$64,000 Question - 1955 episode with Dr. Joyce Brothers 

Well, it seems that their plans backfired lol!

It was all rigged

@@bettymiller1929 Yes, it was -- against Joyce Brothers. But the good doctor herself wasn't gonna let Revlon have the upper hand -- she beat the sponsor and the producers at their game, and won the top prize honestly.

She won by outsmarting them lol she read the book written by a boxing professional who wrote all the questions to ask her ...he basically played himself lol

​@@bettymiller1929they tired, but she outsmarted them all.

Like the question in Back to School with Rodney Dangerfield. "I only have one question for you...broken into 38 parts, 24 subsections,....."

I know…I feel like the name of the show is wicked misleading. It should be “the $64,000 question(s)”

@@Tker1970 One of my favorite movies!

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Who wants to be a Millionaire, which is a revised version of this show, is much easier and more lucrative.

12:54 for that bit

Apparently she studied the book written by the person asking her the question.

Love you Andrew!

I don't love you Andrew

Impressive! He seems like a very sweet person, nice guy! 😊

you do know that they mostly cheated...right?

They did not cheat on this show. That was the "21" show. They did give harder questions to contestants the producers did not like but no one on the Question was given the answers in advance.

@@michaelabrams7345 Actually there were cheating scandals on The $64,000 Question, but Joyce wasn’t one of them.

​@@thewkovacs316 false

@@BrokenCartridge. sorry, but it's true

And $728.320 just two years later.

@@christmasfanj6735 yup 👍

​@@christmasfanj6735that inflation rate over the last few years is insane.

My grandfather. Stanley Skeens ❤

she wasnt an expert she knew that the best way to get picked to be on the question was to have a knowledge about an area that the person should know nothing about so she chose boxing she had a photographic memory and read every book on boxing that was out there...she pretty much knew everything about every fight ever recorded she was never fed a single question or answer, but the sponsor hated her and they tried their best to trip her up

@@thewkovacs316 Well if she studied that hard and learned that much, doesn't that kind of make her an expert? An expert is just someone who knows a ton of stuff about something.

​@@johnzackarias11 simply memorizing facts does not make one an expert in a field

@@thewkovacs316 So what does?

Yes, he did! My Grandfather, Stanley Skeens. ❤

@@michalskeens-shamblin5284 that's amazing I was going to do a random research into him. Anything you are willing to share over a comment for myself and others who stumble across this?

Nothing.

That, but at the same time, not that. However, depending on who you asked, not not not that.

"not all staged" About that....

@@steamboatwill3.367 well i assume some is….? 👀

@@susierota ) well, some of the conversations could be authentic ( not scripted ) But the games/questions were rigged.

And actually, this one was rigged agianst the contestant ( she probably didn't know ) but she succeeded anyway.

@@steamboatwill3.367 Martin and Lewis brought me here

I believe they made it deliberately very hard, because they didnt want her to win because shes female.

Reef I 100% agree with you- but I gotta day the questions the guy was asked weren’t soft balls. Hell -there’s no way I’d be able to just recite the Bible like that. Hers were harder but in general they were all harder then they would be now

@@rivvelmusic Actually no, that's not why it was hard. They didn't want her to win big, BUT it was because the sponsor, Revlon, and their head honcho Charles Revson didn't like her. If you've studied the quiz show scandals, you'll learn that the sponsors sometimes had a BIG say in who stayed and who didn't. Revlon didn't think Dr. Brothers represented what cosmetics were about. Fortunately, she was smarter than they realized and stumped them when she CORRECTLY answered trick questions. Another thing $64K Question did was test them in their categories by having them answer questions (on paper I presume?). The producers would then know what they knew and what they didn't. With Dr. Brothers they tried to throw a curveball at her by asking questions about referees instead of boxers, as seen on this ep. At this point the sponsor tried to "knock her off" and kept bugging the producers etc. to "get rid of her." BUT she outwitted them, and bc she did answer correctly, won the money. There were other girls & women who did win big on this show....Gloria Lockerman (a young spelling whiz), Myrtle Power (baseball expert), and a few others. The contestants never were in on the rigging on Question/Challenge. (They were on Twenty-One, though.) Does anyone know if Dr. Brothers was able to go all the way on $64K Question or Challenge?

