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Woolery's run lasted from the show's debut until 1981, when he departed and passed the show off to Pat Sajak. Woolery's run, as well as early Sajak episodes, were repeatedly taped over to create room for new episodes. Despite the huge amount of material being wiped, many of the episodes have surfaced in the form of personal collections, episodes kept by the network themselves, home recordings, and other means of preservation. A large, yet not comprehensive list of Daytime episodes that are known to still exist can be found online.<ref>[http://wheeloffortunehistory.wikia.com/wiki/Daytime_episodes_known_to_exist Article on Daytime ''Wheel Of Fortune'' episodes that are known to still exist (courtesy of wheeloffortunehistory.wikia.com).] Retrieved 23 Jul '13.</ref>
Woolery's run lasted from the show's debut until 1981, when he departed and passed the show off to Pat Sajak. Woolery's run, as well as early Sajak episodes, were repeatedly taped over to create room for new episodes. Because of this, very little footage from these years remains, and what does exist mostly comes through home recordings and television archives. Unfortunately, very little of this remaining footage actually circulates online. A large, yet not comprehensive list of Daytime episodes that are known to still exist can be found online.<ref>[http://wheeloffortunehistory.wikia.com/wiki/Daytime_episodes_known_to_exist Article on Daytime ''Wheel Of Fortune'' episodes that are known to still exist (courtesy of wheeloffortunehistory.wikia.com).] Retrieved 23 Jul '13.</ref>





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The "Wheel of Fortune" logo.

Status: Partially Lost

Wheel Of Fortune is a massive game show that debuted to great success in 1975, with Chuck Woolery as host. This success has only grown, with Pat Sejak hosting the current version of Wheel, and over sixty international adaptions to capitalize on this success.


Lost Episodes

Woolery's run lasted from the show's debut until 1981, when he departed and passed the show off to Pat Sajak. Woolery's run, as well as early Sajak episodes, were repeatedly taped over to create room for new episodes. Because of this, very little footage from these years remains, and what does exist mostly comes through home recordings and television archives. Unfortunately, very little of this remaining footage actually circulates online. A large, yet not comprehensive list of Daytime episodes that are known to still exist can be found online.[1]


Lost Puzzles

Some games, despite airing on TV, and maybe even found their way online, might not be entirely intact as intended. This is because some puzzles maybe omitted during post-production. Reasons for this include personal troubles, national tragedies, technical faults, or just simple production errors.


VANNA'S PREGNANT

One such instance was for the November 2nd, 1992 game. The round 2 puzzle was VANNA'S PREGNANT, which was meant to announce the hostess's pregnancy. Unfortunately, not long after the episodes taping, Vanna had a miscarriage.[2]. In place of the puzzle was a three minute, behind the scenes, look at the San Francisco filming, which is where this episode had been shot. At the end of it, Pat shows the winner and how much they won.

November 2nd, 1992 game intended for the reveal. Behind the scenes look and round summary goes from 4:57 to 8:08

Katrina Puzzles

There were 2 puzzles that were deleted due to Hurricane Katrina, one of which remains unseen and unknown to this day. For the original airing of the episode, the puzzles were replaced with Pat and Vanna asked the viewers to donate to relief funds, then announcing who won the rounds. For the summer 2006 rerun however, one of the rounds, for some unknown reason, was actually shown (The answer was THE LOUISIANA SUPERDOME). Strangely though, the other puzzle was replaced with Pat and Vanna thanking those who had donated. To this day, that round hasn't been seen by the public, and it's answer has never been revealed.


Cancelled Episodes

On some rare occasions, some episodes were never aired, or even finished production. because of this, very little, if anything, remains of these episodes besides basic information.


November 2005 Family Week

In addition to lost puzzles, three weeks of shows were planned to be shot in New Orleans, from August 26th to August 28th (At 5 games/1 week per day). However, Hurricane Katrina struck before production had wrapped up, and the crew evacuated after the August 27th episodes tapings[3]. This left the third week of episodes unshot, and in turn cancelled what was intended to be a Family Week that was meant to air in the November of that year. Fortunately, the contestants of the cancelled week were able to get their chance to play in the May of 2006.

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