The home boy has to jump in here:
\"Bible Baffle\" began its life on WCFC in Chicago as \"Bible Scrabble\" sometime in 1977. The original format had two three-person teams competing to unscramble Bible verses and then go on to answer Bible trivia questions. The set was ultra-low budget (at that time, they were using the old WBKB-TV studios at the top of the Civic Opera House building in downtown Chicago), the audience was canned and the host was the same guy who did the revamp that got the national airing, Ray MacKillop. At some point early in the run either they heard from the Scrabble people or discovered that they were using a trademarked name and changed the title to \"Bible Baffle.\" (Obviously, H-Q wasn't interested in challenging that one.)
The next year, the format was revamped to four contestants, two of each playing a round of Bible trivia to go on to the final round (and playing a scrambled verse as a bonus). The winner of the final round got to attempt to unscramble a verse for a trip to Biblical Gardens at Wisconsin Dells (ooh, aah). This was the version that was dubbed \"The New Bible Baffle\"--and the title stayed with it for the rest of its run, including the national exposure on CBN (and probably some other religious network, as well). The station moved its facilities to the former Catholic Television Network facilities across the street somewhere in the middle of the run. It went off sometime in 1982.
One night, I was scanning the dial and hit WCFC during a fund-raiser where McKillop was more or less defending the idea of doing a game show on a religious station--even though they had no time for \"altar calls\" on the show(thank God), McKillop claimed that they had received letters from game show fans who said they were \"saved\" watching the show. OK.
BTW, WCFC has lived on, despite the sale to Pax--they moved to a custom-built broadcast facility in the West Loop in the mid 90s and remains active today as the cable network Total Living Network (TLN), which is now seen nationally. (Some TLN programming continues to be seen on WCPX in the mornings.) They just haven't done a game show since then.