yes, with primetime. more clunks. more cash prizes and expensive trips! expensive cars! each treasure box contains offer cards between $5,000 to $40,000 cash values

Yes. Geoff in an interview on a podcast said that DOND was one of his favorite game shows.

@@thewipsportstalkfan3160 Except by the time Deal Or No Deal came to existance, both Howie Mandel and Geoff Edwards had the "Steve Wilkos" look.

Deal or No Deal was basically Treasure Hunt without the laughs!

I'd like to think of it more as a successor to Let's Make A Deal.

I grew up with them. Wonderful people. Yes Karen dying at 32 in 1983 was a shock to many. Anorexia is a sad disease.

It's a different world now. Women want to be equal to men; and there were no male contestants on that show because producers were afraid one of them would beat the crap out of Geoff Edwards if they ended up with a klunk. Plus, (younger) women are a lot more sensitive and get their feelings hurt easier. If they ended up with a klunk, they'll need at least 6 months of therapy. Also, this is a Participation Trophy World. If one person wins a cash prize, everyone else has to win a cash prize.

So this was actually late in the syndicated run then.

No, this episode first aired in 1976. This home recording is a syndicated rerun. The 1981-2 first run syndicated version had 66 boxes.

Wow.

Those two sisters were funny

Once TNTH ceased production, they all went wild and crazy on The Price Is Right.

Yes. Coincidentally or not, the move to Burbank came shortly after ABC cancelled the original run of "The Newlywed Game," also a Chuck Barris show. I think this program is from the fourth and final season, for which Barris himself served as executive producer. Mike Metzger was EP for '75-'76. Barris and Walt Case were the EPs the first two years. And a sad note: According to a comment her daughter posted on another NTH program on YT, Naomi De Vargas, the brunette model, died in 1985.

That is kind of weird because usually once a cable station (in this case, CBN) picks up a certain program, all other network stations stop airing it. Why a local station would continue to air a game show already available on cable like The New Treasure Hunt which was already 8-11 years old then is made unclear. For sitcoms like Green Acres may seem normal, but very rare for a game show.

True.

@@meyerj75 Or this was from the 1981-'82 syndicated version.

@@WaltGekko If it was, it would be titled as Treasure Hunt with 66 surprise packages. This is The New Treasure Hunt with 30. Both versions aired on CBN, but not the entire 205 episode existence for unknown reasons.

The money was heavy in this episode.

Kinda hard to do to him these days. He passed a few years ago

If Bob Barker Had Hosted Treasure Hunt He Would Have Told These Excited Women To Raise Their Right Hand And Not Do Him Bodily Harm.

According to the track listing of an album of music from his programs that Chuck Barris released in 1973, it's the "Cop Out" theme (although it really wasn't). It's available on YT. This and the closing TH theme are the nicest tracks on the album. Barris wrote most of the music for his shows, beginning with "The Dating Game."

@@kevinfitzmaurice4072 Thank you. It is beautiful.

26:33 THINK AGAIN!!

WHAT KLUNK !!!!!.

I agree. I was hoping that she would come out alright here, and she did!!

Neither did she IMHO. Thats the downside of winning on these prize shows: if you didnt win cash or a car, the prizes whether you like them or not, that you won still count as taxable income and selling these prizes to pay said taxes can be a headache, even in the age of ebay.

@@thewipsportstalkfan3160 I heard that if you won prizes and sold them, that you could NOT mention the name of the show on which you won the gifts.

I would have preferred the money, even as small as $1500, over some game room from a bowling alley.

It ran for four years in this first run. You're right, it basically is a game of chance because it isn't easy to find the right box.

The New Treasure Hunt was like Let's Make A Deal but with bigger prizes, more ladies on deck, fairy tale like skits and , of course, surprises galore. They were on around the same time Let's Make A Deal was. Host Monty Hall commented that the show was very contemporary and in his honor, invited Geoff to substitute for him on Let's Make A Deal when needed, Both Hall and Edwards remained friends to this day.