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NBC took the show off the air after the scandals made headlines; its production was dramatized in the 1994 film Quiz Show. The 1950s quiz show scandals were a series of scandals involving the producers and contestants of several popular American television quiz shows. These shows' producers secretly gave assistance to certain contestants in ...
Twenty-One is an American game show originally hosted by Jack Barry that initially aired on NBC from 1956 to 1958. Produced by Jack Barry-Dan Enright Productions, the show featured two contestants playing against each other in separate isolation booths, answering general-knowledge questions to earn 21 total points.
Take a Chance (American game show) Take It or Leave It (radio show) The Talent Shop; Think Fast (1949 game show) Tic-Tac-Dough; Time Will Tell (game show) To Tell the Truth; Truth or Consequences; Twenty Questions (American game show) Twenty-One (game show)
Charles Lincoln Van Doren (February 12, 1926 – April 9, 2019) [1] was an American writer and editor who was involved in a television quiz show scandal in the 1950s. In 1959 he testified before the United States Congress that he had been given the correct answers by the producers of the NBC quiz show Twenty-One.
The first episode, which aired on May 10, 2023, discusses the early history of game shows from the 1950s quiz scandals to the introduction of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in 1999, a show which changed the landscape of television and brought a revival of game show interest. [8]
Truth or Consequences is an American game show originally hosted on NBC radio by Ralph Edwards (1940–57) and later on television by Edwards (1950–54), Jack Bailey (1954–56), Bob Barker (1956–75), Steve Dunne (1957–58), Bob Hilton (1977–78) and Larry Anderson (1987–88). [3] The television show ran on CBS, NBC and also in ...
It Could Be You is a television game show produced by Ralph Edwards Productions in the late 1950s in the United States, broadcast daily in the weekday daytime schedule for five years 1956–1961, and weekly in the evening on-and-off over three years 1958–1961. [1] Bill Leyden was the host, and Wendell Niles was the announcer.
Strike It Rich is a game show that was broadcast on American radio from June 29, 1947, to December 27, 1957, on CBS and NBC. [1] It was broadcast on television as well, starting in 1951. People in need of money (such as for medical treatment or a destitute family) appeared and told their tale of woe, then tried to win money by answering four ...