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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...
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    Charles Van Doren (category Contestants on American game shows)
    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...
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  • Herb Stempel (category Contestants on American game shows)
    game show contestant and subsequent whistleblower on the fraudulent nature of the industry, in what became known as the 1950s quiz show scandals. His...
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  • Quiz Show is a 1994 American historical mystery-drama film directed and produced by Robert Redford. Dramatizing the Twenty-One quiz show scandals of the...
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  • 1950s quiz show scandals, which nearly caused the demise of the entire genre in the wake of United States Senate investigations. The 1994 film Quiz Show...
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    Barry's reputation became tarnished due to his involvement in the 1950s quiz show scandals and the ensuing fallout affected his career for over a decade....
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    the 1950s quiz show scandals and ratings declines led to most of the primetime games being canceled. An early variant of the game show, the panel show, survived...
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  • producer who was involved with the 1950s quiz show scandals. He became a central figure in the cheating scandals and was the first person indicted. He...
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  • 1950s quiz show scandals Quiz Show (video game), a 1976 arcade game "The Quiz Show", an episode of I Love Lucy Game show (disambiguation) 1950s quiz show...
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  • budgetary concerns and to assuage criticism that arose from the 1950s quiz show scandals. The limits were usually imposed by the networks themselves; CBS...
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    The $64,000 Question (category 1950s American game shows)
    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...
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  • a scandal, "his impressive performance on Press Your Luck may be one of the only honest days of work that Michael Larson ever did." 1950s quiz show scandals –...
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  • game show that aired on CBS from June 30, 1958 to January 2, 1959, hosted by Bill Nimmo. It was one of the game shows implicated in the 1950s quiz show scandals...
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    The Big Surprise (category 1950s American game shows)
    was one of the shows admitted to have been controlled by its producers and staff, under the umbrella of the 1950s quiz show scandals. Contestants who...
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    days of television, the marketing of Geritol was involved in the quiz show scandal, as the sponsor of Twenty-One. For many years after that, Geritol...
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  • Silverman, Leonard Goldenson and Ted Turner. Key players from the 1950s quiz show scandals were also interviewed: Herb Stempel and Albert Freedman. TV Foundation...
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  • Enright as a tandem since their fall from grace following the 1950s quiz show scandals. The show aired in the spring and summer of 1976 as an ABC daytime series...
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  • success of the 1950s big-money quiz The $64,000 Question on CBS, Barry and Enright developed their flagship show, Twenty-One, a quiz which had a scoring...
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    in investigating quiz show scandals, particularly the Twenty-One scandal. This affair provided the story for the 1994 movie Quiz Show, in which Goodwin...
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  • Comedy Awards had also been conning viewers. 1950s quiz show scandals in the United States List of quiz channels West, Dave (2008-02-21). "Bingo lined...
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  • first for NBC since the company was a central figure in the 1950s quiz show scandals. Hot Potato was the first game mounted for a network by Barry & Enright...
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  • big-money games (not just their own) implicated as part of the 1950s quiz show scandals. The winnings were kept at a low amount on purpose to avoid any...
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  • George B. Storer, president of Storer Communications. During the 1950s quiz show scandals he was accused of conflict of interest and forced to resign. Thomas...
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  • Manhunt (2001 TV series) (category Entertainment scandals)
    producer to rig the show in favor of a particular contestant, which violated FCC regulations put in place following the 1950s quiz show scandals. The program...
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    subcommittee is famous for its hearings regarding payola and the quiz show scandals of the 1950s. The investigations conducted led to regulation in the broadcast...
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  • of the late 1950s quiz show scandals, testifying to the United States Congress that NBC and the other networks were victims of the quiz-show rigging just...
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    appearances on the television game show Twenty-One. In the 1994 film Quiz Show, which dramatized the 1950s quiz show scandals, Dorothy Van Doren was portrayed...
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    (help) "Quiz Show Scandals". museum.tv. Retrieved 15 December 2015. Juliet A. Williams (21 May 2011). "Why the Strauss-Kahn and Schwarzenegger scandals don't...
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  • they would file an appeal on the decision. 1950s quiz show scandals, Match-fixing scandals involving quiz shows in the United States PhilSports Stadium stampede...
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  • The advertisement became Madison Avenue legend because of the full-page quiz next to the sensual ad. Almost 50 years later, in November 2010, Revlon re-created...
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