He didn't really look ill.

Ken Wiencko I STILL miss him. He was SO cool!

Today would have been his 100th birthday.

Right U are Shay & LOL!

+Shay White I'm pretty sure Betty was also with him when he died. She said she regretted not accepting his marriage proposal sooner so they could spend more time together.

HOW DID HE DIE

I asked myself the same question????

+ZACHERY ALDERTON Cancer

ZACHERY ALDERTON Stomach cancer. Yuck.

That's the first series I thought of....maybe it was prophetic :).

L. V.E. Before 2004 they would show the fee plugs then shrink the credits. Now as soon as they say goodbye they shrink the credits without ever going back to it.

Oh believe me I know! But they didn't do that when the network first launched. I was a fan of GSN from 1994 thru the 2010s, but when they slowly scrapped classics for newer stuff and remakes, that's when I had to say my own goodbye. ;)

I just hope that Buzzr does not go the path of GSN where the credits are crunched and the fee plugs are edited out.

Please bring back Password anything.

Anytime!

Trevor Panno wow really!!!!!

Today Studio 3 is known as the iHeart Radio Theater.

I think the studio where Johnny Carson was taped was also the studio where Monty Hall did the first season of the All-New Let's Make a Deal in 1984.

millenniumman75 Monte Hall also taped the very first episode of "Let's Make A Deal" in Johnny Carson's Tonight Show studio in Burbank (Studio 1). You can watch it on KZfaq by searching "Let's Make A Deal - 1963 Pilot". Keep an eye out at the beginning for a glimpse of the huge RCA TK-41 color television camera.

He did tape the early episodes in studio 1. Jay Stewart once said "Studio 1 is a great place to do audience warmups, if you are a mountain goat!" I once visited NBC studios in Burbank myself and climbed down the VERY steep stairs to the stage floor. The contestants were not seated in that are, but rather, those that came to be on the show but were not selected to be on the "trading floor". A separate stage area was built ahead of the steep seats, as Monty wouldn't want to negotiate those steep stairs to get to contestants. The studio was built for Bob Hope's Show on NBC. He wanted the audience at a steep incline to be able to see their faces better. For Carson, the seating created enough distance between himself and the audience. His desk was as far back in the corner as it could go. Jay Leno didn't mind being close to the audience, so studio 3 was better for him. Anyone that sees his Tonight Show episodes, he is close enough to shake hands with audience members.

Bill Cullen was considered, but he hosting Blockbusters at the time, which had just come on the air at the time. Wink Martindale would have been a good choice as well, but he was hosting Las Vegas Gambit at the time, which had also started. I will say, though, that Tom Kennedy did a good job with the show. He would have hosted Super Password, but he was hosting Body Language for CBS.

It's kind of cynical, but they would have had to completely redo the set if Cullen had taken the gig instead of Kennedy, as he had real difficulty walking from polio and a major accident as a teenager. I never even noticed that growing up, but at the end of most Blockbusters episodes he'd walk rather painfully over to the contestant stands to chat. Every show he hosted, since I've now seen episodes of most of them I hadn't seen when they were first on, the show was set up so he didn't have to move around at all. It was why he was only very briefly the host of The Price Is Right, since that show required a bit of moving about.

When he hosted The Price is Right in the 50s and 60s, he was seated at a counter the whole show, so he didn't need to move around.

Geoff Edwards would've gotten the job, IF he didn't accept the return of 'Treasure Hunt'.

Another legend gone, too. Maybe he and Allen are hosting shows up in heaven.

he definitely was not well....but he ran it thru.. God BLess him...There will never be a better host of a game show.

They tape five game show episodes per day so Bill Cullen could have hosted Password if NBC allowed it.

According to the BIll Cullen biography by Adam Nedeff, everyone liked Cullen and the way he handled PW+ while Allen was gone, but they did want someone that could move the game a little faster. In theory, they could've gotten Bill to do PW+ and give Blockbusters to Tom Kennedy, but Blockbusters was too new to get a new host and Bill was already doing a super job with that show. Betty White said in her book that she thought Tom was an excellent choice too. (But she also liked Bill).

Jack Narz could have hosted Password Plus.

I think BETTY should have gotten the show. When they came out with Million Dollar Password, I said they had no business putting anybody else up there- Regis shut me down, but still...

no, he looked fine, but he was struggling....

possibly, because he said "we trust you'll be with us tomorrow" which would lead one to believe this wasn't a Friday episode

Yes he definitely wasn't as vibrant as his other episodes. You could tell he was slowing down.

He seemed a bit nervous and I wouldn't blame him.

LOL - Here's an alphabetics round clue CRAP political correctness

don't give them any ideas