Season 6 Taping/Airing Schedule

You just confirmed a theory I (and probably others) have had for years... that M.G.'s last taping was the final taping day of 1988, and Charlie's first day back was the first tape date of 1989. Thank you so much!

The breakup of MG and Wheel wasn't amicable IIRC. He was screwing up a lot when reading his prize copies and things had to be dubbed over and re-recorded a lot, especially towards the end. Bringing Charlie back was the best thing Wheel could have done. He will always be my favorite announcer. According to the Wiki, there wasn't any mention made on air of the transition.

We got the episode numbers simply from me digitizing the entire season in the order that GSN aired it as we know they went in procduction order. There are only a few episodes in question as there is one week that Alex and I are both missing an episode from.

I've tried to document as many of my sources as possible. Other than newspaper articles, original broadcast uploads on Youtube are extremely helpful if you look for clues in the commercials or voiceovers in the credits (eg. coming up tonight its a new episode of so and so, also any movie release commercials help.)

Also, scavenge the Commercial Compilation Youtube videos. They may have a closing/intro of a Wheel episode and not mention it.

Sorry to kick this one back up as I'm never wholly sure on the etiquette regarding aged posts (albeit a few months), but the slate to the 1000th show says 8-17-88.

Going to try to confine this to no more than 2-3 batches.

By virtue of another project I'm working on, I've been provided the very tail end of quite a few eps of the show (usually just the fee plugs and credits) from this season. Usually just the last segment:

As a result, have some new info to add for the first third of the season (Through OAD 12/2/88). All info is based on the Los Angeles market, which by 1988 would have been a satellite market, which by default used the "A" broadcast schedule. This creates one discrepancy vs. the chart, adds several other airdates, and confirms other dates. (Not every Jeopardy was taped, and many start in the break between)

New Dates / LA (A-Market) Revisions:
(9/5/88 to 12/2/88)
October 4, 1988: S-1002
October 6, 1988: (Listed as S-1000, S-1003 aired in Los Angeles market)
October 7, 1988: S-0998
October 10, 1988: S-1004
October 11, 1988: S-1000 (Los Angeles Airdate)
December 2, 1988, S-1043

LA Matches Existing Airdate:
S-0977, S-0978, S-0994, S-0995, S-0999, S-1001, S-1005 to S-1010, S-1012, S-1019, S-1034 through S-1037, S-1041, and S-1044 airdates match the chart.

Any airdate not listed in the above was not present in the footage, however, the Premiere Week, 1st Wipeout Week, and two NYC weeks were known to have the same airdate in many if not all markets and aired in order.

Wow! Thank you for all of this info! When I have a little free time I’ll go through it with Alex and will update things. Thanks so much again!

The last batch (Wheel stops appearing in the pre-roll of my other footage after 4/17/89)

New Airdates (as always, LA):
March 13, 1989: S-1121
March 14, 1989: S-1107
March 15, 1989: S-1108
March 22, 1989, S-1111
March 27, 1989: S-1119
March 31, 1989: S-1114
April 14, 1989, S-1145
April 17, 1989, S-1115

Additional Confirmation (LA):
S-1101 (3/21/89),
S-1106 (3/17/89),
S-1109 (3/23/89)
S-1110 (3/16/89),
S-1113 (3/20/89),
S-1118 (3/29/89)

Hope this is all useful, and if there are questions let me know

One of the facilitators would be the best way to put it. 

99% of the episodes only have, if anything, the last couple minutes of the show (pre-roll usually starting somewhere between closing chat and end of the credits). Without actual footage of season 5 (or preceding) to compare against, I don't know how much help I'll be (I only have ~10 episodes), but I'm always happy to take a look.