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Jan 23, 2021 · The Final Jeopardy! logo from the 18th season. Jeopardy! (c) Sony Pictures Television Studios.
This is the Season 28 Final Jeopardy! logo you would normally see on TV. However, it was changed on the mobile, Wii U, Xbox 360, and PS3 ports of the game. It's also seen on Alex's Final Jeopardy! card.
Sep 26, 2022 · Jeopardy! Season 33 Final Jeopardy! logo (Blue) By. OnScreenThatProds. Watch. Published: Sep 26, 2022. 1 Favourite. 0 Comments. 1.5K Views.
- Overview
- 3/30/1964-1/3/1975 (Jeopardy!)
- 10/2/1978-3/2/1979 (The All-New Jeopardy!)
- 1983 (Unaired Pilot 1)
- 1984 (Unaired Pilot 2)
- 9/10/1984-6/7/1985 (Season 1)
- 9/9/1985-7/19/1991 (Seasons 2-7)
- Super Jeopardy! (1990)
- 9/2/1991-11/8/1996 (Seasons 8-13) "Grid Set"
- 11/11/1996-11/8/2002 (Seasons 13-19) "Sushi Bar Set"
Welcome to the Jeopardy! Sets page.
This talks about the many sets used over the years. The set has changed like the theme song.
Originally designed by Tom Trimble, the set featured contestant desks on the left and a game board on the right. The game board was covered by a curtain, which revealed the categories and dollar values at the start of each round. A smaller board was used to reveal the category and clue during the Final Jeopardy! segments were revealed using a pull-...
When the series was revived from October 2, 1978 to March 2, 1979, a new set designed by Henry C. Lickel was introduced. Contestants walked through sliding doors just behind their desks during their introductions. The game board was on the left this time with the desks on the right. Contestants still sat down. The curtain was replaced by sliding pa...
The set for the first unaired pilot of the syndicated series retained many of the elements from the Art Fleming era. The contestant desks, backdrop, and game board resembled PCs from the technology era of the 1980s. Despite that, the game board still employed the pull cards, which belied the more modern look of the rest of the game.
The set was completely overhauled for the second and final unaired pilot, also by Henry C. Lickel. The game board was modernized, consisting of 30 television monitors, and the categories were backlit on cards above the monitors. The contestant area now has podiums with risers behind them in which the contestants could stand rather than sit, replaci...
The set for the first season of Jeopardy! in syndication was the same as the one used for the second pilot but with minor facelifts. Starting with this season and lasting until the end of Season 7, the category headings would be in red text and would individually light up as Alex introduced each category and would turn off when all 5 clues in that ...
On September 9, 1985, the set was designed by art director Bob Rang into the form it would retain until July 19, 1991. The 9 feet Jeopardy! logo was now in white neon with acrylic glass covering the letters and the light chase would slow down a bit; the acrylic glass would be gold-colored from 1986 until 1991. An entrance arch was built for the contestant entrances in the open. Starting from this season onward, the values of the answers will be seen closeup before the clue is seen, although the $100 value is rarely shown closeup. For the first week only of the second season, the champion would stand at the third podium on the right, while the first challenger stood at the first podium on the left. Additionally, 9 light bulbs were placed atop the contestant podiums to indicate how much time they had to respond to a clue. For each second that goes by, 2 lights turn off one on each end, meaning a player has 5 seconds to respond; when the last light turned off, that meant the player ran out of time. To accommodate the rule change that players must wait until the clue was completely read before ringing in, a white light surrounds the game board, which is turned on as soon as the clue has been completely read; this light is almost never seen on the air. In Season 6, Alex Trebek began wearing glasses. The category headings' neon lights changed from red to light blue, and like the first season, would light up as each category was announced. Starting in Season 4, the category headings would become backlit in blue, from this season until the end of Season 7 although the headings would change shape in Season 6, each would turn off when a category is finished. The set background changed from blue to red for Double Jeopardy! and Final Jeopardy!. Beginning early in season 7, the lights started to go dark during Final Jeopardy!. At the end of each episode, the monitors flashed the Jeopardy! logo, as well as the Final Jeopardy! logo, and it alternates between a blue screen, and a red screen, a shot of the host, and the day's episode winning champions.
The set background changed from blue to red in Double
For the Super Jeopardy! tournament in the summer of 1990, the set used four podiums in the quarterfinal games; there would be the usual three for the semifinals and finals. This was also the first time the lights started to go dark during Final Jeopardy!, which became permanent from Season 7 onward. Also, the category headings were in blue text instead of red as on the regular show. Not only that, we see the neon light border around each category go out when the last clue in that category was chosen. The surface of the set was hard instead of carpet. Additionally, the game board borders and scoreboard borders had a marble-like texture; the scoreboard outline was rounded off, which would carry over to the regular series' 7th season albeit without the marbled texture. In this special series, contestants play for points instead of money. The same closing animations from the regular show are used here.
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At the start of Season 8 on September 2, 1991, Jeopardy! introduced a brand new state-of-the-art set, which is designed by art director Ed Flesh. The set consisted of a metal grid on a background, where the 9 feet Jeopardy! logo lights up in a rotation of colors, such as neutral white and red. During the Double Jeopardy! round and Final Jeopardy! round segments, the set background changed to red as the Jeopardy! logo lights up in a rotation of colors, such as neutral white and blue. For the first half of the set's run, the Jeopardy! logo changed its color to a rotation of neutral white, blue, and red. The contestant podiums had a brand new look, same with the host's podium, and it has a shiny grid look. It was used during the introductions, in and out of commercial breaks, and during the closing credits. The entrance arch was eliminated, and from then until 2000, contestants simply walked onto the set during the introductions. The contestant scores atop the podiums were in incandescent seven-segment display so they could be seen when the lights dimmed during the Final Jeopardy! segments. The Final Jeopardy! logo appeared on the contestant podium monitors after the category was revealed before the 2-minute break to allow contestants to write down their wagers. At the end of each episode, the monitors display the Jeopardy! logo, which no longer flashes, and no longer alternates between a blue screen, and a red screen. So they used the closing animations between the two camera shots: a shot of the host, and the day's episode winning champions, just like the one you see on the game board.
