Dr. Joyce Brothers and the $64,000 Question
If TV game show Twenty-One was fixed, then the $64,000 Question was "controlled." If they liked a contestant and thought he/she was good for ratings, then they picked questions which played to the strength of the contestant's expertise. And if they didn't like you, they fielded you a hard ball.
Such is the case with Dr. Joyce Brothers, the only person to win both the $64,000 Question and the $64,000 Challenge. But that was far from the plan. The producers wanted to dump her early. Didn't think she had star power.
Partly influenced by Martin and Charles Revson, of Revlon, the show's sponsors, producers attempted to stump Dr. Brothers. The loved contradictions. The mechanic who knew opera. In her case, the psychologist who knew boxing. Once she got to a certain level and they wanted rid of her, they threw her a question about referees, which they thought to be beyond her grasp.
But the enterprising Dr. Brothers had been studying in between weekly shows, and surprised them all by answering correctly. What could they do but let her run on?
Later she was on the sister show for winners, the $64,000 Challenge where she was challenged by a team of boxers, and yup, again she won the big prize.
Keep in mind, the boxers were all punch drunk and brain damaged but still...
We've talked about Edie McClurg.
The thread is officially dead.
We've reached the end of the internet.
Good night and good luck.
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For the benefit of our Italian readers:
Finis!
Nick: You wrote:
Way to try to get the "h" out of here.
Joe(trapped by obstinacy)Nation
Intrepid- I had once read an article by Joyce Brothers about how she happened to get on to the game show. Apparently, she had just finished her Ph.D, and her husband was in med school.
Originally, she knew nothing about boxing. But she tried to figure what subject would be most likely to give her a shot at getting on the show, so she picked boxing. According to Dr. Brothers, she went about studying the subject the same way that she studied for her Ph.D. Obviously, she was correct in her assumption that a little blonde psychologist who had a thorough knowledge of boxing would be interesting to a TV show producer, so she was picked.
I remember her writing that when her husband graduated med school, because of the money that she won, he was able to go right into practice, without having to worry about any debts that he had incurred going through school.
You think a lot of words are going to end this, Phoenix?
Think again.
I was in a poker game one time and the guy across from me went by the name of Mike Shoetrap. We played for nearly four hours before Mike uttered a solitary word. Finally, when he was beat on a very nice pot he muttered, "Damn".
About fifteen more minutes went by and he won a pot. It was a nice pot and he said, "About time".
At that point I pulled my money off the table, stood up, and said, "See you guys later. I can't take anymore of Mike's incessant chattering."
Ooh I love them.
I've got some great Keds with Tweety on one sneak and Sylvester on the other.
I unserstand that reproductions some of the old time "sneakers", (that's an ancient term for "athletic shoes", for those too young to remember) are all the rage now!
