Dotto is an American television game event which is a combination of general knowledge quizzes and children's games connecting the dots. Jack Narz serves as the host of the program, with Colgate-Palmolive as his sponsor. Dotto rose to become the highest daytime program in television history, in 1958.
Dotto replaced Hacked Rich in the noon time slot CBS 11:30 pm on January 6, 1958. In a rare example of two networks that programmed the same event, the weekly edition of the night launched on July 1, 1958 on CBS competitor NBC on Tuesday night at 9:00 pm they were Ã, pm slot. At the height of the popularity of both events, Dotto was suddenly canceled without any public explanation over the weekend of 16 August 1958. Soon after, Dotto was publicly disclosed to have been repaired by his producer, tarnishing his reputation performances and setting the stage for investigation legal and political arrangements of the 1950s quiz.
Video Dotto
Gameplay
Two contestants, one reigning champion, compete in every game.
The purpose of the game is to identify the portrait subject. The portrait was, however, incomplete and to complete the portraits the players had to connect a series of fifty dots drawn into the image. Each player sees the same portrait, but they have their own points to connect and both players are positioned in a way in which they can not see each other or the progress of other players. There is also an overhead projector called "Dottograph" within walking distance of both players.
To connect the points, both players are asked a series of questions. Each question has a point value attached, with players able to choose five, eight, or ten points. A special category is played for both players in a question round, and the game always starts with the challenger. If the contestant answers correctly, the number of corresponding points is connected one by one to the portrait. Answering the wrong or running out of time means the opposing player must have the dots connected to his portrait. After a player has twenty-five connected points, a hint is given for the subject's identity. Another clue requires ten additional points to connect, and ten more after it opens the last clue.
After a contestant thinks there is enough information to identify the subject, he will press the signaling device to show it. This can be done anytime during game play, including when the opponent's turn. He will then walk to the Dottograph and record the guess by writing it on the projector screen. The Dottograph is located on stage in such a way that the opposing contestant can not see what is displayed on the screen.
After guessing the contestant was recorded, one of the following things will happen.
- If the contestant correctly identifies the subject, the opposing player is given a chance to try to do so based on the points they successfully connected in their own image.
- If an opponent also identifies the subject, the game is considered a tie and a new image is played.
- If the opponent does not do it, the game ends and the first player becomes the champion.
- If the contestant does not correctly identify the subject, he automatically loses the game and the opponent becomes the champion.
The winning player wins money for every unrelated point remaining in his photo, and the number increases for each bond up to two. In the afternoon series, the payout is $ 10 per dot and it doubles for every bundle up to a maximum of $ 40. In the evening series, the payout is $ 100 per dot and increases by that amount for each tie, earning a maximum of $ 300 per dot.
After the game is over, usually during the middle of each episode, the game "Home Viewer Dotto" is played, where a person selected with a picture of a postcard is called by the phone directly in the air for a chance to guess the person being withdrawn. If so, home viewers win new cars or other valuable prizes, and if wrong, viewers receive entertainment prizes (daytime versions share the supply of products advertised by the event sponsor, Colgate-Palmolive, while nightly versions give long trips). At the end of each episode, additional points are linked and instructions are displayed for the next "Home Viewer Dotto" game episode.
Maps Dotto
Broadcast history
Dotto debuted on January 6, 1958 at 11:30 , replacing the long-running (and controversial) Warren Hull game Strike It Rich . Facing Bob Barker Truth or Consequences on NBC and local programming on ABC (which has not been programmed at 11:30 in three years), within six months Dotto became the highest program rating quiz this year, and Narz achieved the same popularity as Hal March on Questions $ 64,000 .
The event became so popular that on July 1st, the weekly night version started on NBC with the same format. On the July 29th episode of NBC, a contestant on the show, actress and model Connie Hines had a telegram read out in the air with Columbia Pictures expressing her interest as an actress. Hines later became famous as the Carol Post on the popular comedy Mister Ed .
Scandals and cancellations
Dotto's decline began with a backstage discovery in May 1958. A contestant's notebook (and later journalist) Marie Winn was discovered by a stand-by contestant, Edward Hilgemeier Jr., who realized that the notebook included questions and answers for used during Winn's appearance, one of which was against a woman named Yaffe Kimball. He tore the relevant pages out of a notebook for himself. Hilgemeier then notifies Kimball after losing on his stage that his competitors have been given the previous answer. Hilgemeier then reported that the producer Dotto paid him $ 1,500 to keep silent about his invention, and Kimball, as loser of the fixed match, $ 4,000. Dotto on CBS, meanwhile, grew popular in 1958 and became the highest Daytime event in the air.
