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  2. 1950s quiz show scandals - Wikipedia

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    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 order to prearrange the shows' outcomes while still attempting to deceive the public into believing that these shows were ...

  3. Herb Stempel - Wikipedia

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    Herbert Milton Stempel (December 19, 1926 – April 7, 2020) was an American television game show contestant and subsequent whistleblower on the fraudulent nature of the industry, in what became known as the 1950s quiz show scandals. [1]

  4. Charles Van Doren - Wikipedia

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    "The Quiz Show Scandal" is a documentary that first aired on PBS on January 6, 1992, as an episode of the fourth season of American Experience. Produced by Julian Krainin and Michael R. Lawrence, the one-hour program explored the corruption of the 1950s quiz show scandals, particularly that involving Van Doren and Twenty-One. Van Doren spoke ...

  5. Charles Van Doren, 1950s Quiz Show Scandal Figure, Dies ... - AOL

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    Charles Van Doren, who as a young, well-spoken and handsome academic became one of TV’s first overnight sensations and just as quickly one of the first to fall from grace, as he became the ...

  6. Quiz Show (film) - Wikipedia

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    Quiz Show is a 1994 American historical mystery-drama film [3] [4] directed and produced by Robert Redford.Dramatizing the Twenty-One quiz show scandals of the 1950s, the screenplay by Paul Attanasio [5] adapts the memoirs of Richard N. Goodwin, a U.S. Congressional lawyer who investigated the accusations of game-fixing by show producers. [6]

  7. How World War II Vet Herb Stempel Ignited the 1950s Quiz Show ...

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    Stempel enlisted in the U.S. Army and served in the 311th Regiment of the 78th Infantry Division on the front lines in Europe at the end of WWII.

  8. The $64,000 Question - Wikipedia

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    The $64,000 Question is an American game show broadcast in primetime on CBS-TV from 1955 to 1958, which became embroiled in the 1950s quiz show scandals. Contestants answered general knowledge questions, earning money which doubled as the questions became more difficult.

  9. Most popular game show hosts of all time - AOL

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    Stacker examined data from YouGov on well-known television personalities to rank the 20 most popular TV game show hosts of all time. ... show was part of the 1950s quiz show scandal, in which a ...