It's time for another episode of the classic game show, PASSWORD, featuring Irene Ryan & Guy Williams! Check out our Facebook Page: / 559582844223348 Click here to subscribe to the PASSWORD channel: / @password5737
It's always fun to see Allen sweep in at the top of the program, face the audience, then swoop around to the podium, swinging the mic cord with a flourish.
Although this is 2 years late, the YT channel known as SHUDDER has a person who looks a whole lot like a younger version of Guy with a beard. ( he looks a bit like Guy in that Greek Based story that was made into a film in the early 60's) I don't know who that person is but, his small speaking part even sounded like Guy's voice! I'm trying to think of the SHUDDER short but can't think of what it's called although it's the most current thing on it.
That's because every time a twenty first century person tries to act like a man he's accused of toxic masculinity. _Oh Masculine Patriarchy, Thy Very Name Doth Be Toxic!_
Glad you recorded these old PASSWORD game shows - so that we could see all our favorites tv stars as they really are apart from their shows.Most of them are no longer with us - so we will never be able to get to meet them.This is the next best thing.
Armando Catalano (aka Guy Williams) was always the Super Spaniard: Catalano is an Italian name betraying the man's origins: Catalonia, Spain. Between the 11th & 13th centuries, there was a huge MIGRATION of Catalonians (Spaniards) to Italy. Those who adopted the name "Catalano" was to ALWAYS remind themselves of their origins. Pity Armando's family never told him about his past! Pity that he called himself "Italian" when he had 0 Italy DNA: migrants back then stuck together when in a foreign country and typically married within their own culture. In this sense, Guy really had a lot more in common with Zorro than first thought. Your bit of trivia for today.
@@mariaangelesmarcoalvarez1665 my apologies I am deleting my previous comment as I am responding to you from the Bell notifications without clicking the video I thought this was about Ricardo Montalban LOL yes what I wrote is true just do a search for the meaning of Catalano and then do a search for catalonians migration from Spain to Italy you're very welcome
Guy Williams is so handsome and charming. My favorite television father. I grew up watching Lost In Space and Guy Williams was the perfect choice for the brave honest and loving head of the Robinson family. I love seeing Allen Ludden. The loving husband of the wonderful Betty White. And Granny, Irene Ryan is so sweet here. Rest in peace to you all.
It's interesting to see how times have changed. I noticed Alan Ludden did not ask the female contestant what she did for a living so it was assumed she did not work outside the home
This seems like something the producers (or maybe even Allen) were willing to try in an effort to boost the show's ratings. I believe it was cancelled not long afterward (original run ended in 1967).
It became known as "jumping the shark" after an episode of "Happy Days" with Fonzie literally doing that. These things rarely work. This one didn't. But if it gave Goodson-Todman the idea for "Family Feud", it was worth it.
@@loissimmons6558 If you watch the show from beginning to end (I don't mean just this episode), but if you watch Password from its very beginning to its end you can see it was " tweaked " quite a bit over the years. In the beginning the show was kind of slow and clunky, but as it stayed on they managed to make it better and better...and then kind of screw it up. In my opinion, most game shows blow it when they try to be too folksy. The folksiness has a tendency to slow down the action.
@@howardkerr8174 I know exactly what you mean. I am old enough to have watched Password when it was first run. It was one of my favorite game shows. Therefore, I also saw a lot of the rules changes. In the beginning a lot of the changes focused on how long the contestants could appear on the show. And of course like all game shows, once it had been around for a while, the host didn't have to spend so much time explaining the rules. The biggest change to keep the show from dragging that I can recall was when they no longer would play a word past five points. I had mixed feelings about that. When the people giving the clues kept giving the same clues over and over, it got frustrating for everyone. OTOH, sometimes it would be more interesting if they were able to keep coming up with new clue words, even if someone finally guessed it for only a point or two. And sometimes that point or two was the margin of victory. I don't know if the problem with Password was that it got "too folksy". Rather I think the problem was that it got too gimmicky in trying to keep the show fresh. In particular the all-celebrity version proved to be very unpopular. It was okay for a change of pace week under the old format, but it would appear that the viewers preferred the celebrity/non-celebrity pairing. They could see some of their favorite stars while also imagining themselves up there, competing for and possibly winning some money.
Irene Ryan spent nearly 50 years slogging through the backwaters of show business before hitting it big later in life. Pity she didn't live longer, to enjoy the fruits of her success.
Even when she was cast on The Beverly Hillbillies, her salary was still comparatively low considering her experience. It got better especially after she, Donna Douglas and Max Baer had a "strike" with the network.
