PASSWORD 1963-04-22 Dina Merrill & Paul Anka

[@lailasayegh7114]

I could watch young Paul Anka play password all day

[@kokoken1]

And since Paul was born in July 1941, he hadn't had his 22nd birthday when this was shown.

[@rubyred93chev]

@@kokoken1 Only the best password player behind Peter Lawford. Two favorite players: Paul Anka / Betty White.

[@jmason3904]

Paul Anka and Tony Randall - The Best @ Password - Lawford was, is, and always will be sub - par... On Password and in life - Because he was a knowing accomplice to a murder💀🤔😞👺 planned and carried out by the most high command ...🚧👺👹 😒😱 ... just my humble opinion ...⭐🕯😭💋🕊🌫🏖🏵😪 💔💙💔🙏. (§)👍 ....🏛⚡. ✌🍀🌻and it can't be disproved .... 💩💩💩💨🚨🚧👿🚧🚨. 🏛👀😐

[@jmason3904]

Mr. Paul Anka☀🌟🌅🗿💡😃⭐🎓🏆🏅🏛🕴👍👍🙂

[@kaylaearley1742]

Same. Join the club 🔥

[@janepiepes2243]

Paul Anka was a great Password player.

[@robbernath]

Absolutely. Very much worth seeking out the episodes he was on - and the fact he was in his early 20s during his appearances were amazing as well.

[@micheleeve6054]

Agree. Paul Anna, young & beautiful ......talented & intelligent.

[@ScholarAnn]

"Alright, Pat, you have $250 for the game, $250 for the Lightning Round, and a lifetime memory of Paul Anka looking into your soul with his intensely gorgeous eyes and putting his hand on your shoulder in an impulsive gesture of warmth and joy." She was a big winner for sure.

[@poetcomic1]

He was a mannerly old fashioned young man who worked and worked all his life and loved what he did and generally stayed out of trouble. What more could you ask?

[@ObiWanFan30]

I wonder if she was a fan of his…

[@ObiWanFan30]

The Force was strong with him!

[@kelebeck5905]

There’s nothing like Paul Anka’s stare

[@jmason2838]

@ 00:15..🙁😃..indeed .. you're not kidding ✨👁️°👁️✨.. 🌟👀💫🤩☺️..😍🤗🌝👍👍💫

[@ObiWanFan30]

He was attempting a Jedi mind trick, long before George Lucas created the Jedi Order for the Star Wars prequel and original trilogy.

[@jcneverquits]

Still can't believe the ridiculous amount of money Dina had, especially for 1963! We often stereotype the super wealthy, but Dina seemed to show a genuine interest in her fellow contestants. She exuded the perfect balance of grounded elegance.

[@richardleonori9345]

Class Act!

[@chrisn7259]

Gotta admit Paul Anka was adorb at this time. Sexy, cute, multi-talented and smart.

[@ObiWanFan30]

Very adorbs!

[@saran.4001]

Dina Merrill was so beautiful, she was always rich, always had money but actually looked the way you would think a wealthy person would, but never do. She wore clothes well, always on the best dressed lists. Class, brains, talent and beauty.

[@alansorensen5903]

Her family built and owned Mar-a-Lago and willed it to the Federal Government upon her mother's death in 1973.

[@jersgmc]

Another great episode, thanks!

[@aklanpinoy6717]

Watching this makes me even in awe with Paul Anka's talent who I knew penned the English lyrics to the ever-famous song, "My Way" popularized by Frank Sinatra. Epic talent through and through!!! Just now googled him and he's 80 years young!!! 🙂

[@curley7810]

Paul`s voice is so amazing. I'm dying! 😍😍😍😍

[@litaaitkendecattaneo8916]

😊

[@ObiWanFan30]

❤️😍🥰

[@KienzeZeyne]

I could watch Paul play password everyday.

[@Prissygal23]

Dina Merrill was such a lady! Very elegant.

[@robinblankenship117]

Loved this show

[@thinganngo837]

i like Paul Anka he was a young and nice player

[@elliebellie7816]

You know the 16-year-old was a big hit at her high school for having sat next to Paul Anna on television.

