raymond Burr did with "pail" and "pale" and "bale" and "bail." Very chancy. Mostly, it will just confuse the guessers. It was fun to see "Perry Mason" look lighthearted, and I always enjoy Polly Bergen here and on To Tell the Truth. I know some people find her annoying, but I think she's just fun.

[@joeambrose3260]

Agreed, Burr blew it, he's got to stick to the same meaning

[@patrickd.3681]

Nice to see Polly Bergen also struggle on something other than “Truth.”

[@TheRivrPrncess]

I'll always associate Raymond Burr with his role as Steve Martin from Godzilla, King of the Monsters and Godzilla 1985. It is such a shame that before he died he did not get to see a Godzilla movie with the young boy in G:1985 all grown up and continuing what the Steve Martin character did.

[@ketura_v_art]

19:18 Did someone from the audience or backstage say the answer, “PAIL”, BEFORE the contestant said it?

[@MrJoeybabe25]

Did Dr. Goodwin ever do anything about that "forthcoming Encyclopedia Britannica"?

[@sparkleplenty5829]

Yes. Later it was published and Allen Ludden stopped saying "forthcoming".

[@kentetalman9008]

World Book.

[@lindaosika7648]

Polly was lively.

[@doctorjames7454]

Loved Raymond Burr. I find Polly Bergen obnoxious.

[@tarnsand440]

By Polly's own admission she was a life long drinker. Notice she gets louder sillier when attention is on Raymond Burr.

[@chrisn7259]

She's very actressy and theatrical. Loves calling attention to herself

[@randysills4418]

She and Raymond are just opposite personalities...

[@dorothygillespie4466]

@@randysills4418 Well, not really. They both loved men!😉

[@aileen694]

@@dorothygillespie4466 🤯😁

[@paulgrimaldi1751]

What's with the consecutive easy opposites (?)

[@MrJoeybabe25]

Was the Sunday afternoon version of Password live or on tape.

[@kristenkaz3080]

Raymond Burr was quite striking when young. I didn’t realize that before. I’ve never seen Perry Mason; where might I find it these days? Is there anywhere that broadcasts it?

[@oo0Spyder0oo]

Paramount plus has the episodes.

[@joeambrose3260]

Allen repeating the words gets a little annoying

[@lawaii2024]

I don't like that Luden seems to control whether or not to skip the word in Burr's flash round. Then, to top it off, he says, "You should have stayed on suds." What a jerk!

[@marycook1644]

I AGREE, because once they pass a word they can not go back to it. Even if there is extra time. It should be left to the contestant to decide. 🦉

[@aileen694]

@@marycook1644 Yes! As sweet as Betty White was, there's a real sharp 👿 edge to Alan's personality.

[@ItsKrma00]

Isn't he just looking out for the contestant though?

[@sparkleplenty5829]

Exactly! He is helping! I see no reason for people to make nasty comments as has @troyd.davidson427 @@ItsKrma00

[@williamdunphy352]

Settings Designed by Bill Bohnert

[@kenbrown438]

This must be after Polly was cancelled on To Tell The Truth !!!!

[@KristaBrewer-rq7mo]

I never liked her on To Tell the Truth, but I'd still like to know, WHY WAS SHE FIRED?

[@karencollins2661]

Pollyanna was a beautiful woman

[@fleurmartin]

I find Polly Bergen annoying in this episode.

[@malnelson4045]

😅😅😅 10:05 😅

[@ambientrelaxingandhealingm7552]

Although certainly not guaranteed in one clue, for "Pail" (or aurally, "Pale") I might have tried the clue "Wan." (Wan means pale and sickly looking as of the skin).

[@sparkleplenty5829]

aurally???

[@voicetube]

@@sparkleplenty5829 Aurally. adverb. with regard to sound or the ear.

[@KristaBrewer-rq7mo]

OH NY LAND! SHE'S ANNOYING!!! She's just as annoying on HERE as she was To Tell the Truth. And whoever said that she loved to hear herself talk, YOU WEREN'T KIDDIN"!

[@Order-in-Chaos]

19:29 Amazingly nice Allen Ludden says "What's a white pail?!" Polly fixes it a little by guessing that he probably meant Pale Wan... In this video, you get the impression that Raymond is not that smart and border line racist... The African American guy didn't care though...

[@2009cochinos]

Fun game

[@nextbarker2702]

$250 + $100 is $450?

[@justinmay3451]

They gave her an extra $50 for "smile." Allen said it right the first time ($400) and later corrected himself at the end of the episode.

[@irontribeissues9104]

Who is that announcer with the soft, sexy voice anyway?

[@donaldleroy6502]

You don't mean the one whispering the clues that sounds like he's making an obscene phone call do you?

[@kevinfitzmaurice4072]

Jack Clark introduced the panelists and Ludden at the top of the show; I'm not sure if Clark announced the passwords.

[@TheNomadicview]

B

[@TheNomadicview]

He is also good-looking. He hosted a few shows when Allen took a break.

[@ChrisHansonCanada]

I remember once he said "stockings" and gave a little orgasmic groan at the end.

[@bobs182]

The clues for bale were terrible.

[@elliebellie7816]

Horrible clues. "Elevation" should have been the first clue for altitude and that whole "bale" thing was beyond awful.

[@timothywills7709]

And Polly loses!!!!

[@grayadam]

i don't like polly bergen.

[@mocha6644]

She liked herself. She was so nearsighted but wouldn't wear glasses

[@kristabrewer6736]

@ZoneFighter1 That.... and also every time she would hold up one of those stupid cards (that don't even have anything to do with the show)!

[@KristaBrewer-rq7mo]

I haven't seen this show yet, but I never cared for her on To Tell the Truth AT ALL! (I'd still like to know why shows tired though)

[@joannecowles7496]

Polly was so dramatic… was she on something????

[@bestfootfoward8024]

Although l have hope for Raymond Burr,. After watching 29 of these episodes I can't believe how utterly, completely, totally, universally stupid these people were. Especially the stars.

[@sparkleplenty5829]

Then don't watch if you are too intelligent for this! Just sayin'...

[@kentetalman9008]

I can't stand the set.

[@cweefy]

Today's snowflakes probably want these old shows " canceled "

[@TheCalico72]

Ridiculous. Are you so far gone that you can't just enjoy the shows without feeling the need to insert political trash in the comments?

[@smadaf]

You can tell you're right by the huge number of comments here from snowflakes demanding that these shows be removed from KZbin.

[@mvitulano]

I think Polly is drunk!

[@kristabrewer6736]

wouldn't be the first time

[@karendeaton9297]

She tries to be cute. And can be argumentative.

[@dalekelly7639]

Lousy clues on both sides.

[@nylanelson5212]

I thought Raymond Burr was an educated man but I was wrong as he didn’t even know the meaning to bale meant something bundled like hay bale. He gave the clue for being arrested for getting bailed out, which is spelled different. Some of these celebrities were not very bright & some were surprisingly smart

[@519djw6]

Homonyms, such as "bale" and "bail" are accepted.

[@MikkoHere]

It's a common strategy in Password and many players used it.

[@valeriegriner5644]

He did that on purpose(and it WORKED!)

[@TheCalico72]

He knew the meaning. You didn't get what he was doing.

[@smadaf]

And then there are those who know of such things as homophones and soundalikes-but obviously Raymond Burr was not one of them. 🙄

[@charleswinokoor6023]

World’s dullest game. Holy moly. Too bad, because they had good guests.