History Trivia / Password

** Episode #111 of ''Plus'' where George Peppard ranted about NBC's standards and practices, which he thought were like a "police mentality", never aired during the show's original run (didn't help that one of the puzzles to describe a harmonica used "Suck" and "Blow" as clues). It wouldn't see the light of day until Creator/{{GSN}} aired it in the mid-90s. Goodson-Todman banned Peppard from appearing on any of their shows for that incident, which cost them a lot since they had to film an extra episode two weeks later to make up for the pulled episode. However it's especially regrettable as the pulled episode contain a win in the Alphabetics round right at the start of the show.

* EditedForSyndication: A 2021 rerun of the August 26 1985 episode on BUZZR removed the "Ca$hword" segment, which had "Minstrel" as the word Dick Gautier (unsuccessfully) tried to convey. It aired uncut in the past on Creator/{{GSN}}

* HeyItsThatSound: Once when Pat Sajak was on ''Super Password'', the "category" sound from ''Series/WheelOfFortune'' was used when displaying one of the words.

** Several episodes, in addition to a few whole weeks of ''Plus'' and ''Super'', never aired again after the original airings. Either the tapes weren't in good enough condition for GSN to air, or some of the celebrities refused to clear their appearances; examples of the latter include Betty Thomas, James B. Sikking, and David Leisure. According to recollections of Sikking and Leisure's appearances, they played the game ''very poorly''.

*** A few episodes of Super Password have also been skipped by Buzzr for similar reasons.

* EditedForSyndication: A 2021 rerun on the August 26 1985 episode removed the "Ca$hword" segment, which had "Minstrel" as the word Dick Gautier (unsuccessfully) tried to convey.

*** Episode #008 from January 17, 1979 and #233 from November 27, 1979 episode had "Ku Klux Klan" as a puzzle. The former was shown by Buzzr a couple of times before adhering to the aforementioned practice.

*** Episode #134 had "The Mafia" as the puzzle and "Sicilian" as one of its passwords. It got by on its original airing and repeats with the offending password blacked out and all clues (except for Bill Cullen's "southward") and guesses silenced. Allen Ludden apologized for the puzzle on a later episode.

* PopCultureUrbanLegends: There's a long-rumored MissingEpisode during the Allen Ludden era where supposedly, during one puzzle, the password was "bread", the hint given was "dough", to which the contestant -- [[{{Mondegreen}} thinking they said "door"]] -- responded with "knob", prompting uproarious laughter from the audience and celebrities alike. It was alleged that the (supposedly African-American) contestant threatened to sue the show when it first aired due to feeling that he was being discriminated against for his Southern Ebonic accent, explaining why it hasn't seen broadcast since. This event has been recounted by a few who supposedly saw it live, including Creator/JamieFarr of all people (who claimed in his autobiography to have seen it happen while he was a celebrity guest), but there otherwise exists no proof that this ever happened.

*** Episode #134 had "Mafia" as the puzzle and "Sicilian" as one of its passwords. It got by on its original airing and repeats with the offending password blacked out and all clues (except for Bill Cullen's "southward") and guesses silenced. Allen Ludden apologized for the puzzle on a later episode.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Most of ''CBS'' (daytime) was destroyed, with the last season put into syndication. ''ABC'' is even worse off, with only around '''six''' episodes circulating and not many others held by archivists (plus the 1972 episode of ''Series/{{The Odd Couple|1970}}'', which occasionally shows up on [=MeTV=]).

*** Episode #008 from January 17, 1979 and a November 1979 episode had "Ku Klux Klan" a puzzle. The former was shown by Buzzr a couple of times before adhering to the aforementioned practice.

*** One episode had "Mafia" as the puzzle and "Sicilian" as one of its passwords. It got by on its original airing and repeats with the offending password blacked out and all clues (except for Bill Cullen's "southward") and guesses silenced. Allen Ludden apologized for the puzzle on a later episode.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Most of ''CBS'' (daytime) was destroyed, with the last season put into syndication. ''ABC'' is even worse off, with only '''four''' episodes circulating and not many others held by archivists (plus the 1972 episode of ''Series/{{The Odd Couple|1970}}'', which occasionally shows up on [=MeTV=]).

** Buzzr has aired limited cycles of ''Plus'' and ''Super'', looping back to the premiere once each ends. They started with the first six months, but these days about a year airs in rotation.

*** One episode had "Mafia" as the puzzle and "Sicilian" as one of its passwords. The latter got by on its original airing and repeats with the offending password blacked out and all clues (except for Bill Cullen's "southward") and guesses silenced. Allen Ludden apologized for the puzzle on a later episode.

