[quote name=\'trainman\' post=\'235224\' date=\'Jan 31 2010, 12:27 AM\'][quote name=\'wheelloon\' post=\'235218\' date=\'Jan 30 2010, 08:30 PM\']Now, as many of us might now, Jeopardy was cancelled basically to make way for Wheel (a short summary, I know the long unedited version). I would have to guess that then the Jeopardy they are talking about on that listing is a Fleming rerun? I never knew this was done after it was cancelled, if such was true. Did a lot of the NBC affiliates do this? What episodes/seasons did they pick from to show?[/quote]
Not a rerun. "Jeopardy!" was airing at 1:30 P.M. at the end, which means Channel 13 must have been showing it on a one-day delay to have it on at 9:00 A.M. So that would have been "last Friday's" episode, the finale. (Looks like the changes to NBC's daytime lineup also affected Channel 4 at 9:30. "To Be Announced" in a Monday daytime slot like that is a dead giveaway that something happened to a show they had on a one-day delay, and they hadn't figured out what they were going to do before TV Guide went to press. Might have even been "Jeopardy!" that they'd been airing at 9:30.)
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It was "Celebrity Sweepstakes" that Channel 4 normally ran at 9:30, one-weekday delayed from 12:30pm where they ran a newscast. With CSweeps moving to 10, they probably didn't want to show two episodes of the same series back to back. (It was a different world back then.) "Blank Check" started the next day at 9:30am.