PASSWORD 1967-06-28 Joan Fontaine & Jack Jones

[@Nancie680]

Jack was dreamy that’s for sure

[@sharksport01]

Still is.

[@tarnsand440]

Joan looks like sister Olivia de Havilland here, I think it's the hairstyle. Love Joan's laugh...for such a petite woman.

[@pfflyer3381]

Joan is so gracious, and real. Love how she wiped the guys head!

[@kurtmorris454]

16:38 the longest I've ever seen a contestant take to answer a clue without Alan 5 second mouth go off. Even the clue giver had to be the one to coax her to hurry

[@elspethcoogan1499]

Jack was joshing his partner when he told her to hurry. I think he said otherwise he might get into trouble; he had only recently got engaged.

[@gwenwilliams1439]

So cute when Jack laughed and then said "forget the show" !!! 💋🤗

[@bill99208]

Jack always looks relieved when he gets the Lightning Round.

[@gwenwilliams1439]

Love this one!! Jack and the contestant Marsha seemed to have a good repore!! So cute!! Love them together!! 👍🤗

[@elliebellie7816]

Jack Jones, still living January 2024 and married six times....

[@peteb1206]

Love his recording of After Today! One of my favourites

[@jasonhurd4379]

It drove me up the wall when Jack kept giving 'soup' and 'chicken' over and over as clues for 'rice'. All he had to say was 'grain', then if she didn't say rice, he could have said 'Chinese'. Ah well.

[@manthony777]

That was painful to watch.

[@smadaf]

Exactly the pair of words I thought of when the word popped up: grain, Chinese.

[@smadaf]

Exactly the pair of words I thought of when the word popped up: grain, Chinese.

[@alexrafe2590]

The word for rice that would have only needed saying once was ‘basmati’. If that didn’t work, followed by saffron. And Jack was wrong about the meaning of robust. Joan had it with ‘hearty,’ other synonyms - strong, healthy, but not hero.

[@manthony777]

@@alexrafe2590 , back then I don't think basmati would have worked. Jack Jones was not a good player

[@alexrafe2590]

No Allen, an iconoclast is a destroyer of icons.

[@voicetube]

Funny how it would just be a few years later where "Martin" could have been a great clue for "Sheen." Of course a few decades later "Charlie" followed by "WINNING!" :-)

[@ejm2706]

John 3:36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

[@gwenwilliams1439]

For the word "Vehicle" the word "Automobile"should have been given as the 1st clue!! 😏👍

[@honeysucklei]

15:44 what causes the laughing matter here? i want to know lol sounds funny! can someone explain this? thank u!

[@lukeheaton5336]

I’m just guessing here but all I come up with is that “bosomy” was sort of risqué for 1967 and the answer “brave” is so far off that Joan Fontaine found it funny. Who knows?

[@Bigbadwhitecracker]

I've never noticed how much like his father Jack looks like from profile.

[@faithfulforever6331]

I really like Jack Jones pompadour hair style - full yet with a touch of Brylcreem.

[@gwenwilliams1439]

Martha and Jack would have been a sweet couple!!!! ❤❤

[@TommygunNG]

"Iconoclast" was a better clue for "idol" than the panel gave the girl credit for. It just didn't go far enough. It took a second clue to zero it in.

[@chrisn7259]

Actually icon is what she should have said. Maybe she thought iconoclast was the complete word or something. An iconoclast is someone who isn't impressed by idols.

[@TommygunNG]

@@chrisn7259 Legit point. I've been watching many of these old episodes, and it's clear that people, even celebrities and such, in those days honestly weren't as sophisticated or educated as even regular people today are. Your point might be part of that, or perhaps she's a rather religious person and so gravitated in the direction of idol-destruction. But certainly, Ludden's narrow focus on the word's definition was a case of this.

[@alexrafe2590]

@@TommygunNG Yes agreed, the problem was that the contestant was trying to give a synonym for an idol, which was an icon, but added the suffix, clast, changing the meaning to a destroyer of icons. By that mistake she muddied the waters. But in her defence, it’s much easier finding exactly the right clue, and form of a clue, when you’re not being filmed for national television with only a few seconds available to do it. Allen, in his typical fashion, stepped in with another interpretation that was also wrong. I’ll give him this, he never seemed afraid of making himself look foolish, bless him. The contestants I found difficult to bear were the ones with zero recall, who kept responding just to the last given clue, while not considering that earlier clues made it obvious their answer couldn’t possibly be the word in question🙄

[@TommygunNG]

@@alexrafe2590 Yes. especially on the last paragraph.

[@gusloader123]

And A.L. had no clue what the word "iconoclast" meant. What a doofus. How did he get a degree in "English" but not know words that surely came up in college. An Iconoclast was someone who was against the idols/statues/icons which are used in the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic systems. Good clue,,,, assuming the other person graduated from High School and owns a dictionary.

[@lindasarda3656]

Is he good! And is she so lovely!

[@danielalderman1069]

Iconoclast: idol breaker

[@onion6foot]

Martha Wittmeyer (sp?) looks like my (late) grandmother as a young woman. Striking. Wonder about her family tree.

[@lynnturman8157]

Somebody needs to tell Jack to slow down with the clues during the lightning round. Give your partner a second to process your clues.

[@smadaf]

The clues for "robust" are pretty bad.

[@kurtmorris454]

Rice- Krispies, cereal

[@gusloader123]

Joan Fontaine gave very bad clues for the P-W "Robust". Jack Jones gave better clues but the guy with the too-small suit was ruined by Joan's clues.

[@Dharmon1]

11:25 that’s a little too precise.

[@honeysucklei]

that made me laugh sooo hard

[@elspethcoogan1499]

That was unnecessary Joan @13:45 - the contestant was indeed on the big side and her saying “nothing personal” evidently made him self-conscious.

[@johnfd0210]

Yes. Miss Fontaine was really unfailingly polite, so was surprised she said that; I really do think she meant it in a humorous way.

[@hudsony777]

@@johnfd0210 She didn't want to offend him, clearly. They made a great team.

[@faithfulforever6331]

You have to understand that the majority of people were thin in the 1960s and what we would not consider overweight today was considered fat then.

[@poetcomic1]

I've never seen a game where players didn't know so many words. The players obviously don't know the meaning of robust. Allan explain 'iconoclast' completely wrong and much else besides.

[@lawsonj39]

Yow, their clues for robust were awful!

[@wmalden]

I would have given “sturdy” or “strong” as clues.

[@alexrafe2590]

Well yes partly, the poor ones came mainly from Jack Jones, like ‘hero’, huh? Joan’s clues like ‘hearty’ and ‘strong’ were mostly pretty good.

[@gusloader123]

Jack Jones gave good clues, but Joan F. totally "dropped-the-ball". Like many actresses and actors --- Clueless without a Cue card.

[@donaldleroy6502]

Not sure if he was a household name at that time but I woulda used Martin for the word sheen. Joan was on the right track when she used the word hearty for robust, others would include strong and powerful

[@lawsonj39]

Martin Sheen was FAR from a household name in 1967.

[@alexrafe2590]

@@lawsonj39 Indeed.

[@gusloader123]

@@lawsonj39 And his real name is Estevez. Show-biz name change.

[@siddharthsen7035]

Utensil is a horrible clue and the clues for rice was terrible