Game Shows


The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation Presents

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Game Shows describe fixed-format shows in which contestants compete for prizes.

Highlights
Vanna White on her fashions on Wheel of Fortune
02:41
Herbert Stempel on finally being "defeated" by Charles Van Doren on Twenty-One
03:24
Bob Stewart on how The Price is Right almost never got on the air
02:18
Monty Hall on co-creating Let's Make a Deal with Stefan Hatos
12:57
Chuck Barris on his difficulties hosting The Gong Show
00:42
Ralph Edwards on a typical Truth or Consequences show
02:27
Who talked about this genre

Berle Adams

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Berle Adams on negotiating deals for Ralph Edwards for his shows Truth or Consequences and This Is Your Life
02:59

Alan Alda

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Alan Alda on how his TVQ rating from game show appearances may have helped him get cast on M*A*S*H
03:22

Army Archerd

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Army Archerd on the celebrity game show, The Movie Game
02:21

Bob Barker

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Bob Barker on the origin and premise of the game show The Price is Right
10:04
Bob Barker on the secret to The Price is Right's longevity
01:54
Bob Barker on the success and inclusiveness of The Price is Right
02:24

Chuck Barris

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Chuck Barris on developing The Dating Game
29:01
Chuck Barris on developing The Newlywed Game
09:30
Chuck Barris on developing The Gong Show
34:25
Chuck Barris on The Newlywed Game
25:53
Chuck Barris on the staff and legacy of The Gong Show
04:25

Joseph Behar

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Joe Behar on directing the pilot of Let's Make a Deal and the premise of the show
01:30
Joe Behar on directing Let's Make a Deal and memorable moments from the show
19:10

Tom Bergeron

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Tom Bergeron on hosting Hollywood Squares
27:53

Frank Biondo

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Frank Biondo on getting a job as a cameraman on Supermarket Sweep, which shot on location
02:36

Sam Bobrick

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Sam Bobrick on his first official writing job for Make Me Laugh, hosted by Robert Q. Lewis, and on writing for Captain Kangaroo
04:49

Vin Di Bona

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Vin Di Bona on producing Animal Crack-Ups
09:04

Al Borden

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Al Borden on being propmaster for You Bet Your Life
01:34

Frances Buss Buch

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Frances Buss Buch on CBS Television Quiz
08:30
Frances Buss Buch on directing The Missus Goes A-Shopping
04:06
Frances Buss Buch briefly on directing CBS Television Quiz
00:25
Frances Buss Buch on seeing Winner Take All many years later and thinking it was dull
00:53
Frances Buss Buch on directing What's It Worth?
03:51

Harvey Bullock

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Harvey Bullock on writing for Johnny Carson on Who Do You Trust?,  and on writing McKeever & the Colonel 
01:47

Allan Burns

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Allan Burns on being a page on Queen for a Day and having to kick someone off the show
06:02

Robert Caminiti

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Robert Caminiti on the fast pacing and structured environment of being part of a crew on a game show
00:55
Robert Caminiti on stage managing for Goodson-Todman Productions' game shows
01:32
Robert Caminiti on what he enjoyed about working on game shows, particularly What's My Line?
01:54
Robert Caminiti on stage managing for various game shows including Concentration, Jeopardy! and Winning Streak
11:30

Steve Carlin

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Steve Carlin on creating and producing The $64,000 Question  (Part 1)
15:14
Steve Carlin on creating and producing The $64,000 Question (Part 2)
29:36
Steve Carlin on creating and producing The $64,000 Question (Part 3)
08:05
Steve Carlin on creating Jackie Gleason's infamous You're in the Picture  game show
11:38

Gilbert Cates

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Gilbert Cates on the Quiz Show scandal surrounding Dotto
02:38
Gilbert Cates on the Quiz Show scandal surrounding Dotto (contd.)
15:11

Cyd Charisse

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Cyd Charisse on appearing as a mystery guest on What's My Line?
01:19

RuPaul Charles

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RuPaul Charles on hosting RuPaul's Drag Race
21:13

Nick Clooney

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Nick Clooney on hosting the game show The Moneymaze
04:22

