Edwards was not unemployed long, as Chuck Barris hired him to host "The New Treasure Hunt" that launched in weekly syndication in fall 1973. In January 1974, Edwards returned to daytime with the NBC show "Jackpot". For the next nineteen months, ending in September 1975, Edwards would commute back and forth between California and New York as "Jackpot" taped at NBC's Rockefeller Center studios. He would briefly do this again in 1977 during the run of NBC's "Shoot for the Stars" (both it and "Jackpot" were produced by Bob Stewart). "The New Treasure Hunt" would also come to an end in 1977.