[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Nov 17 2005, 12:18 AM\']Oh, no, I assure you, there is no shortage of jokers around here.[/quote]
"There are more jokers on the board, and that means that the discussion is more exciting."
The part of the question that really gets me is "exactly in the form they once were". Wheel and Jeopardy! themselves are miles away, at least in appearance, from what they were 20 years ago. They've got decades of polish, seasoned hosts and crews, and so on. If Password Plus were going into its 24th syndicated season, with Tom Kennedy known to as many college students as Bob Barker, yeah, it could complete with the top shows. But that would be largely *because* it was going into its 24th season, etc.