Now You See It 1985 Pilot - Jack Clark

[@ashleylewis5660]

That’s Wheel Of Fortune’s announcer Jack Clark! That’s very cool of Clark hosting Now You See It while announcing Wheel! He very good of hosting as well as announcing too!

[@Gator11srq]

Remember a game show called "Cross Wits" from late 70s? Jack Clark hosted THAT show. Can anyone find an episode, please

[@SP84Fanatic]

I've been waiting to see this one for a long time. Thanks for uploading it!

[@Musicradio77Network]

Never saw the pilot, but thankfully, the theme song "Chump Change" by Quincy Jones was in there.

[@steve760]

Yup. Love that song. I believe Bill Cosby and Q co-wrote the song, actually.

[@Rlotpir1972]

It was never credited in the credits in either 1974 or 1989. They (Goodson/Todman) assumed it was from Score Productions.

[@Musicradio77Network]

@@Rlotpir1972 If you watch the credits to “Now You See It” was listed as Score Productions, but there’s no Quincy Jones’ name on the credits, but the theme song was credited to Quincy Jones with the title “Chump Change”.

[@Rlotpir1972]

@@Musicradio77Network I bet Quincy Jones wasn't too happy. He should've sued Goodson/Todman back in 1974 for failure to include his name in the credits.

[@chriscoon801]

Original version is the best version. Jack Narz was a terrific host with those crazy blazers.

[@genegjr]

I agree with you the original version with Jack Narz is a lot better but the version that was picked up by CBS For the CBS Daytime line up was great and Chuck Henry was great 😊 but where was this pilot episode taped at I think 🤔 this was taped at ABC

[@genegjr]

And the original version this pilot and the Chuck Henry version used for the theme song is called from Quincy Jones called Chump Change 😮😊

[@dimitriberozny3729]

@@genegjrIt was!! ABC was using crazy microphones at that time. Something you would use outside during a tv news interview!!

[@brianbogansky6348]

cool find, been wanting to see this for years. thanks

[@therealbrentrolland]

Thank you SO MUCH for posting this! I love game show pilots and have been waiting as well to see it. Thank you again!

[@donaldleroy6502]

I've been watching the original series from the 70s and I really 💘 it, I do like how they changed the way the game is played. It's actually kinda 😎 watching this vid derived from an old VHS tape

[@usa02]

R.I.P. Jack Clark and Gene Wood

[@gobux113]

You can tell from the sound effects that this was for ABC and not CBS. The majority of G-T game shows on CBS used the high-pitched "ding" that is still used on The Price Is Right today, and both the '74 and '89 versions also used that ding (for a buzz-in on the '74 version, for a correct answer on the '89 version). In this pilot, there were several sound effects that were also used on Family Feud, which was on ABC at the time.

[@erikbunty2016]

The CBS Family Feud used the same sound effects as the ABC version. The 80s revival of Tattletales used different sound effects from the 70s version, save for the "time's up" cue.

[@SteveSobol760]

@@erikbunty2016 Yeah, and the buzz-in sound effect was used not only on both versions of Feud (and most -- all? - of the reboots that came afterwards), but also on Classic Concentration, which taped at NBC in Burbank.

[@jeprice08]

I haven't seen the rest of this video yet. It just popped into my head for Jack to say after the introductions, "Friends and Lovers! You know...you know, all of a sudden, I'm starting to think that I'm on the wrong show. I'm starting to think that I'm hosting The Newlywed Game other than Now You See It!" I thought it would get a laugh from the audience.

[@gameshowfreak2007]

I really liked this format, it's too bad Jack Clark only hosted about 3 or so series' in his career he was excellent here. my biggest gripe: the sound effect for the countdown clock in the solo game, reminds me of my alarm clock.

[@dimitriberozny3729]

ABC wanted this,but Jack Clark wanted too much money!! In my opinion,Jack Clark was worth the money.

[@marcpower4167]

I have a hard time believing that, Jack was known for often hosting pilots for free or scale pay.

[@paullarue2010]

Jack Narz was the first, who hosted this show, Jack Clark was the second, and Chuck Henry was the third.

[@mitchellries256]

Chuck Henry didn't impress me very much. I found him to be too serious. I would've gone with Tom Kennedy or Peter Tomarken personally.

[@paullarue2010]

@@mitchellries256 Tom Kennedy hosted "Body Language", at the time.

[@timothy4545]

Henry hated talking about Now You See It, but this helped him get the job at KNBC News in Los Angeles.

[@pinedelgado4743]

Not THOSE guys@@mitchellries256. I think Joe Garagiola would have made such a lively host for NYSI.

[@marcpower4167]

​@@timothy4545my understanding he was concerned hosting a game show would damage his credibility as a journalist. Supposedly he has asked those shows never be aired in reruns.

