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Post by djcchs2004 on Aug 21, 2014 13:20:19 GMT -5
This may be crazy or stupid to ask, but it something to kill some time while waiting for season 32 to premiere.
I’m enjoying watching the marathon of the Simpsons on FXX, it the first time that one of my favorite long-running shows is airing on cable. It continues for 12 straight nights for 24 hours without breaks, not even overnight infomercials.
Again, crazy to ask, but what will happen if GSN did the marathon of all of nighttime Wheel of Fortune episodes, like FXX is doing same thing with the Simpsons? From the very first episode back in 1983 to 31th season finale just few months ago. No breaks, no infomercials, just only Wheel on GSN until the very last episode to date. I guessing it could take several months to complete. But you also mention other long-running game shows as well, like what if there a marathon of Jeopardy or even Price is Right?
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Post by MarioGS on Aug 21, 2014 14:39:10 GMT -5
Not counting the movie, The Simpsons only has 552 episodes to date, which is less than three seasons worth of nighttime Wheel, and each Simpsons season has about 22 episodes. Wheel does 22 episodes in about a month. If any network did to Wheel what FXX is doing to The Simpsons right now--airing every single nighttime episode from Seasons 1-31... let's do some math here...
As of the Season 31 finale, the nighttime version has 6,045 episodes. Assuming a hypothetical marathon airs every episode continuously for 24 hours a day in all 48 half-hour timeslots, counting weekends, holidays, and overnight hours... 6,045 ÷ 48 = 125.9375 days. That's 125 days plus 22.5 hours. So if this marathon started at any given day on midnight, the Season 31 finale would air over four months later from 10:00-10:30 PM. (The actual 6000th episode [ACHILLES] would air at 11:30 PM on the 124th day) A single season alone would take 4 days and 1.5 hours (195 ÷ 48).
What if GSN did something more practical? Let's say starting in 2015, there are two separate hours each weekday dedicated to two episodes of Wheel--one in AM, one in PM. The AM hour starts at Season 1 and continues advancing through subsequent seasons (rather than cycling through the whole season like they would usually do with Wheel), while the PM hour starts at Season 16. Let's see how long it would take just to finish off Season 30 (whose finale was S-5850)... 5,850 ÷ 4 episodes a day = 1,462.5 weekdays. Then to add Season 31 (let's assume the AM hour begins airing S16, which already aired once before in PM, so this hour won't count for anything), which would only air in the PM hour for now... 195 ÷ 2 episodes of S31 a day = 97.5 weekdays. 97.5 + 1,462.5 = 1,560 weekdays to air the entire nighttime series through S31 by the above "practical" method. There will be 262 weekdays in 2015, so that's about 5.95 years.  Not to mention all the money this would cost...Yeah, there's no way anything like this is happening.  Not even I would watch Wheel continuously for 4 months straight or make it a priority to catch every rerun for nearly 6 years straight. |
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Post by thiswheel13 on Aug 23, 2014 18:55:01 GMT -5
Well if that were to happen someone would need a dvr with a lot of memory |
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Post by genius2751 on Aug 23, 2014 19:20:27 GMT -5
And if that would happen, that would mean recaps. TONS of them. Personally for me, if there was a Wheel marathon, it should be a few episodes a day from seasons 19-25, not the whole thing (and not EVERY episode).
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Post by jacobr1020 on Aug 24, 2014 8:46:24 GMT -5
They could do a marathon with big wins (before the Bonus Wheel, though). Like, big maingame wins (At least $25,000), undefeated champions who won at least $100,000, big Friday Finals winners, etc..
Might that work?
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Post by StrangerCoug on Aug 26, 2014 18:42:49 GMT -5
I don't think networks would want to run a marathon of any length that spoils something that people who haven't watched/don't remember the episodes in question don't know already. That's more clip show material to me.
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Post by pannoni1 on Aug 31, 2014 12:00:44 GMT -5
I just miss classic GSN in general (1994-2003). It still is something that in a decade the network gave us eight seasons worth of Wheel. My idea would simply to air the unaired seasons, but with two timeslots: one for the classic (Pre-bonus wheel) seasons thain the daytime (3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11, 15-18), and another for the Bonus Wheel seasons primetime. They should air to avoid conflicting with first/second run episodes. This should be seven days a week barring specials so that it can be cycled through as quickly as possible. But unfortunately, GSN just doesn't have the budget to attract the advertisers to provide them nowadays, especially considering that Sale of the Century last week reverted to the final three months that it originally cycled through in 2013. Unfortunately, unless if Sony provides a special streaming service (please, I'll pay $30 a month just for classic Wheel/J!), dream on. Its a shame that here in 2014 we don't have the willpower despite the technology to distribute such programming that a good number of us are willing to view.
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Post by WheelFan96 on Sept 1, 2014 10:14:12 GMT -5
Knowing GSN these days, I think there's a better chance of them airing an every episode marathon of Family Feud than Wheel of Fortune, and even that sounds like a long shot.
I'd like for Crackle to release some classic WOF episodes, but I don't think they're going to do that anytime soon. The only reason they released a number of classic Jeopardy episodes a few months ago was because of their Battle of the Decades tournament. Since WOF will likely never do a tournament, I don't think we'll be seeing classic WOF episodes anytime soon.
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Not even I would watch Wheel continuously for 4 months straight or make it a priority to catch every rerun for nearly 6 years straight.
