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Dan Enright

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The Resume

    (August 30, 1917-May 22, 1992)
    Co-creator of Jack Barry-Dan Enright Productions (properties include Winky Dink and You, Dotto, Juvenile Jury, Concentration, Twenty-One, Tic Tac Dough, Dough-Re-Mi, The Joker’s Wild, and Break the Bank)
    Film properties include ‘Private Lessons,’ ‘Making Mr. Right,’ and ‘Next of Kin’
    Executive producer of ‘Caroline?’ (CBS Hallmark Hall of Fame, 1990; Emmy award winner)
    Played by David Paymer in ‘Quiz Show’ (1994)
    Born Daniel Ehrenreich

Why he might be annoying:

    While his location of birth is up for discussion, his location of death – Santa Monica – never was.
    He called the pilot of Twenty-One ‘a dismal failure’ — not the least bit helped by a single call from the Geritol sponsor.
    When he was threatened with exposure by an opponent of Charles van Doren, he implicitly promised him future opportunities rather than money or employment. (Herbert Stempel made good on his vow.)
    Disgraced by the scandal, only one production company was willing to take any chance on him: the Canadian branch of Screen Gems.
    At least three key B&E figures – two producers and one director – walked out on him following Barry’s death in 1984, simply for his taking over the brand.

Why he might not be annoying:

    During his exile in Canada, independent of Barry, he was instrumental in training a number of future game show producers based on both sides of the border.
    Returning to the United States in the 1970s, he reunited with Barry to pitch The Joker’s Wild — and rebounded in a big way.
    For an instalment of ‘The American Experience,’ he went into serious detail about his involvement in the rigging scandal.
    In stark contrast to the respective Heatter-Quigley and Goodson-Todman brands, he never took Barry’s name off the Barry-Enright brand (Bumper Stumpers being a post-Barry property).
    His son Don – previously a principal at B&E – would go on to become an Emmy-winning producer and filmmaker in his own right.

Credit: Cool It All Right?


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