[@stevenreichertart]

Alan made a few comments about Dina’s looks but none about Paul’s. So I’ll say it: what a handsome devil!

[@valeriegriner5644]

Dina Merrill is so beautiful and she's a great player! I loved Paul Anka, too!

[@randysills4418]

Paul Anka was a smart young man and I had no idea until recently that he wrote the theme song to The tonight Show!

[@duranddavis7710]

1963 edition of the world book encyclopedia. What a gift. Now we just google everything

[@Hebrews88]

cant change the written word once printed.and in our possession....google now controls what we can and cannot know. Remember the character in Orwell's novel 1984...he was in charge of erasing the truth.

[@gra-emed3617]

I know it’s easy to pass judgement while watching at home but that stowaway one was driving me nuts. The two guessers were going way off tangent with their answers to the clues 🤣 I am hooked on these old episodes

[@hairyscotman]

Dinah was the most lovely lady....just beautiful....

[@raniaaisyah2247]

that sophomore student might be so lucky that time

[@thinganngo837]

this is Paul first time on password show

[@thithanhnguuyen697]

Paul Anka very good when he play password

[@tonyrizzo3910]

That lightning round! Phew!

[@ObiWanFan30]

3:42, Paul: “You sure you’re not in college?” ROTBL! She probably had a mom like mine who used 25¢ words around her while she was growing up.

[@alanhumphrey4198]

Contestant Judy was gorgeous...

[@traceylennon1204]

Paul has dimples!!

[@akrenwinkle]

Dina is flawless.

[@poetcomic1]

Dina Merrill, last I heard is worth 5 billion dollars. Back then maybe 800 million. Her family was Merrill as in Merrill Lynch. She did NOT have to act but loved it.

[@yamimotonokamina4759]

She was actually a Hutton, as in E. F. Her brother-in-law suggested Merrill as her stage name. Don't forget that on her mother's side she's Post Cereals. That's the REAL big money. E. F. Hutton was just pocket change.

[@Roholi]

Dr. Livingstone I. Presume Actually her mother, Marjorie Merriweather Post, the richest woman in America, formed and ran General Foods which was a LOT more than just Post cereals - Birdseye, Maxwell House, Sanka, and on and on and on. Dina first married and had 3 children with the Colgate-Palmolive heir. She was enormously wealthy but so down to earth and incredibly classy.

[@leonpse]

If she had 10 times less, 500 million. She could put it in a savings account and at just 1% interest, she would have 5 million in interest income a year. No one needs that much money. 5 billion would get 50 million in interest a year.

[@Roholi]

Leon Powe The $5 billion figure is dubious. She inherited about $50 million from her mother in 1973 and probably $20 million from her father in 1962. Over the years her fortune probably grew to $500 million. Just as importantly, I’m sure she was a recipient of numerous trust funds and those alone should have kept her quite comfortable.

[@leonpse]

Roholi As noted earlier, the interest alone in a 1% saving account would be 5 million a year for 500 million.

[@kelebeck5905]

Encyclopedias were prizes!

[@gusloader123]

It was a time in America when people could read.

[@kentetalman9008]

I read our entire set of World Books, cover to cover. It took a few years. I still have them, but haven't opened them in several decades.

[@kelebeck5905]

Bear ..... Arms! 🤣

[@kelebeck5905]

What makes it so funny is he’s sitting there in his armed forces uniform 😂

[@KristaBrewer-rq7mo]

What is the DIFFERENCE between the day time show and the night time show? and how can Allen keep up with em both? (I've always wondered how Gene kept with Match Game AND Match Game PM when they were both on at the same time too)

[@brucemarsico6]

'You don't need to win because you're so pretty'. Is that a great pickup line or what!!!!!

[@frostiethewestie52]

My jaw dropped when he said that. WOW - what a dated statement. Nowadays, I think that would be considered insulting.

[@brucemarsico6]

@@frostiethewestie52 Maybe it is and maybe it isn't. There are all kinds of ways to compliment people, to get someone to respond positively to a statement without it being deemed sexist or demeaning. Then, 1950s-1960s, it was expected for men to say 'cute' things like, 'so pretty' 'lovely to look at' 'you're a honey' without getting a heated response or a physical attack. Now, 2022, most everyone is angry and 'hurt' and defensive. Comes from the constant barrage of the media defining everything. Zo...I give no compliments and expect none. No positive build ups, no comparisons. Boring, isn't it?

