Monday, March 14, 2022

Friday, March 14, 1975

Here's the today's 11 a.m. Password on Channel 3 ...

I know what I said about flipping my calendar to do the fall in the spring and spring in the fall because of Christmas and football, and I still might. But, whatever, this is what I'm working to this morning.

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  1. I heard an interview with Betty White where she talked about how much she regretted not having married Allen Ludden any sooner--that he asked her several times over the course of a year before she finally said yes. They were married 18 or 19 years, and she said she really wish she had gotten that extra year together at the front end. So sweet.

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  2. When Betty White died last year, I watched this whole reel of her and Allen Ludden's appearances on David Letterman's TV shows. They're great! Ludden helped accelerate Letterman's rise to network TV.

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  3. I love how totally invested Allen Ludden and Betty White are in Password as a game and not just Password as an entertaining television program.

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  4. I wasn't living in Madisonville in 2006, and I don't do much writing like this anymore. But some day I hope to report and write a story about Vicki Lawrence's 2006 appearance at the Glema Mahr performing-arts center at Madisonville Community College. To hear the people now who were there then tell it, "VICKI LAWRENCE & MAMA: A TWO-WOMAN SHOW" was pretty much a Redd Foxx record from the first note. A goodly number of people simply got up and left, like, 10 minutes in. The whole key here, of course, would be Vicki Lawrence's cooperation. But if she would be game and be a good sport about it, there's a really interesting and fun story to be told there.

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  5. In watching Password on Channel 3, we're missing The Young and the Restless on 12 and Jackpot on 6. I stand by our choice.

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  6. In the half hour before Password, Channel 3 gave us a Brady Bunch rerun, and I'd be all over that bad boy, too--over Hollywood Squares ("O-ver RAT-ed!!! ... clap clap clapclapclap ... "O-ver RAT-ed!!! ... clap clap clapclapclap ...) on 6 and Love of Life (snoozefest) on 12.

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  7. Next up: either a game show called Split Second on 3 or one called Blank Check on 6 (12's still rolling with soap operas). I'm going to check them both out, but I'm more interested in SS, which is a Tom Kennedy joint, vs. Art James's BC.

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  8. But first we have a charming episode-closing appearance by Password producer Mark Goodson, to announce that Betty White and Allen Ludden would be switching roles on the show in a couple of weeks. Inspired by conversation with Monty Hall about the lack of woman game-show hosts, Goodson is going to have White host and Ludden compete in a couple of weeks. Everyone's thrilled!

    But that's two weeks from now. Next week, we'll have Ludden at the helm as usual, with Elaine Joyce and Nipsy Russell joining as celebrity guests. Everyone's thrilled about this, too.

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    1. I recall that Nipsy Russell was a very solid game show contestant.

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    2. It's too bad that we don't really learn very much about how today's celebrities would do in the game show setting. Just like we don't know how today's athletes would do in the Superstars competition.

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    3. I agree. There are plenty of game shows out now, but the ones I've seen don't feel like they're playing a game as much as they're making a TV show.

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  9. Some day, I hope to have a good, calm conversation with Dad about why he was so turned off on Ronald Reagan. There was no having a calm conversation about Reagan with Dad when he was alive.

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    1. In February 1975, Reagan appeared at the second annual Conservative Political Action Conference, where the conservatives were in despair over President Ford's decision to make Nelson Rockefeller his vice president. Reagan said: "Is it a third party that we need, or is it a new and revitalized second party, raising a banner of no pale pastels, but bold colors which could make it unmistakably clear where we stand on all the issues troubling the people?"

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    2. Yeah, he made the case with Johnny that third parties tend to nominate the wrong candidates.

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    3. The 1976 GOP Presidential race is one of the most consequential of all primary campaign, and its effects can still be felt today. Almost every Republican who supported Reagan in 1976, and was still active in 2016, supported Trump. Almost every Republican who supported Ford in 1976, and was still active in 2016, opposed Trump.

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    4. Yeah, I don't understand that one bit either.

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    5. Happy to explain any time you want.

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  11. At 7 tonight, Channel 3 is showing Illinois state high-school basketball tournament games. Watching Jay Shidler with Lawrenceville last year was fantastic.

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    1. I remember watching Jay Shidler; it was fantastic.

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  12. "The Blonde Bomber." What a great nickname!

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  13. James "Jimmy the Greek" Snyder reportedly said at a National Association of Accountants in San Diego that President Ford would be re-elected in 1976.

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