By the fall of 1982, Jim had gone from simultaneously hosting three game shows (Card Sharks, Headline Hunters, and Definition) to only hosting Definition. While he also still hosted the annual Miss Canada Pageant, Jim was still too much in his prime at the age of 48 to sit back and host only one show. Bob Stewart, who produced a number of game shows for all three networks under his own company, had been working on a new game show called Twisters. Stewart originally hired someone else to host the pilot but after doing run-throughs of the game, it was quickly obvious that their choice of host would not work out. Jim had a reputation in the industry for being a very quick study with the ability to learn a new game or new rules to a game show in record time and make it work. Stewart called Jim and, in just one day, taught him the game for Twisters, and the pilot was taped in October 1982 for NBC.