[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' post=\'161240\' date=\'Aug 19 2007, 12:10 PM\']
While I loved the Fall Previews from the '70s and '80s (as they were pretty detailed when it came to new games), sometimes shows would be in syndication that wouldn't be listed in TVGuide. I can think of both runs of Celebrity Sweepstakes as examples. Niether was carried in my area and I never even knew about them until I got an out-of-town guide later that year.
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I just happen to have my 1983 Fall Preview sitting right by the computer, and in looking at the Syndication section, in the paragraph which starts off "For those who like to play games", it mentions Love Connection, The Pop 'n Rocker Game, and Star Search. No mention is made at all of Wheel, but then again in the fall of 1983 it started with a whimper, AFAIK. It wasn't until 1984 that it *really* started taking off. I remember it arriving on WNEP in Scranton amidst a lot of advertising around the time the Olympics started that summer, and in the fall, WHP in Harrisburg made it a part of its regular schedule. It's been their M-F 7pm show ever since (in Scranton, it moved on to WYOU a few years later and since 1992, WBRE has been the WoF/J! home).