May 31, 1996 (Victor/Wayne/David)

Season 17 would be my hunch, since S13 aired on GSN while much of that season was first-run. Still a lot to look forward to there: the Preview Puzzle, the revamped Wheel (with its "bassier" tone), as well as being the final season with any variant of Changing Keys. Of course, the audience was still very emotional at this point as well to all key moments.

Once again, thanks for posting all of these. There were some great puzzles, wonderful contestants, the rare Song/Show category from earlier in this week, and several confetti-level champions, especially in the 1996 portion of season. You can hear a harbinger of Season 14 with a short snippet of the R3 outro cue at the end of R3 here, and having $5K starting in R3 that's not a teams week is a nice treat. Too bad there's a somewhat heartbreaking moment in that round. You can see why Double Play was about to be a goner; $200 on average after two spins just isn't that great. And we do get to see perhaps the last unedited Final Spin that lands on a penalty space (after an experimental edit earlier that spring), with a great result!