Mindreaders was also the final new Goodson-Todman game to be developed under the supervision of co-producer Bill Todman, who died a few weeks before its premiere.

Martin read a question, for which the jury members secretly locked in their answers, and one contestant on the winning team had to predict how many of them had given a specified response.

This mini-game of 10 audience members (designed by producer Mimi O'Brien) answering a question was later instituted for the 1986 revival of Card Sharks in 1988.

The show's theme was composed by Score Productions, and was later used for the unsold Goodson-Todman pilot Puzzlers in 1980 and was also used as a re-arranged version of a commercial cue for Celebrity Charades in 1979.

[citation needed] Unusual for a Goodson-Todman series, especially one in production as late as 1980, most of the Mindreaders archive was destroyed to recycle videotape.

Buzzr aired the originally unaired pilot episode of the series with Charles Nelson Reilly and Sarah Purcell as the celebrity guests on 25 September 2021 as part of their annual Lost and Found special block.