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* UnfortunateImplications: [[https://books.google.com/books?id=w8KztFy6QYwC&pg=PA1319&dq=%22Strike+It+Rich+(Quiz%22&#v=onepage&f=false This entry]] in ''The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present'' details many things wrong with having a charity game show in television's infancy. Out of the thousands of applicants, only a few believed to be the most interesting were chosen. Contestants spent themselves into debt traveling to New York and once there, they exhausted agencies such as The Salvation Army. The New York City Commissioner of Welfare, Travelers Aid Society (now Travelers Aid International) and ''TV Guide'' all detested ''Strike it Rich'', calling it televised exploitation in the name of charity.
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* CriticalDissonance: Hammered by critics but at the time audiences loved it.

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* CriticalDissonance: Hammered by critics critics, but at the time audiences loved it.
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* CriticalDissonance: Ravaged by critics but at the time audiences loved it.

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* CriticalDissonance: Ravaged Hammered by critics but at the time audiences loved it.
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* UnfortunateImplications: [[https://books.google.com/books?id=w8KztFy6QYwC&pg=PA1319&dq=%22Strike+It+Rich+(Quiz%22&#v=onepage&f=false This entry]] in ''The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present'' details many things wrong with having a charity game show in television's infancy. Out of the thousands of applicants, only a few believed to be the most interesting were chosen. Contestants spent themselves into debt traveling to New York and once there, they exhausted agencies such as The Salvation Army. The New York City Commissioner of Welfare, Travelers Aid Society (now Travelers Aid International) and ''TV Guide'' all detested ''Strike it Rich'', calling it televised exploitation in the name of charity.

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* UnfortunateImplications: [[https://books.google.com/books?id=w8KztFy6QYwC&pg=PA1319&dq=%22Strike+It+Rich+(Quiz%22&#v=onepage&f=false This entry]] in ''The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present'' details many things wrong with having a charity game show in television's infancy. Out of the thousands of applicants, only a few believed to be the most interesting were chosen. Contestants spent themselves into debt traveling to New York and once there, they exhausted agencies such as The Salvation Army. The New York City Commissioner of Welfare, Travelers Aid Society (now Travelers Aid International) and ''TV Guide'' all detested ''Strike it Rich'', calling it televised exploitation in the name of charity.charity.

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* UnfortunateImplications: [[https://books.google.com/books?id=w8KztFy6QYwC&pg=PA1319&dq=%22Strike+It+Rich+(Quiz%22&#v=onepage&f=false This entry]] in ''The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present'' details many things wrong with having a charity game show in television's infancy. Out of the thousands of applicants, only a few believed to be the most interesting were chosen. Contestants spent themselves into debt traveling to New York and once there, they exhausted agencies such as The Salvation Army. The New York City Commissioner of Welfare, Travelers Aid Society (now Travelers Aid International) and ''TV Guide'' all detested ''Strike it Rich'' on the grounds of televised exploitation in the name of charity.

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* UnfortunateImplications: [[https://books.google.com/books?id=w8KztFy6QYwC&pg=PA1319&dq=%22Strike+It+Rich+(Quiz%22&#v=onepage&f=false This entry]] in ''The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present'' details many things wrong with having a charity game show in television's infancy. Out of the thousands of applicants, only a few believed to be the most interesting were chosen. Contestants spent themselves into debt traveling to New York and once there, they exhausted agencies such as The Salvation Army. The New York City Commissioner of Welfare, Travelers Aid Society (now Travelers Aid International) and ''TV Guide'' all detested ''Strike it Rich'' on the grounds of Rich'', calling it televised exploitation in the name of charity.
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* CriticalDissonance: Ravaged by critics but at the time audiences loved it.
* {{Glurge}}: Each introduction had Hull reading what happened to the featured contestant in the audition letter, interspersed with reaction shots of the contestant, newspaper articles and sappy organ music.
* UnfortunateImplications: [[https://books.google.com/books?id=w8KztFy6QYwC&pg=PA1319&dq=%22Strike+It+Rich+(Quiz%22&#v=onepage&f=false This entry]] in ''The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present'' details many things wrong with having a charity game show in television's infancy. Out of the thousands of applicants, only a few believed to be the most interesting were chosen. Contestants spent themselves into debt traveling to New York and once there, they exhausted agencies such as The Salvation Army. The New York City Commissioner of Welfare, Travelers Aid Society (now Travelers Aid International) and ''TV Guide'' all detested ''Strike it Rich'' on the grounds of televised exploitation in the name of charity.

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