Wheel of Fortune timeline (syndicated)/Season 17 Go back to Season 16, or forward to Season 18? A timeline for Season 17 of Wheel of Fortune, which aired in first-run from September 6, 1999 through June 2, 2000. Welcome to the Wheel 2000 video gallery! Here you can find great memories of America's Game, kids style! You'll see great memories full of great puzzle solves and contestants winning cool prizes! So, take a spin in this gallery and enjoy the memories! Add a photo to this gallery.
Published in 2000 by Hasbro Interactive, Inc., Wheel of Fortune: 2nd Edition is still a popular licensed title title amongst retrogamers, with a whopping 5/5 rating. WHEEL OF FORTUNE FREE PLAY FEATURES Word Games written by the Producers! - Guess on thousands of brand-new official word puzzles from the producers of the hit TV show! - TV show host Pat Sajak guides you on a word game journey around the world, from New York and Paris to Tokyo and Hollywood - New word games are added all the time.
'Wheel of Fortune' contestants may be on a game show, but Pat Sajak is not playing around.
Fans of the show fixated on a stern look Sajak gave contestant Greg Wylie on Wednesday's episode after a playful conversation about Wylie's fencing hobby.
'It’s more Renaissance outfits and we do competitive fencing tournaments, you can do multiple players on the field,” Wylie said. 'So basically I go out on the weekend and stab my friends. So it’s very cathartic.'
© USAT 3/17/2005 --- Pat Sajak /Advice From the Top ---CULVER CITY, CA: Game show host Pat Sajak s investing money in the Golden Baseball League an independent professional baseball league. Photographed on the set of 'Wheel of Fortune' at Sony Studios in Culver City, CA. To the average person, who has seen the XFL and other pro sports leagues go under, it looks like Sajak has money to burn. He talks about why this is a good venture capital investment, and what separates risky money from plain stupid money. Photo by Robert Hanashiro, USA TODAY staff (Via MerlinFTP Drop)Sajak then changed the subject to talk about Wylie's wife of 14 years and their two daughters, 14 and 12 the latter of which who is 'basically a teenager now.'
'Well just stay on guard,” Sajak joked. “Fencing humor there.'
As Sajak was turning to a commercial break, Wylie jumped in and said 'I got the point.' The contestant's joke led Sajak to turn away from the camera and back to Wylie.
We learn something new on Wheel of Fortune every day! Have you ever heard of this sport, Wheel Watchers? 🤔😄 @ABC7#WheelOfFortunepic.twitter.com/vvpHRtkyqp
— Wheel of Fortune (@WheelofFortune) December 3, 2020Sajak's glare became the star of the show with many chiming in on Twitter about how his look had them 'floored.'
'@patsajak and @WheelofFortune that was the most amazing #bout I have ever seen!!! Couldn’t stop laughing,' tweeted @sarahdaly1177.
@patsajak the fencing guy was killing me. It was so funny.
— Dean (@gdf1811) December 3, 2020'I’m so glad someone captured this because I was laughing so hard,' tweeted @shleppy67.
'Pat about to lose it on this guy, again,' wrote @shleppy67 who was likely referring to Sajak's encounter with another contestant the week prior.
On a Nov. 25 episode of 'Wheel of Fortune,' Sajak jokingly went off on a contestant calling him 'ungrateful' and later apologized for doing so.
The moment happened when Darin McBain guessed the word 'kitchen oven' correctly but was confused by the term.
'Kitchen oven? What was that?' McBain said. 'Who calls it a kitchen oven?'
'You won, don't argue, Darin! You got the puzzle,' Sajak said. 'Ungrateful players, I've had it!'
Sajak later apologized to McBain saying: 'I'm sorry I yelled at you, Darin. I just don't remember your mother giving us trouble like you did.'
According to Yahoo! and Good Housekeeping, McBain's mother was a contestant on the game show in 1982.
Oh my @patsajak almost lost it on this dude #WheelOfFortunepic.twitter.com/jrfzYUHGqy
— Peter Bojarinov (@russian98) November 26, 2020More: COVID-19 shutdown: What's going on with 'Bachelorette,' 'Ninja,' 'Big Brother,' other summer favorites?
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: 'Wheel of Fortune' fans 'floored,' left laughing at Pat Sajak's stern exchange with contestant
| Wheel 2000 | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Game show |
| Created by | Scott Sternberg |
| Based on | Wheel of Fortune created by Merv Griffin |
| Directed by | James Marcione[1] |
| Presented by | David Sidoni |
| Voices of | Tanika Ray |
| Theme music composer | Dan Sawyer[1] |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 24 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Scott Sternberg[1] |
| Production locations | Sony Pictures Studios, Culver City, California |
| Running time | approx. 22–26 minutes |
| Production companies | Scott Sternberg Productions Columbia TriStar Television |
| Distributor | Sony Pictures Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBS Game Show Network |
| Original release | September 13, 1997 – February 7, 1998 |
Wheel 2000 (also known as Wheel of Fortune 2000) is a children's version of the American game show Wheel of Fortune (and the last version of Wheel of any sort to air on Daytime television). The show was created by Scott Sternberg and was hosted by David Sidoni, with Tanika Ray providing voice work and motion capture for a virtual reality hostess named 'Cyber Lucy'.[2] The show premiered on September 13, 1997 on CBS, aired as part of the network's attempt to meet the then-new E/I mandates during its Saturday morning block, and ran through February 7, 1998 with repeats continuing through September 26. Game Show Network broadcast Wheel 2000's episodes concurrently with their airings on CBS. It was taped at Sony Pictures Studios.
