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Product Description: This work contains the histories of Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, Art Linkletter's House Party, Break the Bank, The Breakfast Club, Bride and Groom, Can You Top This?, Dr. Christian, Dr. I.Q., Double or Nothing, Information Please, Queen for a Day, Stop the Music!, Strike It Rich, Take It or Leave It, Truth or Consequences, Welcome Travelers, and You Bet Your Life, all from the 1940s and 1950s...read more

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9780786410712 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, October 1, 2001, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: This text contains the histories of 17 radio audience participation shows on the air during the 1940s.

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9780786440467, titled "The Great Radio Audience Participation Shows: Seventeen Programs from the 1940s and 1950s" | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, November 30, 2008, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: This work contains the histories of Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, Art Linkletter's House Party, Break the Bank, The Breakfast Club, Bride and Groom, Can You Top This?

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The competitor who became the longest running champion on Jeopardy! offers an entertaining look at the human fascination with trivia, from the pop culture of the past to such modern-day phenomena as Trivial Pursuit, that celebrates the glory of the useless fact and recounts his own successful run on the popular game show. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

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9780786292585 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, January 17, 2007), cover price $31.95
9781400064458 | Villard Books, September 12, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The competitor who became the longest running champion on 'Jeopardy!

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9780812974997 | Reprint edition (Villard Books, October 30, 2007), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The competitor who became the longest running champion on Jeopardy!

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Product Description: From The $64,000 Question and Twenty-One to Jeopardy and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, quiz shows have permeated American culture ever since their beginnings in early radio. In Rules of the Game, Olaf Hoerschelmann critically examines the quiz show genre in American culture, drawing on a large body of radio and television programs and on archival materials relating to the broadcast industry, program sponsors, advertising agencies, and individual producers...read more

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9780791468098 | State Univ of New York Pr, October 30, 2006, cover price $74.50 | About this edition: From The $64,000 Question and Twenty-One to Jeopardy and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, quiz shows have permeated American culture ever since their beginnings in early radio.

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9780791468104 | State Univ of New York Pr, July 6, 2006, cover price $31.95

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Product Description: Find out how to win big on your favorite game show! So you'd like to win a million? Who wouldn't!  Well, now it's actually within your grasp--this informative guide will show you how you can win a pile of cash on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, Greed, Twenty-One, and other big-money game shows...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780312976354 | St Martins Pr, February 1, 2000, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Find out how to win big on your favorite game show!

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Discusses the roles and motives of the creators, packagers, advertising agencies, sponsors, producers, and lawyers involved in the scandal

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9780813517537 | Rutgers Univ Pr, April 1, 1992, cover price $59.00 | About this edition: Discusses the roles and motives of the creators, packagers, advertising agencies, sponsors, producers, and lawyers involved in the scandal

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9780813521008, titled "Prime Time and Misdemeanors: Investigating the 1950s TV Quiz Scandal-A D.A.'s Account" | Reissue edition (Rutgers Univ Pr, June 1, 1994), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Discusses the roles and motives of the creators, packagers, advertising agencies, sponsors, producers, and lawyers involved in the scandal

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Traces the history of quiz shows, describes their origins in parlor games, and shares reminiscences of former contestants, producers, directors, writers, hosts, and sponsors (view table of contents)

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9780275940423 | Praeger Pub Text, November 1, 1991, cover price $132.00 | About this edition: Traces the history of quiz shows, describes their origins in parlor games, and shares reminiscences of former contestants, producers, directors, writers, hosts, and sponsors

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