Wheel of Fortune (Australia) - December 20 1996 - Tony Barber's Final Episode
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- General episode - Friday, December 20, 1996
Featuring Barbara, Paul and Caroline
Also features Bridget Adams filling in for Adriana Xenides
This is the final episode that went to air with Tony Barber as host. At the end of the episode there is talk of returning the following week for Christmas, but in the credits is the special thank you credits to Tony, Bridget and Ron E Sparks along with Christmas wishes to the audience, leading us to assume that episodes following that were taped but never aired. Rob Elliott would make his debut about a fortnight later on January 6, 1997 with Tony handing the show over to him. You may even notice a couple of nuances of 1997 in this episode.
Thank you also to Jason Scott for the episode. - Zábava
Awesomeness wheel please do more thanks
$120 more and Barbara would have chosen that fourth consonant.
Ho long did Tony Barber do Wheel Of Fortune for? I only remember John Burgess then Rob Elliott, I must have missed these.
5 months. July 15 to December 20. He did make an appearance on January 6 1997 to hand the show over to Rob Elliott.
@@7120Magnum Thanks for that.
@@7120MagnumI wonder if anyone has that footage
@@ruantengyi some of the game show traders have it, but it’s quite hard to strike up a trade with them and I’ve given up on them now. Former contestants I found were the ones most helpful. Closest I got was finding Rob Elliott’s third episode from round 2 onwards and watching Barbara (the champion in this episode here) lose on her 5th night but walking away with over $19,000 worth in prizes.
Good morning mum to see what time today is doing things Christmas
I wonder that after Tony Barber departed from the show, this is when he retired from full time working?
He didn’t retire per sé, networks just didn’t want to touch him with a barge pole afterwards. In essence Wheel killed his career. He actually said in his autobiography that pretty much his only regret in his career was doing Wheel. His contract with Seven was actually renewed in mid-1997 for a further 2 years and the trade-off for “resigning” from the Wheel was other projects with the network. Ultimately they sidelined him and eventually cut him loose in mid-1998.
7:02 uh uh!!
Good episode. I'm a bit surprised to see that the show continued into December and came back early January at the time, considering most shows usually start around the end of January and finish on the last Friday of November
Would it be far-fetched to say that the show finishing so late and starting again early for the new year had something to do with the fallout from the July 1996 changes and that they were extending the season to try and get viewers back following the sharp loss of viewers with the change? Unless the show always had an almost year-round run at the time
I think this was a one-off James. Burgo had signed with Nine and one of his gigs was filling in for Kerri-Anne on Midday over the off season. Nine most likely would have been running repeats of Sale and Price while Ten would have had their news or something in place of Neighbours depending on where you lived. Consider this also - you had Tennis all through January and with other networks running repeats in the timeslot if there was no sports coverage, my guess is Seven may have been hinting that the viewers might tune in for something fresh. Tennis usually rated good and bringing Wheel back early to go alongside the tennis if anything was a genius move - viewer got acquainted with Rob and some may say they were prepared to watch it because at least Tony was no longer there. By the time Catch Phrase debuted, Wheel had regained its ground and says a lot given Catch Phrase was cancelled on 3 separate occasions.
Did Tony Barber get sacked or did he resign from the wheel himself? He seemed ok as host.
@@kylemacdonald9711 On November 27, Seven released a statement in which Tony announced his resignation.
They did reruns of wheel of fortune until 2004 in Brisbane Adelaide and Perth whist the tennis was on due to the time difference.
The news music package is also used by NBC.
Its the other way around. The news theme was written for NBC and licenced by Network Seven.
When did they brought back the original theme? Of course, when Tony started hosting the show, they had a different intro which people didn’t like.
5 weeks after Tony’s debut. It was scrapped at the second round of taping (except for during the introduction of the new contestants) - they’d shot 5 weeks worth of shows in early July and then returned for the second round of filming after the Atlanta Olympics were over, and the first episode from that second round aired on August 19.
Was Tony the only one who called the Major Prize Round the "Golden Wheel"?
Good chance of it.
She just missed out on the car! Damn it!
I hate snowy picture but this is the clearest.
Barbara's a bit too cool for school isn't she
4:53 - 4:54
4:35
Ron Sparks: Experience the Lantra Sportswagon GL with Superb Performance of a 1.8L Fuel-Injected Engine, is combined with Power Steering, Wide Michelin Tyres and Anti-Lock Braking for uncompromising control. The Rear Deck has a Luggage Cover for Visual Security and fitted standard is a 4-Speaker Radio Cassette. It's Valued at $23,990 the Sportswagon GL from Hyundai.
Geez Tony was awkward as hell. Bumbling all over the place. For me the show was never really the same post-Burgo/Adriana
4:15 BANKRUPT
$49,990 for a jeep then shit
4:15 BANKRUPT