I know your comment is 2 years old but I appreciate the update, very cool

Right on👍

Cut her some slack. Maybe she was daydreaming about Max

This was a Tuesday. She was gone the next episode (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hNiKd6iQldTMn4k.html). Ludden claims she was called back to CA, but since they usually filmed a week's worth in a day, it's possible she was feeling badly.

@@joeambrose3260 LOL, you may have a point! :-)

I felt for the contestant too, but sometimes you can freeze, especially with games where you hear the clock ticking. So I agree we have to cut Donna some slack. Especially as they lost several seconds early in the round when the word jumped ahead and Allen called for the clock to be stopped while they sorted the words out, and the person running the clock didn’t, but just let it keep running.

@@alexrafe2590 I hear you, Alex. In fact, as I sometimes mentioned in these comments, here I am a cyber armchair quarterback in the year 2023 - NOT in front of a studio audience with cameras recording me for millions of people and a clock ticking and… and. 🙂 So I totally cut all sorts of slack. Very good points.

THAT'S EXACTLY CORRECT!! That's what I thought.

i don't think that would have helped. for some reason Donna just lost it.

I see, I'm very rude for suggesting she may have a drink but you suggesting that Jack cheated isn't? You were there? you know this how?

@LynettePalecek He cheated here and in the previous ep. Idk why they allowed it. But they called it Donna for it. Really bothered me.

@kj robbi Yes, that bothered me too.

How can u be sure

Betsy Allee is still with us and looking good, well into her 70s.

@@lclarkwells Who is She. ?

This was a Tuesday. She was gone the next episode (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hNiKd6iQldTMn4k.html). Ludden claims she was called back to CA, but since they usually filmed a week's worth in a day, it's possible she was feeling badly.

This particular week the starz were each there 2 days. I personally feel like she didn't do good either day. Lovely woman though.

Luckily the woman she played with was brilliant; the guy was hopeless.

@@chasethecat3839 Only Donna Douglas was missing after the first two days. Jack Cassidy stayed on the whole week. And Arlene Francis was explicitly said to be there only because Douglas had to leave. I'd call it a nice try, but it really wasn't.

I thought the same thing. This isn't the way she normally is on this show. Could she have had one too many backstage? I know they did sometimes offer drinks to loosen folks up. Another thought I had was, it's possible Jack unnerved her backstage. His kids have said he was unpredictable at times and he puts off a vibe. Maybe she had a Family issue and just had to go, but I think it was Jack.

Jimmy Brice it was very odd!! She didn’t do well in the lighting rounds for this day anyway! Tired maybe? Or she just didn’t think quickly.

I agree. She was replaced for the remaining appearances for this week by Arlene Francis, I believe. Something had to have been wrong. She was so sweet and bright.

She could have been worried about something going on back in Hollywood or with a family member. You just never know what's going through a person's mind.

Candy back then....uppers and downers.

@@robbernath the stars were each only on it 2 days that week according to the host

I think she had a meltdown

You're right not with it at all

This was a Tuesday. She was gone the next episode (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hNiKd6iQldTMn4k.html). Ludden claims she was called back to CA, but since they usually filmed a week's worth in a day, it's possible she was feeling badly.

@@joeambrose3260 NO SHE DIDN'T, YOU MORON!

That's why he was so good as a villain in columbo. Smarmy , gleaming eye, toothy grin, dimples etc

Creepy? Not at all. He's handsome, dastardly, devilish and that smile and dimples. He was the best!

@@kathleenkishkabibbles2759 Notwithstanding, he had the cringe factor of Bob Crane and Richard Dawson combined !

He had a great singing voice...

Word was Cattle and Donna Said, "Horses"...

She nearly got up and left the studio floor with her team mate and Alan had to stop her.

​@rossdelain1645 First, that's not true. Second, the word "teammate" is one word- not two, and third, Allen Ludden's first name is spelled "Allen-, not "Alan."

@@lynettepalecek3141 Listen Choocheeface you know perfectly well what point I was trying to make , stop trying to pretend day is night and vice versa.

Baloney, just brain farts

This was a Tuesday. She was gone the next episode (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hNiKd6iQldTMn4k.html). Ludden claims she was called back to CA, but since they usually filmed a week's worth in a day, it's possible she was feeling badly.

@@joeambrose3260 SHUT UP YOU BOLD FACE LIAR!! ALSO, YOU NEED TO WASH YOUR MOUTH OUT WITH SOAP 🧼 FOR SWEARING!!!! 😡👎🤮

Baloney, she looks ravishing. Just daydreaming about Max

This was a Tuesday. She was gone the next episode (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hNiKd6iQldTMn4k.html). Ludden claims she was called back to CA, but since they usually filmed a week's worth in a day, it's possible she was feeling badly.