[@franklesser5655]

Dina Merrill was kind of pretty.

[@Agent77X]

Dina Merrill such a hottie,

[@wendyjones6077]

That 16 year old looks 35.

[@ChrisHansonCanada]

Dina Merrill lived at Mar-a-Lago during her childhood, the current residence of Donald Trump. It was built for her mother in the 1920s.

[@traceylennon1204]

Paul said that'll be one record we'll get paid on!

[@voicetube]

Easy maybe to sit here 57 years in the future (!) But for "Claw" in the lightning round, I'm thinking 3 words: "Cat," "Fingers," and then the word "Sharp." I suppose as 1/4 word you could add "Scratchers."

[@duranddavis7710]

Could Alan get away with calling the ladies pretty Blonds today?

[@cathm8523]

I couldn’t believe he actually said “you don’t need to win because you’re both so pretty!”

[@m.e.d.7997]

It was 1963

[@VinMar-m6w]

What's wrong with saying "pretty blonds"?

[@elliebellie7816]

Dina was a classic beauty but not so bright.

[@SOffenbach]

One goes to Viet Nam, the other goes to Vegas.

[@mikele5756]

Does anyone know if the stars get paid for their appearance on the show. Paul made it sound like they don't.

[@randysills4418]

I read somewhere a long time ago that they received $500 per show.

[@kelebeck5905]

They weren’t paid I guess lol

[@randysills4418]

Arthur Godfrey was not a nice person...to put it mildly...

[@pepeboy234]

Cats have claws; not birds!

[@gusloader123]

hmmm? Have you ever been at a Zoo or a Pet Store? How do you think a bird is able to sit on a twig, branch, limb of a tree?

[@pepeboy234]

@@gusloader123 Claws are NOT nails! Bird's nails are on the tips of their toes. When a bird lands on a branch, the ankle bends and the Achilles' tendon is stretched. When the tendon stretches, it pulls on the toes and curls them around the branch. There is no muscular effort involved in holding onto the branch - it's automatic. Cats' claws, by contrast, come out of the front of their toes and act as tools that are used to catch and hold prey, tear meat from bones, defend their bearer, and climb.

[@elimgarak7090]

@@pepeboy234 Birds have talons which are a type of claw.

[@KristaBrewer-rq7mo]

YES they DO!

[@voicetube]

For "Stowaway" as a 1st clue, I would have whispered in sort of furtively looked around and maybe casually brought my finger close to my mouth and gave the clue "Shhhhhh....ip's..." Then as a next clue (or certainly at 13:28) I would have tried "Passengerrrr...?" Said in a hem-haw-ing sort of way indicating that it was questionable and maybe a bit secret. That very well possibly would have done it I think (especially after all the preceding clues:-)

[@Zim-wc2rs]

Not born yet.

[@gusloader123]

Normally, Paul Anka was a very good player on Password, ( as was Peter Lawford), but Paul reeaalllly dropped the ball on the Password "Villian". Seems like he had never seen a play or movie or a Cartoon which had a "Villian" in it. Good clue would have been "Hero" but nobody gave it. 1963 and the Cartoon "Boris and Natascha" would have been on TV. Many Westerns and Detective TV programs on TV in the late 50's, early 60's. As for the Password "Stowaway" ,,,, another word that should have been guessed. Clues could have been: "Ticketless" , "Passage" , "Criminal". "Intruder".

[@XXthekingofyouXX]

Dina is pretty but sure wasn't too bright.

[@wendyjones6077]

I think she gave horrible clues. She kept saying "bird" for claws? She could have said bear, hand, lion, paw, etc., but BIRD? She gave many other bad clues. Paul Anka owned this game. He was very young then was well - maybe 22 or 23? Words are a songwriter's business, though.

[@lisahayes8834]

Paul was 21.

[@marycook1644]

Marlin was a pretty good player. 🦉