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The $64,000 Question was 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.
- June 7, 1955 –, November 2, 1958
- CBS
Jun 3, 2018 · Though Charles Van Doren’s streak as Twenty-One’s champion had ended, scandals involving the quiz show were just heating up. Around 1955, it was revealed that a different show, The $64,000 Question, was being manipulated by the producers in an attempt to stop a female contestant from winning the grand prize.
- Kara Goldfarb
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The Quiz Show Scandal. The $64,000 Question. Share: The big-money quiz show that spawned a rash of copycats in the mid-1950s was none other than "The $64,000 Question." The idea for...
- American Experience
Jan 6, 1992 · The Quiz Show Scandal. When CBS premiered "The $64,000 Question" in 1955, the show was more than a hit; it was a national phenomenon. No program in the short history of television had...
Nov 5, 1989 · For Stoney, the scandals were a lesson in human frailty, and he and his fellow quiz-show participants were an early, dramatic demonstration of television’s awesome power to influence and...
Mar 29, 2019 · The answer is: “What is Jeopardy! ?” In 1964, the answers-first show made its debut. But if not for a group of popular—and fraudulent—quiz shows, it may never have existed in the first...
Before the quiz show scandal of the late 1950s, The $64,000 Question was a high-stakes, nail-biting, ratings-topping game show phenomenon. Sponsored by the Revlon lipstick company it was the first of TV’s big-money prime time game shows, and some of its biggest and most illustrious winners included a housewife, an eleven-year-old whiz kid, a ...
