Anyone Can Win

Cartoonist Al Capp moderated this series that posed general quiz questions to a different panel of four celebrities each week. One celebrity in each episode wore a mask of Hairless Joe (a character in Capp's ''Li'l Abner'' comic strip Capp said of his role, "Panelists and moderators are natural enemies while the show is on the air. As a panelist, I enjoyed harassing the moderator, and now as moderator I hope for a lively rascal or two on the panel." Before each episode began, each member of the studio audience was asked to name the celebrity that he or she thought would have the most correct answers. After the quiz was completed, the audience members who had picked the winner shared $2000 in cash. The show used lights and a buzzer to indicate which panelist was to answer a question; correct answers were listed behind him or her "with more buzzing and more flashing lights." == Production ==

Everett Rosenthal was the executive producer. The producers were Sylvan Taplinger and Bernard J. Prockter. Taplinger was also the director. ==Critical response==

James Devane wrote in The Cincinnati Enquirer that Anyone Can Win "may well be the worst summer replacement on television." Devane found the use of lights and buzzers excessive, writing that the show "looks for all the world like something dreamed up by a pinball-machine addict. In a column in the San Mateo Times, Bob Foster described Anyone Can Win as "the most miserable effort to date" in the development of TV panel and quiz shows. Foster wrote that the "crude handling of the show" undermined what otherwise would have been a clever approach. == References ==