In January 1957, Van Doren entered a winning streak on Twenty-One that ultimately earned him $129,000 (the equivalent of $1.3 million today) and made him famous, including an appearance on the cover of Time on February 11, 1957. Įnright and Freedman were impressed by Van Doren's polite style and telegenic appearance, thinking the youthful Columbia teacher would be the man to defeat their incumbent Twenty-One champion, Herb Stempel, and boost the show's declining ratings as Stempel's reign continued. Van Doren eventually revealed-five decades after his Twenty-One championship and fame, in a surprise 2008 article for The New Yorker-that he did not even own a television set, but had met Freedman through a mutual friend, with Freedman initiating the idea of Van Doren going on television by way of asking what he thought of Tic-Tac-Dough. He was long believed to have approached producers Dan Enright and Albert Freedman, originally, to appear on Tic-Tac-Dough, another game they produced. Twenty-One was not Van Doren's first game show interest. On November 28, 1956, Van Doren made his first appearance on the NBC quiz show Twenty-One. Urn:lcp:historyofknowled00vand:epub:63a3e33d-51e5-494b-9218-c7a63a7ef264 Extramarc University of Pennsylvania Franklin Library Foldoutcount 0 Identifier historyofknowled00vand Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t7wm2c225 Isbn 9780345373168Ġ345373162 Lccn 91092141 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL9427580M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 22:07:40 Boxid IA174801 Boxid_2 BL11203T Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York, NY Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 1st Ballantine Books ed.
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