Marc Summers: I walked out on Quiet on Set because directors pulled a "bait and switch" and “ambushed” me
The former Double Dare host told the Elvis Duran and the Morning Show, in a pre-taped interview airing Friday, that he didn't know he was participating in a docuseries about toxic behavior at Nickelodeon when he agreed to sit down with the directors of Investigation Discovery's
Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV. The four-episode docuseries focused on abuses taking place after Summers' 1986-1993 tenure, and Summers says he's never met the docuseries’ main focus: Dan Schneider. “They asked me what I thought of Nick, and the first 10 to 12 seconds, from what I understand, in this documentary is me saying all these wonderful things,” said Summers. “But they did a bait and switch on me.
They ambushed me. They never told me what this documentary was really about. And so they showed me a video of something that I couldn’t believe was on Nickelodeon. And I said, ‘Well, let’s stop the tape right here. What are we doing?'” Summers added that he was told six weeks ago that he wouldn't be in the docuseries. But then four weeks ago he was told he'd only appear in the first part to discuss the positive aspects of Nickelodeon in its early days. “What they didn’t tell me — and they lied to me about — was the fact that they put in that other thing where they had the camera on me when they ambushed me," said Summers. "And so, now we get into a whole situation about who’s unethical.” In Quiet on Set, Summers can be seen watching a suggestive Nickelodeon clip on a phone, asking: “Did that air on Nickelodeon?”