In the 1950’s, that kind of money could change your life. $64,000 is 17 times the average income in 1956, according to a report by the casually sexist US Department of Commerce. In households ...

The Quiz Club was quintessential Baltimore 1950s audience-participation live television. It was corny, delightful, funny, unpretentious and universal. It owned the early afternoon television market.

As television moved into millions of homes in the 1950s, the popular quiz shows followed. ... A TV version of "Quiz Kids" proved only a modest success, never catching on the way the radio show had.

Charles Van Doren, man at heart of 1950s TV quiz show scandal, dies at 93 Columbia University instructor won $129,000 on ‘Twenty-One,’ but cheating scandal later emerged ...

Herb Stempel, the contestant on NBC's 'Twenty-One' who helped expose the rigged television quiz shows of the 1950s after he was "beaten" by Charles Van Doren, has died. He was 93.

Charles Van Doren, central figure in 1950s quiz-show scandal, dies at 93. April 10, 2019 More than ... Dr. Van Doren was an unlikely candidate for TV stardom. He was an author, ...

A TV version of "Quiz Kids" proved only a modest success, ... opening the floodgates to an unprecedented wave of quiz shows in the latter half of the 1950s. Support Provided by: Learn More.

Charles Van Doren, 1950s Quiz Show Scandal Figure, Dies at 93 By Ted Johnson. Plus Icon. Ted Johnson Senior ... TV’s quizshow boom began to bust in the summer of 1958, ...