Enright, I Love Lucy, and the Stemple Experiment

The Stemple experiment was a huge leap forward. The repeat winner idea was money in the bank. After 18 weeks on the air, they counter program 21, directly opposite, I love Lucy and they held their own. So much of this is not because of Dan Enright's genius of feeding answers. It's because of that beautiful, sexy mind of Charles Van Doren. He crushes Stemple and immediately becomes a supernova.