On This Day: May 19, 1984 - CBS Taped the Legendary Michael Larson Episode of Press Your Luck

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On This Day: May 19, 1984 - CBS Taped the Legendary Michael Larson Episode of Press Your Luck.

On this day May 19, 1984, CBS taped one of the most remarkable episodes in game show history when contestant Michael Larson appeared on Press Your Luck. In a display of unprecedented strategy and focus, Larson won a record breaking 110,237 dollars in cash and prizes, a feat that stunned the studio and viewers alike when it aired in June.

Larson was not just lucky. He had studied the game board patterns at home by recording episodes on his VCR and memorizing the sequences. Using this...
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