I was in kindergarten when this episode aired. I lived in Deposit, New York for nearly a year at the time attended BOCES Masonville watching this on WBNG Ch 12 Binghamton. My father lived in Sayreville, New Jersey at the time watching Wheel on this station.
The NYC Big 3 stations were loaded with the top game shows in Prime Access. WCBS Channel 2 had Win, Lose, or Draw and Wheel of Fortune. WNBC Channel 4 would premiere Ray Combs Family Feud on this day albeit 2 weeks late due to the Summer Olympics at 7:30pm. And WABC Channel 7 with Jeopardy! at 7pm which is where the majority of viewers were and the reason for the “This is what you missed” ad at 10:42. WABC would have had 2 game shows but they ditched Hollywood Squares for Entertainment Tonight the month prior.
One of the 1st episodes of that new season, where the host gives out 5 consonants + 1 vowel, before a contestant would give out 3 additional consonants + 1 additional vowel.
I think that was a favorite of many contestants and got chosen too much. Therefore, the names of prizes got hidden in envelopes in the season following this one.
This started sometime in around mid 1997 or so, like after the electronic puzzleboard debuted. Even then it wasn't consistent at first because there were a few times in Season 15 where final spins landing on penalty spaces were still intact.
h@@PGTransformed Most of NBC's game shows back in the 70's and 80's had their audience canned. I guess you could see and audience at times, but the majority of the time the audience was canned.
They probably were, even though the 90s and early 2000s .. for no reason the audience didn’t seem to care much for the game in the later 2000s, the entire 2010s and 2020s, and to this day still isn’t into the game
@@PGTransformed I didn’t know the audience was canned back then. It sounds so real to me, that I didn’t even think it was canned. Now the audience today definitely sounds canned to my ears.
Yep. WCBS-TV Channel 2 carried WOF from 1983-90. Then by the start of the 1990-91 season, it moved to WABC-TV at its 7:30pm time slot, where it remains to this very day.
@@drummingdanny84 WNBC had the daytime version in its near entirety from 1975-89, then WCBS-TV for 1 1/2 season (July 1989-January 1991) before moving back to the former for its final eight month daytime run.
@@defoedude I think someone may have aired them out of order. I distinctly remember this airing right after the last pre-RSTLNE episode on GSN. Unless they were the ones who aired them wrong.
@@TenPoundHammer this was the first TAPED show with RSTLNE but Wheel did not air them in order! I have a plug on Chris that had THE VATICAN bonus round from RSTLNE Premiere Week and it aired 10/3/88
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Blast from the past! I had a great time and was lucky enough to be the big winner!
That was you, huh? Nice win.
This brings back a lot of memories of the classic Wheel of Fortune
34 years ago tonight, introducing RSTLNE in the final puzzle, and it's been that way since. Mon 10/3/2022.
this aired on my 7th birthday, now i'm 41.
...and when was the shopping era officially over?
I was in kindergarten when this episode aired. I lived in Deposit, New York for nearly a year at the time attended BOCES Masonville watching this on WBNG Ch 12 Binghamton. My father lived in Sayreville, New Jersey at the time watching Wheel on this station.
At 22:22, Pat's the only one who hits a BANKRUPT the entire game!
Today, whenever he lands on a BANKRUPT(or LOSE A TURN), they always edit it out!
I agree, wish they wouldn’t cut that out. Used to always crack me up when he would hit Bankrupt and crack a joke about it.
The NYC Big 3 stations were loaded with the top game shows in Prime Access. WCBS Channel 2 had Win, Lose, or Draw and Wheel of Fortune. WNBC Channel 4 would premiere Ray Combs Family Feud on this day albeit 2 weeks late due to the Summer Olympics at 7:30pm. And WABC Channel 7 with Jeopardy! at 7pm which is where the majority of viewers were and the reason for the “This is what you missed” ad at 10:42. WABC would have had 2 game shows but they ditched Hollywood Squares for Entertainment Tonight the month prior.
