Show Business: 21 Skiddoo

A Manhattan grand jury was still investigating fixing on TV quiz shows, but the sponsors no longer saw much point in waiting for the report. By last week Twenty One, once the pride of Producers Jack Barry and Dan Enright, had sunk so far in the Trendex ratings (from a high of 34.7 to an alltime low of 10.9) that the sponsor (Pharmaceuticals, Inc.) decided to bow out, and NBC summarily took the show off the air. At CBS, The $64,000 Question was also on the sick list, but only Twenty One had a ready replacement: Concentration, another Barry &...

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