Season 35 Saturday Reruns

And naturally, they just chose another $100K loss episode to re-air... That makes five for this year's rotation counting the millions.

Because of the power outage in New York City, Wheel suffered some problems when last night's rerun aired on WABC.

First, breaking news pre-empted the second half of Round 1, then signed off just before Wheel returned for Round 2.

On the first turn of Round 2, the footage glitched and ended up "disjointed" for most of the show, with the bottom ~25% of the footage at the top of the screen, resulting in the category strip being above the puzzle instead of below it (reminiscent of some of GameTek's Wheel video games). This also happened with the commercials. The closed captioning track was frozen for the rest of the segment on "Plus you have $1,000."

The footage was corrected just before Les' category choices were presented, and the rest of the show was fine. Subsequent show Shark Tank also had a breaking news pre-emption just one minute in, which glitched out after just three minutes on air, switching back to Shark Tank for several more minutes until WABC broke in again, and would end up covering the blackout for the rest of the evening.

Here's footage of the Wheel ordeal, plus the Shark Tank interruptions recorded by another YouTuber.

Thanks to KLAS Las Vegas which is airing Wheel six hours early today due to an NFL game, tonight is indeed a third airing of Sharla/Nirali/Rico. This is the third known time an episode got two Saturday reruns, and the first time since the Season 32 rotation.





And another double-rerunner will finish off S35 with an episode of Best Friends Week, which was part of the 2018 Summer reruns.

^ We have no idea why they choose the episodes they choose. It's possible they forgot they already chose this one. There was one instance earlier this season where an episode was listed as airing as a Saturday rerun twice, but the second time was actually a different episode from the same week.

Given that the show did a follow-up segment on Nirali and her encounter with Pat, Vanna, and the crew at Aulani while she was on the trip she won, I was half-expecting them to add in that segment tonight since they do sometimes "update" the reruns, but they did not.

So, out of Season 35's 195 episodes, 80 episodes did not air more than once, while 115 aired at least twice. I might be wrong about this, so correct me if I am wrong.

Some simple math:

195 episodes that will air at least once.

13 Weeks of Summer Reruns= 65 previous episodes that will air again

Saturday Reruns= 52 episodes, usually not from Summer Reruns, that will air again

If no episode is rerun twice, that means 117 episodes get aired at least twice, while 78 only get aired once.

- acwof

To piggyback on this, if you appear on the show on a general non-Secret Santa episode, you have about a 63% chance of your episode rerunning at some point (117/185), although your chances are slimmer if you're on a holiday week like Halloween, Christmas, Thanksgiving, or Mother's Day, or autumn-themed weeks like Fall Foliage, as those episodes typically only rerun from September-November, and winter-themed weeks including Leave Winter Behind usually only appear in reruns from November-March.

If you weren't on Secret Santa and your episode wasn't part of the summer reruns, you have roughly a 43% chance of getting a Saturday rerun the following season [52 weekends / (195 - 65 summer reruns - 10 Secret Santas = 120 episodes left)]