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Game shows were enormously popular in America during the 1950s when TV became a progressively more viable purchase, until several of the most popular ones [[note]]''TwentyOne'' (the most infamous), ''TicTacDough'' (~75% of the nighttime run), ''The $64,000 Question'' (Dr. Joyce Brothers was supposed to lose), ''The $64,000 Challenge'' ('''children!'''), and ''Dotto'' (the smoking gun)[[/note]] turned out to be [[ExecutiveMeddling rigged]] in some manner to influence the outcome and manufacture drama.

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Game shows were enormously popular in America during the 1950s when TV became a progressively more viable purchase, until several of the most popular ones [[note]]''TwentyOne'' (the most infamous), ''TicTacDough'' (~75% of the nighttime run), ''The $64,000 Question'' (Dr. Joyce Brothers was supposed (some contestants were set up to lose), win or lose depending on whether the head of sponsor Revlon liked them), ''The $64,000 Challenge'' ('''children!'''), and ''Dotto'' (the smoking gun)[[/note]] turned out to be [[ExecutiveMeddling rigged]] in some manner to influence the outcome and manufacture drama.



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