User talk:Daniel Benfield

Feel free to leave a message, and I'll try to get back to you as quickly as possible (assuming, of course, that your comment necessitates a reply). -Daniel Benfield 01:27, July 22, 2011 (UTC)

(If you're looking for discussions/messages from 2011 or the first half of 2012, see User talk:Daniel Benfield/2011 Archive and User talk:Daniel Benfield/2012 Archive.)

RuTube's "Tracks" links
I Google it. I type in "Wheel of Fortune (airdate) rutube" and it gives it to me. I then copy the "track" URL into my address bar, and then copy that into the Archive (by opening up a new tab, going to a page, and pasting it there). Complicated process, but it took some time for me to get used to it. Gameshowguy2000 22:22, June 30, 2012 (UTC)

There's something wrong with the Season 13 and 14 sections...
When you did the underlining, most of it carried over into the next section. I don't know where you went wrong with that one... Gameshowguy2000 03:09, July 1, 2012 (UTC)
 * Fixed; forgot to add something, and a  got left behind. Hence, the problems. -Daniel Benfield 03:17, July 1, 2012 (UTC)

Philly college episodes
According to a comment on YouTube, the one with the Boyz II Men cameo is 5/11/99, not 5/10 as previously thought. The one that's only on RuTube (where the guy fails to get I'M STUFFED) is 5/12, since they mention "two more days in Philly" in the final segment. TenPoundHammer 00:16, July 3, 2012 (UTC)

On the sub-subpages...
Should we combine them into one, or leave them as is? Gameshowguy2000 05:16, July 3, 2012 (UTC)

1995
I think only a few 1995 dates are wrong, if any. The Disney World episodes all match up, at least, by matching them up to a.t.g-s recaps. Also, I found a news article verifying the Dwight D. Eisenhower episodes as May 15 and 22. Finally, this news article verifies that Celebrity Award Winners was May 1. TenPoundHammer 18:46, July 4, 2012 (UTC)

Ohio State Fair
Did you ever notice that during the "Promo Slip Ups" video, Pat mentions, "Now soon we will be coming to Columbus to see you all at the Ohio State Fair..."

He doesn't actually say Ohio State Fair, because he laughs before he can, but it's pretty obvious that that's what he's referring to.

Whether or not that was one of your original sources, I don't know, but if not you now have legit evidence that they really did go there.

W. Austin Higgins 15:39, July 5, 2012 (UTC)

About the $25K-$50K Bonus Wheel envelopes...
I noticed you took out the info about the description of those envelopes (the Bonus Wheel animation and so forth). I thought they'd be relevant to the information about the envelopes themselves. Gameshowguy2000 22:31, July 6, 2012 (UTC)

Beeps
Okay. I wondered about this since I watched an early S6 episode and they only sounded four times. If you can find any proof either way (e.g., other 80s episodes where they only sound four times/S6 episodes where they sound eight), then let me know. TenPoundHammer 02:13, July 7, 2012 (UTC)

Hallelujah!
Your Christmastime rerun date for Season 12 is December 26-30.

Unfortunately, that doesn't explain the fact that the "incorrect" dates for Disneyword, Celebrity Week, and Virginia are all correct, but it might be as simple as moving all the other weeks up a week (though I might be wrong). Guint 15:25, July 9, 2012 (UTC)


 * Looking it over, April 17-21 is clearly the other rerun week. Also, TPH provided clear evidence that February 6-March 3 and May 1-5/15-26 are the actual airdates of the road shows, so eight weeks have been confirmed (technically nine, given that Teen Week was the last week of the season). Given how many times GSN aired S12, you'd think I'd be able to find someone with a complete list...but no.
 * I'd say we need to procure an airdate/episode number/contestant list from the show, but I don't know how we'd go about that. And no, I'm not going to try and fix the timeline/video archive. -Daniel Benfield 03:21, July 10, 2012 (UTC)

Season 15 Video Archive
Put in the video archive for Road shows that Wheel of Fortune went to Las Vegas Hilton in Nevada on February 2-13, 1998. 184.100.126.111 02:03, July 10, 2012 (UTC)