Hilgemeier Jr. finally decided to break his silence. He contacted the Colgate-Palmolive company on about 8 August 1958 with his story, which was then forwarded to CBS. Executives at CBS and sponsors of the event quickly moved to confirm the allegations internally and resolve the issue between August 11 and 16. CBS executive vice president Thomas Fisher tested the kinescopes of the show against Winn's notebook and concluded that the show looked fixed. Executives in the CBS series met with its creator, Frank Cooper, about the potential for cheating of the show on Friday night, August 15th. Cooper admitted that the show was fixed, and CBS later reported this finding to NBC as the nightly version host. During the weekend of 16 August, both the CBS during the day and the NBC primetime series were canceled. Meanwhile, in an August 18 affidavit, Hilgemeier complained to the Federal Communications Commission (as he did for Colgate-Palmolive) that Dotto had been fixed. In the interview, host Jack Narz stated that he was not informed of the cancellation of Dotto's until a certain point after the last episode had been recorded. Narz was then summoned and took a polygraph test, a result indicating that he was not connected to the fraud.
CBS immediately moved its game show Top Dollar, hosted by Warren Hull, to Dotto 11:30 Ã, a.m. time slot on Monday, August 18th. A live studio audience who expects to sit for Monday's episode of Dotto is instead established as a spectator for Dollars . Viewers were greeted by the opening, "Dotto, the program that's usually aired now, will not be seen again... instead... welcome to Top Dollars !" The last weekly NBC night episode aired on August 12, 1958; the following week, the time slot on Tuesday was replaced with a "drama series that was filmed". Dotto's cancellation on CBS and NBC was quickly set up as facts on August 18, but the reason why it was canceled took several days to be confirmed by the media.
Aftermath
Though it's not the first show involved in some mistakes, Dotto is the first gaming show to have made such a mistake verified. A year earlier, Twenty One contestant Herb Stempel told the New York Journal-American that his champion in the series had been choreographed and that he had been ordered to deliberately lose his championship to Charles Van Doren. The Stamp Statement gained more credibility after the match arrangement at Dotto was published, and the investigation (in the form of a grand jury, and later, a congressional hearing) was followed.
Jack Narz eventually replaced Warren Hull as host of Up Dollar in November 1958. The series runs during the day until October 23, 1959. Narz continues to work as a game host for most of the next twenty years after < i> Up Dollar ends.
Frank Cooper will never play another game after Dotto, which is his oldest and only game for CBS. The previous game attempts did not go well - his first game, the NBC show titled Guess What Happened? (dropped "Guess" after the first show), bombed after three episodes in 1952. Droodles, starring Roger Price, ran for three months in 1954 while ABC's Keep It in the Family lasts for four months from 1957-1958.
Connie Hines was revealed to have been trained for her Dotto performance, but unlike Marie Winn, she was not given any questions and answers beforehand. He enjoyed five years running as Carol Post at Mister Ed and, after some of the next guest television roles, retired from acting completely.
Marie Winn eventually became a journalist whose book included The Plug-In Drug, a harsh critique of television's influence on children. The book has become somewhat controversial because the author has been cautious about his role in one of the biggest scandals in the media.
Revival
It was only in 2013 that RTBF revived the game in digital form.
In 2014, it was announced that the revival of Dotto for French Television is in the process (titled Fizzio ).
Foreign version
Dotto was also very successful in England, where he ran in ITV from 13 September 1958 to 23 June 1960. This version was first guided by Robert Gladwell, followed by Jimmy Hanley and then Shaw Taylor.
Episode status
Although this series seems intact in 1958 (see above), this series is believed to have been destroyed some time later in accordance with network practice (and possibly by Colgate's insistence).
Two episodes are known to exist - daytime episodes from May 20th featuring Marie Winn's victory over Yaffe Kimball-Slatin (which is subject to the fraud controversy, see above), and the third to final episode of July 29 featuring Connie Hines.
References
- Joseph Stone with Tim Yohn, Main Time and Breaches (New Jersey: Rutgers University Press)
- Robert Metz, CBS: Reflections on Blood Eye (Chicago: Playboy Press, 1975)
External links
- UKGameshows.com: Dotto
- The American Experience: The Quiz Show Scandal
- Museum of Broadcast Communications: Quiz Show Scandal
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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