well said, indeed

R.I.P Allen and Betty's still holding her own now at 99!

RIP Betty White :(

@@Redsoxfanmatt Betty White is still alive and well,, why do you say RIP, perhaps you mean Allen Ludden RIP,, he is deceased. At any rate Happy New Year to All Here In 2021,, and All The Best in 2022.

@@joeygagliardi7380 Betty White died this morning.

We all face death differently. These people were their friends, in a way they were surrounded by friends.

And sitting next to each other.

This was a priceless video seeing the Luddens together before Allen passed away

I think everybody agrees that Brett is BIG Mouth...except for that one person.

he was 63 not 69

That's what I was going to say.

Allen Listen was diagnosed with cancer in 1980. He took a month off from Password Plus to get radiation and chemotherapy treatments; and Bill Cullen filled in for him. Unfortunately, the cancer came back, and Allen Ludden was just too sick to continue hosting Password Plus. Tom Kennedy took his place for the remainder of the show.

I meant Allen Listen. Sorry.

Allen Ludden's first wife, Margaret, also died of cancer as well. She died not too long after Password first debuted on CBS back in 1961. When both he and Betty White got married in 1963, she became a stepmother to his three kids by Margaret: Martha, David, and Sarah.

Want to chat??

it was

ALWAYS call on a comedian. Most are VERY smart, good speakers, and just pretty sharp people. Jimmy gave great answers, BOTH were #1 answers. He's a VERY smart and quick wit guy 🙂

Love Jimmie, too

that wasn't in the Dawson seat though, which was what was stated

A.D. yes that’s just the way I write sorry about the punctuation and commas as long as they know what I wrote

How can you get one?

@@angelan2764 use your favorite search engine & search for the title to see what pops up

Rest In Peace Allen Ludden and Betty White

Don't forget that on his own Jimmy Walker can't carry a show IMHO. He was great on Good Times and he just a step above Kaye Stevens on MatchGame. In 2023 he's selling extended auto warranties on cable TV.

"PFFFFFFT"!!!!!!

Yeah, but the reason he sat next to Brett was because, obviously Richard Dawson was there in the center bottom seat. Once he left, it became another rotating seat. So, it was a pleasant surprise to see Allen and Betty next to each other. Having Jonelle Allen to his right didn't hurt, either.

Tom was also doing nighttime Price is Right, so doing two shows was probably enough for Tom at that time, especially since by his own admission he was struggling with Price and trying to remember the rules to all the games. (If he was struggling, I never saw it. To me, he was very competent with Price) He did appear on SP for one week sometime in the run, I think around the time Wordplay was on the air.

UM Brett Matched someone ALOOOT, thanks!

Joe Gerner 🖕🏻

For the first time ever!!!😂😃😁

Or perhaps Million Dollar Password rather than Regis Philbin if he was around in the 2000s.

Tom Kennedy was approached about SP, but he was already offered Body Language, so they went with Bert, who is also a fine host, and he did a great job with it. MDP got on my nerve because it looked too much like Millionaire. I’d love to see Password come back, with the right host...no D-list comedians, and no gimmicks. Just play the game, with bigger money.

@@MollyT119 Password wouldn't work today . The studio would look like a dark purple space station with cheap jokes .

@@770WT it COULD be done, with the right host and right approach. It was done by Jimmy Fallon on the Tonight show for years, with a mock-up of the mid-60s set, and real celebrities. It never turned raunchy, no more than SP ever would have.

Well, I don't know. Whenever I saw him, he always had on a hat of some sort. Later on in the show, when he was an adult, he had a very short fro, very close to the scalp.

***** Not only that...but then, Lawyers could come down from the raptors if they didn't pay for the publicity.

I've seen a lot of Family Feud (Dawson version) contestants name their employers.

