Jack Barry (March 20, 1918 – May 4, 1984) was an American television game show host and producer, whose career was nearly ruined in the quiz show scandal of the late 1950s but who made a remarkable comeback over a decade later. March 20 is the 79th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (80th in Leap years). ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... May 4 is the 124th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (125th in leap years). ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A game show involves members of the public or celebrities, sometimes as part of a team, playing a game, perhaps involving answering quiz questions, for points or prizes. ... The American quiz show scandals of the 1950s were the result of the revelation that contestants of several popular television quiz shows were secretly given assistance by the producers to arrange the outcome of a supposed competition. ...

Early life and career

Barry (original surname Barasch) was born in Lindenhurst, New York and educated at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance and Commerce. In the 1940s he began on radio, where he met his partner Dan Enright. Once television broadcasting began, Barry and Enright would get involved in local programming, and eventually national programs, thanks in part to the success of early Jack Barry hits such as the children's show Winky Dink and You (conceivably the world's first interactive television program) as well as Juvenile Jury and Life Begins at 80. In the 1950s, Barry and Enright got involved in game shows, with Barry hosting The Big Surprise. He was eventually dismissed from his hosting duties and was replaced by Mike Wallace, making Barry decide to host his own game shows. Lindenhurst is a village located in Suffolk County, New York, on the southern shore of Long Island in the Town of Babylon. ... // Events and trends World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrination, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atomic bomb. ... Dan Enright (August 30, 1917 - May 22, 1992) was one of the most successful game show producers in television. ... Winky Dink And You was a CBS television childrens show that aired from 1953 to 1957. ... The 1950s were a decade that spanned the years 1951 through 1960. ... Mike Wallace can refer to: Mike Wallace, the long-time television correspondent for CBS. Mike Wallace, the historian. ...

The quiz show scandals

In 1956, Barry and Enright debuted Twenty One, which was sponsored by Geritol, and Tic Tac Dough. Both game shows were hosted by Barry. In 1958, on one episode of Twenty One, a game between challenger Charles Van Doren and champion Herb Stempel was found to have been rigged. (The 1994 movie Quiz Show was based on the Stempel-Van Doren contests.) 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Twenty One was one of the most infamous American game shows on record — a popular, yet thoroughly rigged, quiz show that spawned the single most popular contestant of the quiz show era, and which nearly caused the demise of the entire genre in the wake of Senate investigations. ... Geritol is the name of an American vitamin and mineral supplement. ... Tic-Tac-Dough (1956-59, NBC; 1978-86, CBS, syndication, 1990-91, syndication), a popular American television game show, had two lives almost two decades apart: one, in the thick of the mid-1950s craze for big-money quiz shows; and a second, longer-lasting run, primarily in syndication. ... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Charles Lincoln Van Doren (born February 12, 1926) is an American intellectual and former TV quiz show contestant. ... Herb Stempel is a television game show contestant who became famous for his participation in the 1950s show Twenty One, where he had a suspiciously long run of wins in 1956, and for his eventual exposure of what became known as the quiz show scandals. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated like the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal. // Events January Bill Clinton January 1 : North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect. ... Quiz Show is a 1994 film which tells the true story of the Twenty One quiz show scandal of the 1950s. ...

Within three months of the published revelation, Twenty-One was cancelled; another Barry-Enright production, Tic-Tac-Dough, was cancelled as well. Barry next became the host of a new show Barry and Enright created with Robert Noah and Buddy Piper, Concentration. Barry was dismissed from the nighttime after four weeks, with the quiz show scandal ramping up and Barry-Enright forced to sell their production operation to NBC. The daytime Concentration, hosted for most of its original NBC run by Hugh Downs, ran for 15 years. Tic Tac Dough, billed as everybodys game of strategy, knowledge and fun, was an American television game show where contestants answered trivia questions to earn squares on a tic tac toe board. ... Concentration is a TV game show based on the childrens memory game of the same name. ... NBC, the National Broadcasting Company, is an American television and radio network based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ...

