Host Nicky Campbell puts everyone in a spin! Three contestants heave a giant wheel about in the hope of getting money, prizes, a car and immortality...Well.
+HarlemHyena Yes, there were a lot of tiles for Smillie to flip over in this episode. She beat 5,000 people to get the job as Wheel of Fortune assistant.
Even though I still like watching the American show, this one seems pretty
good.
Wheel of Fortune originally started airing in the US in January 1975 in
daytime on NBC. Its original host was Chuck Woolery, and the letter turner
was Susan Stafford. It would have decent ratings (although it very narrowly
escaped cancellation in 1980). Woolery was let go on Christmas 1981, and
was replaced the following Monday by Los Angeles meteorologist Pat Sajak.
Stafford decided to leave the show later in 1982, and was replaced by Vanna
White. A nighttime syndicated show debuted in September 1983, which
continues to air to this very day. As for the daytime show, Sajak would
leave that in January 1989, and would be replaced there by former NFL
football player Rolf Benirschke. By the end of June of that year, NBC
finally cancelled the daytime show. By the middle of July, it re-debuted on
CBS with a new host, Bob Goen. It would move back to NBC in January 1991,
before being cancelled for good by September of that year.
Halloween as an anniversary? With an apostrophe? That was my first guess,
but then I realized that it wouldn't have fit. I guess it's different in
the UK.