History Trivia / Dotto

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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Only two episodes are known to exist — the May 20 daytime episode with Winn's victory over Yaffe Kimball-Slatin, and the July 29 nighttime show with Connie Hines.

* [[StarDerailingRole Career-Derailing Hosting Job]]: Averted for Narz. While he was subpoenaed and took a polygraph test, the results showed that he wasn't connected to the below.

* HeyItsThatGuy:
** Jack Narz hosted quite a few game shows, most notably ''Series/NowYouSeeIt'' and the 1970s syndicated ''Series/{{Concentration}}''.
** Nighttime contestant Connie Hines later went on to fame as Carol Post on ''Mr. Ed''. During the scandal investigations, it was determined that she'd been coached for her ''Dotto'' appearances but not given any questions or answers in advance.
** Marie Winn became a journalist, most notably writing the 1977 book ''The Plug-In Drug'', where she accused the television medium of being an addictive influence on the very young (somewhat ironic, given she was involved in a pretty big deception of television viewers through the hugely-popular ''Dotto'').

* GenreKiller: This show, not ''Series/TwentyOne'', sparked the investigations.

** Jack Narz hosted quite a few game shows, most notably ''Series/NowYouSeeIt'' and the 1970s syndicated ''{{Series/Concentration}}''.

** Jack Narz hosted quite a few game shows, most notably ''NowYouSeeIt'' and the 1970s syndicated ''{{Series/Concentration}}''.

* GenreKiller: This show, not ''Series/TwentyOne'', sparked the investigations. In May 1958, standby contestant Ed Hilgemeier found a notebook backstage that fellow contestant Marie Winn had been looking at before she went onto the set; the book contained questions she was being given and answers she was giving during her appearances.
** Thomas Fisher (CBS' executive vice president) tested Winn's notebook against kinescopes of her appearances and concluded that it looked fixed. It was soon discovered that ''Dotto'' producers had paid Winn, Hilgemeier, and Yaffe Kimball-Slatin (one of Winn's opponents) to keep quiet about the notebook and rigging.
** It was in August that CBS, Colgate, and NBC learned from Frank Cooper that ''Dotto'' was indeed rigged, and only a select few among his staff knew it. NBC ended the nighttime show on the 12th, with CBS canning the daytime series on the 15th. It was only then that the media began taking Herb Stempel's allegations about ''Twenty-One'' seriously (they initially branded him a sore loser), and things snowballed from there.

** Marie Winn became a journalist, most notably writing the 1977 book ''The Plug-In Drug'', where she accused the television medium of being an addictive influence on the very young (an amusing thing to say, given she was involved in a great deception of television viewers through ''Dotto'').

** Jack Narz hosted quite a few game shows, most notably ''NowYouSeeIt'' and the 1970s syndicated ''{{Concentration}}''.

* GenreKiller: This show, not ''TwentyOne'', sparked the investigations. In May 1958, standby contestant Ed Hilgemeier found a notebook backstage that fellow contestant Marie Winn had been looking at before she went onto the set; the book contained questions she was being given and answers she was giving during her appearances.