Also, the game board changed several television monitors from 30 to 36, so the contestants can see the clues easier, and the categories began to display in the top row of the board, with various types of animation to reveal the categories at the start of each round. For its first season using the set, the category monitors were blank and the category names popped in, but would later zoom in as each category was announced, by Season 9, it was changed to show the names of the categories broken up into pieces top and bottom and the pieces would go together as each category was announced. When a category was completed, it would disappear from the monitor and remain blank for the rest of the round; this has been done on all sets since then. The game board monitors also made crazy designs that started as its logo on the whole board, then was broken into individual logos in each monitor, therefore covering up the dollar values to be revealed as Alex gets the show underway. It was usually shown as zigzags, spirals, merges, and multiple spirals. This usually occurred on camera after Johnny introduced Alex. This continued until Season 26 (2009-2010), based on people watching future episodes. In 2010, the monitors changed their technology. The set was best known for its metal-grid backdrop, making true to its nickname the "grid set." Also, from Season 9 until the end of this set's run, the backgrounds for the contestant monitors changed to red for the Double Jeopardy! segment to match the background, rather than staying blue throughout the entire show. Also, the contestant interviews would be moved from after the first commercial break to after completion of the first round, but starting in the middle of Season 13, the contestant interviews were moved back to after the first commercial break. Also, from Season 9 until the end of this set's run, for the Final Jeopardy! segments, spotlights were lit behind the contestants as they wrote down their responses. Midway through Season 9, the camera would cut from the clue to the set seen from the logo's point of view, and would slowly pan over to the contestants as they started to write down their responses.
On November 11, 1996, two months after the start of Season 13, Jeopardy! introduced an entirely new set, designed by production designer Naomi Slodki. The set featured a more wood-like appearance and was nicknamed the "Sushi Bar" set by fans. One notable new feature of the set in which the show's 9 feet logo no longer changed its color to a rotation of neutral white and red and blue; it was emblazoned on the sliding doors, which Alex Trebek enters the Jeopardy! set by walking down a small staircase. The contestant podiums had a brand new look, as well as the host's podium. The game board consisted of a wood paneling backdrop, and the stage floor consisted of a gray marble circle with a golden border on top, to match the set's backdrop. On some episodes during Celebrity weeks, celebrities make their entrances by entering the emblazoned sliding doors and walking to their contestants' podiums during their introductions. The backdrop of the set, consisted of dark gray granite columns and huge wood panels with small etched glass windows. Two big monitors on the left and right of the set had been added so that the audience can see the action. On the first episode of the set's run, the contestant monitors turned red in the Double Jeopardy! segment for the last time. The closing animations between the Jeopardy! logo, a shot of the host, and the day's episode winning champions were dropped, so now the camera would show different angles of the set, as well as shots of the host and the contestants.
In the first season of this set's run, the category monitors would be blank, and the categories would come in from both top and bottom, coming together. Beginning in Season 14, the categories were covered by the Jeopardy! and Double Jeopardy! logos, as well as a logo of a particular tournament. From 1997 to 2000, the categories rotated up. Beginning in 2000, the category effect screen faded in. Also starting in Season 14, the microphones were removed from the contestant podiums, and the contestants started wearing clip-on microphones, which have been used on all other sets since then. And at long last, the studio audience can now be seen during the host's entrance, going in and out of commercial breaks, and during the closing credits. Starting with the October 3, 1997 episode, the set no longer changed its color from blue to red in Double Jeopardy! and Final Jeopardy!; instead it stayed blue throughout the whole show. Before that date with this set, the background color would switch back to blue at the show's close. However, on the January 23, 1998 Celebrity Jeopardy! sportscasters episode, the set changed its color from blue to red in the Double Jeopardy! and Final Jeopardy! segments for the last time, and on the February 14, 1997 Teen Tournament Finals episode, the set was a rather unusual pink shade at the show's close. When the sushi bar set debuted on November 11, 1996, the glass had a darker shade of pink with the grid in purple. On 1997-2000 episodes, the glass consisted of a lighter shade of pink with the grid in blue. On 2000-2002 episodes, the pink on the sliding doors changed their color to a very pale lavender. In early 1998, the practice of popping in the dollar figures on the Double Jeopardy! board ended; they were already present in the monitors coming out of the second commercial break. This was first seen during the Tournament of Champions in February and became permanent in March. Beginning with the March 20, 2000 episode, the audience no longer applauded coming out of the 2nd commercial break; they were already silent coming out of the commercial break. Starting in Season 17, the contestants no longer entered the studio at the beginning of the show, they are already standing at their podiums. Previously in the last few seasons, blind contestants who made their appearances were now standing next to their podiums during their introductions, this happened only 5 times before Season 17, which is not counting the 1997 International Tournament, all occurring in Season 16 when the first-ever blind Jeopardy! contestant Eddie Timanus appeared and won five consecutive games. On September 19, 1997, the contestants were standing at their podiums to celebrate the 3,000th episode, and the players were introduced after Alex came through the sliding doors. For no apparent reason on the October 7, 1997 episode, all three contestants appeared standing next to their podiums for the very first time.
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From 1985 to 1997, the sets were designed to have a background color of blue for the Jeopardy! round and red for the Double Jeopardy! and Final Jeopardy! rounds. In 1991, the show introduced a brand new set that resembled a grid. [117]