[@mrceleb2006]

Sound effects were recycled from 'Family Feud' since this was taped at ABC in Hollywood (now the Prospect Studios)!

[@sabster74]

It was not uncommon for different Goodson-Todman shows to share sound effects.

[@paulnguyen8910]

Jim Agazzi designed the set. Directed by Marc Breslow and produced by Phil Wayne. Frank Wayne, executive producer & creator.

[@okc1975]

how did this not make it to TV!?

[@MTCesquire]

Because Pyramid was still on TV. It's the same thing minus having to find the word in the jumble.

[@dimitriberozny3729]

@@MTCesquireAlso ABC didn’t want to pay what Jack Clark wanted. NBC would have switched the microphones to wireless lavilier microphones if they would have picked this up! NBC was FUSSY about microphones!! CBS would have possibly switched out the microphones also because they were going to lavilier microphones also,but weren’t interested.NEITHER NBC or CBS were interested .

[@pbatommy]

I like this!

[@vinniemystery563]

What if Jack Narz came bk and had've did Chuck Henry's version? 🤔

[@marcpower4167]

I don't think it would have helped. It was 1989, game shows weren't "hip" anymore.

[@jeffreyknight4417]

When Clark replaced Bob Hastings as host of "Dealer's Choice", it was so much better. Hastings had all the sincerity of a televangelist. Clark, who once stood in for Bill Cullen on #TPiR, was suave, likeable and easygoing. Little wonder Ralph Edwards chose him to emcee "Crosswits."

[@dimitriberozny3729]

Jonathan Sparks SUCKED in the revival of Crosswits in the mid 1980’s.

[@marcpower4167]

Jack also stepped in at least once for Allen Ludden on password. There is a clip going around of him doing the rehearsal game for split second which makes me think he was the stand-by if Tom Kennedy couldn't work that day for whatever reason.

[@genegjr]

@@dimitriberozny3729David Sparks I think 🤔 was okay in the Crosswitts revival he also hosted a G-T pilot called on a roll they taped 2 Pilots on CBS That never went into production

[@JayTemple]

I didn't know about this till now. When they played the word "censor", it almost sounded like something was censored at the end.

[@genegjr]

Anyone here was this NYSI pilot taped at ABC but why was the Chuck Henry version not continued at ABC why was it moved to CBS and why wasn’t Jack picked to continue the version picked up by CBS

[@PGTransformed]

Two of the contestants were champions on Bill Rafferty's version of Blockbusters!

[@mitchellries256]

How did they do?

[@marcpower4167]

As I recall Laurel won 3 games and $15,600. I think Tony did about the same.

[@paullarue2010]

Jack Narz was the first host of this show, which was was on CBS.

[@LeoVargas94Oficial]

So much better than the 1974 & 1989 versions combined!

[@marcpower4167]

Debatable, it's a little too similar to Pyramid. Bob Stewart might not have been too happy had it gone on the air.

[@booberry349]

Jack Clark of Wheel of Fortune fame

[@MrMarcellolsilva]

Two of these contestants were later seen on Rafferty's Blockbusters (Tony and Laurel)

[@mitchellries256]

How did they do?

[@ItsBlackjack115]

"Now You Pyramid It" Nice one, TV Tropes.

[@bluebear1985]

With this pilot not selling, at least Jack Clark still had another job to go back to, as the announcer for "Wheel of Fortune" at the time.

[@timglende8869]

Jack Clark's final game show as host.

[@MatthewJicha]

Laurel Delmar and Tony Morgan would later play as contestants on 1987 version of Blockbusters (Rafferty).

[@imal25]

HOLY COW SHE JUST WON $5,000!

[@millenniumman75]

It would have been interesting to know if Johnny Olsen had been the first pick to announce this as he did the 1974 version. Unfortunately, he had just passed away just two weeks prior to this taping. Jack Clark himself, was the announcer of Wheel of Fortune at the time, and would pass away due to cancer in the summer of 1988.

[@dimitriberozny3729]

ABC was supposed to pick this up,but Jack Clark wanted too much money!! CBS wasn’t interested or neither was NBC. NBC was picky about the microphones used in the 1980’s,they would have switched to lavalier microphones if they would have picked this up.NBC wanted all the gameshows to have wireless microphones on the person and CBS followed suit in the second half of the 1980’s followed by ABC in the early 1990’s.FOX was on the drawing board in the 1980’s.

[@megamanj2004X]

Some other hints to this pilot being taped at ABC Television Center in Hollywood were the incorrect answer buzzer used on Tony was later used on Double Talk with the late Henry Polic II, the mice on the contestants' podium were used on other ABC-TV game shows such as Trivia Trap, Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak, Double Talk and Match Game '90. The style of the name tags on the contestants were later used on Match Game '90.

