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Thank you. and more. Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. It's September 2nd, 1958. Dan Enright, producer of the hit TV quiz show 21, steps out of a taxi in front of the Biltmore Hotel in Manhattan. He straightens his appels as he climbs the front steps, making his way toward a conference room inside. It's been two weeks since rumors of a scandal began to shake the entire

quiz show industry. When the wildly popular show Dotto was abruptly canceled with no explanation

from the network, news outlets began digging into the case. And before long, they discovered that

the show was being investigated by the FCC for allegedly being rigged

in favor of certain contestants. Now the Manhattan District Attorney's Office is looking into

other quiz shows facing similar allegations, including those made by former 21 champion Herbert

Stemple. Stemple is publicly accusing Enright of supplying answers to both himself and another champion Charles Van Doren.

But as Enright waits for the DA's investigation to play out, he's well prepared to battle Stemple in the court of public opinion.

Enright has two pieces of evidence up his sleeve, a signed letter from Stemple stating that he never received any

quiz question answers and a secret recording from a meeting between Stemple and Enright,

where a seemingly unhinged Stemple admits to multiple crimes. Enright hoped he would never have to

use these, but Stemple has forced his hand, and now he's going to reveal them publicly for the first time.

Enright swings open the doors of the conference room and walks past the gaggle of reporters to a table at the front of the room,

where his business partner, 21 host Jack Barry, is seated with a reel-to-reel tape machine ready to begin.

Enright takes a seat next to Barry and begins reading Stemple's signed letter.

He doesn't reveal that the statement is completely false, that he forced Stemple into writing it

with promises of future work in TV. Then, when Enright is finished with the letter, he switches

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