Seasons 34-37 on GSN

As with the last lease, there will be two episodes per weekday, at 9:00 and 9:30 PM.

This lease only appears to include at least the episodes from the Netflix packages. Yet to be seen if it will include the episodes that are on Pluto but were not on Netflix.


All S36 eps on streaming, in order. Purple ones are exclusive to Pluto and were never on Netflix:

Teacher's Week: 6826-6830
Shopping Spree: 6841-6845
Spa Getaway: 6846
Great Outdoors: 6853, 6855
Veterans Week: 6858
America's Game I: 6866-6870
GAC Washington DC: 6874-6875
Happy Thanksgiving: 6877-6879
America's Game III: 6906-6910
Leave Winter Behind: 6926-6930
Sweethearts Week: 6936-6940
Girlfriend Getaways: 6946-6950
Delicious Destinations: 6971-6975
Wheel Around the World: 6981-6985
Island Hopping: 6991-6995
Big Money: 6996-7000
R&R: 7006-7010

S36 eps on Netflix: 26
S36 eps on Netflix and Pluto: 69

^ They are indeed starting with the S36 premiere. However, the lease only includes at least the episodes that were previously leased to Netflix, and possibly the ones on Pluto TV.

They are going in order within those episodes, so after Teacher's Week finishes on Wednesday, it skips ahead to Shopping Spree week. And some weeks, including Spa Getaway and Great Outdoors, only have one or two episodes in this package.

Sure enough, these are the exact same prints from Netflix, right down to the closed captioning, which Netflix modified from the originals on all of their episodes to match their standards (Pluto, for the most part, kept the captions as-is on modern eps that weren't previously on Netflix). As with streaming and much of GSN's acquired programming, the footage is deinterlaced to 30 FPS.

In other words, doesn't seem like we're missing out on anything versus watching on Pluto TV, but it's still great to see Wheel back on GSN, or airing anywhere on linear TV besides once a day in syndication, at all.

Here's a promo that aired shortly before Wheel's comeback:

I watched the first two Season 36 shows on GSN. It feels weird seeing the pre-COVID podiums, Free Play, Half Car, Gift Tag, $3,000 Toss Up, Pat doing the final spin, and $36,000 again. It also feels weird seeing the yellow $600. Later Season 36 episodes have the yellow $900 for all rounds. It's nice to hear the 2017-21 music again. Just like it was nice to hear the 2007-16 music in the Season 31 episodes. Just like the Season 31 episodes, the Mystery plug is cut. The "closed-captioning is brought to you by the following" is cut as well. And, promos are shown during the credits too. In the second show of Season 36, the newsletter promo between the Bonus Round and the closing chat was kept. I remember the Season 36 premiere but not the second episode of Season 36. So it's nice to see the second episode of Season 36 again. It really does feel good to have GSN Wheel back. That was the reason why I watched GSN. And I like the new time. 9 PM is better than the 12 PM slot. Since I wasn't always able to watch it at 12 PM. And I don't have Netflix.

My guess is that they will air the season 37 episodes as well.

They're probably not "banned" as in "can never air anywhere ever again". Whenever GSN acquired a season, they would almost-always skip a few episodes here and there, mostly for reasons we couldn't figure out.

GSN skipped six episodes when they aired S31 and substituted them with the last six episodes of S30: 11/4/13, 3/10/14, 3/11/14, 3/12/14, 3/13/14, and 3/14/14. The latter five were all part of Beaches Resorts Family Week, but it didn't seem to be a clearance issue with the sponsor, because two other weeks from that season that were sponsored by Sandals Resorts, Beaches' parent company, still aired, and Beaches' sixth episode (which also had family teams) aired as well.

Yeah. I wondered why those 6 S31 episodes were skipped. We might never know. It was too bad that those episodes were skipped. On the 11/4/2013 show had Pat joking about the Halloween set not taken down. And they aired Halloween week itself. It was still nice to see those last Season 30 shows though. Since one of them had the final Jackpot win, and one episode had a $100k win. That allowed for two $100K win episodes to air for that lease. Since S31 only had one $100K win. 9/17/2013 and 4/11/2014 should've been skipped too. I noticed some DOND episodes were skipped on GSN due to copyrights. And, it is nice to see 4 WOF episodes air on Wednesdays. Regular syndicated episodes at 7 PM for me, CWOF at 9 PM, and GSN Wheel at 9 PM too. But I watch CWOF instead of GSN Wheel since CWOF is a new episode.

#S-6866 and 6867 (S36 E41-42, 11/5-6/18), the first of the Pluto-only episodes, aired on GSN tonight and they were in 60 FPS, so perhaps all of these eps will be in 60.

Also something of note: #S-6841 (S36 E16, 10/1/18) does not suffer from "credit crunching" when it airs on GSN, due to the gag at the very end where Pat slowly walks up to the camera.

Yeah. The S31 episodes were every weekday at 12:00 and 12:30 PM. Also, a $100K loss was shown tonight. This lease has more $100K loss episodes than the last lease. The S31 lease only had one $100K loss and 2 $100K wins. One of the $100K wins was from one of the S30 episodes. There will be one $100K win on Monday as Mario said. There are three $100K losses in this lease.