Episode guide
The $64,000 Question
2 desk landmarks · not a full season guide · 1955–1958 · CBS
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How this guide is filed
The $64,000 Question turned isolation booths and a staggering prize into 1955 fever — then the quiz-scandal aftershock. Hal March, a title that entered the language, brainpower as prizefighting. Watch it now as peak high-stakes quiz culture: the craze that rewrote prime-time economics overnight, and the trust collapse that followed.
TV Flash files The $64,000 Question (1955–1958) on CBS as a desk landmark file, not a complete episode guide, 1955-06-07–1956-01-01 from “Series premiere” (S01E01) to “Quiz-show era peak” (S01E02).
Landmarks
Desk landmarks
2 landmarks
- S01E01 Series premiere
Isolation booths, Revlon money, and knowledge as spectacle. America holds its breath for the big question — and networks scramble to clone the format.
Desk — Desk landmark: the quiz boom that made experts into celebrities and sponsors into co-stars.
- S01E02 Quiz-show era peak
At peak fever the show is a national pastime — until the broader quiz scandals turn isolation booths into symbols of rigged trust.
Desk — Desk landmark: big-money quiz TV invents appointment suspense, then teaches America how formats can lie.