Headline Chasers (Part 1 of 4) 

I was on Headline Chasers. The episode is on my RU-vid channel, along with some other game shows I was on. I liked Headline Chasers because my then-wife and I got on so quickly (from contacting them to taping the show was only a few weeks) plus, even though we didn't win, we got to keep the money we accumulated during the game. For a young couple in the mid 1980s, $2,000 was a nice chunk of cash to go home with. Headline Chasers was the first game show I was on, but there have been four others 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 and aired on 9-26-2023.

We watched the game show on WKBW TV in Bufffalo around 5:30 every day back in the day- thanks for posting

In Detroit, it showed it on WDIV 4 at 12:30pm as Toledo aired it on WTOL 11 at 9:30am however both stations in my area aired this show replacing "Every Second Counts" when it got cancelled. Wink was back on WDIV with this game show, therefore Tic Tac Dough was seen on WDIV until 1984.

I never SEEN this show when it was actually on TV, but it LOOKS like FUN. I was a teenager during the 80's. I'm Surprised I MISSED this Gameshow. I LOVE gameshows!!!

They don't play any music when Johnny introduces the contestants. It's usually a custom to do that.

i love the theme song

Used to watch this on a regular basis...................wasn't Wink's best game show gig, IMHO, but overall it wasn't bad.

But some were unaired and after it only lasted 13 weeks, It had repeats.

This show debuted in 1985 and lasted only 13 weeks. This was Wink's first game show from his own company, "Wink Martindale Enterprises".

It went into repeats later on however.

Why couldn't Jim Caldwell have hosted this so _Tic Tac Dough_ could keep Wink Martindale?

the couples must be either bf/gf or just friends

Yes. Yes, it is.

Annie N. Fritz & Toby Mamis Vs. Cindy Gibson & Bob Peters? They're not married couples... They're Boyfirends and Girlfriends.

iS THIS Wink's only show for Merv Griffin?

But despite only lasting 13 weeks, some markets kept rerunning the shows nonstop until September 86.

Weak format... however excellent to find some interesting facts in history. And who had that AWFUL idea of putting Wink's podium between the contestants? It's a perfect setup for H², but not for this show.

It was a game show flop, since it only lasted 13 weeks.

I thought it was good.