He also produced and directed game shows including Give-n-Take, The Neighbors, Second Chance (all with Warner Bros. Television, as part of a deal it signed in 1975),[2] Lee Trevino's Golf for Swingers (with advertising agency McCann Erickson) and the 1975 version of You Don't Say!
(with Ralph Andrews Productions and Warner Bros. Television), before hitting it big with the CBS game show, Press Your Luck (which was a retooling of the earlier Second Chance), which ran from 1983–86.
[3] As a television consultant, Carruthers guided the Nixon, Ford,[4][5] Reagan and George H. W. Bush administrations on effective use of the media.
[6][7][8] In the 1990s, he produced specials for The Family Channel, called Marry Me, as well as a short-lived game show for ESPN, Designated Hitter.
The documentary detailed how Larson created a method that allowed him to win a record-breaking sum of over $100,000 on the game show.