I would be interested to read how all of you took it when the show ended.
IIRC, my viewing of the series in its final days had become kind of haphazard, so I had no idea it was the "final days" until the LAST day. I think I saw an advertisement for Password that day and was horrified, and hoping fervently, until the very last moments, that someone had made a mistake. I guess I just thought that DS, good or bad, and like most soap operas, would always be there...if nothing else, I learned the dangers of taking something for granted. <sniff!>
I tuned in the next day, just to make certain, and sure enough, there was Password -- I remember just loathing Alan Ludden from the first minute he opened his mouth, and was so ticked off about his show being the replacement that I NEVER watched it until it surfaced in reruns years later on the Game Show Network.
Cheers,
Linda