@@joeambrose3260 SHUT UP YOU MORON!! SHE WASN'T FEELING WELL AT ALL! ANY 5 YEAR OLD CAN TELL THAT!! SHE WAS A STAR SO SHE HAD PEOPLE HELP HER BACKSTAGE LOOK GOOD!

Something's clearly wrong. How could anyone not think of clues for Roar? How about Lion, and then Sound? So very easy, but she just blanked----very sad.

A couple of brain farts, that's all. Are you related to Jack ?

This was a Tuesday. She was gone the next episode (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hNiKd6iQldTMn4k.html). Ludden claims she was called back to CA, but since they usually filmed a week's worth in a day, it's possible she was feeling badly.

Right. Repeating the clue "horses" for "cattle" was ridiculous.

I was impressed with 'coquette' for 'flirt'. Excellent clue, and not one I would have thought of.

@Daisy. No she didn't except for the word "roar." It was crystal clear that Donna Douglas wasn't feeling well at all.

SHE WASN'T FEELING WELL AT ALL!

When Jack Cassidy did the lightning round, there were rules that were not followed.

SHE WASN'T FEELING WELL AT ALL! THAT WAS EXTREMELY OBVIOUS!

Her hairstyle and dress scream 1960s, so I don't think so... 😉

She's still "slim and trim" and looking great, well into her 70s.

@@lclarkwells You know her?

@@TommygunNG Yes, I know her through her son.

@@lclarkwells Awesome. Please pass along my post, and tell her I'm sorry I came along a generation late.

This was a Tuesday. She was gone the next episode (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hNiKd6iQldTMn4k.html). Ludden claims she was called back to CA, but since they usually filmed a week's worth in a day, it's possible she was feeling badly.

I disagree with you completely except for the word "roar."

@@lynettepalecek3141 in the main I agree with you. Many in this thread say they thought she looked a bit unwell or off that day, which could well be part of the problem. Every once in a while she would blank. But that happens to a number of otherwise good players. She was FAR better than Bob Crane who ALWAYS kept freezing in the lightening round, eating up time saying um, um and shouting the same clue instead of a modifier, like for the nickel, shouting at his partner five, Five, FIVE!!! when the halfwit should have added in his next clue ‘cents’ followed by ‘coin’ if she still needed another prompt. And then there were players who I would have thought would be genius based on the characters they often played, but instead were hopeless, like Martin Landau, who was absolutely crap at both guessing and thinking up decent clues. He reminds me of actors who do commercials on TV, ‘I’m not a scientist (that’s so true, just watch him play Password), but I play one on TV’. Oddly, he and his wife (Barbara Bain) were beautifully compatible at Password, completely hopeless in exactly the same way.

@@alexrafe2590 You're right.

Cut her some slack. Perhaps she was daydreaming about Max. Insane was a good clue for crazy, the contestant blew it

This was a Tuesday. She was gone the next episode (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hNiKd6iQldTMn4k.html). Ludden claims she was called back to CA, but since they usually filmed a week's worth in a day, it's possible she was feeling badly.

Yep. Roar = lion. Should have been simple.

@@TommygunNG On a side note, it's amusing how the contestants sometimes gave a sly wink to the fact that all the episodes were filmed in a single day, saying things like, 'Yep, I had a great night's sleep last night!'

@@djr6876 That was the only bad mistake that she made.

well he certainly knew how to beat children. At least his own.

Pine Delgado Actually, Allen Ludden knew in advance if the female worked or not. When a professional woman appeared, he'd ask "So you're a working girl?" With housewives, he knew to ask about her hubby or her hobbies.

You have to remember at that time you had very few two-income households unlike that being very common today. It was as noted known ahead of time they knew whether the woman worked or not. That would change later on but was not the case that much at the time this aired.

@@metropromise5915 They knew to avoid awkward situations.

"Sexist"? Nah, just a sign of the times. Crawl back under your rock, LIBTARD.

Given the era, it would have been very strange (and possibly even insulting) to ask every woman who appeared on the show what she did for a living. The majority of them would have responded that they were housewives. Ludden knew beforehand what each contestant 'did', and tailored his questions accordingly. I've seen plenty of shows, by the way, where he asked the men about their hobbies. I'm a feminist but don't get upset when I'm viewing something almost 60 years old that doesn't reflect 2022 attitudes.