11/31/94 week
All five bonus rounds were not lost. On 11/3, a sculpture was won in the Bonus Round. I have no idea how I got it in my head that "the annuity was still there on Friday" meant "all five prizes were still there on Friday, so that means no one won that week". TenPoundHammer 02:27, July 10, 2012 (UTC)

Full-colour photo - Jan. '77
New photo just surfaced from January '77. Full colour. I spy the "Las Vegas" art card from Scott Hostetler's "Star Bonus"-era bonus puzzle

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151261508523102&set=a.10150129241868102.337825.608003101&type=1&theater

NoWhammies11 02:59, July 12, 2012 (UTC)

Here's the link to just the picture: https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/s720x720/578756_10151261508523102_810807848_n.jpg

NoWhammies11 11:39, July 12, 2012 (UTC)

Compendium
Ah, yes, that...

Yeah, the dates ARE completely fabricated. I'm currently in the process of making a list of shows with unconfirmed dates to have more "accurate" info (e.g. contestant names and information about the show), but I've been waiting until later to get shows from later seasons with unconfirmed dates.

I know it's probably not the best thing to do, but frankly, I felt like I would otherwise be dealing with a messy compedium...so I wanted SOME way to order them. If you would like to help make that list of the unconfirmed shows (or suggest another way of ordering them), I'd be more than grateful. :) Guint 13:11, July 12, 2012 (UTC)


 * This list is AWESOME. It's been put in an appendix in the Compendium subpage. Keep it up. :) Guint 21:49, July 12, 2012 (UTC)

Bad news...
YouTube user StuartMan12698 has just gotten the boot, as CBS Television Distribution/King World just wiped out all the videos he had on his channel.

Luckily he's got a DailyMotion account, so I'm thinking we should replace all the YouTube links of his channel with his DailyMotion links (of which there are a few of already in the Archives). What do you say? Gameshowguy2000 20:32, July 12, 2012 (UTC)


 * It may have my name above the door, and I appreciate your asking me, but you and Guint have done considerably more edits to those pages. Go ahead. :) -Daniel Benfield 20:48, July 12, 2012 (UTC)

Stars & Roles?
So I was just scoundering around, and I unearthed this (scroll down to the Wheel Recap, Round 3).

Have you ever seen anything like this? Guint 22:08, July 13, 2012 (UTC)

Kingskip
Hello. This is kingskip from rutube.ru. I was cleaning out some old files I had saved and found a bunch of episodes from Radio City Music Hall in 1988. The person who had uploaded them had the wrong dates and it seems there is lots of confusion on the dates of those shows. Can you please provide me a complete listing of the contestants on each day of those shows so that I'll know what order they should be in?

Thanks

173.12.234.12 19:29, July 14, 2012 (UTC)

Season 30 Wheel of Fortune
Hey, Daniel Benfield,

Can you confirm September 17 as the season premiere. I tried to make up suggestions for Wheel of Fortune's 30th season to send to Sony Pictures Studios, but then I got a letter stating that they could not read, let alone consider my materials. Examples of some of the changes I proposed were:

1. A major Wheel reconfiguration that would make $350 the lowest dollar value, use only one regular Bankrupt all-game and return $700.

2. The Big Bank - a new element that would collect contestants' cash whenever he/she lands on Bankrupt.

3. Scoreboards backgrounds, money font and animation changes reflecting off the weeks' theme, instead of the red, yellow and blue backgrounds.

4. The neon decorations using their gold color permanently, reflecting off the 70s, 80s and 90s where they used gold decorations.

5. Having prize wedges and gift tags stay on the Wheel in Round Four and onward, where they could be won in the Speed-Up Round if Pat landed on one. He would pick it up, and consonants would be worth the value underneath plus $1,000, and whomever solves the Speed-Up Round could also win the prize wedge.

