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Hollywood Crime Scene

Episode 366 - The Quiz Show Scandals

Hollywood Crime Scene

Rachel Fisher

True Crime, Comedy

4.64.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In the 1950's several American game shows were rigged to increase ratings.


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Hello, welcome to Hollywood crime scene. This is Rachel Fisher.

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This is Desi Jadikin.

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Hello.

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Hi.

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So today we are going to start a multi-part series on the quiz show scandals of the 1950s.

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Now, in a very strange coincidence, the great and very hot Robert Redford died today,

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and he directed the Oscar-nominated movie Quiz Show, starring Reifines and John Terturo,

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which covers the story of the scandal involving the popular quiz show 21,

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which we will get into a little bit today and more next week. I just thought that was really weird,

1:18.8

because that's how I knew about this scandal was from that movie. Yeah. Robert Redford first saw

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21 in the late 1950s when he was in his early 20s,

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taking art and acting classes in New York. And he talked about when he first saw Charles

1:34.8

Van Doren on the show, that's the guy we finds planes in the movie. He said watching him

1:39.8

and the other contestants was irresistible. The actor and me looked at the show and felt like I was

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