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Password Plus
| Password Plus | |
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| Premiere | January 8, 1979 |
| Finale | March 26, 1982 |
| Creator | Robert Sherman, Mark Goodson, Bill Todman |
| Host | Allen Ludden (1979-80) Tom Kennedy (1980-82) |
| Network/Provider | NBC |
| Style | 30-minute game show |
| Company | Goodson-Todman Productions, (The Password Company) |
| Episodes | 801 (1 unaired) |
| Origin | USA |
Password Plus is a game show that aired on NBC from 1979 to 1982. It is the fourth version of the Password show from 1961.
Its basic game plan is identical to the CBS/ABC versions, except each team is only allowed two turns to get his/her partner to say the words. To make it a little more difficult, opposites are now disallowed as clues. Each word correctly guessed becomes one of five clues to a master puzzle. The team getting their password correct tries to identify the puzzle's subject.
The first two puzzles are worth $100, the third worth $200. The team scoring $300 wins the game and plays a new bonus round, "Alphabetics." The celebrity faces a board which, one at a time, will display ten words with the first starting with a designated letter then going alphabetically down to the tenth word. The contestant tries to get the word from the celebrity's clues. Each word is worth $100. All ten in sixty seconds wins $5000. If an illegal clue is given and the contestant gets the word anyway, the potential jackpot becomes reduced by $1000. Late in the run, the Alphabetics prize was upped to $20,000, with each illegal clue deducting $4000.
The working title for this show was Password '79. It would be revived in 1984 as Super Password.
In-Depth
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