[quote name=\'JRaygor\' date=\'Apr 12 2004, 10:47 PM\'] According to the final episode in January 1975, Art Fleming mentiones a "Nighttime Version" of Jeopardy!
I know no episodes exist of this, but does anybody know if the show used a diffrent format/score structure ? [/quote]
The only two differences from the Fleming daytime version I can think of (other than the fact that there were no returning champions) are:
1. There was a bonus prize (at first a car; later, a trip to London with vacation package that include theatre tickets) for the first person to sweep a column;
2. At first, the winner played "the Jeopardy Jackpot Board" - there were 30 spaces on a board, each containing a prize (the only prizes I remember being won were a car - at least one contestant won two cars on the same show - and a trip to Rome); two contained half of $25,000, and if you found one half, you got another selection. Eventually, somebody must have realized the chance of winning $25,000 this way was 1 in 435, so they switched to the "Championship Stakes board", where the player's prize was based on how well they did. At first, anything less than $1000 won a compact car (Chevrolet Vega); $1000-$1499 won a larger car (Chevrolet Caprice); $1500-$1999 won $10,000; $2000 or more won $25,000. In the second season, you needed $2000 for the $10,000 and $2500 for the $25,000.
I remember Art mentioning in the first season that the players were winners from the daytime version, but I can't remember if this applied in the second season or not. Also, the podiums were slightly different; instead of the names being on the buzz-in lights the entire time, they were in front of the players where the Final Jeopardy bets would be, and during Final Jeopardy, the "asterisk" boards covering the bets were replaced with something else (three dollar signs on each, I think), with the names back over the buzz-in lights.
One other thing: unlike the daytime version, nobody won the amounts actually won during the game (the winner got the appropriate prize; the other two players received consolation prizes, sort of like what is done in the Trebek version, except I think both losers got the same prize).
-- Don
