Something that I haven\'t ever confirmed: I know I remember watching The Joker\'s Wild repeats on USA. The 3rd edition of the Game Show Encyclopedia stated these only ran through 1987. While I have a few memories of things that happened when I was two or three, I swore they ran past then.
IIRC, the Encyclopedia says it aired on USA until summer of \'87...June maybe? I\'ll confidently say it didn\'t run past 1988. I moved in with family that fall, and watched USA\'s block faithfully; TJW was nowhere to be found.
Thinking about it, while visiting my family in Dallas in the mid-90s, I found one of those generic cable guide\'s for their local system. It was from October 1987, and I\'m pretty sure TJW was off USA\'s schedule by then.
As for the OP\'s question, in addition to watching Name That Tune with my great-grandmother, she also used to watch TJW. I remembered the neon joker in the intro, but thought it was simply one (static) neon Joker, and not the blinking ring of Jokers. I also thought this Joker was white neon, not red as I found out on GSN years later. Part of me wonders if I confused said \"static\" Joker with the lights that surrounded the slot machine.