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The Press Your Luck scandal was contestant Michael Larson's 1984 record-breaking win of $110,237 (equivalent to $323,296 in 2023) on the American game show Press Your Luck.
Jun 10, 2019 · “ Press Your Luck ” returns Tuesday night on ABC — 35 years after its infamous “scandal” when unemployed ice cream truck driver Michael Larson, wearing a thrift-store sports coat, won more than...
Jun 11, 2019 · In late 1983, when the CBS morning game show Press Your Luck first came on the air, a 35-year-old Mister Softee ice-cream truck driver from Ohio named Michael Larson saw the chance of a...
Jan 19, 2024 · In 1984, Paul Michael Larson became well-known for a huge win on the game show “Press Your Luck.”. The $110,237 in cash and prizes that Larson won was, at the time, the most money ever won in...
Aug 16, 2021 · Documentary on contestant Michael Larson's record-breaking win on the game show 'Press Your Luck'. He was a contestant on the American television game show Press Your Luck in 1984.
May 19, 2019 · “He was almost in a tranced state,” McGlynn recalled in the documentary Big Bucks: The Press Your Luck Scandal. “He would watch and count how many flashes went around the board.” Larson spent...
The Scandal That Shook the Game Show World. Back in May of 1984, a 35-year-old former ice-cream truck driver from Lebanon Ohio named Michael Larson flew to California to audition for the CBS game show, Press Your Luck. Michael was no ordinary contestant though.
Jun 11, 2014 · After years of working odd jobs and trying in vain to get CBS to put him on a proposed Press Your Luck Tournament of Champions, as well as a federal investigation into a massive pyramid scheme in which he was involved, Michael Larson died of throat cancer on February 16, 1999.
May 7, 2013 · In 1984, ice cream truck driver Michael Larson set a record by winning $110,237 (a combined total of cash and non-cash prizes) in one appearance on the game show Press Your Luck —and he did...
Mar 12, 2003 · An unemployed ice-cream-truck driver from Ohio, Larson identified and memorized a recurring pattern in the game board on “Press Your Luck,” the 1980s CBS daytime show that featured a trio of...