** Episode #008 of ''Plus'' from January 17, 1979 was shown by Buzzr a couple of times in February 2017, but then all of a sudden abruptly pulled from the rotation. Buzzr had just instituted a practice to either censor or skip over any episode of any show that contained content that may possibly offend people; said skipped episodes aren't even included in the Amazon Prime uploads. Since episode #008 had "Ku Klux Klan" as one of the puzzles, and a November 1979 episode with the same solution was skipped over entirely, it was easy to see why the episode was pulled.
** Two other ''Plus'' episodes have been barred from airing: one with "midget" as a password and another with "Mafia" as the puzzle and "Sicilian" as one of its passwords. Interestingly enough, the latter got by on its original airing and repeats with the offending password blacked out and all clues (except for Bill Cullen's "southward") and guesses silenced. Allen Ludden apologized for the puzzle on a later episode.
** Allen Ludden's final episode, #469 from October 27, 1980, was pulled from Buzzr due to "Redskins" being one of the clues to one of the puzzles.

** Allen Ludden's final episode, #469 from October 27, 1980, pulled from Buzzr due to "Redskins" being one of the clues to one of the puzzles.

** After the 2020 footage of Derek Chauvin killing George Floyd went viral, which resulted in protests nationwide, Allen Ludden's final episode, #469 from October 27, 1980, was banned by Buzzr due to "Redskins" being one of the clues to one of the puzzles. The Washington Redskins announced a name change (which ultimately became the Washington Commanders) in response to these protests.

** Several episodes, in addition to a few whole weeks of ''Plus'' and ''Super'', never aired again after the original airings. Either the tapes weren't in good enough condition for GSN to air, or some of the celebrities refused to clear their appearances; examples of the latter include Betty Thomas, James B. Sikking, and David Leisure. According to recollections of Sikking and Leisure's appearances, they played the game ''[[EpicFail very poorly]]''.

* PopCultureUrbanLegends: There's a long-rumored MissingEpisde during the Allen Ludden era where supposedly, during one puzzle, the password was "bread", the hint given was "dough", to which the contestant -- [[{{Mondegreen}} thinking they said "door"]] -- responded with "knob", prompting uproarious laughter from the audience and celebrities alike. It was alleged that the (supposedly African-American) contestant threatened to sue the show when it first aired due to feeling that he was being discriminated against for his Southern Ebonic accent, explaining why it hasn't seen broadcast since. This event has been recounted by a few who supposedly saw it live, including Creator/JamieFarr of all people (who claimed in his autobiography to have seen it happen while he was a celebrity guest), but there otherwise exists no proof that this ever happened.

** Two other episodes have been barred from airing: one with "midget" as a password and another with "Mafia" as the puzzle and "Sicilian" as one of its passwords. Interestingly enough, the latter got by on its original airing and repeats with the offending password blacked out and all clues (except for Bill Cullen's "southward") and guesses silenced. Allen Ludden apologized for the puzzle on a later episode.

** Episode #008 of ''Plus'' from January 17, 1979 was shown by Buzzr a couple of times in February 2017, but then all of a sudden abruptly pulled from the rotation. Buzzr had just instituted a practice to either censor or skip over any episode of any show that contained content that may possibly offend people; said skipped episodes aren't even included in the Amazon Prime uploads. Since episode #008 had "Ku Klux Klan" as one of the puzzles, and a November 1979 episode with the same solution was skipped over entirely, it was easy to see why the episode was pulled. Two other episodes have been barred from airing: one with "midget" as a password and another with "Mafia" as the puzzle and "Sicilian" as one of its passwords. Interestingly enough, the latter got by on its original airing and repeats with the offending password blacked out and all clues (except for Bill Cullen's "southward") and guesses silenced. Allen Ludden apologized for the puzzle on a later episode.

** Episode #008 of ''Plus'' from January 17, 1979 was shown by Buzzr a couple of times in February 2017, but then all of a sudden abruptly pulled from the rotation. Buzzr had just instituted a practice to either censor or skip over any episode of any show that contained content that may possibly offend people; said skipped episodes aren't even included in the Amazon Prime uploads. Since episode #008 had "Ku Klux Klan" as one of the puzzles, and a November 1979 episode with the same solution was skipped over entirely, it was easy to see why the episode was pulled. Two other episodes have been barred from airing: one with "midget" as a password and another with "Mafia" as the puzzle and "Sicilian" as one of its passwords. Interestingly enough, the latter got by on its original airing and repeats with the offending password blacked out and all clues and guesses silenced. Allen Ludden apologized for the puzzle on a later episode.

