Game and quiz shows first started appearing on radio broadcasts in the 1930s led by the CBS networkamprsquos Professor Quiz hosted by a man who was neither a professor nor even a college graduate the first of several frauds that seemed to be endemic to the genre. Professor Quiz was followed by other such game shows as Uncle Jimamprsquos Question Bee and Ask It Basket which in turn spawned successful box games for athome play. The show Truth or Consequences made the transition from radio to television in the late 1940s and was so popular that a town in New Mexico was named for the show. Television proved to be the perfect platform for game shows since they were very popular and cheap to produce. Even in reruns today the older shows still draw huge audiences. This book describes the evolution of the game show its largerthanlife producers and hosts as well as the scandals that have rocked it from time to time including bloopers from such ampldquoadultamprdquo oriented shows as The Dating Game The Newlywed Game and Hollywood Squares. This is an entertaining and lively look at an American phenomenon whose popularity doesnamprsquot seem to be going away.