@@jamesmoss3424 Well, we won $2,400 each. I'm sure it didn't take us long to spend it. As for Marc, I got something better than an autograph. He invited me back to the studio the following week to record an interview with him for a radio show I was co-hosting at the time. Great guy!

@@reedberry that is cool 😎. 😀👍

@@thetalkingarchive4795 People do seem to move around in the game show world.

@@jamesmoss3424 Thanks. Actually, I think we did very well in our first episode managing to knock off a very strong team, but that bonus game was a killer.

@@reedberry your welcome. 😀👍

@@markheying2830 We went our separate ways about two years after taping Headline Chasers.

@@markheying2830 None of the prizes from Classic Concentration, but I do have a La-Z-Boy recliner that I received from Couch Potatoes in 1989, and I have the prizes I won last summer on The Price is Right.

@@markheying2830 As explained in the description, we were friends and coworkers. We applied to be contestants, auditioned together and taped our three episodes a short time later.

@@markheying2830 Headline Chasers was a couples show, and Karen was my wife at that time, so we appeared on the show together. We didn't do any other couples or team shows together. Since then, all my game show appearances have been solo, including my Showcase win earlier this season on The Price is Right.

@@reedberryAlso we’re you 1 of the first 4 Contestants or the very last Contestant?

@@markheying2830 On The Price is Right, I was the next to the last contestant called, and the last to get up on stage with Drew.

Ok, let's go back in time 35 years and change the rules. Lol. Personally, I think they made the bonus round fairly easy so as many teams as possible would win the $5K. It was a generous amount but not a huge prize compared to other game shows of that era.

Hey, how have you been? I had no way of locating you or Chase when I uploaded these episodes.

I am well. Just a bit older lol. I have not seen Chase since that time in our lives. I think you and I only spent a bit more time with your radio show, before I moved back home to Arizona. I have searched the internet over the years for these episodes, so it was bizarre to see my face out of the corner of my eye while watching someone restore a piece of furniture 😂😂. How are you??

@@cindyhopkins7299 I'm good. Life has been crazy but fun. Are you on Instagram? Message me there so we can stay in touch. @itsreedberry

Oh yeah

Well, I liked Headline Chasers because, even if you lost the game, which we did, you got to keep whatever money you accumulated during the show. Also, my timing was spot on. They were in need of contestants when the show was still fairly new, and I think from the time I contacted them until the day we actually taped the show, it was only a few weeks. Everything happened quickly. And I have seen Wink since. I did a runthrough for another game show he came up with, and in 1999 I interviewed Wink on the radio. I was doing a live broadcast from Pasadena and Wink came out in person to guest on the show, and his lovely wife Sandy came along too. Very nice people.

You're welcome, and thanks. We had hoped to stay on a little longer than we did, but $7,200 in 1989 was a certainly a decent amount to walk away with. I've been on a couple of other game shows since, most recently as a showcase winner on The Price is Right. It was taped on the first day in the show's new studio last July and aired 9-26-2023.

I agree! Thank you for posting!! I had them on vhs for years but they were lost. We had so much fun.

@@cindyhopkins7299 I had them in storage on VHS, then two years ago had the digital conversion done by a shop in Hollywood. Now they're preserved for eternity on KZbin.

Yeah, I had never even heard about it at that point, and apparently that series only had a 10 episode run.

@@reedberry You can recognize Lauri Hendler (GIMME A BREAK) and Rob Lowe in the pic but never get the show title.

Hi Colleen. That's cool! Here's how I got that video. I requested a copy from my casting agent who told me that it wasn't possible. Then I called the ad agency in Japan. I think it was J. Walter Thompson if I remember correctly. The woman on the phone said, "No problem whatsoever. What format would you like?" and I received it within a week. Then it sat in storage for 30 years, but now people will see this commercial in perpetuity on KZbin. Thanks for saying hi.

Thanks, James. The main game went very well for us, but we made bad picks during Channel Roulette.

@@reedberry your welcome and those pay TV 📺 are a death trap.

I guess there was no limit to the creativity at Saban.

See my description. That's lengenday TV kids show host, "Buffalo Bob" Smith.

I checked out the drive through clip and totally forgot about the heart attack. She was driving a Ford Falcon too, that's awesome. Thanks for bringing it up! 👨‍🎤😁

Thanks so much. Interestingly, when the TV crew arrived that day, I thought they had something planned but the first thing the director said to me was, "So what would you like to do?" At that point, I came up with that opening segment on the fly and did it in one take. It was a little stressful at the time but I was happy with the finished product.

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@@reedberry cool! Was Wink Martindale a nice guy off camera? Did you get to talk to him between parts of the show, or did he have to do other things?

@@jokerswildfan1972 Yes, Wink is a very nice person. We did talk during commercial breaks. They taped five shows in a day, and our episode was taped after the dinner break, so we talked about the Italian food that was served.

I think our streak would have lasted a little longer if Marc hadn't flubbed in episode three. That mistake required him to start asking questions of the other team and that allowed them to get some momentum going. But we had fun and made some decent money, in addition to each of us receiving a La-Z-Boy recliner.

It was the ugliest pink recliner, I had it for years. 😂😂

@@cindyhopkins7299 I still have mine!

It was nationally syndicated, so it aired across the country, but not sure about Monroe, LA.

I don't remember Marc referencing Double Dare on Couch Potatoes. But it does happen at times when people host more than one show. Alex Trebek accidentally referred to me as "the new Jeopardy! champion" on Classic Concentration.

@@reedberry really? You got the episode of that?

@@newultrarayden9460 Yes, it's on my videos page. Episode 1 of 2.