Wheel Dreams You've Had

Well, I've heard of *5* pilots for one show being done (Match Game '90, with Bert Convy), shot as a week of shows...

(Yes, I know Ross Shafer did the series, but Convy did the pilots)

^Ah yes, the FIFTEEN and FIFTY-FIVE dream. I remember seeing it when you first uploaded it.

Looking at it again reminded me that Wheelgenius did his own version of it.

Dan's third Wheel dream:
I wish there was a way to record your dreams for all to see, because then this would be pretty cool...

Of course, we all know there's three Wheel pilots -- Shopper's Bazaar in '73, the two Edd Byrnes tapings in '74. But years ago, a guy named Danny Voisine (who, along with Daniel Rosen, brings disgrace to everyone named Dan, Danny, or Daniel) claimed to have a fourth pilot, taped November 30, 1974 with Jack Clark announcing. I say that to say this:
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I had a dream last night where someone uploaded to YouTube, in two parts, the "Alan Thicke pilot" of Wheel. The description mentioned something about not wanting to get in trouble, so download the videos before the uploader edited out the music.

Sadly, there was no opening (not sure if that was the uploader's doing) -- it began while Susan was introducing the players, who wore nametags more in line with the Ray Combs Family Feud.

The set was decorated for Christmas, and there was apparently an $8,302 Christmas tree(?) on offer. After the announcer (Charlie? Jack?) described it, the camera zoomed out and the doors(!) came in and closed.

Chuck and Susan were hosting, as you'd expect, but I didn't see much of the Wheel and only saw the puzzle board briefly, so don't ask about those. Based on all this, I was likely seeing the claimed-to-exist-by-Voisine 11/30/74 pilot; I knew it wasn't from the series because it didn't match the premiere at all (completely different players), it wasn't Christmas '75 (the video times totaled about 25 minutes rather than about 45-50, and the doors were ousted around June '75), and I was asking my mother and brother if they wanted to see "Pilot #4".

(Of course, my mother was all "You're kidding!" when she saw the doors close. )

Probably the weirdest thing of all (other than a red-with-white-border website watermark on the video that I can't remember) was the presence of the late-1990s GSN logo in the bottom-right corner.

The set might have been as small as the original '75 one, not sure -- it was definitely decorated for Christmas, like I said. The doors slid into place in a way that doesn't exactly match how the actual, real prop looked -- the Pilot #4 version seemed to be two halves (including frame) with several "layers" of doors, which I'd liken more to the Price Is Right style of "stacking" door pieces than of Let's Make A Deal.

"Alan Thicke pilot" was what the uploader called it (albeit dated to 1978, but I'm pretty sure that was an error that would've been corrected had the dream continued). Given that, I'm guessing it used Thicke's music rather than Maynard Ferguson's.

Don't remember anything about the Wheel, sorry. If it was supposed to be Pilot #4, though, the Wheel layouts would've likely been a mix of the Byrnes and Premiere ones, so Buy A Vowel and the two-digit values would've been there (but not anything like Skip Jour Turn, FIFTEEN, or FIFTY-FIVE ).

Funnily enough, the $8,302 prize used a green chyron with dollar sign and...no comma, I think. It looked like something that wouldn't be out-of-place on a Christmas '85 episode.

Fair point, but I don't think the frame split in half like the Pilot #4 version did.

Do you remember any other prizes besides the Christmas tree?

What I remember is the last part of a current-era episode. I remember the speedup for sure (the speedup was PRETTY GOOD JAMMING), the third tossup and bonus round puzzles are iffy, but I think they were SWIMMING LESSONS and something like HAVE A GOOD TIME respectively, the latter of which I've used as the bonus round in a Wheel game off-site. A few notable things about this:

• Despite the fact that I remember that the touch-monitor board was being used, I can't remember whether it had three or four lines.
  
• An invalid ring-in sounds the regular buzzer instead of being silent. The contestant at the yellow podium, after difficulty ringing in, plays around with the other player's signaling devices as a bit of self-deprecation for a bit before the speedup begins, then for some reason switches places with the blue contestant.
• The puzzle I remember for absolute sure is solved after the G's are called but before Vanna reveals both of them.
• The very end of the episode has scan lines as if being played back on a bad-quality VHS tape.

A bit annoyingly, I've had two false awakenings about booting up my computer so I could type this up.

(A thread about Wheel dreams would be interesting if a mod wants to merge WarioSajak's thread with mine.)

I had a dream earlier this week that I got to go to some Season 31 Vegas tapings and the staff let me get an up-close look of the set before the audience started filling in. The Wheel and podiums were much smaller, and there was only one flipper which was away from the contestants. All I remember about the Wheel was that there were at least two $200 wedges, both blue (which I acknowledged to the staff with shock and they replied something like "Yes, $200 is back!", and that the green wedge next to the top value became $300, and there were much less pink and purple wedges, being replaced with more green and blue. I took several pictures of the whole Wheel. Later, just before the tapings were supposed to start, Jim Thornton calls my name over the PA system and says that the staff wanted me to leave for no apparent reason, and other audience members were booing me and saying "Shame on you!" as I walked out, even though I had no idea what for. I was forced to watch the tapings from behind a fence far from the stage in an area where other Vegas patrons were just walking around freely.

One of the more funnier dreams I've had was from a few months ago, where I was watching a first-run episode with a major mistake: the MDW was placed reverse-up over the pink $900. Eventually, a woman in the red position lands on the middle of the orange $800, but instead of calling a letter, starts arguing with Pat because she should have hit the MDW.

I had a dream that I was on the show and solved the bonus puzzle LEAP OF FAITH even though the O was the only other letter I had up there besides RSTLNE. I notice they haven't used that as a bonus puzzle yet… hmm…