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PeterMarshallFan:
The top left picture on Aaron's page is the set I'm talking about.

calliaume:

--- Quote ---The top left picture on Aaron's page is the set I'm talking about.
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That's just a bad video capture.  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.

PeterMarshallFan:
[quote name=\'calliaume\' date=\'Jul 25 2003, 09:05 AM\']
--- Quote ---The top left picture on Aaron's page is the set I'm talking about.
--- End quote ---

That's just a bad video capture.  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. [/quote]
 I knew it didn't look familiar...I saw it and thought \"What the hell?!\"

Thanks for clearing that up.

JasonA1:
On Aaron's site there's a link to a \"Bewitched\" site which has some exclusive sound clips from ABC's Password. Other than that fact, which alone is pretty cool, there's some rules issues cleared up here. Feel free to chime in with addendums. FYI, the clips were from the week of November 19-23, 1973.

* By this point (entire run?) each word in the Lightning Round was worth $100.

* Also, by this point (entire run?) games were played as two-out-of-three matches.

I should mention the ticking sound of the \"Betting Word\" clock is extremely irritating.

-Jason

uncamark:

--- Quote ---* By this point (entire run?) each word in the Lightning Round was worth $100.

* Also, by this point (entire run?) games were played as two-out-of-three matches.
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Correct for sure on the latter.  Initially in this version, the champion met a new challenger after every game.  By early 1973 through \"Password All-Stars,\" it was two-out-of-three.

As for the former, I don't think so--it seemed to me that in the two-out-of-three format, a Lightning Round was played after every game but the Betting Word was only played after the second win and that your combined winnings from both Lightning Rounds (which were still $50 a word) were yours to bet (which would be a maximum of $500).  At least it seemed that way.

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