Strike It Rich was regular TV fare in our home when I was a kid. My mom was often glued to the TV set. It didn't hold much appeal to me, but - in all fairness - I think the comparison to Jerry Springer is rather far fetched. A half a century of cultural change makes any kind of comparison difficult, to say the least. It's rather amusing to think of Hull milking the pity quotient of those pathetic guests and their stories, while just a dozen years earlier he had starred in serials as The Green Hornet and Mandrake the Magician. In fact, I believe he played the Spider as well. With all those super powers floating around, why didn't he just remedy those guests' problems rather than wait for the Heartline to ring?
Review of Strike It Rich
