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When USA Network bought the rights to rerun Press Your Luck, CBS and Carruthers insisted that the Larson episodes must not be aired. On March 16, 2003, GSN was allowed to air the episodes as part of a two-hour documentary called Big Bucks: The Press Your Luck Scandal, hosted and narrated by Tomarken.
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...
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.
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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...
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Mar 16, 2003 · On May 19, 1984, an out of work ice cream truck driver from Southwestern Ohio broke the bank on CBS' hit game show of the mid-1980's "Press Your Luck" and made TV history by setting a record for the most money won by a contestant in one appearance on a daytime game show; A record... Read all.