I was born 2 days before this program aired.
this aired on my 7th birthday!
One of the 1st episodes of that new season, where the host gives out 5 consonants + 1 vowel, before a contestant would give out 3 additional consonants + 1 additional vowel.
I’ve been to Short Hills Mall a few times! I wonder if The Fur Vault is still in business...
Dunno.
24:02, My Favorite Bonus Round Prize
I think that was a favorite of many contestants and got chosen too much. Therefore, the names of prizes got hidden in envelopes in the season following this one.
2:25 - “WHEEL... OF... FORTUNE!”
and 26:36 the first instance of the automatic R,S,T,L, N & E
Features an on-air instance of Pat landing on BANKRUPT in the Final Spin, which is edited out nowadays.
Malek Masoud yeah I mean what’s up with that?
Probably do it to save time, now that you basically have as many commercials as you do game play (OK, maybe it's about 2:1, but still...)
This started sometime in around mid 1997 or so, like after the electronic puzzleboard debuted. Even then it wasn't consistent at first because there were a few times in Season 15 where final spins landing on penalty spaces were still intact.
Seems to me the audience was a lot more into the game back in the day.
The canned applause machine at NBC Studios in Burbank, where this episode was taped made it seem that way!
h@@PGTransformed Most of NBC's game shows back in the 70's and 80's had their audience canned. I guess you could see and audience at times, but the majority of the time the audience was canned.
They probably were, even though the 90s and early 2000s .. for no reason the audience didn’t seem to care much for the game in the later 2000s, the entire 2010s and 2020s, and to this day still isn’t into the game
@@wns808 And that's where the canned audience comes in.
@@PGTransformed I didn’t know the audience was canned back then. It sounds so real to me, that I didn’t even think it was canned. Now the audience today definitely sounds canned to my ears.
27:19 The Bonus Puzzle solution was reused on December 13, 2002.
24:11 - Vanna White in a Spring Air mattress commercial
And the company still exists. Same logo.
5:05, I Have Always Wondered... Why Must the Contestants Always Spin the Wheel in a Clockwise Manner?
This _Wheel_ ain't bad; but *WHERE DA TOSS UPS AT?*
2:22 Wait, nighttime Wheel used to be syndicated on a different channel here in NYC before WABC?!
On TWO channels: WNBC and WCBS.
In 1990 it came to WABC
Yep. WCBS-TV Channel 2 carried WOF from 1983-90. Then by the start of the 1990-91 season, it moved to WABC-TV at its 7:30pm time slot, where it remains to this very day.
@@drummingdanny84 WNBC had the daytime version in its near entirety from 1975-89, then WCBS-TV for 1 1/2 season (July 1989-January 1991) before moving back to the former for its final eight month daytime run.
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23:49 Sheldon the ceramic dalmatian sitting in one of the dining chairs
Amy's glasses are huge, like most of them were in the 80s.
10:34 California
That's Amy from the Dead files?
10/3/1988 airdate, this bonus round with RNSTLE given at the outset debuted on that date.
Zach Horan this is 10/5/88. Gordon on this show has a plug in Albany Times Union confirming the air date
@@defoedude I think someone may have aired them out of order. I distinctly remember this airing right after the last pre-RSTLNE episode on GSN. Unless they were the ones who aired them wrong.
@@TenPoundHammer this was the first TAPED show with RSTLNE but Wheel did not air them in order! I have a plug on Chris that had THE VATICAN bonus round from RSTLNE Premiere Week and it aired 10/3/88
@@defoedude I thought THE VATICAN was the bonus puzzle on Rolf's first episode.
Great show of Discovery paranormal
@11:09, I wonder when WOF moved from CBS to ABC to pair up w. Jeopardy!.
26:23
Amy is in her 50s or 60s now, whether she is or not. She would not have liked a 18 year old game show nerd in 1988, that we know.
5:15 old puzzle chime
Episode #996
Is Amy married now?