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The contestant declined to answer the question and then Peppard concluded: <blockquote>"Alright well, there's a form that says (That you won't cheat, you won't steal, you won't kick your mother, you won't tell anyone or you won't get any prizes) It goes on and on and on like you were some crook! Well, it's really, uh, unnecessary in this game I mean, everybody around this game is paranoid about the truth. They are very careful, uh, and we have somebody from NBC who watches us. Now that get's into the police state mentality and I do not think it's necessary and I personally resent it. Mr. Silverman and the rest of you, would you write him a letter and tell him to stop that?"</blockquote>
The contestant declined to answer the question and then Peppard concluded: <blockquote>"Alright well, there's a form that says (That you won't cheat, you won't steal, you won't kick your mother, you won't tell anyone or you won't get any prizes) It goes on and on and on like you were some crook! Well, it's really, uh, unnecessary in this game I mean, everybody around this game is paranoid about the truth. They are very careful, uh, and we have somebody from NBC who watches us. Now that get's into the police state mentality and I do not think it's necessary and I personally resent it. Mr. Silverman and the rest of you, would you write him a letter and tell him to stop that?"</blockquote>


After the rant the show's host Allen Ludden went on to explain that "what you see is what you get" and the forms that the participant's sign before the program ensures that there is no cheating.
After the rant the show's host Allen Ludden went on to explain that "what you see is what you get" and the forms that the participants sign before the program ensures that there is no cheating.


As a result of Peppard's rant (and possibly due to him visibly smoking on-camera), the episode was pulled before it aired and a sixth episode was filmed two weeks after filming for the week had wrapped<ref>https://books.google.ca/books?id=eKmdDwAAQBAJ&q</ref> and the contestants ended up not getting paid for the episode. The episode that would've aired on June 12th ended up airing on June 11th and the show's announcer Gene Wood made an announcement in the opening of the second episode saying<ref>https://youtu.be/9DInqpPKcyE</ref>: <blockquote>"The program originally scheduled for air at this time will not be seen."</blockquote>
As a result of Peppard's rant (and possibly due to him visibly smoking on-camera), the episode was pulled before it aired and a sixth episode was filmed two weeks after filming for the week had wrapped<ref>https://books.google.ca/books?id=eKmdDwAAQBAJ&q</ref> and the contestants ended up not getting paid for the episode. The episode that would've aired on June 12th ended up airing on June 11th and the show's announcer Gene Wood made an announcement in the opening of the second episode saying<ref>https://youtu.be/9DInqpPKcyE</ref>: <blockquote>"The program originally scheduled for air at this time will not be seen."</blockquote>
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*[[The Price Is Right (partially found unaired pilot for syndicated game show; 1993)]]
*[[The Price Is Right (partially found unaired pilot for syndicated game show; 1993)]]
*[[The New Price Is Right (lost unaired pilot of Goodson-Todman game show; 1972)]]
*[[The New Price Is Right (lost unaired pilot of Goodson-Todman game show; 1972)]]
*[[Family Feud (partially found unaired pilot of Pearson game show; 1998-1999)]]
*[[Rock Feud (lost unaired pilot of cancelled spin-off of Pearson game show; 2001)]]
*[[To Tell The Truth (lost unreleased pilot of Pearson remake of Goodson-Todman panel show; 1999)]]
*[[Card Sharks (partially lost pilots of syndicated revival of Goodson-Todman game show; 1996-2000)]]


