Darren McGavin was the father in the timeless Christmas classic "A Christmas Story." You'll shoot you eye out! lol

My mother the sweet southern lady. I had always heard this story but I was 2 years old at the time.

Five-Hundred Dollars was A PASSEL of money in 1962! Amazing how much it would purchase.

I could watch Carol play all night 🤣

One of my favorite actors, Darren had me scared as Kolchak as a little kid.😄

I love how Carol screams. It's so funny

I love when the announcer Jackson gets tickled & you can hear him suppressing giggles! Gets me every time!

Carol makes you laugh no matter what she says I love her 😅🧡 When she screamed I almost dropped my cup of tea 😅😅

Carol Burnett is my absolute favorite password player

The first contestant with Carol Burnett was right! She is amazing!

WOW! The intro to McGavin ... I’ve never before seen him so adorably keeeeeeeeYUTE!

Carol: lollipop! 🍭 Victor: sucker! Carol: lol why did you look at me when you said that?

Voice yelling from audience: "Kolchak, why are you on a gameshow during business hours?" McGavin: "Vincenzo, we get a cut of the winnings! And there's a werewolf here."

No one could have hosted Password better than Allen. No one. Rest in Peace, Betty White Ludden.

Absolutely adore Carole Burnett!

Much simpler times for sure!!! Fun show. Thank you!

Darren is so good at this game !! Wiped the floor 😂😂

$500 in 1962 was nothing to sneeze at.

I Love Carol Burnette and I Love Darrin also, there both Great.

This is a fantastic episode, very high spirited and funny, and something I really liked is Darren asking the lady contestant a question about her husband, that's quite rare. He's a likable guy but not too good on the lightening round, I think his ums and errs are quite gruff and maybe delay the responses? Carol is just fab, her facial expressions especially. They say this is a simpler time but I think it was more complex, sophisticated and clever. Today is all gritty violence, duck pouts and vacuosity, and annoying charmless personalities.

Why can't this game be brought back? I love it and play along with it now and feel sad that there will never be another Password because it is too innocent and decent unlike most game shows today.

Password is one of most enjoyable home games. I have many fond memories playing it with family and friends. It's great game for bonding.

Carol was a fantastic player

Great to see Carol on tonight's show, I love her! And I'd LOVE to see that special she talked about with one of my other favorite people, Julie Andrews,

Two VERY intelligent celebrities !

This show is only as good as it's celebrities, these two are very good, Peter Lawford is the best though !

That's HILARIOUS how the loudest word I've ever's heard the whispering announcer "whisper" is "LARYNGITIS!" LOL! :-)

Darren McGavin comes across as very much the gentleman.

The Southern accent is the best (to me, anyhow!).

Carl Kolchak himself!!! Love it!

I will never firget a christmas story eith Darrin Mcgaven i live him and that show. I watch the movie every Christmas. I had two children and they loved it too. They are grown now, but they still watch it with their children every year too. Its a tradition ro our family.

OHYOUAREAMAZING! i loved that!

"I'm a sport!" 😄

"Will you excuse the expression?" Tongue.

At 4:52: Victor, (Contestant) to Carol Burnett) "Oh, you are amazing!" He had that right. She sure is!

The initial version of Password was simple and thus much better, one could even say cute watching this episode, given the guests and even the stars. When they started adding stuff in Password Plus, wasn't the same.

Boy, Darren was good looking.

How great if Darren had said this clue: fra-GI-le

GLITZY FOR GLAMOUROUS

*I would've gone with 'KOREA' since that 'TRUCE' was still fresh in most minds then*

$500 was a grand amount of money to win in 1962 when a person in a low paying job was fortunate to take home $50 a week.

Me encantaría subtitularan al español, estos programas, me entretienen tanto a pesar que no entiendo.

Very difficult words this time!

For "Truce" I would have early on said "Settlement" (or "Agreement") both said with a little acting and influence to drive it home.

o happi days::::kennedy was our beloved prez

It certainly is true that "Truce" Is not an easy one. A couple other words I thought of which I don't think were used could be "Agreement" and then also possibly "Compromise" - both of which aren't perfect synonyms, of course, but mixed in with all the other clues might have helped. Another one could be "truth" but that's stretching it a bit - mainly for the (sort of) rhyming aspect. On that note, as it got down toward the 10th clue, somebody could've smiled and said "Bruce…" said with an upward inflection at the end and a big cat-ate-the-canary smile...

Maybe it's being an "armchair quarterback," as it were, but there seems to be a lack of what seems so simple as regards watching Darren McGavin struggle so much with the Lightning Round. For me (sitting here watching KZfaq in 2020 so obviously a different scenario) it seems so simple to just say "Push" and then "Button" (for "Press") and probably very quickly, said in that "Password-ian" way, denoting opposites, for "Slow"… "Faaast?"... For "Quick" one could 1st try "Sloooow?" ... And then when the contestant tries to say "Fast" simply saying the word "Other" until the correct synonym (Quick) is spoken. The secret to the Lightning Round seems to be a calm, cool and collected intensity with purpose and not being thrown off when the contestant doesn't say the word you are hoping he or she says. There's almost like a "Zen" quality (which the clue-givers who get it in 15 to 25 seconds seem to have, many times).

"iT'S A CLINKERRRR!"

For "Ferry" as a second clue, I would've made car plural (cars).

It was a simpler time with tons of humanity shown. What happened to the world?

The word is Zombie.....The word is Vampire...the Word is Werewolf....the word is Diablaro...the word is Succubus

Truce...after first clue "war", maybe "recess" might work

McGavin was SO annoying. Poor Guy TRYING to hurry him up with the last Clue to get "Handsome". PLAY the Game & play at hamming it up where it belongs. Poor Contestants.

for truce, they needed to say pause.

Prompt... adjective from the lady, and noun from the man.

Fraaa Geee Laay…

pact for truce

In the second game the woman said LOP which was wrong. The word she meant was LOB. Then when called out she insisted she said LOB. She deserved to lose the second round.

For "Press" I might have said "Button" followed by "Activate" and that if I had to "Punch"

winner should get next word...

Winning the game back then was 250 bucks! In later years they got CHEAP and only gave away 100 bucks for the game win (before the fast round). Total outrage!

They are so excited to win $250! What is that today: $30,000?

What's up with the echo of the scream before Carol actually screams on the very first password? It was a little creepy! ☺

Weird that the clue-givers didn't seem to understand what a truce is.

is one even allowed to say 'black magic' these days ??

People getting so excited about $250 is kinda' sad. Any Kolchak fan knows McGavin IS a ham, haha. Not quite Shatner level but pretty over the top acting.

Darren wasted far too much time with his theatrics. I wouldn’t have wanted him for a partner.

The only thing I can think of to do for truce is after treaty, conference & peace were given was to say false with the opposite head movement & hope they put it all together & said tru....ce