Author Topic: Trying to Pinpoint a WoF Airing Year (Read 1479 times)

Dbacksfan12 · « **on:** September 09, 2008, 04:12:41 PM »

I was going through some old tapes and came across a partial ep. of Wheel. Unfortunately, the credits aren't on it...but here's what was on it:

The flashy, gold $25,000 bonus sign
The old sunbursts were the contestant backdrops
They still had the little green signs (the shopping ones) for the bonus prize values
I'm assuming it was pre-1989, because they still had the static "Wheel of Fortune" logo when the show began.

If anyone could help, it would be appreciated. Thanks!

Chelsea Thrasher · « **Reply #1 on:** September 09, 2008, 04:16:53 PM »

[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'196737\' date=\'Sep 9 2008, 04:12 PM\']
I was going through some old tapes and came across a partial ep. of Wheel. Unfortunately, the credits aren't on it...but here's what was on it:

The flashy, gold $25,000 bonus sign
The old sunbursts were the contestant backdrops
They still had the little green signs (the shopping ones) for the bonus prize values
I'm assuming it was pre-1989, because they still had the static "Wheel of Fortune" logo when the show began.

If anyone could help, it would be appreciated. Thanks!
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Who's the announcer? Since IIRC the golden $25K sign didn't appear until Fall 1988 and the Sunbursts were discontinued at the end of said 1988-89 season, by process of elimination the episode *should* be from 1988-89. Where in the season it'd be from then depends on who the announcer is.

wheelloon · « **Reply #2 on:** September 09, 2008, 04:18:18 PM »

The "new" $25,000 sign premiered in September 88. The old sunbursts were dropped at the end of the 88-89 season, same with the price tags.

So that's season 6, the one GSN reran a lot a few years back. Who was the announcer? That would pinpoint at what point that season this would be at.

EDIT: OOP, I see me and Seth jumped on this at the same time, with the same reponses too *cue Twilight Zone.* To be slightly more specific then: MG Kelly was there until early 89, and Charlie O didn't take his reigns back until *I believe, IIRC* February of 89.

rwalker · « **Reply #3 on:** September 13, 2008, 10:37:41 PM »

Run it by the gameshow46 guy on Youtube, I bet he knows. He has a boatload of WOF videos there.