[@mrceleb2006]

+megamanj2004X The sound effects were indeed recycled from Richard Dawson's 'Family Feud', and before that, 'Showoffs'.

[@TonyKanameKuran]

ABC Television Center is now called The Prospect Studios.

[@PatrioticPirate]

This is GREAT! Scream "Pyramid" all you want, this isn't bad at all. BUT, I wish they had the "Big Board" I HATED it when most shows went to that "nothing but graphics-no board" deal, as in: Blockbusters '87. The music arrangement is great, but they had the wrong Wrong Answer/Time's Up Buzzers. The Bells were wrong, too... but not only was this showing FANTASTIC, but they had the right host AND the right announcer. Jack Clark should have been given the 1989 version. Jack Clark or Jack Narz were the ONLY hosts, and Gene Wood or Johnny Gilbert were the ONLY announcers with any business on this show. Who is Chuck Henry???

[@TheMidknightryder13]

Chuck Henry was a L.A. sportscaster who hosted the SECOND version of NYSI. (You can find episodes on You Tube.) And I agree with you about disliking the 'electronic only board'. (I think the current version of 'Family Feud" has combined the new digital technology with the classic 'look' rather nicely. Not a fan of the show, but that's another point.) AND while I understand why they give an example question in the open, I STILL prefer the classic "Every answer...to every question...is right before your eyes. And NOW(reveal)......YOU (reveal)......SEE(reveal).....IT(reveal)!" opening.

[@jmjfanss]

sadly jack clark passed away in 1988.

[@freewaydan]

Thomas Knight Chuck Henry was not a sportscaster, he was a newscaster and presenter on KABC-TV when his version of NYSI aired.

[@paullarue2010]

Afi James I know. Pat Sajak mentioned that, on "Wheel of Fortune". Jack Clark was the announcer, on that game show.

[@markschildberg1667]

+PatrioticPirate The announcer on the Jack Narz version was Johnny Olson, not Johnny Gilbert. Johnny Olson's only rival in the pantheon of game show announcers was Jay Stewart.

[@okc1975]

that pilot was better than 1974 or 1989 game shows of Now You see IT

[@pinedelgado4743]

Amen THAT, Owen!!! :) :)

[@Melodycat918]

He reminds me of Jack Narz from the 1974-75 version. Very similar style

[@GarryJohnson-xh6vy]

Tony was on Bob Eubanks version of Card Sharks early in the run

[@TheMidknightryder13]

I think it's more a combination of NYSI, Pyramid and You Don't Say. Still, it not a bad reworking of this show. (I would watch it -- but as I've always said, how bad can your show BE when Quincy Jones writes your theme song?) And I agree about always nice seeing Mr. Clark in front of the camera. And I KNOW that it's very expensive (and unnecessary) to build that giant trilon, but there's something about it that I've always liked -- especially being able to see the logo in neon.

[@PatrioticPirate]

Back in the '70s, the giant Trilon was absolutely necessary. By 1985, they had technology to build a single tangible screen THAT EVERYONE COULD SEE. By the way, when it came back under Chuck Henry, that's what shoud have happened. But nooOOOoo...

[@TheMidknightryder13]

That would be an acceptable compromise -- perhaps put the neon on one side and the single screen on the other. (So sue me, I like neon.)

[@chriswalker8888]

Thomas Knight

[@KiddBloo86]

Thomas Knight: With flat screen TVs and LEDs, it wouldn't be outrageously expensive to build that. Maybe so though, considering unions...

[@michaelphilbert7288]

15:00 Yuh too fast, homeboy! I can tell by the chemistry between the two, maybe he and Ronata got to play a game of Now You See Them.

[@jmiller297]

They were probably in the green room before the show, just goin' at it.... LOL.

[@senorkaboom]

I liked the show in 1974. Fun one to watch, along with Wizard of Odds.

[@mitchellries256]

I don't get why they didn't ask Jack Clark to host the 1986 reboot of Crosswits. He would've been much better than that David Sparks person.

[@bluebear1985]

He was working on both the daytime and nighttime versions of "Wheel of Fortune" as its announcer at the time, so he was already fairly busy.

[@mitchellries256]

@@bluebear1985 Then give it to somebody else who has better experience with game show hosting. Kevin O'Connell from the short lived NBC series Go would've been my first choice personally.

[@bluebear1985]

@@mitchellries256 I could see that working, but I wonder if he would have been interested or not. He would end up hosting an unsold pilot for Bob Stewart in 1987, "Money in the Blank". It had a good front game, but the bonus was just something recycled from another show.

[@mitchellries256]

@@bluebear1985 He also hosted an unsold pilot for CBS and Reg Grundy Productions called Keynotes.

