World's Greatest Con

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

Feb 28, 2022

01:15:31

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The World's Greatest Con and a Message from BetterHelp

00:31

The Reputation-driven Career Shift of a Former Show Maker

00:34

The Clever Trick That Enright Used to Get a Contestant to Cheat

00:27

The Cost of Shame: The Fall of Charles Van Doren

00:35

Introduction

3min

Stage Hypnosis - The Perfect Activity to Get People to Identify With You

2min

The Stage Hypnotist Says, Now You're Getting Cooler

2min

The Hypnotist Says, You Are Britney Spears

4min

The Biggest Scandal in Television History

1min

BetterHelp - The World's Greatest Con

5min

The Game Show

2min

The First $64,000 Question

5min

Enright's 21 Is a TV Show

3min

10.

How to Make 25k in a Lump Sum

3min

11.

The Deal With the Devil Comes Due First

4min

12.

How to Win a Movie Award

1min

13.

The End of Stemple's Run

2min

14.

Enright, I Love Lucy, and the Stemple Experiment

3min

15.

Dan Enright's New TV Career

5min

16.

Copywriting - Snodgrass's Secret Weapon

4min

17.

The Power of Shame

4min

18.

America's Got Talent - I'm Just Going to Do It One More Time

3min

19.

NBC's Stemples Crank Blackmail

3min

20.

Enright's Deception of the Grand Jury

4min

21.

Charles Van Doren and the Cost of Sham

3min

22.

Charles Van Doren Dies at 93

4min

23.

The World's Greatest Con

2min

24.

The Story of 21 Isn't an Outlier

3min

A producer decides to juice his quiz show by feeding answers to contestants. The attention makes them rich and famous but the revelation of the scheme extracts a terrible societal cost from everyone who took the bargain.

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