Post by whammy007 on Feb 6, 2012 20:58:52 GMT -5
Nighttime Wheel of Fortune: "Music Stars Week" - Original Airdate 5/6/1994 (Season 11)
It's the Friday Finals, and we have four of your favorite music stars trying to add even more money to their winnings, all playing for charity on WHEEL! OF! FORTUNE!
Let's meet our four contenders (with the middle pair playing as a team):
Lee Greenwood, raising money for the Challenger Education Centers
Little Richard, playing for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
James Brown, supporting the Aiken County Community Action Agency in South Carolina
"Weird Al" Yankovic, who previously won $27,800 for Comic Relief
ROUND 1:
$1,000 is the top dollar, and tonight's only piece of cardboard is the Free Spin on the red $300.
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CLUE
We're starting the game with a Clue puzzle - that means a bonus opportunity at the end of the round! Lee Greenwood is in the red position tonight and he begins the game by throwing out the first dud - no T for $250. Little Richard and James Brown are playing as a team for this match, and Richard's first spin is $200 for an R. The lack of an H sends things over to Weird Al who takes hold of the spokes and sends the wheel around to $700 for a trio of S's... $2,100 for him! He buys two vowels: the A (a single) and the E (three of those) before getting knocked out by the bad N. Back to Lee for the second pass - he gets a $200 D but no C for $800. Little Richard and James let fly an F call... no good. Al has it back, and his groove is back as he gets the B and the L, our last consonants:
L A S S _ E ' S
B R E E D
CLUE
and rather than buying the last vowel, Al solves LASSIE'S BREED for $2,200! Another $500 in bonus money will be added to that once Al identifies that breed as a COLLIE!
Duds: T (Lee), H (Richard/James), N (Weird Al), C (Lee), F (Richard/James)
Lee: 1 for 3 on letter calls this round
Richard/James: also 1 for 3
Weird Al: $2,700
ROUND 2:
Unlike Al's first appearance on Tuesday's show, we won't have a lot of time for gameplay.
This means that we're skipping right to the second wheel layout, with $3,500 and $1,000 available.
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QUOTATION
The tandem of Little Richard and James Brown gets the right to start this second round, but it quickly goes over to Weird Al when they don't find a T for $400. Al makes a great opening spin - a single $3,500 S gets him on the board in a big way! He gets a couple of N's on $900, but gets buzzed on the B next time around. Lee Greenwood is back in control, spinning $3,500 as well and finding a pair of R's! Unfortunately, our first penalty spin is coming up... LOSE A TURN hits him. Little Richard and James find the $1,000 space but no C, which opens up Al to take charge and take his score over $7,000! After that, he buys vowels, some good but one bad (the I), giving it back to Lee - who also has a big bank on hand. Lee will play it almost completely out...
R A Y
A / D R O _ / O F
G O L D E N / S U N
QUOTATION
and he cleans up with RAY A DROP OF GOLDEN SUN, a line from The Sound of Music, for $8,150 in cash!
Duds: T (Richard/James), B (Weird Al), C (Richard/James), I (Weird Al)
Lose a Turn: Lee
Lee: $8,150
Richard/James: now just 1 for 5 in the letter-picking department
Weird Al: $2,700
ROUND 3:
We're going to the third wheel layout - $5,000 is the top dollar!
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PERSON
Weird Al has the first spin in the third round, and that spin heads to $500 for a pair of S's and a quick thousand dollars. He adds an R to the board, but there is no T so it goes to Lee, who hits the second penalty spin... this time a BANKRUPT. Little Richard and James have control at this point, but they repeat the T that Al missed on and give it right back to him. He gets a single N before losing $1,850 to Bankrupt - the first lost money of the night. Lee gets back on the horse with an H and four L's for some quick cash! Then he buys some vowels, an O and three E's, before carrying on with his run. A while later, his work comes to a stop as he passes his turn on the bad P. Richard and James find their best spin of the night so far - a $1,500 G! after buying four I's and getting the D up...
B L U E S
S I N G E R
B I L L I E
H O L I D _ _
PERSON
Richard and James wrap up the round by naming BLUES SINGER BILLIE HOLIDAY for $2,150!
Duds: T (Weird Al), P (Lee)
Bankrupt: Lee (loss of turn), Weird Al ($1,850)
DQ: Richard and James's repeated T
Lee: $8,150
Richard/James: $2,150
Weird Al: $2,700
Lee Greenwood won this match, and he'll be headed to Bonusland in the hopes of adding $25,000 cash to his total!
BONUS ROUND:
Joining Lee to help him is Marilyn Horne... Good luck to the duo!
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THING
RSTLNE gives just one letter...
_ _ _ _ R
THING
BDMO gives us two more...
_ _ M O R
THING
Lee and Marilyn bandy about some letter combinations, but other than the clearly wrong ARMOR, none of them sound like words. So Pat brings out Little Richard, James Brown, and Weird Al to help Lee and Marilyn. He asks for more letters, but Al just goes ahead and solves HUMOR! That means that the $25,000 will be split equally between the quintet of stars, adding $5,000 to each of five great charities and bringing the final total for the week to $175,850!
