Good lord, not just new-to-us daytime but new-to-us
Benirschke.
Starts with Mary Kay/Grant/Katie (Day 3 - $32,398!)
Over $90,000 on offer today.
Rolf warns about tomorrow being April Fool's Day, as if he's setting up for something...
"I Remember the Child" for the post-Round 2 prize descriptions.
Mid-round break during Round 3.
Good lord, post-Round 3 was a mouthful for Charlie.
No last segment.
Puzzles:
Phrase: RETRACE YOUR STEPS
Place: COLORADO SPRINGS COLORADO
Title: THE CAISSONS GO ROLLING ALONG
*Bonus Round* Thing: WAKE UP CALL (probably should be "WAKE-UP")
April 3: Grant/Jeannie/Nancy
And here we begin what turned out to be the final 13 weeks of the original run. Over $87,000 on offer today.
Rolf says they pulled a prank on the set...?
Before & After!
Is...that a pig statue in the Round 1 prize display? Also, "Frisco Disco"!
More "I Remember the Child", this time for the post-Round 2 descriptions.
I know videotapes at the time could get pretty expensive, but I really hope that $500 set of tapes wasn't just the nine they had on display - especially given that at least five of said tapes are colorized versions of monochrome films.
The magazine rack seen after Round 3 has the February 1989 issue of
Los Angeles (apparently a monthly magazine). The Los Angeles Marathon mentioned in the banner at the top was held on March 5.
"Buzzword" used for the Bonus Round prize description. Bringing out all the Merv classics today!
No last segment, again.
Puzzles:
Before & After: PRESIDENT TRUMAN CAPOTE
Phrase: MUTTERING UNDER YOUR BREATH
Occupation: ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC (goes to Speed-Up)
*Bonus Round* Things: BOW AND ARROW
April 4: Jim/Tom/Grant
Over $79,000 on offer today. Look at the prize budget, it's slowly leaving, bye~.
I would've thought that Round 1 puzzle would be connected to someone's birthday, but I guess not.
Lion statue in the Round 1 prize display.
As with the $500 set above, I really hope the $359 set of videotapes here was more than just the four on display.
I don't remember seeing a five-digit shopping pricetag on the daytime show before, but there's one in the Round 2 prize display here ($11,105).
Speaking of which, it bugs me a little that five-digit tags had commas but four-digit ones didn't.
One post-Round 2 prize is his-and-hers signet rings with each person's initials hand-engraved, which leaves me wondering who "NHG" and "KHB" are.
Rolf calls Before & After "a relatively new puzzle", suggesting it debuted in daytime relatively recently (definitely prior to this week).
Final segment!
No chat, though, and it seems whatever station this was taped from muted the NBC voiceover promo.
Rick Pallack is listed as Rolf's wardrobe provider.
Puzzles:
Phrase: YOU DON'T LOOK A DAY OVER FORTY
Place: MUSEUM OF MODERN ART (they show off an $11,105 prize after the puzzle which offers a maximum of $10,000; eh?)
Before & After: BARBARA HERSHEY PENNSYLVANIA
Phrase: WENT LIKE CLOCKWORK (begins as Speed-Up)
*Bonus Round* Phrase: HOLY SMOKE (shouldn't that have an S at the end?)
And the outcome...
Jim comes back tomorrow with $7,400. Grant, the focus of this video, leaves with $33,629. Katie, the champ Grant dethroned, left with $32,398.
The more I see of Rolf's tenure, the more I wish he'd gotten to host
Wheel longer (though by no means was Bob Goen a step down), or at least done more game shows (whether as host or guest).
