History of the board game Monopoly general book about toys even as recently as 2007. Even a guide to family games published for "Reader's Digest" in 2003 only gave credit to Darrow and Elizabeth Magie, erroneously stating that Magie's original game was created in the 19th century, and not acknowledging any of the game's development between Magie's creation of the game, and the eventual publication by Parker Brothers. Also in the 1970s, Professor Ralph Anspach, who had himself published a board game intended to illustrate the principles of both monopolies and trust busting, fought Parker Brothers and its then parent company, General Mills, over the copyright
Scrabble (game show) Clark Productions and MCA TV called "Double Up" which was not picked up). The latter two returned in 1988, joined by Vicki Lawrence, Jim Lange, Wink Martindale, and Jeff MacGregor. Summers hosted during the 1987 week when Chuck Woolery played segments of the game. A board game based on this version was released by Selchow & Righter as "TV Scrabble" in 1987. It was the only home version which was originally a board game itself until "Trivial Pursuit: Game Show" released by Parker Brothers in 1993 and "Celebrity Name Game" released by "Playmonster" (formerly "Patch") in 2016. All episodes still