Twenty One

Production
Quiz Show
Created by	Robert Noah
Presented by	Jack Barry (1956-1958) Monty Hall (Summer 1958) Jim Lange (1982 Pilot) Maury Povich (2000)
Country of origin	United States
Running time	30 minutes (1956-1958, 1982 Pilot) 60 minutes (2000)
Broadcast
Original channel	NBC
Original run	September 12, 1956 – October 16, 1958; January 9 - May 28, 2000

Description

Twenty One host Jack Barry (center), with contestants Vivienne Nearing and Charles Van Doren. Twenty One is an American game show that aired in the late 1950s. While it included the most popular contestant of the quiz show era, it achieved notoriety for being a rigged quiz show which nearly caused the demise of the entire genre in the wake of United States Senate investigations. The 1994 movie Quiz Show is based on these events. In 1982, a pilot for a new version of the game (titled 21) was taped with Jim Lange hosting, but was not picked up. A new version aired in 2000 with Maury Povich hosting, lasting about five months on NBC.