In 1984, a man named Michael Larsen went on the CBS daytime game show, Press Your Luck, and won $110,237. This was at a time when $10,000 was considered a huge win on a TV quiz program. Mr. Larsen had managed to figure out a loophole in the Press Your Luck game board and exploited it to rack up an amazing total in a game that went so long, it had to be split into two episodes. (Ordinarily, Press Your Luck played one game per day. Larsen's game was the only one in five years that ever ran two days.) A couple years ago, GSN ran a documentary on it all and included most of the footage from those two episodes, though with many interruptions to explain things. I thought it was interesting but not as interesting as watching the original shows as they originally aired.
GSN reruns two episodes of Press Your Luck each weekend — one on Saturday morning, one on Sunday morning. They've been going in sequence and they're nearing the Larsen shows. Next Saturday morn should bring us the episode from Thursday, June 7, 1984, which was the day before Larsen's appearance. On it, you'll see a contestant win $11,516 — an amount that seemed astronomical until they taped the Friday episode. On Sunday morning, unless they pull a switcheroo on us, GSN should be running the 6/8/84 episode in which the previous day's winner faces off against two new contestants, one of whom is Michael Larsen. Then the second part of the Larsen game would air on GSN the following Saturday. This is all assuming GSN doesn't skip over them, which is possible but unlikely.
I've always found this story fascinating. It's one of the few times a network TV show ever went totally out of control in the sense that the producers were sitting there wondering what the hell was going on. The studio audience went crazy and the reactions of host Peter Tomarken are priceless. If you're setting the TiVo and you're not familiar with Press Your Luck, set it to record the one before so you can get the hang of the game before you watch Michael Larsen knock it on its ass.