[quote name=\'Mike Tennant\' date=\'Feb 29 2004, 07:00 PM\']And to add to that: How 'bout a time when a half-hour game show taped in a half-hour, period (except for extraordinary circumstances), so that all flubs, tie games, etc., were seen at home?[/quote]
I will say that there were some of the around 15 "J!" eps I've seen taped--all on locations away from Culver City--where everything ended in a half-hour without any problems. Until they had a check a response or correct an error--that's the only thing that stops tape other than technical problems on that show. And I'm pretty sure that Friedman & Co. intend that any five shows they tape in a day go without a hitch--but when they have to check something, especially in events like tournaments...
(I'm sure the same things happened during the Art Fleming days, but they also had two more commercial breaks than the current version--three if you count the Encyclopedia International plug and "we'll return to Art Fleming and the Double Jeopardy! portion of our game after this message" as a segment).