[@SP84Fanatic]

Given the sound effects (they sound like they came out of Showoffs and Family Feud) and Tony's clue for one of the words, I wonder if it was taped at the ABC Television Center. This was intended for syndication, but I wonder if it could've worked better on ABC daytime to replace All-Star Blitz or to become just another show on that network's lineup.

[@thejazzenigma]

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!!!!

[@alextorres9832]

He's won $5000 congratulations

[@louistenore2185]

now you see pyrmaid

[@AnErrorOccurred]

Question...was this supposed to be for network or syndication? Really...I liked this format the best of all versions. The clock and race added to the pace of the game.

[@VectraQS]

Syndication. @ 23:14 it says "Distributed by the Television Program Source." That was a short-lived distribution arm of Coca-Cola Television. TVPS also handled distribution of the Kennedy version of TPIR, and the Rafferty version of Card Sharks.

[@marcpower4167]

My understanding it was pitched to ABC.

[@paullarue2010]

Jack Clark hosted this show? That was before he died.

[@timglende8869]

He did in the summer of 1988. This (these) pilots were made in October 85. While Jack was still announcing Pyramid ($25,000 & $100,000) and Wheel (daytime and nighttime).

[@HappySnoutHour]

I find it fascinating watching all these Goodson pilots how many no nos they made in the '80s. You would think being an industry veteran that Goodson would know parodying a daytime juggernaut as big as $25,000 Pyramid wouldn't fly. They did the same thing with On a Roll which was also taped that year. I'm guessing that he was running out of innovative ideas at the time.

[@bluebear1985]

+HappySnoutHour I guess it started becoming obvious around that time. The last original format that Mark Goodson had go to air was "Trivia Trap". Everything else after that were just revivals of previous shows.

[@jmiller297]

This was Mark Goodson, feeling the hurt from not green-lighting "Pyramid" when Bob Stewart originally pitched it to him, in 1964 (The show actually debuted in 1973).

[@donnapodhurst6552]

The lady on the right is just way too angry to play. It is personal to her, not just a game. Such anger. too ad she can not be a grown up

[@alextorres9832]

This is game hide and seek all these answers and right front of your eyes

[@pbatommy]

Post it anyway.

[@tpir1972]

Is this the last game Jack hosted?

[@jeprice08]

3:27 - 3:40 I may be wrong, but I think Ronata wants to kill this guy.

[@Cory_Springer]

Four years later but I just found this clip. I think watching Ronata's face is half the entertainment! So many times she just wanted to smack him haha

[@MTCesquire]

Tell me you wanna be Pyramid without telling me you wanna be Pyramid

[@samuraicrunchbird]

14:01 made an S of himself! 😄😸

[@danbarker3846]

I don't think it sold cause of CBS's $25,000 Pyramid and the New $100,000 nighttime version debuted they didn't want confusing, what do you think jennings861?

[@JayJayinNYC]

Well I'm not jennings861 but I think you might be right. When you think about it the format was kind of similar. The mini sprint rounds with having to describe the answer to your partner within a certain amount of time. Just like on Pyramid. I actually liked this version.

[@gameshowfreak2007]

and as I recall they both won the same amount $15,600.

[@josephraymundantonio4570]

That was super silly

[@jmiller297]

Bob Stewart (producer/creator of "Pyramid") was probably watching this pilot, going... "REALLY???"

[@Shellinois]

They sure were committed to that goofy theme, weren't they? Very dated by '85, especially in '89 when it returned.

[@steve760]

Very 60s-ish, but I will always love it.

[@Jack21Spades]

Chump Change is the ONLY theme song for Now You See It. That's like the theme song to Donny Osmond's Pyramid. They threw it away like three day old fish, and what was heard at the beginning of The Pyramid with Mike Richards..?

[@PTH4Fun]

Actually, $900.

[@Rlotpir1972]

I assumed this was going to be aired on ABC.

[@disneyfan8178]

I don't know about that. In the end credits it said "Distributed By the Television Program Source". So that means it was more likely intended for first-run syndication.

[@alextorres9832]

Good one is $10,000 in cash 💸

[@andrewschroy6368]

Tony and Renata would later be on Wheel of Fortune. Around 1994, if I'm not mistaken...

[@pinedelgado4743]

If they ever reboot NOW YOU SEE IT, the very same theme tune (CHUMP CHANGE by Quincy Jones) should be used and it should be hosted by a WOMAN, IMHO!!!! :) :) :) :)

[@HelloooThere]

he seemed campy

[@RJS3566]

Not crazy about this format.

[@andrewschroy6368]

I prefer either the 1974 or 1989 versions. The 1985 pilot just screamed too much of "Pyramid" to me.

[@loutenore33]

nothing more than a pyrmaid rip off

[@mrceleb2006]

+Louis Tenore Now You Pyramid It!