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Sixty years ago, a string of scandals emerged around "fixed" TV quiz shows. When the popular program Dotto was suddenly pulled from the air in 1958, answers were difficult to come by. The scandals changed the business of television in the U.S. by John McDonough, NPR AUDIO
"Dotto" was a peripheral series in the quiz-show crush of the 1950s. It was hosted by Jack Narz, of later "Beat The Clock" and "Concentration" fame. But "Dotto" proved the be a fateful series in the budding scandal of quiz-show rigging by networks; during taping of one episode, a standby contestant was waiting backstage when he chanced to notice the show's defending champion reading a book that contained the answers to the show's questions. After this was revealed and "Dotto" abruptly cancelled, the experience led to the much-delayed revelations of "Twenty-One" fall guy Herb Stempel on quiz-show rigging. Read about TV Quiz Shows