Season 29 Taping/Airing Schedule & Information

Maybe not. Remember what happened in Season 26 with Wheel Across America and the Hawaii shows? The Hawaii shows were November 5 - 25, 2008, and even though November 5 was a Wednesday, not Monday, and the 25th was a Tuesday, not Friday, they were shot as three Hawaii weeks beginning on Wednesdays and ending Tuesdays, and Wheel Across America was November 3, 4, and 26 - 28. Maybe similarly, the Secret Santa sweepstakes is November 7 - 25, and November 7, 8, and 23 - 25 is I Love NY, and November 9 - 22 is still part of the sweepstakes and on the road. Anyway, the reason for that was probably to avoid being on the road for both Presidential Election Day on November 4 and Thanksgiving November 27, and yet still having three consecutive weeks. Even though unlike 2008, this isn't a Presidential election year, maybe they still want to avoid being on the road for Election Day on Tuesday, November 8, as well as Thanksgiving on November 24, and yet still have two full on the road weeks. But I do think you're right, and it's an error and they mean November 21 - 25, and November 7 - 18 could be the on the road part of the sweepstakes.



I really don't think so, since they do have 5 America's Game weeks, which are obviously 6th show taping weeks, and so that meant that at least 30 weeks have to be in Culver City (for each of the 5, five full set weeks and one sixth show taping, making 6, and 6 times 5 is 30). It's 39 weeks per season, and 39 - 30 = 9. We know there are 4 weeks in Portland, so that means only 5 other weeks, which can only make at most 4 6th show taping episodes, nowhere near 12.

I really think that the Facebook page is an error, and it's really November 21 - 25, and as for the other 5 mysterious only 5-show taping weeks, 3 will be the be the whole three weeks of the sweepstakes, wherever and however it's done, and the other two will be on the road January 30 - February 10, since both those themes make sense for a southern locale.

Also, I saw on the website that there was a taping today, as well as one tomorrow. What week taped today and is taping tomorrow? Was today the I Love NY week? If so, did that show tape 3, 4 (if the November 23 - 25 is correct), 5, or 6 (if it isn't) shows? If today (and tomorrow for that matter) is November 7 - 25, could someone please elaborate on the sweepstakes and how it works, as well as if they taped 5 or 6 episodes?

Yes I'm afraid this is the closest we'll get to Christmas this season. Though I thought, especially it being so far from Christmas (and most of it even before Thanksgiving!) that this would be more like the Sears sweepstakes was during Armed Forces week the past two seasons.



I think though the weird rerun schedule has more to do with Charlie's death and the guest announcers before Jim Thornton, which won't be an issue next season (unless on the extremely unlikely chance Jim also dies). Remember that for all the Charlie weeks, they kept him (but of course had to have someone redo the SPIN IDs) , and for all the other guest announcers other than Jim, they replaced them with Jim's voice, something I really don't get, and all three 6th show taping weeks that had the special Friday reruns were Jim. For the non-Charlie and Jim weeks, it was probably a lot for Jim to redo so much, especially during summer vacation, so they wanted to spare him 20%, which really isn't that little, of what they'd do with a normal rerun schedule. And as for the Charlie weeks, similar to how Jim and the guest announcers dubbed over his episodes that aired after he died (another thing I really don't get), since for whatever reason, they saw that as a disadvantage to viewers, they wanted to spare viewers 20% of the disappointment. And interestingly enough, all the post-April 15 weeks that reran (from April 18 on it was always Jim) had the normal rerun schedule, and that's three of the four weeks to rerun normally. But then again, World Class Spas was a Charlie week that reran normally, and Gone Fishin', Vacation of a Lifetime (with Vanna for a Day), and Spring Fling were Jim weeks. Maybe the January 28, March 22, and April 1 episodes had something suggesting Jim wasn't the permanent announcer. (But as for the latter, it was originally a Charlie week, but there was the April Fool's Day episode with it acknowledged a lot with all puzzles but the BR with the word FOOL. And Happy Holidays, Sweethearts which debuted in February, and Spring Break weeks have rerun before, but maybe they realized they couldn't rerun holiday episodes anymore). Anyway, I really think, since the announcer issue won't be an issue next season, Season 29 reruns will be back to normal next summer.



Could you or anyone PLEASE let us know many episodes from that week taped? 3, 4, 5, or 6? Because for each of those amounts, this is what it would tell us: If it were 3 or 4, the Facebook page wouldn't have an error (3 shows if it wouldn't have a "6th show taping", of course really 4), and if 5 or 6, it would be an error and a normal week, and again of course 6 would tell us if it had a 6th show taping. I'm guessing it was 6, with the November 7 - 18 being two of the Culver (or non-Portland) weeks to have 6th show tapings.



I'm guessing it'll be one of the two Secret Santa weeks, which of course would answer a lot.



What do you mean by the nearby blanks? Surely someone who was in or saw today's taping should post here with answers to these questions!



What do you mean by 6/6/3? Here's what I'm starting to think -- Wheel Loves NY taped 6 episodes while the other two sweepstakes weeks didn't. As for the other three non-Portland only 5-show tapings, as I said, given that they're both back to back and could easily be (and have been in the past) taped in a Southern locale, that's where January 30 - February 10 are. And maybe the fifth is Wheel Goes to the Movies, since that I'm sure is Christmas themed, given the time of year, and that's similar to Holiday Movie Magic, and it's also similar to Seasons 15 - 22, when it always aired immediately after the May time on the road promoting summer movies), and unlike last season which had the Happy Holidays show 6th show on January 3, the second America's Game is January 9 - 13, all after January 6 when the holiday season ends. However, Holiday Movie Magic did have 6th show tapings before. However, another possibility for that fifth week is Sandals Romance, since that's for Valentine's Day.



Sadly, that's definitely not true. I really believe that having exactly 39 weeks is a general rule, and they never had any amount other than that, as proven since they've done 5460 episodes (28 X 39 X 5), and there are exactly 39 weeks posted. I really do think that 4 of the 5 weeks are the two Secret Santa and January 30 - February 10 in a southern locale.

Alpine Adventures is 11/28, confirmed for today's tapings.

Wow, nicky... IMO, you're TOO obsessed with the show. I mean, you don't really need to know everything about every themed week only so you can be the first to know. Just watch it, enjoy it, and quit badgering us about every taped episode because we DON'T KNOW. Okay?

Yeah, we'd appreciate that. Nothing personal, though.

From wheeloffortune.com:

Does anyone know if anything taped September 29, 30, October 6, or 7? I'm guessing one of those weeks was the Secret Santa sweepstakes, since we don't know about that tape date yet, and that's only a month away, and this mystery could be cleared up about the airdates of that and I Love NY, as well as that of how the sweepstakes will work!

Also, does anyone know when and if the Mystery Round is moving to Round 2?

If that's true, I'm guessing maybe it'll be October 24, the start of the six Halloween shows.

I wonder, assuming the December 5 - 9 week is Home Sweet Home Family Week, Spa Fantasy, Ports of Call, Bed & Breakfast, and Desert Hideaways (or whenever those five are), it could possibly be in Round 3, and just maybe December 5 (or whenever the Home Sweet Home Family Week one is) won't have the 1/2 CAR. I'm guessing no to all of that.

One of the contestants for that week has a blog and she mentioned taping on that day.