***** That's true, though a lot has happened between 1980 to cause just only the names of schools and colleges to be mentioned

I think that would not apply to contestants on game shows who were born and living in Canada, because back then, Canadian businesses did not compete with U.S. businesses...kind of like me saying 'Well, I'm (my name), and I work at the Eaton's store at Jackson Square in Hamilton, Ontario.', because there were no Eaton's locations in the U.S. Same could be said if I mentioned their former flagship location on Yonge St. in Toronto. =P

Ah Ha! I was wondering cause I knew she wasn't saying exactly what she wanted to say. I thought maybe she was covering up that she was a singing stripper or something.

After Allen Ludden died in 1981, Tom Kennedy took over as host of Password Plus until NBC cancelled it in 1982.

It's the second time. This is the only time they sat together

CBS owned this show, before ABC did. ABC still owns it now, with Alec Baldwin as host.

​@@paullarue2010CBS had the rights to the daytime show. In syndication they could sell to the highest bidder in each market.

It was before. Allen did not have a stroke. He went into a coma as a side effect of his medicine's raising his calcium levels.

John Lang Watch this Ira! 🌬💨🌊

Damn straight !!!

Everyone loved Betty White back in the day. Most still love her today; It's just a real shame that she turned into such a potty mouth

Krista Brewer what on earth are you talking about? Rarely has there been so gracious and loving lady as she. God made a good one when he/she/it made her.

Grandma vibes dust it off and go for it.

Dresses was my first thought too, until Gene reread the question and I heard firing squad then I changed to blindfolds and dresses!

Robert Grant one night a week vs. five weekdays? Plus higher ad revenues at night.

I think he became bored after Richard Dawson left the show.

@@wecantfightgravity I agree with you, there. Gene and Richard played off of each other so well. No one could fill in for Richard on that score.

Chain Reaction and PW+ were on the same network, and aired back to back with Wheel of Fortune and High Rollers. It was just a way to promote PW+ which was still a fairly new show at the time.

Matthew Kaiser I thought Password had long established itself by that point. Or did it change networks when it went Plus? I'm too young to remember it from anything but GSN, unfortunately.

Password was indeed a popular game, but Password Plus was only on for a short time when Chain Reaction came along. I don't think Allen Ludden appeared on the show after returning to Password Plus, but I could be wrong. I think Bill Cullen appeared as a celeb guest on the week Allen returned so that the viewers could see Bill was PLAYING the game, so Allen had to be back. According to Adam Nedeff's book about Bill Cullen, the producers and everyone involved LOVED Bill and thought he was great at hosting. Despite appearing on PW+ before as a celeb, Bill didn't really know how to HOST the show. He needed only one runthrough before he picked up on the game. When Allen became too ill to continue, they didn't want Bill for a couple reasons. First, Bill was doing Blockbusters, and that game was too new to get a new host, and replacing Bill Cullen would've been a bad idea, no matter who they got. Also, they felt that Bill was perhaps a bit "too slow" in moving Password Plus along. They wanted someone that could move the game at about as fast as Allen did, and Tom Kennedy was really a great fit. Betty also endorsed Tom as a good replacement (she too loved Bill though) Tom pretty much gave Password Plus more of a "You Don't Say" vibe, which makes sense because You Don't Say had some similarities to Password.

He DID? Chain Reaction is a fairly new show.

Krista Brewer you must not remember the 80's much.

Calvin W Boaz The Inquistion was the interrogation from the Catholics with anyone who opposed their teachings. One was that they could not read the Bible on their own. they would find out the truth for one. There also was the Spanish Inquisition. Same thing similiar....

Calvin W Boaz Oops! I see it. Game Show. Play on words...

+Calvin W Boaz Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition!

The inquizitor would ask multiple choice questions to participants in prison outfits, and they had three seconds to answer. After each round, one of the participants was told to screw off, until one was left. They earned freedom from further inquizition... and $500.

@@boisegameshowguy yup, and the Inquisitor...nobody saw his face except for the contestants (including one whom was actually thrown off the show when she argued back).

You mean 1981 that was the that Allen died.

You don't know who Jimmy Walker is???

Can tell you were not alive in the 1970's. I do not like your comment.

​​@@roberts.3098Don't judge people! They didn't have access to the cosmetic denistry we have now and they made so much less it wouldn't have been affordable for most.