PASSWORD 1963-08-12 Nanette Fabray & Robert Stack 

Yes, excellent point regarding Rich Little. I always thought that Robert Stack sounded like a combination of Ted Koppel and Hugh Downs!

Kate Luxor Thank you for the comment! Glad you're enjoying the show :-)

Even Jack Clark was laughing too at that word

And he probably should've won the 3rd game. Allen threw "pour" out which would've made given Robert & his partner 10 points. And then the very next clue Fabray cheated on "stack".

Good observations..,agree.

That's one of the worst shortcomings of the show. Oh I've just watched the part where the password was "stack" and she constantly made gestures with her eyes to Robert Stack. So the "no gesture" rule wasn't applied in an unashamed manner.

Daniel Benson: Good observation. I have never seen any "Penalty Box" time for the flagrant cheaters. The Celebs seem to have forgotten the game is called "Password" NOT "Pantomime" or "Charades". If A.L. would have stopped giving the Celebs free advertising for their gigs, plays, movies, TV shows, they would have stuck with using WORDS.

Oh, i just love the zero penalties on breaking rules.

Take it up with Dr Feelgood

Was wondering about that.

They really seem virtually identical to me.

orangeknight81 Bingo! Two different words but the woman contestant did not pass elementary school, or she would have known that. "Pour" water from a Pitcher. The Electrical engineer deserved to win that one because he read the PW correctly. Not: Poor- as in having little or no money. Then the man ( A.L.) who claimed to have a College Degree in "English" did NOT seem to know they are two different words, both in meaning and pronunciation.

@@MrJoeybabe25 There is an online dictionary available, if you do not have a printed one at home. Two different words. "Pour" the water from the Pitcher. vs. The "poor" have little or no money.

I said yard and metric the 2nd time.

Back then, the man was the bread winner, but Allen asked ea. lady: "are you married" & if they were, they would usually fill in about their children, husband or their work. If single, they would say what college they were attending, or what their job was. If the lady had no comments about the children or her job, Allen would then ask what their husband did for a living.

L.J. - At that period of American history, Marriage and children were considered a good thing, unlike today in this 2022 society of downwards spiral focused on "self" and pleasure. BTW - A.L. was asking what the show producers had already put on the information cards. Poster "Mtn Man" gave you a good answer.

It was a man's world. There was even a tv show called It's a Man's World. The other thing he says that is so archaic is, "Are you a working girl?"

@@Barbara-vk4fh So what? In 1963 women either were students or housewives (My mom was a housewife and wanted to be) or they had a job and were a "working girl". It was not until the next year (1964) when demo-socialist L.B.J. got his massive welfare scheme in place and people figured out that they could get welfare $, free housing and free food for doing nothing. Also: It was not meant to be a 1/2 hour Biography program, but rather a game show about words.

You’re not alone in asking this or being upset about it but this was a time when the man brought home the money and the wife kept house. Even if the woman worked she wouldn’t get a good pay in comparison. The thing is, my parents decided to have children and the sacrifice was that someone would bring up the kids and not let them miss out on education at home. We did the same thing when we had kids, unlike so many who even fly off for weeks at a time and the kids don’t see dad most of the time. I blame this choice of parenting on a lot of bad behaviour these days. Having kids means a change in life style, not throwing them to strangers while you go shopping all day or to get two 4x4’s and a boat.

so true...

Was he a member of Riggs pigs ?

@@joeambrose3260 Yes. Let's apply a modern sensibility to past generations. That way we can get offended as possible.

Ludden was married to Betty White who worked almost constantly, so he definitely knew women work just as hard or harder then men. He probably knew beforehand the guest was a housewife.

Chris N --- Wrong! My mom was married, and she did NOT work outside of the home. Her and Dad thought it was flat out wrong for women to work outside the home if they had children. (Amen!) {The children are raised by other people, not the parents, and that is a major problem which we have right now in the U.S. of A... No discipline, no reverence to God. No manners, no gratitude.} My mom was a "Housewife" and mother to myself and my sister. We never spent a day in jail, nor got arrested. That is NOT a bad thing. She used to watch "Password" as she was folding the laundry from the clothesline or ironing clothes.