Games people play(ed)
I love watching the old "Match Game" (with Brett, Charles and Richard)--you realize of course they'd raise a major stink (pun intended) about Charles Nelson Reilly smoking cigars and pipes on air if the show were in production today!
I loved the original "Password" (1961-67); the simplest version and the best as far as I was concerned, and the theme music they used after the first year was really jazzy and bouncy. (The first season theme music wasn't so bad, but it sounded like a chase theme from a 1961 Doris Day-Rock Hudson comedy!)
And, with all due respect to Bob Barker, Bill Cullen's "TPIR" had Don Pardo, Beverly Bentley (the blonde model who was pretty hot for her day!) and, yes, Frigidaire washers and dryers sponsoring the proceedings about 1960... I also remember the original version was also sponsored by Lux Liquid and Newport cigarettes...
Anyone remember a morning show in about 1961-62 called "Your Surprise Package"? That had to be one of the craziest shows ever made...George Fenneman was the host and you had to guess the contents of a large box on stage (almost like "Let's Make a Deal" minus the costumes and zonks), and the theme music was one-of-a-kind: A bongo player and a harpist (later discovered that the bongo player, Alvin Stoller, was a major jazz drummer during the '50s and '60s!)
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