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The $64,000 Question
1955 · TV series · 30 min episodes · 2 seasons
Created by Louis G. Cowan
The $64,000 Question is an American game show broadcast from 1955–1958, which became embroiled in the scandals involving TV quiz shows of the day. The $64,000 Challenge was its popular spin-off show.
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I haven't changed anything! It's right there in the Wikipedia article - the 1950s frauds were in fact mainly about rigging the shows for entertainment value, ensuring the right contestants won.
The FCC doesn't (didn't?) like the shows being rigged that way, which is why The $64,000 Question went off the air. It also doesn't like the shows being rigged in the network's favour, which is why this episode of Press Your Luck continued to the end despite the producers' misgivings.