One poster spotted the debut episode of the short-lived 1989 version of Now You See It. The show featured some newfangled graphics compared to the Jack Narz original from the 1970s. I always thought Now You See It was an underrated word game that suffered from being a little too quiet and cerebral. Happily, Wink Martindale unearthed the episode for his "Wink's Vault" series on YouTube.
A funny note: the original poster on the GSP thread rehashes the rumor that Chuck Henry, host of the 1989 show, wanted the episodes buried forever. Other posters debunk this myth as just another urban legend from the game show Interwebs. I've commented before on how rumors about old game shows can flourish on the Internet with no factual basis at all.
Often the rumors start as an "explanation" for GSN or Buzzr never rerunning some ancient show. It doesn't seem to dawn on the rumormongers that some old shows don't get TV time because they flopped or they weren't very good (or both). The rumor guys usually think that almost every old game show was some kind of classic, so there has to be an arcane conspiracy theory to explain why the shows never see the light on TV.
Now You See It was a pretty good show, in my opinion, but it never drew much of an audience. That's why even Buzzr doesn't run the show any more. You don't have to invent rumors to explain it.
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