Now You See It is an American television game show created by Frank Wayne for Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions.

The pilot was taped in October 1973, and featured six players instead of five, as well as a lack of neon lights on the front of the desks.

The second series ran from April 3, 1989 to July 14, 1989, and was hosted by Los Angeles news anchor Chuck Henry.

Los Angeles disc jockey Mark Driscoll announced for the first month of the 1989 season, with Don Morrow replacing him for the remainder of the run.

If the wrong line was given, the correct one was turned on and the outside contestant of the opposing team received a free guess at the answer.

Either contestant could buzz-in at any time, a correct answer scored one point and completed the word, but a miss gave the opponent a free guess before Narz resumed filling in the letters.

The first player to guess four words won the round and a prize package, in addition to moving on to face the champion in the Finals.

After 12 questions, the higher-scoring contestant took/retained the championship and advanced to the Solo Game for a chance to win a cash jackpot.

During the first episode only, a correct toss-up answer gave that contestant sole control of the round until he/she missed a question.

A contestant or team earned a 10-point bonus for correctly answering a question with one of their chosen words, but had to reveal it immediately upon using it in order to score.

Like it had done with its recent revivals of Blockbusters and Concentration two years earlier, Mark Goodson Productions gave the show a technological upgrade with a computer generated board.

On the original Now You See It, the Solo Game board had four rows of 16 letters each and the screen was embedded in Jack Narz's desk.

For a brief period, the 1970s version used an alternate theme written by Edd Kalehoff, but returned to "Chump Change" shortly thereafter.

The first version ran from April 1, 1974[2] to June 13, 1975 at 11:00 a.m. (10:00 Central) with Jack Narz hosting, replacing The $10,000 Pyramid, which moved to ABC one month after its CBS cancellation.

[3] NBC's resurgence in its morning lineup in early 1975 with the likes of Wheel of Fortune prompted CBS to clean house, canceling The Joker's Wild along with Now You See It.

(9:30 a.m. EST) Years after the original Now You See It came to an end, Mark Goodson Productions decided to try the show again once a pilot was done on October 20, 1988.

Los Angeles news anchor Chuck Henry, was host, and the show was again taped at Studio 33 inside Television City in Hollywood.

Syndicated talk shows such as Donahue and Sally Jessy Raphael had become popular and made games like Now You See It seem tame and quaint.

With greater possibility for local advertising revenue from the talk shows, numerous stations passed despite the solid performance of its lead-in, Family Feud.

CBS took advantage of Wheel in its studio space and relaunched the daytime series shortly after the show left Burbank.

Now You See It was the only CBS morning show that was not performing well in the ratings, and the network declined to extend their commitment past the original fifteen weeks.

The show closed with the entire stage crew joining Chuck Henry and the day’s champion to bid farewell.

Wheel launched the following Monday and lasted until January 11, 1991 in the time slot before finishing its run on NBC later that year.