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Twenty One and the 1950s Quiz Show Scandals - Game Shows Part I

World's Greatest Con

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The Game Show

This is the first major hit game show on TV. It embodies all of that: Average people who want to make good testing their own knowledge, winning big money and big prizes. Back for the third week, on her climb to the $64,000 question, is our psychologist from New York City? His category is boxing, Dr. Joyce Brothers. Finally, what man, later famous in the boxing world, reparied the comeback attempt of an ex-champ against Jack Johnson, that Reno, Nevada? Text record.

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