VALERIE KARASEK GUESTS ON SUPER PASSWORD
Valerie Karasek, who portrayed Genie Francis' mother on "Days" from 1987-1988, Serena Colville, appeared as a contestant on "Super Password" in August, 1985. The NBC game show aired daily from 1984 through 1989. GSN, formerly Game Show Network, is now airing repeats of Valerie's episodes this week at 2PM ET/1PM CT daily. Catch Valerie's next episode on Tuesday, August 23 at 2PM on GSN.
Here is her perfomance on the episode aired Monday, August 22 on GSN.
At this point in her life, 1985, Valerie was yet to be an actress. She noted that she was from Indiana originally, then New York City, and for the past year-and-a-half (since 1984) had been living in California and working as a freelance secretary. The celebrity guests on this episode were Richard Kline and Shelley Smith. Her opponent was Michael Abrams.
$100 puzzle: JANE, TROUBLES, NIGHTTIME, VINEYARD, SOAP
Michael correctly guessed the puzzle answer as FALCON CREST.
$200 puzzle: TEENAGE, VAULT, WHEATIES, OLYMPICS, GYMNAST.
Shelley (Valerie's partner) correctly guessed MARY LOU RETTON.
Cashword (special game worth $1000): Valerie won $1000 guessing the word STUCCO from Shelley's two clues of Mexican and Plaster.
$300 puzzle: SEXY, LATIN, PARIS, BRANDO, DANCE.
Valerie (now partnered with Richard Kline) guessed Last Tango in Paris, but Richard saved the day and guessed that the correct answer was just the word TANGO.
SUPER PASSWORD (worth $5000): Richard had sixty seconds to give clues to ten words that Valerie had to guess:
WORD CLUE(s)
Atom...Molecule
Battery...Everready
Churchill...Winston
Daffy...Duck, Name
Evil...Nefarious
Fork...Spoon
Gem...Stone
Ham...Bacon
Idiot...Fool
Jump...Skip
Valerie ended up using only 38 seconds to win the $5000! One of the quickest wins in "Super Password" history. Catch Valerie's next episode on Tuesday, August 23 on GSN and see if she can win another round (five rounds maximum).