1) Watched the opener of a 1980 Password Plus. It's the start of a new week, celebs are introduced, and then... they go right into Alphabetics, 30 seconds after the celeb (Robert Walden) has met the contestant. Not surprisingly, they don't do well.
My question is, would there have been any way they could have, say, gone to commercial right after introducing celebs and the contestants to give them 90 seconds more to chat? And also, for the contestant to warm up (he said something about being out of it, which given it's probably been a week since the last taping, isn't a surprise).
2) Also saw a Playtex spot in which women were guessing what the largest bra size Playtex makes (it's 54DDD, which, scarily, I got right). Lotsa women in bras. This is a long way away from the spots I remember running during Password, in which Jane Russell would hold up the bra (without being in it herself), use a mannequin, or shut off the lights. See, you young 'uns weren't missing as much as you think back in the '70s.