Gameplay[edit]
The gameplay of Wheel 2000 was very similar to that of Wheel of Fortune, except children aged 10–15 competed for points and prizes instead of cash with the eventual winner playing for a grand prize in the bonus round. Round categories were chosen by the contestants from a possible three; the names of the categories were updated to reflect the younger contestants ('Place', for example, became 'Globetrotter'). New categories replaced those chosen in each round. In Round 1, the coin toss winner/the red contestant would choose, Round 2, the yellow contestant, Round 3, the blue contestant and so on. The first contestant to solve the puzzle got to keep all the points he/she earned in that round and won a prize; if the player who solved the puzzle scored 200 or less, however, his/her score got bumped up to 500 points. At the end of each round, hostess Lucy or a celebrity talked about the solved puzzle or something associated to it.
On a Speed-Up Round; if time has run out in the middle of a round, a factory whistle would sound and the game shifted into a Speed-Up round, which was played the same way as the grown-up show. The host David will start off by giving the wheel a final spin, then he will ask the contestants to call a letter and he/she got five seconds to solve the puzzle. Vowels are worth nothing and consonants are worth a number of points landed on. The eventual top winner advancing to the Bonus Round.
In case of a tie for first place that happens after the speed-up round, a tie-breaking puzzle (also known as a second speed-up round) will be in play between the tied contestants which will decide the winner. The first contestant who solves the tie-breaking puzzle wins and advances to the bonus round. Presumably, due to the game being played for points, the Wheel is not spun and consonants are worth 5,000 points. After each round, Cyber Lucy (or a celebrity; most featured were the child actors on The Nanny, a fellow Columbia-TriStar produced series also airing on CBS) presented a short video clip related to the solved puzzle. Vowels cost 250 points.[1] Games were typically played to three rounds, with top point values of 1,000 for Round 1, 2,000 for Round 2, and 5,000 for Round 3.[1]
The wheel featured a special wedge on which a contestant could choose to play a pre-determined stunt to earn up to three extra letters (first round only; the spaces were otherwise giant 250-point spaces).[1] There was also a 'WWW.WHEEL2000.COM'[3] wedge, which allowed a home viewer who had previously registered on the site to win Wheel 2000 merchandise if a contestant hit the wedge and called a consonant that appeared in the puzzle. The Lose a Turn wedge was named the 'Loser' spot which Sidoni & Lucy simply gives the player 'The Big 'L' with their arms or hands and need to skip his/her turn. In place of the Bankrupt wedge was 'The Creature', which, if the contestant landed on that wedge, would prompt the wheel to rise, belch smoke, and cause an unseen creature to 'eat' the contestant's points. If the player hit that space with no points, the player got 'eaten' instead until their next turn.[4] Other special wedges included Double Up, which awarded double its value per letter if a contestant correctly answered a trivia question, and a Prize Box, which functioned identically to the special prize wedges on the adult version, except contestants were allowed to keep the prize whether they solved the puzzle or not and the value was not added to their score.[1]
Cyber Lucy would tell the contestants whether or not letters were in the puzzle instead of Sidoni, and whether or not they solved the puzzle.The bonus round was played almost identically to the adult version, including the adult categories, except that prizes were determined by selecting from two envelopes labeled 'A' or 'B' instead of the five choices in the adult version at the time.[1] Unlike the adult version, the prize was not revealed if the bonus round puzzle was not solved.
12-city tour[edit]
In early 1998, Wheel 2000 made a 12-city tour, appearing in shopping malls around the country. The Discover-branded tour, coordinated by the Chicago office of New Jersey-based promotion agency DVC Group, also featured Sidoni as host, with Ray as Lucy joining him again. The tour visited a variety of major market cities: Chicago, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Washington D.C., New York City, Charlotte, Dallas, Denver, Salt Lake City, Seattle, San Jose, and Anaheim. Winners from each market were invited to appear as contestants on the program in a grand finale.[5]
International versions[edit]
| Country | Local Name | Host | Network | Year Aired |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | Kinder-Glücksrad | Petra Hausberg | Sat.1 | 1992–1993 |
| Turkey | Çark 2000 | Ataman Erkul | Kanal D | 2000 |
| Vietnam | Chiếc nón kỳ diệu 2000 | Phan Tuấn Tú | VTV3 | 2007–2009 |
Notes[edit]
Host David Sidoni now works as a real estate agent.[6]
Those who were contestants are ineligible to compete on the adult version. The show's spiritual successor, Jep! (a children's version of Jeopardy!) would adopt this principle.
External links[edit]
- Official Website at the Wayback Machine (archived December 12, 1998)
References[edit]
- ^ abcdefghSchwartz, David; Ryan, Steve; Wostbrock, Fred (1999). The Encyclopedia of TV Game Shows (3 ed.). Facts on File, Inc. p. 252. ISBN0-8160-3846-5.
- ^Dawson, Diana (1997-09-07). 'Popular game show takes kids for a spin'. Austin American Statesman. Retrieved 2019-04-03.
- ^'Official Website of Wheel 2000 (courtesy of Wayback Archive)'. Archived from the original on December 12, 1998. Retrieved April 21, 2016.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
- ^'Series Premiere'. Wheel of Fortune 2000. September 13, 1997. CBS; Game Show Network.
- ^Williams, Jeffrey. 'Game Youths Can Try Luck at Wheel in Traveling Show at Navy Pier'.
- ^'Behind Scene Journey of Newsies Screen to Broadway and Possible Pulitzer'. Lode Plus. Retrieved 2019-04-03.