Jimmy Carter-era "lost" game show Whew! will be available to watch after 40 years

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The CBS game show Whew! aired from April 1979 to May 1980, but the show has been considered "lost" for the past 40 years, save for a few YouTube clips. Josef Adalian reports the "retro network Buzzr has struck a deal to air original episodes of the Tom Kennedy-hosted series, which is fondly—or at least vaguely— remembered by a sliver of Gen Xers drawn in by an animated opening credits sequence designed by Hanna-Barbera as well as a bizarro bonus round which featured a collection of cardboard cutout 'villains' with names such as Count Nibbleneck and Kid Rotten. Despite some  popularity among kids watching over summer vacation or while home sick from school, Whew! was likely doomed in part by a nearly unpronounceable title and a perhaps overly complicated format."