===Television===
===Television===
*[[The Price Is Right (partially lost Dennis James episodes of game show; 1972-1977)]]
*[[The Price Is Right (partially lost Dennis James episodes of game show; 1972-1977)]]
*[[Tattletales (partially found syndicated version of CBS game show; 1977-1978)]]
*[[Tattletales (partially found syndicated version of CBS game show; 1977-1978)]]
*[[To Tell The Truth (lost first season of syndicated panel show; 1969-1970)]]
*[[To Tell The Truth (partially found first season of syndicated panel show; 1969-1970)]]
*[[The Price Is Right (partially found Australian adaptation of Mark Goodson game show; 1973-1974)]]
*[[The Price Is Right (partially found Australian adaptation of Mark Goodson game show; 1973-1974)]]
*[[Snap Judgement (partially found NBC game show; 1967-1969)]]
*[[Snap Judgement (partially found NBC game show; 1967-1969)]]
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*[[The Price Is Right (partially found Doug Davidson version of Goodson-Todman game show; 1994-1995)]]
*[[The Price Is Right (partially found Doug Davidson version of Goodson-Todman game show; 1994-1995)]]
*[[Match Game (found ABC revival of Goodson-Todman game show; 1990-1991)]]
*[[Match Game (found ABC revival of Goodson-Todman game show; 1990-1991)]]
*[[Champion Blockbusters (partially found British game show, 1987-1990)]]
*[[Champion Blockbusters (partially found spin-off of British game show, 1987-1990)]]
*[[Släktslaget (lost Swedish adaptation of "Family Feud" game show; 2000)]]
*[[Släktslaget (lost Swedish adaptation of "Family Feud" game show; 2000)]]
*[[The Price Is Right (partially lost episodes of CBS game show; 1972-2007)]]
*[[The Price Is Right (partially lost episodes of CBS game show; 1972-2007)]]
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===Miscellaneous===
===Miscellaneous===
*[[Super Password (lost builds of unreleased NES port of word game; 1980s)]]
*[[Super Password (lost builds of unreleased NES port of word game; 1980s)]]
*[[To Tell the Truth (lost unreleased DVD game based on panel show; 2005)]]


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 23:51, 20 October 2022

Pplogo.jpg

The show's logo

Status: Found

Date found: 8 May 1999

Found by: Game Show Network

Password Plus was a revival of the word game Password that aired on NBC from January 8th, 1979, to March 26th, 1982. The format of this revival remains somewhat the same as Password only except the password one team of one celebrity and one civilian is part of a five-word puzzle that adds up to a person, place or thing. A correct guess of the puzzle wins the team $100 and the first team to reach $300 at the end of three rounds goes onto Alphabetics. In Alphabetics, the civilian faces the celebrity and it's the celebrity's job to get the civilian to say ten passwords (in alphabetical order) in the same word-association method as the main game. Ten correct guesses awards the civilian the episode's jackpot, but failure to get all ten gets the civilian $100 per correct guess.

The Episode

In 1979, actor George Peppard and actress Elaine Joyce appeared on the show for a week of five episodes set to air from June 11th to 14th of that year[1]. But during filming of the first episode, Peppard made some on-camera complaints about the show's format, then went into an on-camera rant about the standards & practices at NBC. He said that:

"Here's the thing friends, I think you should know that before we do this program that is, the, do they make you sign that form too?"

The contestant declined to answer the question and then Peppard concluded:

"Alright well, there's a form that says (That you won't cheat, you won't steal, you won't kick your mother, you won't tell anyone or you won't get any prizes) It goes on and on and on like you were some crook! Well, it's really, uh, unnecessary in this game I mean, everybody around this game is paranoid about the truth. They are very careful, uh, and we have somebody from NBC who watches us. Now that get's into the police state mentality and I do not think it's necessary and I personally resent it. Mr. Silverman and the rest of you, would you write him a letter and tell him to stop that?"

After the rant the show's host Allen Ludden went on to explain that "what you see is what you get" and the forms that the participants sign before the program ensures that there is no cheating.

As a result of Peppard's rant (and possibly due to him visibly smoking on-camera), the episode was pulled before it aired and a sixth episode was filmed two weeks after filming for the week had wrapped[2] and the contestants ended up not getting paid for the episode. The episode that would've aired on June 12th ended up airing on June 11th and the show's announcer Gene Wood made an announcement in the opening of the second episode saying[3]:

"The program originally scheduled for air at this time will not be seen."

Availability

For 20 years, the episode would never be seen and considering the episode was made during a tape were taping over programs was common at NBC, it would be easy to assume that the episode fell victim to this given the fact it didn't air. That was until May 8th, 1999, [4], when the episode randomly appeared on Game Show Network along with other episodes of Password Plus. Since then, the episode has been aired numerous times on both Game Show Network and Buzzr and can easily be found online.

Gallery

The unaired episode.

Game Show Garbage's video on the topic.

Blameitonjorge's video on the Lost Media Gameshow Iceberg (episode mentioned at 33:51)

See Also

Pilots

Television

Miscellaneous

References