Before the TV Quiz Show Scandal broke in the late 1950s, Herbert Stempel was destined to be a little-remembered contestant on the NBC quiz show "Twenty-One." However, as the man who helped expose ...
From the opening of the 1994 Robert Redford film Quiz Show — a movie very much worth taking a look back at, 30 years later — ...
Perhaps no other figure involved in the television quiz shows of the 1950s had a more meteoric rise ... which was investigating the quiz-show scandal, to assert his innocence.
Thanks to widespread rigging on quiz shows in the 1950s which was a major scandal at the time, there are federal regulations in place that prohibit such rigging. That’s why Carey’s reaction to ...