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uncamark

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Wheel of Fortune's Shopping Era
« Reply #15 on: July 10, 2007, 12:33:00 PM »
[quote name=\'JohnHolder\' post=\'157087\' date=\'Jul 10 2007, 10:42 AM\']
[quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'156946\' date=\'Jul 9 2007, 09:47 AM\']
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'156945\' date=\'Jul 9 2007, 09:43 AM\']
Since Pat is within striking distance of Bob Barker's record for continuous hosting of the same game show, will 82 or 83 be used as the benchmark?  Has Pat already surpassed Barker in terms of # of shows?
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I think Alex is closer...hasn't current J! done 5000+ episodes already?  I think Wheel's only done 4800+.
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But Pat did two shows a day from September 1983, the nighttime show's premiere, to January 1989, when he left the daytime show.

Let me see if I can figure this out:

Trebek on J! since 1984: 195 shows/yr * 23 yrs = 4485, + 13 for Super Jeopardy! in summer 1990 = 4498.[/quote]

195 a year only for the first two years (?).  It's been 230 a year since then.  They still only do six weeks of reruns a year (generally repeats of the sweeps tourneys).

MrBuddwing

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Wheel of Fortune's Shopping Era
« Reply #16 on: July 10, 2007, 12:41:51 PM »
[quote name=\'JohnHolder\' post=\'156940\' date=\'Jul 9 2007, 06:57 AM\']
I don't think that many people out there remember any more that the show was ever on in daytime, or that anyone other than Pat and Vanna hosted it.[/quote]


Yes, I remember that episode of "Greed." I'm not one for reveling in the misfortunes of others (how do you spell "schadenfreude"?), but that famous bomb-out over WoF always makes me laugh (shame on me).