Jack's statement in his 1979 TV Guide interview stated, "I condoned the coaching, but deliberately kepy myself uninformed on details. I felt it would diminish my ability as master of ceremonies - how could I be genuinely surprised if I knew who was going to win? With Van Doren, I presumed as much. Again, it was only a safeguard. Van Doren was brilliant and could have answered 95% of the questions anyway. In our zeal to produce good shows, we lost sight of certain moral issues, which, in retrospect, I recognize as being wrong." So yes, Barry agreed to the fix, but claims to have had minimal details. However --if the incident shown in Quiz Show was actual - the kinescope of Barry calling an answer wrong after the contestant decided to screw with them and give the right answer anyway - then Barry had to catch himself and get back on course - makes you wonder how honest his statement was.