6. The return of the Surprise wedge.

I am pretty distraught that Sony Pictures could not read my materials. I just wish I knew why they are waiting so late to premiere their seasons recently. I tried to convince them to premiere Season 30 on September 3rd, 2012, Labor Day Monday, which could have made it the first time since 2004 for the show to premiere on Labor Day Monday, because, and I mean no offense to anyone by this, I think it's ridiculous to be waiting so late! Somebody, I think, needs to tell Sony Pictures Studios to premiere the future seasons on Labor Day. I just need confirmation of September 17, 2012. Please respond on my talk page or down below.

76.217.105.89 21:57, July 14, 2012 (UTC)

On those other Pipeworks clips...
You don't think those have any relevance to the Season 28 archive? Gameshowguy2000 23:57, July 16, 2012 (UTC)
 * No. Two of them are just clips of the October 22 show rather than animations, while the third is their logo animation from the Wii game (based on the Season 27 intro). So no, they aren't relevant. -Daniel Benfield 00:02, July 17, 2012 (UTC)

Season 12 Schedule
Since this has always been a pressing subject, I noticed this: ...do you think you can confirm this? Because it seems pretty strange to me to have three Teen Weeks, not to mention a Teen Best Friends Week and a "My Favorite Teacher" week with teens competing. Guint (talk) 21:21, July 26, 2012 (UTC)
 * "April 10 is Teen Week."


 * More information, this time from IMDB. It implies that the Season 13 premiere week was the second Teen Week that calendar year, not the third. So maybe perhaps that April 10 Teen Week IS wrong. Guint (talk) 13:58, July 31, 2012 (UTC)

On a couple episodes in the Seasons 23-26 database...
I noticed you removed the trademark symbol for QVC and Sandals. Any reason for that? Gameshowguy2000 (talk) 03:27, July 31, 2012 (UTC)
 * The (R) symbol looked out-of-place and cumbersome. -Daniel Benfield (talk) 06:10, July 31, 2012 (UTC)

Pilot
Where did you get the info on the rest of the Edd pilot? TenPoundHammer (talk) 23:43, August 4, 2012 (UTC)

Fur Coat
The picture of the contestant wearing the fur coat on the premiere goes back to something your mom said about a contestant wearing a fur coat for an entire episode.

If this contestant was the champion, she may have worn the coat for the next episode. Your mom could be remembering the second episode...

W. Austin Higgins (talk) 14:43, August 5, 2012 (UTC)


 * I don't think so; before seeing the picture (or, indeed, its source), I told her the contestant kissed Chuck and said that "no man ever gave me a mink coat before". Almost immediately after I said that, she started playfully hitting my arm – it all fell into place for her.


 * (Also, regarding the Wheel configurations page, I'm pretty sure I can confirm the entire 1975a Round 3 layout. Watch your email...) -Daniel Benfield (talk) 19:33, August 5, 2012 (UTC)

New York
Did Don appear on-camera on any of the NYC 1988 episodes? I could've sworn he did, but RuTube's being buggy for me right now so I can't figure out for myself. TenPoundHammer (talk) 21:02, August 9, 2012 (UTC)

Pam/Marlene/Gary
How did you figure that was 9/20? TenPoundHammer (talk) 05:05, August 13, 2012 (UTC)
 * Snowpeck taped the first few and last few weeks of Season 6. He's also been my source on the Seasons 2 and 5 info. -Daniel Benfield (talk) 05:14, August 13, 2012 (UTC)

Shopper's Bazaar and Wheel of Fortune Pilot production credits question?

Trying to find out full production credits for "Shopper's Bazaar pilot and Wheel Of Fortune pilots from 1974. and trying to locate the 6/7/1976 episode with full credit roll. and any full credit roll from 1975-1982. Yuck1990 (talk) 22:13, August 13, 2012 (UTC)

January 1990
During reruns that season, "It's an encore presentation" was dubbed in after "It's America's most loved show" and "The famous wheel is spinning your way. One rerun week, most likely the one in April 1990, featured contestants who retired with at least $100,000. That week had "It's encore week, featuring our $100,000 winners" dubbed in.