@@psalm37v4 I stand corrected.

@@psalm37v4 Supposedly the woman who became actress Barbara Feldon won the top prize in 1957...

And the shake directly after 🤣

That cracked me up hahaha

Just like when Ralph Kramden went on the $99,000 Answer!

With people wanting less waste. It's pretty innovative

Joyce Brothers? If you say so...

Not all men are that bad though, and it's not like women are completely innocent either, it just sucks that men are much more open about thier gender inequality stuff, but still, the games show host is definitely a scam

Jack Hartford well done and accurately stated. You simply highlighted the overall fact this vid displays....an undeniable, proven demographic that far outweighs it's opposition. And you pointed out this irrefutable, decades old approach without casting a "bad" light directly onto "all" men, or boxing every female into a "completely innocent" category. Thank you. 👍

? Without having heard the story before, would her question seem unreasonably difficult compared to the bible guy's? She was going for 16 grand, the bible guy was going for 2. If his 2 grand question was "name one biblical mesopotamian king besides Nebuchadnezzar" and his 4 grand question was "name the 3 ways Samson fibbed about the source of his strength", then surely Brothers's 16 grand question to name the referees in 4 extremely famous boxing matches was not out of sorts for the difficulty curve for this programme. Admittedly, I've not seen any more 64,000 Question than this one clip, and yes, I did for most of my life conflate this show with Pyramid in my mind, so I could easily just be mistaken, or I could be just another closet misogynistic asshole

Correct, and it has been proven that the producers of this show purposely gave Dr. Brothers harder questions because they couldn’t stand the thought of a woman winning.

@@termeownatorWell, I've heard the producers specifically made questions harder for her (I mean, it stands to reason that if you chose questions relating to boxing, you'd expect questions related to boxers). But you can tell they didn't like her because the hostess slammed the door when she entered, compared to the history guy who lightly had the door closed on him and was even given credit for answering his question wrong (he said the 19th amendment was ratified in 1921, when it was actually 1920). I think that shows the bias here.

Miners do 12 hour days 7 days a week now.

Sponsorship is how the show could offer $64,000 in 1955! The sponsors were going to get back every dime they put into a show.

​@@TheTVsnob seems more like the show was run by them rather than sponsored.

This isn’t really different to the usual advertisements you get during breaks on a tv programme today. The difference is that they’re advertising in-program instead of showing pre-recorded advertisements.

Well, $32,000 was well over ten times that back then, so yeah. They would be hard.

Well they didn’t want her to win so they made them hard on purposely

yeah and they were on the contestants specialty

They give them books to study

@@jeffcolter2156 No the producers didn't give the contestants anything like that. They simply asked them a series of questions beforehand in their field of expertise, and then knew what they could and couldn't ask on TV. They also used this to manipulate when a contestant could be knocked off.

They wanted her to lose because the show was sponsered by Revlon and she refused to wear makeup on air.

@@emilysew4138 ohh thank you for that tidbit of info! Interesting!

@@emilysew4138 She's not wearing makeup????? It looks like she is but maybe that's because of how worn the video quality is

This seems like something that would have aired during daytime television, which was more commonly watched by women (stay at home mothers etc.), so it’s only natural that advertisements were aimed at women.

@@stephaniemalette6953 This was the Number ONE show on television at the time. "Question" knocked "I Love Lucy", from the top of the heap. The show was so successful, NBC rushed "Twenty One" to air to counter punch, with popular contestants, who could stay on the show for months, instead of 5-6 weeks max. To capitalize on the new "stars" created, CBS greenlighted, "The $64,000 Challenge", to bring back popular winners, to continue dazzling audiences. Even though Revlon was the sponsor, the audience consisted of plenty of men, who likely controlled what the family watched on a given night in 1957.

It's for real! Stanley Skeens is my grandfather ❤

he recited the first 3 lines and used the worst translation...king james bible i would have been amazed if he couldve quoted from the original hebrew

@@thewkovacs316 King James is the only translation fit to use. The finest book ever written by committee. Much better than the "good news" texts that come from heaven knows where that try to simplify the bible for stupid people that can't grasp true english

@@thewkovacs316come on dude 💀 kjv is awesome

The closest english translation is Douay Rheims.

