HARTFORD, Conn. -- Charles Van Doren, the dashing young academic whose meteoric rise and fall as a corrupt game show contestant in the 1950s inspired the movie "Quiz Show" and served as a cautionary ...

As the extent of the quiz show deception was revealed, the networks pulled all their high stakes game shows from the air, replacing them with westerns and detective shows. But the scandal affected far ...

In the 1950s, many quiz shows migrated from radio to TV and involved large sums of money. But the shows were damaged when it was revealed that many quizzes were fixed. In 1959, Charles van Doren ...

At the time he created the quiz show "Twenty-One," Dan Enright was one of the most successful game show producers in television. Beginning in radio, Enright had worked with Jack Barry to create and ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Paul Walter Hauser stars in “The Luckiest Man in America.” “The Luckiest Man in America” is an ironic title for the story of ...