Welcome to the Headline Chasers guide at TV Tome. Sometimes, even game show hosts get into the act of creating game shows. Wink Martindale came up with one such idea: cover up some of the letters in a newspaper headline and have someone guess what it is. The story goes that Martindale did just that one morning, while eating breakfast. The result? Headline Chasers, an interesting but short-lived game show that quizzed contestants on news events that took place (usually) within the last 100 years. Two couples competed in Headline Chasers, whose set resembled a big-city newsroom. A newspaper headline (from a daily newspaper) was shown; each headline's had most of its letters missing (e.g., S---- --R--- ----H-S; ----S P---C); the city's newspaper and date were often clues. The value of the headline decreased as more letters were revealed. The first couple to correctly identify the headline (STOCK MARKET CRASHES; BUYERS IN PANIC) won cash ($100 to $500, depending on how much
