In the wee hours of the morning on October 26, , Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner lets an easy ground ball dribble between his legs and roll down the right-field line. It was just a routine fielding error, but it was a disaster for the Boston Red Sox: It was the 10th inning On October 26, , President George W.
Bush signs the Patriot Act, an anti-terrorism law drawn up in response to the attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center on September 11, Sign up now to learn about This Day in History straight from your inbox. Born in the late s, Anderson grew up in Missouri and moved to Kansas in the late s. On October 26, , King George III speaks before both houses of the British Parliament to discuss growing concern about the rebellion in America, which he viewed as a traitorous action against himself and Great Britain.
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This Day In History. History Vault. Sajak's co-host is Vanna White , who has been the hostess of the game show since Since her debut on Wheel Of Fortune, White has appeared in more than 7, episodes of the famous game show. Jim Thornton became the voice of Wheel Of Fortune when he joined the game show as the announcer in She was also a contestant on an episode of Wheel of Fortune that aired on Tuesday, April 27, She then went on to become the first person to win a house in the bonus round.
Both the daytime and nighttime sets were used, with the appropriate music for Vanna's entrance depending on the set. The most promising candidate was Tim Brando of ESPN, who auditioned in August and reportedly did so well that Merv said he "could host the show tomorrow".
The cable network supported Brando, believing that it would increase awareness of ESPN and its programming. While Tim remained a possibility through at least mid-November, this was not to be Los Angeles around November , Griffin noticed guest Rolf Benirschke , a former San Diego Chargers placekicker, discussing healthy habits; Merv quickly sensed that Rolf was a genuine, sincere person who loved people, and asked him to audition for Wheel after doing one for Merv's newest creation Winfall.
Merv then selected him for Wheel following a decent audition according to a UPI article from May 28, , Twibell was the 2 choice. January 9, was Pat's last episode, and Rolf's debut taped December 14, aired the next day. It was early in this period that the staff had finally had enough of Kelly, who often required several retakes for prize copy. At the same time, The Newlywed Game and The Dating Game were winding down their runs, and the announcer they shared became available for Wheel ; Kelly's last episode aired February 17, and he was replaced on the 20th by the aforementioned announcer — Charlie O'Donnell.
While Rolf had visibly improved by the end of June and had been told that Merv wanted to retain him as host, CBS had other ideas Because there's lots of cash and some fabulous prizes just waiting to be won on Wheel of Fortune! While it was not yet known just who the host was going to be on CBS, a TV Guide ad at the beginning of July made it clear that it was not going to be Rolf. Now using a scaled-down version of the nighttime format, almost everything was overhauled, generally for the better.
In a sign that the show was flailing, several play-by-phone contests were held in an attempt to boost ratings; none worked.
Wheel as well as Classic Concentration continued to skew older, and as a result advertisers were not particularly stumbling over one another to buy commercial space. The daytime Wheel ended on August 30 after 4, episodes, although repeats aired through September The genre as a whole at least on a network scale continued to slide downward until January , when Caesars Challenge was taken off the air and left Price as the only daytime network game for nearly 16 years, when the Wayne Brady revival of Let's Make a Deal debuted on CBS in October The syndicated Wheel , which had a larger prize budget but identical gameplay, was a source of scorn when it was first announced as Merv had been trying to pitch a nighttime version off and on since with little progress: Syndicast failed in , and 20th Century-Fox purchased the syndication rights in to no avail.
While this effort had gotten off the ground, it was not without its long road:. Five stations signed on for the season prior to NATPE , with another 12 signing up there. One major obstacle was that Wheel was being aimed at the prime access hour or PM depending on the region , where game shows had been pushed out in favor of programs like The People's Court , PM Magazine , and Entertainment Tonight.
The other major obstacle was Family Feud , which had been ruling the syndication market since the late s and had only strengthened when it went daily in September The fact that King World was going on with the show commencing taping on July 6, with Jeff, Leslie, and Linda as the first three players despite these hurdles came across as being suicidal.
As predicted, Wheel was not an out-of-the-box success While the nighttime version still managed to beat dozens of other syndicated entries early in the season including Jeopardy! Changes in the air The two versions of Wheel remained virtually similar until October 5, , when nighttime removed the iconic shopping rounds for an experimental four-week "Big Month of Cash" that seamlessly became permanent although at the beginning of November, it became the "Big Bonanza of Cash" until February or March Clark left this version as well in May , and was replaced by M.
But throughout this time, the show marched at the top of the syndication heap, with Merv and Nancy remaining in command as they had since under the watchful eyes of Sony Pictures Television A new regime, for better or worse Nancy was dismissed in June , as Sony felt Wheel was becoming tired and dated under her watch and that it needed to be taken in a different direction; she was quickly replaced by Harry Friedman , who is known to have been present for at least the last week of Season At the time Friedman took over, one of the first things he noticed was the manual, trilon-based puzzle board and how a half-hour episode would take an hour to produce due to the board being taken offstage to unload the solved puzzle, load the next puzzle, and bring it back in.
His solution did not appear until February 24, namely, a puzzle board which swapped the 52 trilons for 52 monitors. In September , Merv promoted Harry to co-executive producer, and retired at the end of the season per a deal he had signed in July — namely, to remain executive producer of Wheel and Jeopardy!
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