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January Enterprises (1964–1975) Califon Enterprises (1978–1979) Jeopardy Productions, Inc. (1984–present) Merv Griffin Productions (1964–1975, 1978–1979) Merv Griffin Enterprises (1984–1994) Columbia TriStar (Domestic) Television (1994–2002) Sony Pictures Television (2002–present)
January Enterprises (1964–1975) Califon Enterprises (1978–1979) Jeopardy Productions, Inc. (1984–present) Merv Griffin Productions (1964–1975, 1978–1979) Merv Griffin Enterprises (1984–1994) Columbia TriStar (Domestic) Television (1994–2002) Sony Pictures Television (2002–present)
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, or The All-New Jeopardy!, is a version of Jeopardy! that aired on N.B.C. Daytime from October 2, 1978 to March 2, 1979 immediately after Card Sharks, not withstanding a C.B.S. pilot episode a year earlier in 1977.
Presented by Art Fleming and John Harlan, it would be the final version to have them both together, and the final time they were involved with Jeopardy! due to a shake up at Merv Griffin's Califon Enterprises that compelled Wheel Of Fortune emcees Chuck Woolery and Susan Strafford to leave the production company also.
Art Fleming previously hosted other versions of Jeopardy! that ran on N.B.C. Daytime from March 30, 1964 to January 3, 1975 as well as the first and weekly syndicated version in 1974. Merv Griffin never splurged on game show set designs, taking until nearly 1998 to upgrade Wheel Of Fortune's set, utilizing technology that was available for 40 years at the time. Like Wheel Of Fortune, Jeopardy! utilized a human operated game board requiring manual pull cards removed from behind the board. Jeopardy!'s music package was largely Bossa Nova. By the game show's finale, the set had been upgraded slightly. Parts of the game is not that much different from today.
However, 1975 many game shows were canceled. Shortly after, Shopper's Bazaar was green lit as Wheel Of Fortune, indirectly replacing Jeopardy!. Merv Griffin briefly considered reviving it three years later with a possible broadcast for the C.B.S. network. N.B.C. had went ahead and approved of The All New Jeopardy, which is the first time that Wheel Of Fortune and Jeopardy! were made simulateneously. To imitate its lead in Card Sharks, the set and music and even the game's procedures were upgraded.
This game show was rarely referred to as The All New Jeopardy!; Instead it was simply Jeopardy!, with The All New Jeopardy! being a descriptive title. Another descriptive title to distinguish from what most people know as Jeopardy! is to include the host's name, Fleming Jeopardy!, not unlike Woolery Wheel. Announcer John Harlan referred to it as Jeopardy!, with the on screen credits, and stage utilzing a red staggered Jeopardy! logo.
Versions of January, February, March! and Frisco Disco! are included in the music package, written when Jeopardy! was off the air. As with Card Sharks, it featured a black, gold, red, and white set design. It also includes, as with Card Sharks, a flashing motorized logo appearing behind the emcee. Asterisk-like shapes are also incorporated in the set design. Sound effects were expanded, all mechanical. While the board was still manually operated, the doors were upgraded, which reveals a brightly backlit gold game board. The cards themselves are behind a sheet of glass. As the game is played, selected clues change from gold to red. Music plays at the beginning of each round: Some episodes have wind chimes, others have Harps. Contestants were allowed to press their button the moment a bell chimed. Some episodes utilized the same chime when the contestant pressed the button. Other episodes no sound effect was added to the buttons. At the very beginning of one episode, the sound was played accidentally.
The drastic changes in game play included an automatic elimination at the end of each round, even if the contestants have positive scores. However, as long as they do in fact have positive scores, it is converted to cash along with the traditional consolation prizes. The main reason to keep one contestant for the end of the game is to prevent Jeopardy! from being canceled again. They decided to change the bonus round entirely, in their efforts. Instead of Final Jeopardy!, they have to play Super Jeopardy!, or The Super Jeopardy! Bonus Board, a Bingo styled timed Jeopardy! game. Five in a row in any direction meant the contestant won a set amount of cash. Returning Champions were eligible to win an increased amount of cash. Think! was not played; No music was played during the bonus round. However, contestants are able to wager if they landed on a Daily Double.
•It was canceled around 100 completed episodes.
•Art Fleming never regularly hosted a game show, particularly with Califon, ever again. He declined to return when it was revived, and was replaced by High Rollers, Double Dare, and Battlestars host Alex Trebek. Art Fleming did not approve of the drastic changes to Jeopardy!, which continued in the 1980s to include the requirement that the contestants be silent while the emcee reads the clues. They could no longer interrupt the clue for a more challenging game.
•Since Jeopardy! (and Alex Trebek) have become cultural icons, most fans react coldly towards The All New Jeopardy!, not understanding why there is a different host as well as why the game play was changed, nor why the rules are different.
•Meanwhile, Wheel Of Fortune continues to be unfazed no matter what changes they made.
Officially, this version of Jeopardy! no longer exists. It is very rare to find any episodes of Jeopardy! hosted by Art Fleming. It was unusual for networks, particularly N.B.C., to archive daytime television. The packagers would need to pay shipping and handling and keep the episodes by themselves with rare exceptions such as The Hollywood Squares...
•The back and forth with Mark Goodson continued with the next version of To Tell The Truth adopting a red disco themed set.
•By the early 1980s, some elements from The All New Jeopardy! such as the logo and the music package carried over to a pilot episode for the second syndicated version.
•They ultimately decided on a complete change, with one exception: The Jeopardy! logo, despite being a different font now, stayed red for the first season.
•Also, for several years, Double Jeopardy! and Final Jeopardy! utilized red lighting.
•By the early 1990s, the back and forth continued yet again with To Tell The Truth utilzing a set not unlike Jeopardy!'s at the time, complete with large glowing flashing block letters.
•Subsequent versions of Jeopardy! continued to evolve away from this, with the final nods to the original Jeopardy! being Bongos added for a while during Jeopardy!'s theme music, which is Think! all the time. Final Jeopardy!'s Think! remained unchanged for the moment.
•In An Extremely Goofy Movie, when Goofy is talking to the lady that approves his job search, she asks him to finish school. He answers in the form of a question. Her response references The Super Jeopardy! Bonus Board.
Califon Enterprises, Inc., a subsidiary of Califon Productions, Inc., produced the 1978-1979 revival of Jeopardy!, known as The All-New Jeopardy!. Anthony Productions, Inc. is the copyright holder for The Merv Griffin Show and Dance Fever .
Overview. Best Albums. New Releases. This Year. Top Artists. The Best Christmas Albums of 1979. Decade. 1970s. Source. All. Genre. Christmas. 1970s. 1971. 1972. 1973. 1974. 1975. 1976. 1977. 1978. 1979. 1. Emmylou Harris - Light of the Stable. November 0, 1979. Christmas, Country. Critic Score. 80. 1 review. Amazon. 2. Willie Nelson - Pretty Paper.
Several 1984-1985 episodes have the copyright stamp say "CAliFON PRODUCTiON, INC. Starting in the 1985-1986 season, the company name and the copyright stamp are pacific blue instead of silver . On December 22, 1986, the Coca-Cola byline is placed under the MGE name in the same byline setup as the 1986-1987 Embassy Communications logo, with ...
