Post by mechamind on Apr 9, 2021 9:40:51 GMT -5
Airdate: October 17, 1988
Look at this studio filled with fabulous bonus prizes including:
A TravelCraft 26-foot motorhome and RV tour of Alaska!
A finely crafted gazebo!
A precision-crafted Acura Legend!
Plus thousands of dollars in cash!
Today's contestants:
Shirley Norman: Mental health trainer, providing technical assistance and consultation to care providers of the mentally disabled; from Culver City, CA
Mary Lou Gregory: High school teacher at public school (and her students like the Wheel of Fortune computer game), from Charleroi, PA
The top-dollar value on the Wheel is $1,000. We are playing for cash, and here's our first puzzle:
Doug solves IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE.
Shirley reads what's on the board to keep the gazebo.
We'll always have some extra cash around here, and you can earn it quickly with the $3,500 space.
Perfection! Doug solves HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO.
DING DING! DING DING!
Mary Lou just can't hold on for long, can she? Pat will give the Wheel a Final Spin. Consonants are worth... $700 a piece.
Mary Lou: C (DUD!)
Doug: L ($700)
Shirley: D ($700)
Mary Lou: R ($700)
Doug: G ($1,400)
Shirley: F (x2) ($2,100)
Shirley solves ON A DIFFERENT WAVELENGTH and just barely wins the game!
BONUS ROUND:
RSTLNE gives her:
HDWA doesn't do very much.
Look at this studio filled with fabulous bonus prizes including:
A TravelCraft 26-foot motorhome and RV tour of Alaska!
A finely crafted gazebo!
A precision-crafted Acura Legend!
Plus thousands of dollars in cash!
Over $208,000 just waiting to be won as we begin Wipeout Week on...
Wheel of Fortune!
During this special week, we have returning champions! If you win the main game, you get to come back the next day! You could "wipe out" all our bonus prizes by winning them...and then we'd have to go off the air.
All contestants have drawn numbers to determine the order in which they appear.
Today's contestants:
Shirley Norman: Mental health trainer, providing technical assistance and consultation to care providers of the mentally disabled; from Culver City, CA
Mary Lou Gregory: High school teacher at public school (and her students like the Wheel of Fortune computer game), from Charleroi, PA
Doug Pruitt: Manager for a retail grocery company, from Arroyo Grande, CA
"Did I mention, Doug, that this is Wipeout Week?"
The top-dollar value on the Wheel is $1,000. We are playing for cash, and here's our first puzzle:
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SHIRLEY | Mary Lou | Doug |
| $300: T (x2) $200: H -$250: E (x3) Free Spin! $450: N (x4) $200: S (DUD!) | BANKRUPT! ($0) | $350: Y $400: L -$250: O -$250: I (x3) $400: G $200: W $200: K Solve: Correct! |
$2,350 | $1,050 |
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Doug solves IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE.
Shirley (FS) | Mary Lou | Doug |
$1,050 |
You might want to keep an eye on our Wheel prize! We have a Dalton hand-crafted red cedar gazebo (labeled GAZEBO) worth $5,005.
The Big Money is gonna get bigger, and bigger...and bigger! Here comes the $2,500 space!
By the way, this is Wipeout Week, in case you forgot.
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Shirley (FS) | MARY LOU | Doug |
| $400: N (x3) BANKRUPT! ($1,200) | $800: D -$250: A (x2) $250: T (x2) -$250: E $400: S $450: B (DUD!) | |
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| $700: C GAZEBO! $150: H (x2) -$250: O $450: Y (x2) $200: J $900: P Solve: Correct! | ||
$2,750+ | ||
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Shirley reads what's on the board to keep the gazebo.
Shirley (FS) | Mary Lou | Doug |
$7,755 | $1,050 |
We'll always have some extra cash around here, and you can earn it quickly with the $3,500 space.
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Shirley (FS) | Mary Lou | DOUG |
| $3,500: T $900: H (x3) -$250: E (x3) $550: R (x2) -$250: A $500: L -$250: I (x2) $700: N (x2) $250: G -$250: O (x2) $250: C Solve: Correct! | ||
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Perfection! Doug solves HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO.
Shirley (FS) | Mary Lou | Doug |
$7,755 | $9,750 |
Maybe Shirley needs to reclaim the lead with another prize. Let's add a T. Anthony 5-piece leather luggage set, plus a trip to Paris and stay at Hotel-Pullman-Saint Jacques (labeled PARIS) totaling $6,755.
"What's French for Wipeout?" - Pat
Big Money can't get much bigger than the $5,000 space that we have on the Wheel!
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SHIRLEY (FS) | Mary Lou | Doug |
| $250: N (x3) $1,500: T (x2) -$250: A (x2) -$250: O BANKRUPT! ($3,250) (Free Spin used) $700: S (DUD!) | ||
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DING DING! DING DING!
Mary Lou just can't hold on for long, can she? Pat will give the Wheel a Final Spin. Consonants are worth... $700 a piece.
Mary Lou: C (DUD!)
Doug: L ($700)
Shirley: D ($700)
Mary Lou: R ($700)
Doug: G ($1,400)
Shirley: F (x2) ($2,100)
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Shirley solves ON A DIFFERENT WAVELENGTH and just barely wins the game!
Shirley | Mary Lou | Doug |
| $9,855 | $9,750 |
It looks like Mary Lou wasn't quite on the same wavelength. She's going home with the nice parting gifts.
BONUS ROUND:
Well...it's Wipeout Week. Shirley is our first champion and will play for one of...
Acura Legend sedan LS ($32,129)
Motorhome package (over $57,000)
Eliminator 242 boat ($43,990)
Watch (over $37,000)
"Good ol' American cash" ($25,000)
If everything goes right, Shirley could wipe us out. Time to play for...
"Good ol' American cash" ($25,000)
Time to solve one more puzzle:
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HDWA doesn't do very much.
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She gets SHORT, then says SHIRT. Shirley does not solve SHORT CIRCUIT, but she's coming back to try again tomorrow to add to her $9,855. Can we still call it Wipeout Week?
In the post-game, Pat notes that congress has a plan to make Wipeout Week a national holiday. Think anyone will take it seriously?
Also, the show recently did a contestant search in San Francisco, and they stayed at the Westin St. Francis hotel.