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ABC Password question
JasonA1:
I'd hate to berate Mark here, whose posts I respect and read all the time, but Allen was distinctly counting out the words in hundreds. And, in one clip where the first game in the match is won, they immediately change partners.
-Jason
That Don Guy:
I agree with Jason - I definitely remember a time when the Lightning Round was $100 a word. I want to say that the change was after the 2-out-of-3 change (it's possible that when they started the $100-a-word, they only played the Lightning Round after each match), but I remember when I used to say \"I want to say...\" about the early episodes of The Joker's Wild, and then I saw them again on GSN...
-- Don (say, did anybody ever intentionally give an illegal clue in a Betting Word round (forcing a \"no bet\") when it seemed they were about to lose?)
Ian Wallis:
Quote:
The set was never pink -- they switched from the orange Password set directly to the blue Password All-Stars set in November 1974, but that was the only change.
Trust the old fogy who actually saw the show on this one.
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I saw it too, and the change was actually supposed to happen a couple of weeks earlier than it did. I remember Allen Ludden mentioning the upcoming changes and, at the end of a Friday episode, stated it would be happening \"next Monday\". Sure enough, we tuned it that Monday and it was still the same set. I believe the changes occured two weeks after that broadcast instead.
Jimmy Owen:
Interesting, Ian. The celeb. archives on Aaron's site for the two weeks prior to \"All-Stars\" list a charity tourney for the first week and then no listing for the week after that. Could they have thrown in some repeats or out of taping order shows before the mid-Nov \"All-Stars\" debut? Wonder how they handled the current champ situation when they went all-celeb?
Ian Wallis:
I vaguely remember Allen mentioning at the top of the broadcast why it wasn't the new format. I think he mentioned something about the set construction wasn't completed, or something along those lines. After all of this time though, it's hard to remember exactly what was said.
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