American Experience
Season 4 Episode 9 - The Quiz Show Scandal
When CBS premiered The $64,000 Question in 1955, the show was more than a hit; it was a national phenomenon. More quiz shows followed. What the audience was to learn, much later, was that many of these shows were fixed. Slowly, painfully, the deceit unravelled. A look at the formative years of television and the scandal's impact on the TV business and a naive America.
Episodes in Season 4
LBJ (1)
55 min
LBJ (2)
55 min
The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry
55 min
Scandalous Mayor
55 min
The Johnstown Flood
55 min
Pearl Harbor: Surprise and Remembrance
55 min
G-Men: The Rise of J. Edgar Hoover
55 min
Duke Ellington: Reminiscing in Tempo
55 min
The Quiz Show Scandal
55 min
Love in the Cold War
55 min
Wild by Law
55 min
Barnum's Big Top
55 min
In the White Man's Image
55 min