Jan Murray with Emerson College

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Jan Murray on becoming the host of Blind Date
02:44
Jan Murray on hosting Dollar a Second after Blind Date was canceled
01:21
Jan Murray on hosting Treasure Hunt and the popularity of the show
00:32
Jan Murray on being the first comedian to host a live game show
04:40

Gary Owens with Emerson College

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Gary Owens on being the original host of The Gong Show, and on Murray Langston, "The Unknown Comic"
07:06

Anderson Cooper

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Anderson Cooper on appearing on Jeopardy!
02:03

Bill Daily

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Bill Daily on being a panelist on Match Game
04:07

Richard Dawson

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Richard Dawson on Family Feud
58:46

Milton Delugg

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Milton Delugg on playing accordion on Treasure Hunt
00:51
Milton Delugg on working with Herb Shriner on Two for the Money
01:54
Milton Delugg on working on Beat the Clock and Dollar a Second
02:07
Milton Delugg on composing the theme to What's My Line
01:34
Milton Delugg on composing music for Chuck Barris' The Newlywed Game and The Dating Game
02:49
Milton Delugg on the 1974 short-lived revival of Your Hit Parade
01:32
Milton Delugg on conducting the "Milton Delugg and the Band with a Thug" band on The Gong Show, and on the outrageous acts on the show
09:00
Milton Delugg on The Gong Show, including how contestants were chosen and on working with some of the celebrity judges
05:31
Milton Delugg on working on The Chuck Barris Rah Rah Show
01:01
Milton Delugg on working on Three's A Crowd
00:33
Milton Delugg on working on Camouflage and the revivals of The Dating Game and The Newlywed Game
00:52

Hugh Downs

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Hugh Downs on hosting the popular game show Concentration and security on the show during the Quiz Show Scandals
05:41

Charles S. Dubin

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Charles S. Dubin on directing Twenty One, produced by Dan Enright just before the Quiz Show Scandals broke, and on being called to testify about it
05:10

Patty Duke

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Patty Duke on how her managers gave her the answers for the $64,000 Challenge; on testifying during the Quiz Show Scandals
04:10

Ralph Edwards

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Ralph Edwards on the pilot, idea, and initial response to the radio version of Truth or Consequences; on typical acts and successful war drives
12:31
Ralph Edwards on memorable moments on Truth or Consequences and the show's move to television; on producing Truth or Consequences on film using new techniques of live television (a technique credited to Al Simon)
22:13

Dick Enberg

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Dick Enberg on hosting the show Sports Challenge  and producing the show The Way it Was
04:55
Dick Enberg on hosting several game shows including Perfect Match  and Baffle
02:01

Bob Eubanks

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Host Bob Eubanks on the role of the host on The Newlywed Game
05:50

Nanette Fabray

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Nanette Fabray on appearing on Password
01:07
Nanette Fabray on appearing on The Hollywood Squares
02:08

Jamie Farr

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Jamie Farr on his involvement with The Gong Show
08:22

Ruth Duskin Feldman

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Ruth Duskin Feldman on being a panelist on Quiz Kids  (Part 1)
22:26
Ruth Duskin Feldman on being a panelist on Quiz Kids  (Part 2)
29:38
Ruth Duskin Feldman on being a panelist on Quiz Kids (Part 3)
29:03
Ruth Duskin Feldman on appearing as a panelist on Quiz Kids (Part 4)
29:09

Sonny Fox

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Sonny Fox on his short-lived time as host of $64,000 Challenge
11:02

Charles Fox

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Composer Charles Fox on composing for Goodson-Todman game shows early in his career
05:24

Fred Foy

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Fred Foy on being an announcer for game shows and changing his voice for that genre