Allen Ludden misses comedy gold at 2:30 with this exchange with Mrs. Ransom: Ludden: "How long have you been married?" Mrs. Ransom: "Twenty five years and six sons... (flubs) to... the... this year." Ludden: "And we're gonna play Password with two of them, right?" Groucho would've responded right away with something like: "Six sons this year? Why the rush?" and spent a full two minutes riffing on that. Ludden just wants to rush to the game and missed the opportunity.
They were clearly going again st Guy: they gave him all the starts, which made the other person's win child's play: they had heard the clues and so her contestants (or she) got 2 words instead of Guy always getting 1. N O T FAIR! Plus the camera was hardy on him. What was that about?! U G H! He got treated so unfairly all his career. Seems he got B L A CK LISTED at some point. I don't remember what i had uncovered about that back when.
He didn't get blacklisted: he was unhappy with the direction LIS took and was reluctant to do anything after that. He ended up being invited to Argentina in 1973 because Zorro was so popular there. He was treated like a king there and bounced back and forth between LA and Buenos Aires for the remainder of his life. He died in Argentina in 1989. He loved living there.
@@gerrydooley951 Wrong Gerry!!! Guy left USA because he was blacklisted. Do some research about the way it was back then. (Men were regularly propositioned by the boris kalroffs and james whales of their day! Look em up here. It didn't start with harvey weinstein!) Don't believe everything you read in biographies, particularly the one written by that despicable gigi woman!
As I understand, he invested his money well, and simply didn’t need to continue acting to make a living. Can’t hate on someone for wanting an early retirement!! Still, I wish he would have continued on in greater roles! He was a great actor, IMO, and would have had a better end than Lost in Space! If it makes you feel better, he moved to Argentina, where everyone treated him as a cross between Royalty and a god! So he DID have a good life after Lost in Space!
It was supposed to be his show but when they started focusing on dr. Smith, will and the robot, the rest of the cast were just supporting characters including guy, the star
@@gerrydooley951 Yes, I heard they treated him like a National Treasure! Good for him that he enjoyed the rest of his life there! Still wish he had done another show in America! We loved him here, too!
At 18 minutes, "Pat, how did you meet your husband, Tom?", then, "Robert, what do you do for a living?" It went unnoticed then but is terribly creepy now.
Why is that creepy now? If it is, then people have become ridiculously sensitive. In the 1960's these were common questions that were asked to begin a conversation with a new acquaintance.
@@faithfulforever6331 Really? Robert is assumed to be the breadwinner, head of household, and the person of achievement between two of them. The woman is merely asked where she met someone who is the breadwinner, head of household, and the person of achievement. That would be slammed to pieces today as being arrogantly chauvinistic, which is very much was.
@@faithfulforever6331 Interesting point, so here is my counterpoint: I lived in Tennessee for 22 years. When my sister told me she and her husband were to be transferred from Pennsylvania to Arkansas I told her to be prepared, it won't be like anywhere you lived before. After she had been there a few months I asked her: " how do you guys like it?". She said what really surprised her was the first question folks asked when she met them there. What is the first or second question folks in the Bible Belt ask newcomers to a community? Which church do you attend? I consider that to be a private matter. But they ask that question because in 1 question and 1 answer they can get a fairly precise idea about where you stand on a lot of different topics. Democrats don't go to a Baptist church. Democrats don't send their kids to a religious school unless the town has a Catholic school. I suppose they can even guess which stores you shop in with a fair bit of accuracy. CREEPED OUT?
@@howardkerr8174 Well, those questions don't have to bother you, if you choose not to have them bother you. Most of the time, people are just trying to make conversation. But I know there are people who are being overly nosy and you can usually tell by their questions. If that is what you suspect, then don't give them the complete answer.
My main man Guy Williams was poking June Lockhart during the filming of LOST IN SPACE -- they had an affair - an on set romance - snuck off to their dressing rooms for some afternoon delight - and they were getting paid too -- good deal
This is LIS era?? I don't understand! GW has a different dull smile with botched teeth and here he has his bright Zorro smile. How? There were no veneers back then. How did he remove this smile for LIS? And why? That's not part of a character! Even his nose was shorter pudgy and with a round tip on LIS whearas Zorro had a pointy, longer nose! I'm confused now but thanks for sharing.
not sure what you're talking about. Guy seldom smiled on LIS, he was the serious professor as opposed to Zorro where he was always smiling. Same teeth and nose. He did have a space between his front teeth which he filled with what was called a partial.
@@gerrydooley951 My god are fkn blind or just an idiot fanboy in denial? OPEN YOUR EYES!!!! He got a nose job for Zorro, the same nose tip implant as Gene Kelly! His teeth are rotten looking in LIS and the wrong size. Something happened. In Zorro it was dentures or veneers or whatever they did at the time. He got that removed. And don't give me that cr4p about not smiling. SIT ON YOUR HANDS next time, instead of posting dumb replies at me and do some googling instead! Compare images, it's not that compliicated
