After way too long a lull — like more than a year, hello! — the lazy bum who operates oldtvtickets.com has finally started updating it again with new old TV tickets. The other day, he posted tix (and annotations) for Barney Miller and Dotto, the latter being the 1958 quiz show (seen above) that triggered the whole investigation into whether such programs were rigged. Dotto was.
Does anyone think there could be another Quiz Show Scandal today? Most reality shows are no more honest…and hey, what about professional wrestling? Mark my words: We're going to see the day when there'll be Congressional Hearings into allegations that something on TV was honest and spontaneous. The hearings will be carefully scripted, rehearsed, edited and televised.