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Jeopardy! To replay GOAT, best of Jennings
- Thread starter Ccook55
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A few years ago, I seem to remember Jeopardy re-airing some of the classic 80's episodes. I can't recall the circumstances behind this, but I'd love to see them cherry pick some old episodes, not just ones featuring Ken, Buzzy, James, etc.
I'm looking forward to this. It will be a flashback for a lot of viewers, with the older set.
Maybe Wheel should do something similar when the time comes - instead of rerunning S37 or S36, perhaps have 'the best of Wheel' with the $1,000,000 winners, funny episodes, older episodes with Vanna turning the letters, etc. Y&R/B&B are starting to do this on Fridays and will be doing this indefinitely after tomorrow as they have ran out of new episodes post-taping suspensions.
Maybe Wheel should do something similar when the time comes - instead of rerunning S37 or S36, perhaps have 'the best of Wheel' with the $1,000,000 winners, funny episodes, older episodes with Vanna turning the letters, etc. Y&R/B&B are starting to do this on Fridays and will be doing this indefinitely after tomorrow as they have ran out of new episodes post-taping suspensions.
The oldest Wheel is known to be going back is Season 33 (2015-16). They will likely dub over those episodes' music cues with the current ones.
Wheel is very stubborn about old footage on the air compared to Jeopardy! I doubt Wheel goes any earlier than that, maybe Season 32 since that had one of the million wins. But they don't really care about rerunning big wins. The first week of May is a rerun week with only one Bonus Round won and a $100,000 loss. And when they do show clips of "old" episodes, the original theme music and other music cues are dubbed over with modern-day equivalents and it sounds ridiculous and cheap.
I knew Jeopardy! would go back to at least Ken's original run while Wheel will surely stay in the 2010's. Just another example of more creative effort going into Jeopardy! than Wheel, even when they're not in production. Wheel's never beating it in the ratings anymore unless maybe they crank out some 80s or 90s episodes, which they won't.
Wouldn't old "Wheel" episodes have to be chopped to bleep out the names of automobile manufacturers, cruise lines, etc., that no longer are connected with the show and/or offering the prizes shown? Since the only prizes on Jeopardy! are money, that show doesn't have such a problem -- unless someone were to insist that all old episodes have the dollar amounts of winnings changed to reflect current dollar value!
The reason they did this was because it was the last week of Season 25 Summer Reruns (September 7-11, 2009).
On September 7, they showed the Trebek premiere (September 10, 1984), September 8 was Eddie Timanus' 5th game (the first blind contestant to appear on the show; October 26, 1999), September 9 and 10 were Ken Jennings' last two regular-play games (November 29 and 30, 2004), and September 11 was the last game of the Ultimate Tournament of Champions (May 25, 2005). The credits for the September 9, 2009 rerun of Ken's 74th game surfaced on YouTube and the music was redubbed to the current 2008 music, so I think they will redub the music for Ken's first and last games.
I have actually wondered if Jeopardy!, like many shows are doing right now, could actually be taped from home. I could totally see it working. Alex Trebek could be in his home, and the 3 contestants could be in their homes. I can't see them doing that with all game shows, but with Jeopardy! I think they actually could, since there's not that many pieces of equipment, and I'm sure the answer board could be recreated. How does this sound?
The concept is rife with the potential for cheating.
Lag would be an issue. One could argue that one player gets an advantage on ringing in because they hear Alex or see the clue a fraction of a second before the others.
A whole group of Wheel of Fortune fans and former contestants got together to do a series of unofficial Zoom-hosted games for charity, and they did not do the Toss-Up rounds because it would have been too complicated and unfair since not everybody has the same connection strength, and there was a designated "blind Wheel spinner" spinning for everyone.
I'd include some of Brad Rutter's tournament wins as well.
I stayed around to see what Alex would say about next week and he didn't say anything. My guess is they just didn't know what was coming the next week when they taped that episode.
I thought at least there would be some announcement recorded at a later time.
I thought at least there would be some announcement recorded at a later time.
I enjoy the old Wheel music better, compared to the modern version.
This was probably planned more recently because of the coronavirus, especially if a tournament that had been planned wasn't taped in time. There were teasers for it during the show though.
Monday's Wheel of Fortune is erroneously titled "Ken Jennings' First Show" in TV listings, while Jeopardy! is listed as a generic new episode.
Wheel's reruns through at least Memorial Day are all from the 2018-19 and 19-20 seasons, despite some 2015-16 contestants being told they'd be getting reruns soon.
Wheel's reruns through at least Memorial Day are all from the 2018-19 and 19-20 seasons, despite some 2015-16 contestants being told they'd be getting reruns soon.
For some reason, I love this!
Serious question: Has anyone ever been a contestant on both Wheel and Jeopardy? How did they do? I can picture Jennings dropping by the Wheel studio during a break in his Jeopardy tapings and solving puzzle after puzzle with only two or three letters showing, just to prove what an easy game Wheel is -- kind of like Aaron Judge hitting a homer for the Yankees in the afternoon, then driving to Trenton to belt three more in the Eastern League that night.
Yes. A couple are Hans von Walter who won nearly $10,000 on Wheel and $25,000 on Jeopardy! for placing third in the College Championship. There's also Josh Woo who won $2,000 for coming in second place on Jeopardy! Back to School week (another name for Kids Week) and $41,400 on Wheel after winning by $401 (he also won on The Price is Right and won $5,000 on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? with Chris Harrison).
Right. That's how they did it. I wasn't even thinking about that.
There was also a woman named Megan Barnes who won over $105K over four games of Jeopardy! in 2011, then went on Wheel in 2014 and won $6,200.
According to this article there are still new episodes coming, including the Teacher's Tournament: https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/have-no-fear-jeopardy-has-weeks-of-new-episodes/ar-BB13Z1uQ
Yes, those episodes were originally supposed to air the first week of May but were pushed back to sandwich in these reruns.
Wheel also still has two weeks of episodes that have been produced but it is still unknown when they will air, since they were promotional weeks sponsored by Carnival Cruise Line and Collette Vacations. The former is planning to resume some operations in August and the latter in July.
Wheel also still has two weeks of episodes that have been produced but it is still unknown when they will air, since they were promotional weeks sponsored by Carnival Cruise Line and Collette Vacations. The former is planning to resume some operations in August and the latter in July.
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