Though it was Enright and Twenty-One assistant, Albert Freedman who rigged the shows, Barry admitted in the 1970s and 80s his eventual role in covering for them once he found out. After sponsor Geritol complained to Barry and Enright about the dullness of the first, un-rigged Twenty-One episode (the two initial contestants repeatedly missed questions) Enright admitted in a 1991 PBS interview that "from then on we decided to rig Twenty-One." PBS re-directs here; for alternate uses see PBS (disambiguation) PBS logo The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is a non-profit public broadcasting television service with 349 member TV stations in the United States. ...

According to game-show historian Steve Beverly, the late Professor William Martin of the University of Georgia, one of the government investigators probing the quiz scandals, said Barry did not likely know the deception until after a Twenty-One episode during which Barry defended the show. According to Beverly, "Martin insisted Barry still likely did not know of the deception until after that night, when NBC began pressing for the truth and Enright, apparently aware the entire company could go down, told Barry of the controls."

Barry was apparently not averse to "juicing" a show, even after the Twenty-One and Tic Tac Dough debacles left his career in eclipse. A veteran quiz producer once said that in the 1960s, when Barry was working on a pilot of a Mark Goodson-Bill Todman production featuring "spontaneous" filmed responses, Barry would feed his respondents scripted lines to make them funnier. Mark Goodson (January 14, 1915 – December 18, 1992) was an American television producer born in Sacramento, California. ... Bill Todman (July 31, 1916-July 29, 1979) was an American television producer born in New York City. ...

After the scandals

Dan Enright found television work in Canada with Columbia-Screen Gems, while Jack Barry went to California. The two collaborated on small Canadian produced quiz shows including "Photo Finish" shot in Montreal and "It's a Match" taped in Toronto. It was on these shows that a number of young American and Canadian producers and directors got their start, including Sidney M. Cohen. After being unable to find national broadcasting work for several years in the wake of the quiz scandal (he did work locally in Los Angeles on television and radio), Barry finally bought a Los Angeles-area radio station (KKOP 93.5 FM, Redondo Beach, later renamed KFOX). Barry also owned a cable TV system in Redondo Beach. "Slowly," said a 1984 article in TV Guide which discussed game show hosts, "he began to receive calls: Would he fill in for five weeks on this game show? Yes. Of course." Barry appeared on a few local game shows in L.A. during this time (mostly on KTLA) and even played a newsman on the premiere of the mid-1960s TV series Batman. He did a guest reporter spot on the TV series The Addams Family. In 1969 he also became a host again, for ABC's The Generation Gap, replacing original host Dennis Wholey for the final weeks of its series. Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq. ... Sidney M. Cohen is a Canadian television director and program creator. ... This article is about the largest city in California. ... TV Guide is the name of two North American weekly magazines about television programming, one in the United States and one in Canada. ... This redirect page is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... Batman was the title of an exceptionally popular 1960s TV series based on the comic-book character Batman that aired on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) for 2 1/2 seasons from 12 January, 1966 to 14 March, 1968. ... The Addams Family is the creation of American cartoonist Charles Addams. ... The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is a television and radio network in the United States. ...

Career revival

In 1969, Barry embarked on an idea which would launch his national comeback. He developed and produced a pilot for The Joker's Wild in association with Goodson-Todman Productions, emceed by Allen Ludden. CBS held off on picking up the series at first. Barry reworked the format and launched a local version in 1971 on Los Angeles' KTLA. The Joker's Wild made its national debut on CBS in 1972 with Barry hosting and producing the show (as Jack Barry Productions) until CBS cancelled it in 1975. Jack Barry Productions, meanwhile, produced Hollywood's Talking, Geoff Edwards' first game show, and Blank Check, hosted by veteran quiz and game host and announcer Art James. Even before Joker, however, Barry had displayed no loss of concurrent hosting and production skill, doing both with The Reel Game and a 1970s revival of Juvenile Jury. A television pilot is the first episode of an intended television series. ... The Jokers Wild was a popular American game show of the 1970s and 1980s, billed as the game where knowledge is king and lady luck is queen. // Broadcast History The Jokers Wild debuted on CBS September 4, 1972, incidentally on the same Labor Day as the modern incarnation... Allen Ludden (October 5, 1918 – June 9, 1981) was an American television presenter and game show host. ... CBS (an abbreviation for Columbia Broadcasting System, the former legal name of the network) is one of the largest television networks, and formerly one of the largest radio networks, in the United States. ... This redirect page is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1972 calendar). ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... Geoff Edwards is an American television actor, game show host and radio personality born on February 13, 1931 in Westfield, New Jersey. ... Art James (October 15, 1929 - March 27, 2004) was best known as the announcer on the classic game show Concentration. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1971 to 1980, inclusive. ...