Albert Freedman

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Albert Freedman on contestants knowing the answers ahead of time of The Big Surprise and the reasons for "fixing" panel and quiz shows
08:42
Albert Freedman on his dealings with Twenty One contestant James Snodgrass during the Quiz Show Scandals
03:02
Albert Freedman on the format of the quiz show, Tic Tac Dough and how winners were selected ahead of time based on pre-test results
04:24
Albert Freedman on the most difficult pre-test of all the quiz shows - on Twenty One - and how producers selected which answers to give contestants
00:51
Albert Freedman on specific contestants on Tic Tac Dough
01:18
Albert Freedman on becoming a producer on Twenty One, coaching contestants, and convincing Charles Van Doren to become a contestant on the program
29:12
Albert Freedman on Charles Van Doren becoming a celebrity because of his appearances of Twenty One; on the beginning of the Quiz Show Scandals; on not wanting to implicate Charles Van Doren
28:55
Albert Freedman on being indicted during the Quiz Show Scandals, being blacklisted, going to Mexico, and returning to the U.S. to testify again after Charles Van Doren agreed to testify
28:38
Albert Freedman on reaching out to Charles Van Doren's lawyer to explain the circumstances under which Freedman would be testifying before the Grand Jury for a third time, on Robert Redford's movie "Quiz Show" and whether or not the film was accurate, and the impact of the Quiz Show Scandals on the medium of television - the end of the intelligent era of live TV
28:16
Albert Freedman on whether today's quiz shows are affected by the Quiz Show Scandals
01:46

Harry Friedman

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Harry Friedman on writing and producing Hollywood Squares (Part 1)
16:10
Harry Friedman on writing and producing Hollywood Squares (Part 2)
07:36
Harry Friedman on writing and producing Wheel of Fortune (Part 1)
15:18
Harry Friedman on producing Wheel of Fortune (Part 2)
28:59
Harry Friedman on producing Wheel of Fortune (Part 3)
05:44
Harry Friedman on producing Jeopardy! (Part 1)
13:12
Harry Friedman on producing Jeopardy! (Part 3)
06:26

Pamela Fryman

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Pamela Fryman on working on The New Hollywood Squares
01:12

Melissa Gilbert

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Melissa Gilbert on appearing on Hollywood Squares and dining with Paul Lynde
02:14

Whoopi Goldberg

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Whoopi Goldberg on rebooting The Hollywood Squares as producer and being "Center Square", and on memorable moments from the show and how the show was run
05:52

Mary Lynn Gottfried

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Mary Lynn Gottfried on writing questions for game shows, including Card Sharks
01:31
Mary Lynn Gottfried on booking talent for Hollywood Squares
03:08

Monty Hall

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Monty Hall on briefly hosting Twenty-One and the subsequent quiz show scandals that emerged
04:33
Monty Hall on the impact of the Quiz Show Scandals on game shows
03:23
Monty Hall on co-creating Let's Make a Deal with Stefan Hatos
12:57
On the budget, cast, crew, and format of Let's Make a Deal; on the diversity of Let's Make a Deal contestants and costumed contestants
19:37
Monty Hall on the great and "zonk" prizes on Let's Make a Deal
04:34
Monty Hall on the production schedule of Let's Make a Deal
08:22
Monty Hall on Dick Clark getting Let's Make a Deal back on the air
05:57

Florence Henderson

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Florence Henderson on her game show appearances and the popularity of game shows
03:39

Michael King

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Michael King on distributing Joker's Wild and Tic Tac Dough for King World
04:42
Michael King on King World distributing Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!
35:08

Roger King

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Roger King and syndicating Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!
09:42
Roger King on King World selling The Joker's Wild
04:15
Roger King on the success and legacy of Jeopardy!
01:27
Roger King on King World reviving, producing, and distributing The Hollywood Squares with Whoopi Goldberg as the center square, and on distributing Martha Stewart Living
01:32

Jeff Kisseloff

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Jeff Kisseloff on his interview with Twenty-One producer Al Freeman, Jr.
04:01

Mort Lachman

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Mort Lachman on doing warmup on Truth or Consequences hosted by Ralph Edwards
01:53

Perry Lafferty

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Perry Lafferty on his first television job, directing Celebrity Time
04:29
Perry Lafferty on directing Name That Tune
03:27

Vicki Lawrence

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Vicki Lawrence on hosting Win, Lose, or Draw and her advice to TV hosts

Richard Lewis

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Richard Lewis on producing Blind Date
09:33

Charles Lisanby

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Charles Lisanby on designing sets for the $64,000 Question
01:46

