Year of the Scavenger

During the 4th and final season of The New Treasure Hunt, the skits got even more outrageous than previous years. Watch the emotional roller coaster this girl goes on. Make sure you watch the clip all the way through. FYI: The audio is really low so turn up your sound. It’s how it was recorded, [...]

This is actually being posted by request. The late-great announcer Johnny Jacobs makes a rare on-camera appearance with host Geoff Edwards to take part in the skit.

This is the closing theme and winner’s cue to the 1973-1977 syndicated version of the Chuck Barris game show “The New Treasure Hunt“, hosted by Geoff Edwards. This arrangement is believed to be composed by Barris himself, however it is officially credited to Elmer Bernstein due to the similarity to his theme to the movie [...]

The first episode of one of my favorite game shows. Part Let’s Make a Deal, part Deal or No Deal, it’s the very first episode of the great 70s/80s game show Treasure Hunt

The Man, The Myth, the Bonded Security Agent…Geoff spends a total of five seasons trying to make Emile break character, and in the final clip, Emile ends up causing Geoff to break. For more about Geoff Edwards and “Treasure Hunt,” visit www.gameshowutopia.net

Two more big wins from “Treasure Hunt.”

A great skit from “The New Treasure Hunt.” Listen closely for an irate friend of the contestant after Geoff tricks her into thinking she found the big check. For more about Geoff Edwards and “Treasure Hunt,” visit www.gameshowutopia.net

A Game Show from the 80′s. This one is Cheese Flambé! It has horrible acting, Opossum Fur, High Explosives, bad hairdos and uncalled for time wasting.

By request, it’s Geoff teaching a contestant to play Patty Cake in 1981. Observation: Geoff once said that a problem he had with “Treasure Hunt” was that the writers didn’t write the sketches to a uniform time, which meant he would have to stretch if the contestant happened to pick a box with a very [...]

These folks took the box instead of the bucks, and boy are they glad!