Barry even brought Dan Enright back as The Joker's Wild's executive producer during its first network run, mentioning Enright at the end of the final CBS installment. The two renewed their working partnership full-time in 1976, launching Break the Bank, hosted by Tom Kennedy, on ABC. (When ABC cancelled the show despite decent ratings, Barry himself hosted and produce the show for weekly syndication during the 1976-77 season.) 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1976 calendar). ... Break the Bank is a title that has been used for three entirely separate American game shows throughout television history. ... Tom Kennedy (born James Narz February 16, 1927, in Louisville, Kentucky) is a television game show host who had his greatest fame in the 1960s and 1970s. ...

In the fall of 1976, Barry sold reruns of The Joker's Wild's final CBS season to several stations, including New York WOR-TV and Los Angeles KTLA. These reruns rated highly enough that Barry and Enright produced new installments for first-run syndication beginning in 1977, with Barry again the host. The show was produced at the Chris Craft Studios of KCOP television in Hollywood (the series was seen in L.A. on KHJ-TV Channel 9, despite being produced at KCOP, and despite the test run of the final CBS season having aired on KTLA the season before). The new, syndicated Joker was a huge success, enough that it enabled Barry to reach back to his days as a children's program creator and host, launching in 1979 Joker! Joker!! Joker!!!, a weekly kids' version of The Joker's Wild in which children could win savings bonds (their parents played the bonus rounds). WWOR-TV, channel nine, is currently the New York City affiliate station of the UPN television network and the unoffical East Coast flagship of the network. ... This redirect page is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... In the television industry (as in radio), syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast programs to multiple stations, without going through a broadcast network. ... Chris Craft may mean: Chris-Craft Boats Chris-Craft Industries Chris Craft, a Formula One driver This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The Jokers Wild was a popular American game show of the 1970s and 1980s, billed as the game where knowledge is king and lady luck is queen. // Broadcast History The Jokers Wild debuted on CBS September 4, 1972, incidentally on the same Labor Day as the modern incarnation...

The new Joker was so successful that Barry and Enright gambled on reviving a show formerly as tainted as they had been by the ancient quiz show scandal: Tic-Tac-Dough, with new host Wink Martindale, in 1978. From there, Barry & Enright in the 1970s and early 1980s developed and produced games like Bullseye, Play the Percentages, Hot Potato, and Hollywood Connection. They also produced several unsold pilots such as Decisions, Decisions. They even developed a resurrected Twenty-One, though this version never saw air. In due course, Barry & Enright Productions moved to film and series television production work. Tic Tac Dough, billed as everybodys game of strategy, knowledge and fun, was an American television game show where contestants answered trivia questions to earn squares on a tic tac toe board. ... Wink Martindale (born Winston Conrad Martindale on December 4, 1934 in Jackson, Tennessee, USA) is perhaps best known as a game show host for such classic shows as Gambit, Tic Tac Dough, High Rollers, and Debt, although he is also known in Internet circles for the occasional surrealistic comedy articles... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1971 to 1980, inclusive. ... MacGyver - 1980s hero The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. ... Bullseye, billed as the game in which daring determined the fate of the players, was the title of an American game show that aired in syndication from September 29, 1980 to September 24, 1982. ... Play the Percentages was an American game show hosted by Geoff Edwards, and ran in syndication from January 7, 1980 to September 12, 1980. ... Hot Potato is an expression that denotes something unwanted, of which nobody wishes to claim the responsibility of, and passes it on to others as quickly as possible (as if to avoid getting burned). ...