Stewart MacGregory

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Stewart MacGregory on being stage coordinator for Americana and Barney Blake, Police Reporter
04:19

Rose Marie

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Rose Marie on her long tenure as a panelist on The Hollywood Squares
08:32

Peter Marshall

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Peter Marshall on hosting Hollywood Squares
11:52
Peter Marshall on hosting Hollywood Squares
29:20

Wink Martindale

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Wink Martindale on what makes a good game show host, and on game show hosts he admires like Bill Cullen
02:35
Wink Martindale on becoming a game show host
01:24
Wink Martindale on hosting Can You Top This produced by Morey Amsterdam
02:59
Wink Martindale on hosting Las Vegas Gambit, and on appearing on The Hollywood Squares
06:16
Wink Martindale on hosting Tic Tac Dough
20:31
Wink Martindale on creating and hosting Headline Chasers
04:42
Wink Martindale on hosting High Rollers
02:12
Wink Martindale on hosting Trivial Pursuit
04:32
Wink Martindale on hosting Second Honeymoon and Bumper Stumpers
03:19
Wink Martindale on being a contestant on Tattletales, and on his later friendship with Elvis Presley
03:55
Wink Martindale on being a celebrity contestant on Password
00:50
Wink Martindale on Tic Tac Dough being his favorite show, and on his enjoyment of hosting Las Vegas Gambit
02:48
Wink Martindale on hosting Dream Girl of '67 and How's Your Mother-in-Law?
05:08

Kent McCray

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Kent McCray on working with Groucho Marx on You Bet Your Life
05:08

Bob McGrath

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Bob McGrath on one of his first jobs in television, working on the game show, To Tell the Truth
00:38

Ed McMahon

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Ed McMahon on being announcer for Who Do You Trust? and on meeting Johnny Carson
06:31
Ed McMahon on being the announcer for Who Do You Trust?
07:54
Ed McMahon on hosting Star Search
04:13

Barney McNulty

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Barney McNulty on doing cue cards for Groucho Marx on You Bet Your Life and on Bill Cosby's remake of the show
03:26
Barney McNulty on doing cue cards for Queen for a Day
02:49
Barney McNulty on doing cue cards for Let's Make a Deal, Ralph Edwards, and The Carol Burnett Show
01:59

Jayne Meadows

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Jayne Meadows on getting a job as a panelist on I've Got a Secret and meeting Steve Allen
06:35
Jayne Meadows on being a panelist on I've Got a Secret
17:23

John Moffitt

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John Moffitt on producing the relaunched Hollywood Squares
04:42

Robert Mott

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Robert Mott on working on To Tell the Truth and on working with a laugh track
03:22
Robert Mott on appearing on What's My Line?
02:29
Robert Mott on appearing as a contestant on What's My Line?  with host John Daly
02:32

E. Roger Muir

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E. Roger Muir on leaving NBC, and on developing and producing The Newlywed Game with Chuck Barris
06:40

Don Pardo

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Don Pardo on The Price is Right; on a typical day and his duties as announcer; on appearing on-camera while filling in for Bill Cullen; on blowing the surprise of a contestant winning a trip to "Rooooooome" on an early Price is Right episode; on rehearsals
10:21
Don Pardo on working with Bill Cullen on Jeopardy! "tell them what they've won, Don"
01:44

Don Pike

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Don Pike on returning to NBC in 1967 as a technical director and acting as technical director on the Miss America Pageant
06:42

Jeff Probst

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Jeff Probst on hosting Rock and Roll Jeopardy!
12:21

Sally Jessy Raphael

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Sally Jessy Raphael on appearing on the show Quiz Kids when she was a child
01:39

Stanley Ralph Ross

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Stanley Ralph Ross on developing Challenge of the Sexes
02:08

Pat Sajak

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Pat Sajak on doing the weather for KNBC Los Angeles and impressing Merv Griffin and offering Sajak Wheel of Fortune
05:27
Pat Sajak on Wheel of Fortune
28:39
Pat Sajak on production of and memorable moments on Wheel of Fortune
04:06
Pat Sajak on Wheel of Fortune
23:31

