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The idea that anything could happen on live TV was a drawing point for viewers.

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BEST WHISTLE EVER

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Innovative Physical
Comedy

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Blew up from the team of DVD and Carl Reiner

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The game show cheating scandal is one of the most made-up sounding pieces of history ever.

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Your contestants had to be closeted at a different section of the building and there's somebody standing there watching that writers didn't have contact with them.

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BASED OFF HANGMAN???? It makes sense in retrospect, but had never connected the two.

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Created a couple of the most famous game shows. He also never lent himself to rigging the games.

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The creators took a new spin on the game show and put the game in the backseat and let the comedy of the contestants take the stage and be the real show.

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Highest rating to date and helped popularize the late-night talk show

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Didn't want to compete with Johnny Carson and try to take his audience but instead grab the attention of their children

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David Letterman and Jay Leno were set to takeover after Carson's Retirement.

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The back and forth between the two is hilarious

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Almost got the Dick Van Dyke Show canceled because it was so popular

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Maybe the most famous singer host

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Named by TIME as TV's first black superstar

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all of these shows all hold up and are still relevant today.

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DVD and Lucille Ball are some of the biggest names in history.

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Tv hosts Felt like members of the family.