Fleming J! answer....err, question.

[Jimmy Owen]

Did Art preface answer reveals with "The answer is....."?

[Dbacksfan12]

[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Jan 9 2004, 12:35 PM\'] Did Art preface answer reveals with "The answer is....."? [/quote]
 In the one episode that I have taped, he did.

[Matt Ottinger]

[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Jan 9 2004, 01:35 PM\'] Did Art preface answer reveals with "The answer is....."? [/quote]
 Enough to make it a redundant catch phrase, though not 100% of the time.  And he almost always said SOMETHING before the clue was revealed, unlike today's version.

[BrandonFG]

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' date=\'Jan 9 2004, 01:00 PM\'] [quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Jan 9 2004, 01:35 PM\'] Did Art preface answer reveals with "The answer is....."? [/quote]
Enough to make it a redundant catch phrase, though not 100% of the time.  And he almost always said SOMETHING before the clue was revealed, unlike today's version. [/quote]
 Did he do impersonations as frequently as Alex does his?

[DrBear]

Art usually said something, but remember, the answers were usually shorter on Art's board than on Alex's.

[uncamark]

[quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Jan 9 2004, 01:12 PM\'][quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' date=\'Jan 9 2004, 01:00 PM\'] [quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Jan 9 2004, 01:35 PM\'] Did Art preface answer reveals with "The answer is....."? [/quote]
Enough to make it a redundant catch phrase, though not 100% of the time.  And he almost always said SOMETHING before the clue was revealed, unlike today's version. [/quote]
Did he do impersonations as frequently as Alex does his?[/quote]
No impersonations--but the occasional jokes about Don Pardo's liquor capacity (especially during Potent Potables) and producer Bob Rubin's cheapness.  Of course, Art was too nice a guy for the wisecracks to really sting.  On the other hand, when Trebek's wise-cracking to the crowd during breaks in taping, you aren't really sure...

[byrd62]

[quote name=\'Dsmith\' date=\'Jan 9 2004, 01:00 PM\'][quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Jan 9 2004, 12:35 PM\'] Did Art preface answer reveals with "The answer is....."? [/quote]
In the one episode that I have taped, he did.[/quote]
In the old cardboard days of J!, Art's saying, "The answer is..." was basically a cue for the stagehands to lift the dollar-value [or other] card to reveal the answer.

Legend has it that on one of those episodes, after Art would say, "The answer is..", a blank card was revealed instead, prompting Art to make a crack about the stagehands having "a keg of beer and a good time."

[gameshowguy2000]

So, once the correct question was said, did they cover up that clue with a blank card to show that that particular clue was used up?

[calliaume]

[quote name=\'gameshowguy2000\' date=\'Jan 9 2004, 05:47 PM\'] So, once the correct question was said, did they cover up that clue with a blank card to show that that particular clue was used up? [/quote]
 Yes, which was no doubt a help to both the contestants and the stagehands.

And Matt's right -- "The answer is..." was far more of a catch phrase on the original version, and obviously used to cue the stagehands (who likely had to work darn fast).

Another original Jeopardy! fact:  contestants followed their scores by looking at an off-camera chalk board.  Bob Rubin wouldn't let them see a monitor showing what was on camera; he felt it would distract them from the game.

(I read this somewhere when the original show was still airing and it stuck.)

[Matt Ottinger]

[quote name=\'calliaume\' date=\'Jan 9 2004, 07:05 PM\'] [quote name=\'gameshowguy2000\' date=\'Jan 9 2004, 05:47 PM\'] So, once the correct question was said, did they cover up that clue with a blank card to show that that particular clue was used up? [/quote]
Yes, which was no doubt a help to both the contestants and the stagehands. [/quote]
 I believe it would be more accurate to say that they simply removed the clue card, exposing the blank background underneath.

[Ian Wallis]

I wonder how many times they exposed the wrong card on the original version?  I know it happened once on "Jeopardy" 1978's premiere, and I vaguely remember it happening a few times on the original, but since so few episodes are around it didn't happen on any of those ones.