Requested by another YouTube user, this is my piano arrangement of a song entitled "Bicentennial Funk," written by Charles Fox for Score Productions. It was used as the theme tune when "Password" became "Password All-Stars," although negative feedback from the public ended the all-celebrity format and brought back the civilians, even though it kept the same format in the end. There were two all-celebrity formats known as the "Grandmasters Tournament;" which would award the winner another $25,000. The first tournament's finalists were Dick Gautier, James Shigeta, Peter Bonerz, and Don Galloway, with Shigeta winning the championship; the second tournament's finalists were Richard Dawson, Bill Bixby, Hal Linden, and Betty White, with Dawson winning the championship (Dawson had almost made it to the first tournament finals, but Gautier beat him out during their preliminary week by just one point).

In this version of the game, an elimination round in which four contestants (two new players and the two players from the previous game) competed with the help of the two celebrities in the first round. In the qualifying round, one of the two celebrities used a one-word clue to a password (with both celebrities alternating turns on giving clues), and the four contestants would ring in with the password. If no contestant identified the password after four clues, the word would be discarded. A correct response earned that contestant one point, with three points needed to qualify for the regular game. An incorrect response locked that player out of the word in play. The first two contestants to reach three points went on to play the regular Password game.

In the regular game, an addition to the rules was the "double" option, in which the first clue giver could ask to increase the word value to 20 points by giving only one clue; if that word was missed, the other team could score the 20 points with a second clue. The first team to reach 50 points or more could win thousands of dollars in the Big Money Lightning Round.

The Big Money Lightning Round used a three-step structure in which the winning team attempted to guess three passwords within 30 seconds per step. The contestant was paid as follows:

Part One: Each password paid $25. Guessing all three passwords in 30 seconds further netted $5 for each second left on the clock. The round ended if the contestant was unable to guess at least one of the three passwords.

Part Two: The money earned in part one would be multiplied by the number of passwords guessed here. (e.g.: If a contestant guessed all three words in part one and there was 7 seconds left, each word would be worth $110) Naming all three passwords this time added $10 for each second left. If the receiver failed to identify at least one of the passwords here, the round ended and the contestant still kept all part-one winnings; he or she then returned to the elimination panel to compete for the right to play the main game again.

Part Three: Naming all three passwords in 30 seconds multiplied the contestant's part-two winnings tenfold (meaning if a player accumulated $500 after two parts, guessing all three passwords in this part would earn $5,000).

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Information taken from Wikipedia and all sources thereof
This arrangement © me and me alone
Original music written by Charles Fox for Score Productions
Password © Fremantle and everybody else who own the rights; it was originally a Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Production.

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Theme I attempted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2CnTYFoF8E
Full show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW9S3XfWBoA (second Grandmaster Tournament finale)