** Episode #008 of ''Plus'' from January 17, 1979 was shown by Buzzr a couple of times in February 2017, but then all of a sudden abruptly pulled from the rotation. Buzzr had just instituted a practice to either censor or skip over any episode of any show that contained content that may possibly offend people; said skipped episodes aren't even included in the Amazon Prime uploads. Since episode #008 had "Ku Klux Klan" as one of the puzzles, and a November 1979 episode with the same solution was skipped over entirely, it was easy to see why the episode was pulled. Two other episodes have been barred from airing: one with "midget" as a password and another with "Mafia" as the puzzle and "Sicilian" as one of its passwords. Interestingly enough, the latter got by on its original airing and repeats with the offending password blacked out and all clues and guesses silenced. Host Allen Ludden apologized for the puzzle on a later episode.

** Episode #008 of ''Plus'' from January 17, 1979 was shown by Buzzr a couple of times in February 2017, but then all of a sudden abruptly pulled from the rotation. Buzzr had just instituted a practice to either censor or skip over any episode of any show that contained content that may possibly offend people; said skipped episodes aren't even included in the Amazon Prime uploads. Since episode #008 had "Ku Klux Klan" as one of the puzzles, and a November 1979 episode with the same solution was skipped over entirely, it was easy to see why the episode was pulled.

* BannedEpisode: Episode #008 of ''Plus'' from January 17, 1979 was shown by Buzzr a couple of times in February 2017, but then all of a sudden abruptly pulled from the rotation. Buzzr had just instituted a practice to either censor or skip over any episode of any show that contained content that may possibly offend people; said skipped episodes aren't even included in the Amazon Prime uploads. Since episode #008 had "Ku Klux Klan" as one of the puzzles, and a November 1979 episode with the same solution was skipped over entirely, it was easy to see why the episode was pulled.

** Episode #111 of ''Plus'' where George Peppard ranted about NBC's standards and practices, which he thought were like a "police mentality", never aired during the show's original run (didn't help that one of the puzzles used "Suck" and "Blow" as clues). It wouldn't see the light of day until Creator/{{GSN}} aired it in the mid-90s. Goodson-Todman banned Peppard from appearing on any of their shows for that incident, which cost them a lot since they had to film an extra episode two weeks later to make up for the pulled episode. However it's especially regrettable as the pulled episode contain a win in the alphabetics round right at the start of the show.

** Episode #008 of ''Plus'' from January 17, 1979 was shown by Buzzr a couple of times in February 2017, but then all of a sudden abruptly pulled from the rotation. Buzzr had just instituted a practice to either censor or skip over any episode of any show that contained content that may possibly offend people; said skipped episodes aren't even included in the Amazon Prime uploads. Since episode #008 had "Ku Klux Klan" as one of the puzzles, and a November 1979 episode with the same solution was skipped over entirely, it was easy to see why the episode was pulled.

* NamesTheSame: The executive producer of the CBS version was Fred Tatasciore, not to be confused with the voice actor.
** A strange case involving the infamous Kerry Ketcham's alias. Twenty-four years after his appearance on ''Super Password'', a contestant by the name of Patrick Quinn won the Teachers' Tournament on ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}''.
** Password Plus had a contestant by the name of Jay Stewart, who was definitely not the long-time announcer/sidekick on Series/LetsMakeADeal. Ironically, the first celebrity he was teamed with was none other than Monty Hall!

** Episode #008 of ''Plus'' from January 17, 1979 was shown by Buzzr a couple of times in February 2017, but then all of a sudden abruptly pulled from the rotation for no reason. The solution to one of the puzzles was "Ku Klux Klan", leading some people to speculate that Buzzr got offended, and felt the show was glorifying that group.

* DevelopmentHell: A new version was announced by ABC in May 2016, but it seems to have fallen here. Creator/JimmyFallon was announced as executive producer in 2021, and contestant casting calls were sent out shortly afterwards.

* FanNickname:
** "Mr. Password" for Allen Ludden, as this was inarguably his best-known series.
** The ABC version was sometimes known during the mid-1990s to early 2000s as "Password II", mainly to distinguish it from its 1960s predecessor.

* DevelopmentHell: A new version was announced by ABC in May 2016, but it seems to have fallen here.

* RomanceOnTheSet: Shortly after Ludden began hosting ''Password'', Betty White made her first appearance as a celebrity guest. Ludden, a widower, proposed to the twice-divorced White before she accepted and the two married in 1963.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Most of ''CBS'' (daytime) was destroyed, with the last season put into syndication. ''ABC'' is even worse off, with only '''four''' episodes circulating and not many others held by archivists (plus the 1972 episode of ''Theatre/TheOddCouple'', which occasionally shows up on [=MeTV=]).