Isn't it terrific! Wish it was still that way.

I can't tell if your comment was just a quip or not. You may or may not know, but back in the olden days there were no fancy commercials like today. What you see here is accurate and authentic. Consumers didn't have to pay for service at all. The advertisers paid for shows to be on the air. That's why the host calls them sponsors. Of course TV's were super expensive for the average family since it was a new technology. 😊

'cause it's cool! lol!

Looked GREAT in his uniform! My Grandfather ❤

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Me too! I want some, great cases! 😁👍

Unfortunately, copies of this show are very few and far between, and as such, I do not have that episode. Not sure if anyone does, really.

@@theguywiththegames1594 Odds are most were wiped, due partly to the quiz show scandal, and also to save money.

@@theguywiththegames1594 please let us know if you come across anymore. Stanley is my Grandfather.

@@michalskeens-shamblin5284 I really liked his mannerisms and so polite and with a wife named Ellie May

No need to stalk me

ali plevneli - Have you been watching color TV since you were a small kid? The first 30 years of my life, I saw black and white TV ONLY, only. Could you adjust to that?

Always. I'm sure you could do it if you want to. Just get the right software and you're off and running! You'll have to do some research on it, but I'm sure you can find the right one for you. Just so you know, back in the olden days there was no color tv. No commercials either. What you see here is accurate and authentic. Consumers didn't have to pay for service at all. The advertisers paid for shows to be on the air. That's why the host calls them sponsors. Of course TV's were super expensive for the average family since it was a new technology. If you're interested, also look up how broadcasting worked and all the different antennas used. This was WAY before there were satellites! Just a little fun part of history to think about! 😁

@@bobbyfrancis8957 ofc since 1989 🤣

Since before that I bet!

she wasnt really she had a photographic memory and could speed read she spent a week reading every book on boxing

revlon didnt think so....because she wouldnt wear lipstick

Old episode of Frasier

"Bill Rogers," he says at the end. The host calls him "Big Bill," for some reason.

For $32,000 Tell us every winning and losing boxer from 1885 to current, here's your 30 seconds.... You don't want to know the $64k question

EVERY winning AND losing boxer?! That’s insane!!!!

@@lifeoftannarwalden it's a joke

Here is the $64,000 (multi-part) Question Dr. Joyce Brothers answered correctly. What were the gloves of Roman gladiators in the Coliseum called? Who was the first scientific boxer, heavyweight champion of England in 1791? What was the name of the heavyweight champion of England who taught a famous poet the art of boxing? Who wrote the famous essay 'The Fight' after having seen Bill Neat defeat Tom Hickman for the English heavyweight title in 1821, and what was Hickman's nickname? What was the full name of the Marquis of Queensberry, who set up the Queensberry rules? In 1933, Primo Carnera defended the world heavyweight title abroad. Who was his opponent, and where did they meet? How many times did Jack Dempsey floor Luis Firpo in their famous fight in New York? How long did the fight last, within 30 seconds? The Answers 1. Cestus 2. Daniel Mendoza 3. John “Gentleman” Jackson (The poet was Lord Byron) 4. William Hazlitt / Hickman’s nickname: “Gaslight” 5. John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry (John Graham Chambers of the British Amateur Athletic Club, actually wrote the rules) 6. Paulino Uzcudon / Rome 7. 9 Knockdowns / three minutes and 57 seconds

So audiences couldn't give him the answers. Charles Ingram protection in theory. In practice the whole show was rigged by Revlon anyway so whether he was one of the people who were given the specific answers beforehand I don't know...maybe that was another show I'm conflating with the plan to block Joyce here

Not quite, she had no pre-existing interest in boxing. The game was rigged for or against contestants, it was part of the game show scandals which led to federal laws regulating them. The sponsors were the ones in charge during this era, and the Revlon rep hated her for not wearing full makeup and acting lady-like and wanted her off, so they saddled her with boxing and tried to make it so she'd lose right away. She won 64k studying the boxing materials intensely to spite them, nearly 750,000 today.

He had them all pulled and bought some pretty ones. My grandfather, Stanley Skeens.

Bit harsh..

I fully agree!

Hardly. That was the attraction of the show--- the common man (or woman) with uncommon knowledge.