I just watched an All-Star episode of Password Plus (Kennedy) last night where there were the following celebs were playing in character & in costume:
Jon Bauman as Bowser (from Sha Na Na)
Robert Donner as Exidor (from Mork & Mindy)
One lady (I forgot her character & real name) from Harper Valley PTA
Patty Duke as both Patty AND Cathy Lane (from the Patty Duke Show).
Interesting that when Gene Wood introduced all the celebs, they did a split-screen intro for the "identical cousins" walking in and heading towards the desk. Patty Lane was the player du jour.
I've seen another of those all-star specials with Denver Pyle in costume as Uncle Jesse from The Dukes of Hazzard. I can't remember the other celebs/characters and I can't remember if Pyle was actually acting as his character would on his show or just dressed in costume.
If it's the week I am thinking of, I believe Sue Ann Nivens, played by what's her name, was part of the quartet.
Did Patty play as "Cathy" at all that week?
Mama's Family and Hello, Larry on Password Plus is another example. (This can be easily sought out, I'm sure.)
Wait a minute...the second example I never heard of.
Mama of course was twice.
Nitpick: technically, that would just be "The Family" at that time. The show didn't premiere for 2-3 more years.
Do puppets count? Cause that would be a whole can of worms opened anew.
Kind of wish Super Password did the "Gimmick Celebrity Week" if for no other reason than to have "Sophia" and "Rose" (as opposed to just Betty and Estelle) teamed up that one all-star week.
MG/HS had a very flimsy version when they had the Leave it to Beaver cast and just changed the nameplates in HS to read the characters' names.
Mama (Vicki Lawrence) and Eunice (Carol Burnett) played for a week against McLean Stevenson and Joanna Gleason playing as their Hello, Larry characters. The whole pretense was rather ridiculous in that while it was obvious Lawrence and Burnett were in character, the only way you knew Stevenson and Gleason were in character was because Allen was calling them by their characters' names. And he didn't even do that consistently, and kept accidentally calling them McLean and Joanna. They gave up the whole idea by the Thursday show.
Yes, the characters need a distinct look/accent/etc. to pull this off. As another example, Henry Winkler appearing on PW+ as the Fonz would have been acceptable.
/DID Winkler appear on any version of Password?