Poor Monique (player in yellow space) posted this episode originally and it got canned. Sony needs to stop doing that to people sharing their episodes from when they were on!
@@TR47 She was the main reason why Wheel continued to use the hand-turned puzzleboard until the late 90s despite the fact that computers and monitors were faster and would help get rid of the stop down period.
@@JohnathanWilliamson849 I preferred the old trilon board personally. The same argument could be used for how long TPIR stayed the same format, because it was part of the show's formula that made it successful.
I believe this may be the episode after the debut of the 2nd theme, "Changing' Keys," by Merv Griffin, which recently returned to the show, albeit in a different arrangement. This was shortly before the syndicated version was launched. Knowing Merv, the change in theme music was possibly done to keep from paying Alan "Jason Seavers" Thicke double the royalties with the launch of the syndicated show.
That's exactly it Merv had plenty of his own music, having full control over its use and saving money. It also served as a new direction theme as Chuck, and later Susan, had left the show.
I was always under the impression that Changing Keys was introduced with the new syndicated version of the show. I didn't know that there is a small amount of daytime shows that predate the syndicated show but have the Merv Griffin music instead of the the Alan Thicke music. Very rare! Very interesting!
Wow - that's another gem. This was a daytime episode filmed in the first few weeks with the Merv Griffin theme. The syndicated nighttime version hadn't started airing yet! It's a rare moment in Wheel history!
Remember, for about the first 3 episodes of the nightime show, the top dollar value on the wheel for the 1st round was $750, before they added the $1,000 space.
@@anthonysicurella6714 spwash1000 is right, this is the daytime version's third round top dollar amount was $2000. That makes this episode right at the transition into the new theme before nighttime started in mid-September 1983.
I just noticed something.. this early version of WOF the contestant has 15 seconds to solve the puzzle...today's version of the show the contestant has 10 seconds my have things changed
Poor Monique (player in yellow space) posted this episode originally and it got canned. Sony needs to stop doing that to people sharing their episodes from when they were on!
This was a little more than two weeks after "Changing Keys" became the theme music of the show.
This was 6 days before I was born 41 years ago ❤
My 13th birthday. I remembered the change of music at the time.
Daytime Wheel NBC Studios Burbank California 1983 back when Merv Griffin was captain of this ship and the show was done right!!!😃👍💯
And don't forget Nancy Jones, the show's then-producer (until she was forced out come the spring of '95 thanks to Sony's meddling)
@@jimmyboyzableNancy kept the show archaic and gave us the worst category in Wheel of fortune's history, Megaword.
@@JohnathanWilliamson849 In what way was the show archaic? I'll agree, Megaword was megabad.
@@TR47 She was the main reason why Wheel continued to use the hand-turned puzzleboard until the late 90s despite the fact that computers and monitors were faster and would help get rid of the stop down period.
@@JohnathanWilliamson849 I preferred the old trilon board personally. The same argument could be used for how long TPIR stayed the same format, because it was part of the show's formula that made it successful.
I believe this may be the episode after the debut of the 2nd theme, "Changing' Keys," by Merv Griffin, which recently returned to the show, albeit in a different arrangement. This was shortly before the syndicated version was launched. Knowing Merv, the change in theme music was possibly done to keep from paying Alan "Jason Seavers" Thicke double the royalties with the launch of the syndicated show.
That's exactly it Merv had plenty of his own music, having full control over its use and saving money. It also served as a new direction theme as Chuck, and later Susan, had left the show.
I was always under the impression that Changing Keys was introduced with the new syndicated version of the show. I didn't know that there is a small amount of daytime shows that predate the syndicated show but have the Merv Griffin music instead of the the Alan Thicke music. Very rare! Very interesting!
25:01 -- LOL Pat accidentally calls Vanna "Susan," who turned the letters before Vanna did.
Wow - that's another gem. This was a daytime episode filmed in the first few weeks with the Merv Griffin theme. The syndicated nighttime version hadn't started airing yet! It's a rare moment in Wheel history!
Thanks for the bookmark 🔖
Pat wore that same suit a month later on the nighttime wheel
August 23rd 1983 wow my 10th birthday now I'm 50 😂😂😂
I was born on October 6, 1983
This was the daytime edition of Wheel because $750 being the top value in R1
Remember, for about the first 3 episodes of the nightime show, the top dollar value on the wheel for the 1st round was $750, before they added the $1,000 space.
@@anthonysicurella6714 spwash1000 is right, this is the daytime version's third round top dollar amount was $2000. That makes this episode right at the transition into the new theme before nighttime started in mid-September 1983.
Very young Pat Sajak and vanna white the year I was born.
I like this version of Hangman
21:00 There's nothing else in that showcase I want. I'd get two stereos haha
Got hit by bankrupt 6 tunes
I just noticed something.. this early version of WOF the contestant has 15 seconds to solve the puzzle...today's version of the show the contestant has 10 seconds my have things changed
That changed when RSTLNE became automatic, and you added three consonants and a vowel in 1988. That brought the time down from 15 to 10 seconds.
Take me out to the Ball ⚽️ Game
Fred needed to buy vowels
Lots and lots of bankrupts!!!!!!
Do you have The 12/5/83 episode where Johnny Gilbert fills in for Jack Clark on the Daytime version