Lew Schneider

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Lew Schneider on Make the Grade, a children's game show1
03:45

Jack Shea

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Jack Shea on working on Truth or Consequences, one of the first shows he directed
03:16

Fred Silverman

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Fred Silverman on going up against NBC's game shows starting with scheduling Joker's Wild , Gambit and bringing back The Price is Right
02:14
Fred Silverman on Goodson-Todd, Heatter-Quigley, Monty Hall, and Chuck Barris.
01:36

Garry Simpson

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Garry Simpson on directing Tic Tac Doug h
01:36

Ira Skutch

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Ira Skutch on Campus Hoopla featuring Eva Marie Saint as a regular before her greater fame as a movie actress
01:31
Ira Skutch on the challenges of staging and directing a game show, specifically What's My Line? and how the audience was filmed
02:48
Ira Skutch on budgets and prizes on shows like Match Game
01:25
Ira Skutch on the game show Two for the Money
01:32
Ira Skutch on directing Beat the Clock
02:03
Ira Skutch on directing Match Game, hosted by Gene Rayburn
07:04
Ira Skutch on the quiz show Face to Face
01:26
Ira Skutch on producing the game show Play Your Hunch
02:16

Herbert F. Solow

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Herbert F. Solow on working with the game shows for NBC
06:55

Frank Stanton

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Frank Stanton on the Quiz Show Scandals
01:35

Herbert Stempel

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Herbert Stempel on appearing as a contestant on the rigged quiz show Twenty-One
15:25
Herbert Stempel on appearing as a contestant on the rigged quiz show Twenty-One  (Part 2)
28:46
Herbert Stempel on appearing as a contestant on the rigged quiz show Twenty-One  (Part 3)
25:17

Bob Stewart

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Bob Stewart on the genesis of The Price is Right
01:03
Bob Stewart defines the genres of game shows versus panel shows
01:31
Bob Stewart on the creation and production of Password
10:45
Bob Stewart on his preference for game shows featuring celebrities
00:48
Bob Stewart on the process of creating game shows and how his company was run
07:11
Bob Stewart on how the popularity of word games waned
01:23
Producer Bob Stewart on what makes a good game show host
01:26

Dick Stiles

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Dick Stiles on doing production design for The Wizard of Odds
02:33
Dick Stiles on doing art direction for Wheel of Fortune
19:13

George Sunga

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George Sunga on being Production Supervisor on Password
05:15

William Tankersley

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William Tankersley on how the Quiz Show scandals (which started with NBC shows) affected CBS Standards & Practices
04:30

Alex Trebek

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Alex Trebek on hosting Jeopardy
28:24
Alex Trebek on hosting Jeopardy!
24:29

Robert Trout

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Robert Trout on hosting Who Said That?, produced by Fred Friendly, first on radio and later on television on NBC
04:20

Leslie Uggams

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Leslie Uggams on appearing on Name That Tune as a teenager
02:08
Leslie Uggams on her game show Fantasy
02:26

Jimmie Walker

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Jimmie Walker on appearing on Match Game and Hollywood Squares
04:42
Jimmie Walker on appearing on Battle of the Network Stars
02:38

Matthew Weiner

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Matthew Weiner on appearing as a contestant on Jeopardy!
04:01

Betty White

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Betty White on her affinity for game shows
05:09
Betty White on appearing on Password with eventual husband Allen Ludden
07:25
Betty White on the enduring popularity of Goodson/Todman game shows
01:48
Betty White on attempting to host three different game shows, including Just Men!
04:48
Betty White on appearing on What's My Line?, I've Got a Secret, and To Tell the Truth
01:52
Betty White on appearing on Match Game
01:29

Vanna White

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Vanna White on Wheel of Fortune
19:08
Vanna White on the longevity, staff and production of Wheel of Fortune
09:31
Vanna White on Wheel of Fortune  
11:10
Pat Sajak and Vanna White on the atmosphere on the set of Wheel of Fortune
13:19
Pat Sajak and Vanna White on the atmosphere on the set of Wheel of Fortune
13:19

Alan Zweibel

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Alan Zweibel on being offered a job to write for Paul Lynde on Hollywood Squares
02:37