User blog comment:Gameshowguy2000/Michael Larson, 30 years later: Did he really cheat?/@comment-1623122-20140603135729

In the GSN documentary, Carruthers even goes on the record as having said "We can't go with six!" in regard to the number of patterns. After Larson's feat, the show changed the patterns twice within a two-month period before finally settling on a set of 32. CBS, on the other hand, was so embarrassed that they banned Larson's game from being aired again until said documentary.

Much later, CBS' Game Show Marathon (2006) essentially tried to rewrite history: the show had debuted in 1981, and they try to hint that Larson's run got the show canned with the Whammies looking for revenge.

Did Larson cheat? Not at all. Still, I saw his run being a comparison when Ted Slauson Terry Kneiss gave a perfect Showcase bid on Price in 2008, which was also accused of cheating primarily because it was right after Roger Dobkowitz had been kicked out so clearly Golden-Road was looking for revenge. Terry went on to his 15 minutes of fame; Ted...got permabanned from Television City.