It's the Friday Finals, and we have four of your favorite music stars trying to add even more money to their winnings, all playing for charity on WHEEL! OF! FORTUNE!
Let's meet our four contenders (with the middle pair playing as a team):
Lee Greenwood, raising money for the Challenger Education Centers
Little Richard, playing for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
James Brown, supporting the Aiken County Community Action Agency in South Carolina
"Weird Al" Yankovic, who previously won $27,800 for Comic Relief
ROUND 1:
$1,000 is the top dollar, and tonight's only piece of cardboard is the Free Spin on the red $300.
_ _ _ _ _ _ ' _
_ _ _ _ _
CLUE
We're starting the game with a Clue puzzle - that means a bonus opportunity at the end of the round! Lee Greenwood is in the red position tonight and he begins the game by throwing out the first dud - no T for $250. Little Richard and James Brown are playing as a team for this match, and Richard's first spin is $200 for an R. The lack of an H sends things over to Weird Al who takes hold of the spokes and sends the wheel around to $700 for a trio of S's... $2,100 for him! He buys two vowels: the A (a single) and the E (three of those) before getting knocked out by the bad N. Back to Lee for the second pass - he gets a $200 D but no C for $800. Little Richard and James let fly an F call... no good. Al has it back, and his groove is back as he gets the B and the L, our last consonants:
L A S S _ E ' S
B R E E D
CLUE
and rather than buying the last vowel, Al solves LASSIE'S BREED for $2,200! Another $500 in bonus money will be added to that once Al identifies that breed as a COLLIE!
Duds: T (Lee), H (Richard/James), N (Weird Al), C (Lee), F (Richard/James)
Lee: 1 for 3 on letter calls this round
Richard/James: also 1 for 3
Weird Al: $2,700
ROUND 2:
Unlike Al's first appearance on Tuesday's show, we won't have a lot of time for gameplay.
This means that we're skipping right to the second wheel layout, with $3,500 and $1,000 available.
_ _ _
_ / _ _ _ _ / _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ / _ _ _
QUOTATION
The tandem of Little Richard and James Brown gets the right to start this second round, but it quickly goes over to Weird Al when they don't find a T for $400. Al makes a great opening spin - a single $3,500 S gets him on the board in a big way! He gets a couple of N's on $900, but gets buzzed on the B next time around. Lee Greenwood is back in control, spinning $3,500 as well and finding a pair of R's! Unfortunately, our first penalty spin is coming up... LOSE A TURN hits him. Little Richard and James find the $1,000 space but no C, which opens up Al to take charge and take his score over $7,000! After that, he buys vowels, some good but one bad (the I), giving it back to Lee - who also has a big bank on hand. Lee will play it almost completely out...
R A Y
A / D R O _ / O F
G O L D E N / S U N
QUOTATION
and he cleans up with RAY A DROP OF GOLDEN SUN, a line from The Sound of Music, for $8,150 in cash!
Duds: T (Richard/James), B (Weird Al), C (Richard/James), I (Weird Al)
Lose a Turn: Lee
Lee: $8,150
Richard/James: now just 1 for 5 in the letter-picking department
Weird Al: $2,700
ROUND 3:
We're going to the third wheel layout - $5,000 is the top dollar!
_ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
PERSON
Weird Al has the first spin in the third round, and that spin heads to $500 for a pair of S's and a quick thousand dollars. He adds an R to the board, but there is no T so it goes to Lee, who hits the second penalty spin... this time a BANKRUPT. Little Richard and James have control at this point, but they repeat the T that Al missed on and give it right back to him. He gets a single N before losing $1,850 to Bankrupt - the first lost money of the night. Lee gets back on the horse with an H and four L's for some quick cash! Then he buys some vowels, an O and three E's, before carrying on with his run. A while later, his work comes to a stop as he passes his turn on the bad P. Richard and James find their best spin of the night so far - a $1,500 G! after buying four I's and getting the D up...
B L U E S
S I N G E R
B I L L I E
H O L I D _ _
PERSON
Richard and James wrap up the round by naming BLUES SINGER BILLIE HOLIDAY for $2,150!
Duds: T (Weird Al), P (Lee)
Bankrupt: Lee (loss of turn), Weird Al ($1,850)
DQ: Richard and James's repeated T
Lee: $8,150
Richard/James: $2,150
Weird Al: $2,700
Lee Greenwood won this match, and he'll be headed to Bonusland in the hopes of adding $25,000 cash to his total!
BONUS ROUND:
Joining Lee to help him is Marilyn Horne... Good luck to the duo!
_ _ _ _ _
THING
RSTLNE gives just one letter...
_ _ _ _ R
THING
BDMO gives us two more...
_ _ M O R
THING
Lee and Marilyn bandy about some letter combinations, but other than the clearly wrong ARMOR, none of them sound like words. So Pat brings out Little Richard, James Brown, and Weird Al to help Lee and Marilyn. He asks for more letters, but Al just goes ahead and solves HUMOR! That means that the $25,000 will be split equally between the quintet of stars, adding $5,000 to each of five great charities and bringing the final total for the week to $175,850!