It was originally created by Nick Nicholson and E. Roger Muir[1] (creators of The Newlywed Game, Spin-Off, Definition, Guess What, and others).
During the final broadcast, Jim Perry applauded the long-running show for promoting news literacy.
Perry carried many of his pet phrases with him on his later American game show, Sale of the Century, which he would host for six years.
The idea of the game was for contestants to identify a newsmaker or event from clues given in the form of headlines, a format inspired in part by CBC Television's Front Page Challenge.
The first player to guess the identity featuring that word won a bonus prize, theirs to keep regardless of the game's outcome.
The player in the lead at the end of the Deadline was the night's champion and advanced to play the Rapid Round for bonus cash.