I mentioned it here before but one of the most amazing things I ever saw on television occurred on two episodes of the game show, Press Your Luck in 1984. Briefly, an unemployed electrician named Michael Larsen figured out how to "beat" the game board and, instead of walking off with $10,000-$20,000 like most winners, took the show for $110,237. CBS was humiliated and didn't rerun the two episodes on which he did this and they were also skipped a few years ago when USA Network reran the series.
Well, Game Show Network is now rerunning Press Your Luck, two per day. In fact, they're currently running the episodes that lead up to the Larsen sweep. Word is, they're going to skip over Larsen's appearance when they get to where it would run in sequence (some time next week) and run them instead as part of a big, heavily-ballyhooed promotion later this month, probably during a marathon they've announced for part of the Thanksgiving weekend. If I hear when they're going to air, I'll announce them here…but I'd like to suggest that you keep an eye open for news and also that you catch a few "normal" episodes of Press Your Luck. It's a fun show most of the time, and you'll appreciate the Larsen episodes all the more if you're conversant with the program's slightly-complicated rules. I'll also post some of the backstory here.
That is all for now.