Treasure Hunt - $50,000 Winner

Before Deal or No Deal, there was Treasure Hunt. Same premise, really - the contestant chooses a box, and then gets a choice of either a cash amount or the contents of the box, which could be anything from a booby prize (called a "klunk" to a check worth up to $50,000. This is the 1980 syndicated version of the show, and the contestant is about to find out the good news.

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Entertainment

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• game
• shows
• chuck
• barris
• geoff
• edwards

[TheCarrShow]

howd she win she didnt pick 42 lol you can see it in the background

[Loogaroo1]

@TheCarrShow Emile Auturi must not have been a Douglas Adams fan.

[nextbarker]

Did Treasure Hunt set a limit for returning champions?

[Loogaroo1]

I'm pretty sure they didn't, since the luck element was so prevalent. The odds of a player picking even five boxes is 1 in 32.

[Jiltedin2007]

There were no Returning Champions! You are picked at random to come up stage and try to win the $50,000. If you choose the right box, very good!

[Loogaroo1]

@Jiltedin2007 Incorrect. Whoever got to pick a box would be carried over to the next game. In the earlier version of this show, though, each game had three new players.

[Loogaroo1]

@Loogaroo1 Yeah, this version started in 1980 and ran for about a year.

[nextbarker]

JAMAICA MISTAKE

[kes1963]

in my opinion, Geoff is underated as a host

[gladfan1989]

Hey, with the $50,000, she can pay for Geoff's chiropractic expenses. Or maybe she WAS a chiropractor.

[cicholdebannan]

3:18 did she faint?

[4PMGame]

I remember this show. This show used to be on WNEW-TV (channel 5) in the afternoons since I was a kid, but I also remember the show when it was on CBN back in the 80's along with "Name That Tune" and "Let's Make a Deal". I remember CBN all the time before it became the Family Channel, Fox Family which is currently ABC Family.

[FireitupBedford]

Wow I use to love this show...

[artytoons]

At least she didn't say Zonk.

[StFidjnr]

@ 1:30 the famous two words.

[mbrand19971]

@floridapanthersroar I saw that show on the Game Show Network back in the early 200's and this one is pure classic I got to see the one win Bob Barker got picked up by the Samoan.

[tyrese3745]

@JBTHREAT At least Geoff could handle it. Bob couldn't.

[tyrese3745]

That was the biggest check (and biggest cash prize) ever awarded on Treasure Hunt or any Chuck Barris-produced game show in the history of television.

[tritonrocks]

First time in my life that I've seen a host receive the Heimlich maneuver. Watch for yourself at 3:11