Death

Barry, along with then-producer Ron Greenberg, eventually began grooming a successor host for The Joker's Wild, his periodic fill-in Jim Peck, and planned to retire from hosting in September 1984. (Joker! Joker!! Joker!!!, the children's version, lasted until 1981.) He did not live long enough to make that plan happen. On May 2, 1984, less than a month after completing Joker's seventh syndicated season and returning from a visit to his daughter in Europe, Barry suffered a massive heart attack during a morning jog in Central Park. He died at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, after doctors were unsuccessful in their attempt to save his life. Barry's body was flown back to Southern California, where he is now buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California. He was 66. The Jokers Wild was a popular American game show of the 1970s and 1980s, billed as the game where knowledge is king and lady luck is queen. // Broadcast History The Jokers Wild debuted on CBS September 4, 1972, incidentally on the same Labor Day as the modern incarnation... Jim Peck is an American game show host, but is also known as the whispering reporter on Judge Wapners version of The Peoples Court. ... May 2 is the 122nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (123rd in leap years). ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Europe is conventionally considered one of the seven continents of Earth which, in this case, is more a cultural and political distinction than a physiographic one, leading to various perspectives about Europes borders. ... A myocardial infarction occurs when an atherosclerotic plaque slowly builds up in the inner lining of a coronary artery and then suddenly ruptures, totally occluding the artery and preventing blood flow downstream. ... A Central Park landscape Central Park (, ) is a large public, urban park (843 acres or 3. ... Lenox Hill Hospital, on Manhattans Upper East Side, is a 652-bed, fully accredited, acute care hospital and a major teaching affiliate of NYU Medical Center. ... Nickname The Big Apple, The Capital of the World [1], Gotham Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Geographical characteristics Area  - Total  - Land  - Water 1,214. ... Gates of Forest Lawn Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California is the original Forest Lawn. ... Nickname The Jewel City Location Location of Glendale within Los Angeles County and the State of California. ...

Enright, now the CEO of Barry & Enright Productions (which prompted the departure of longtime B&E director Richard S. Kline), picked another quiz and game veteran, Bill Cullen, to host The Joker's Wild, and the show ran another two seasons. But when not enough stations signed up to pick up its 1986-87 season, The Joker's Wild -- which remade its host's and production company's fortunes, long after those fortunes were thought destroyed by scandal -- ceased production. The show would be the last one Cullen would host, however, he did appear a few more times (mostly on Pyramid) before retiring for good in 1988. Bill Cullen, full name William Lawrence Cullen (February 18, 1920–July 7, 1990), was an American radio and television personality. ...

The Joker's Wild and Tic-Tac-Dough enjoyed brief revivals in the 1990s, produced by different entities entirely: The Joker's Wild ownership belonged to Jack Barry alone, even after he revived the old production partnership with Dan Enright and the show carried the Barry & Enright logo (as was the case with the Nipsey Russell Juvenile Jury revival from 1982); the 1990s revival was produced by former Barry & Enright producer Richard S. Kline, as Kline & Friends, with Barry's sons Jon and Douglas as co-executive producers for Jack Barry Productions. Enright produced the revived Tic-Tac-Dough under B&E. Tic Tac Dough, billed as everybodys game of strategy, knowledge and fun, was an American television game show where contestants answered trivia questions to earn squares on a tic tac toe board. ... Nipsey Russell Julius Nipsey Russell (September 15, 1918 – October 2, 2005) was an African American comedian, best known for being a guest panelist on many 1970s and 1980s game shows, such as Match Game, Password, Hollywood Squares, To Tell the Truth and Pyramid. ...

Barry & Enright Productions based itself in Century City, California, after the partnership was revived, as had Jack Barry Productions. Sony Pictures Entertainment now owns the rights to the Barry & Enright and Jack Barry (solo) programs, and reruns of their shows have aired on GSN. Dan Enright died in 1992. Century City is a 176-acre commercial and residential district in western Los Angeles, California. ... Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. ... Rerun van Pelt is the name of Linus and Lucys younger brother in the comic strip Peanuts. ... GSN logo (2004-present) The Game Show Network logo (1997-2004) The Game Show Network (now known as GSN - The Network for Games) is an American cable television and direct broadcast satellite channel dedicated to game shows and interactive television games. ...

External link

• Jack Barry at The Internet Movie Database