Nancy Jones

Nancy Jones was a producer on Wheel of Fortune, joining by the All-Star Dream Machine Championship in 1976 (as co-producer with John Rhineheart), becoming the sole producer by March 25, 1980. She remained in this role for the rest of the show's daytime run and on nighttime until around Spring 1995, when she was replaced by Harry Friedman.

During her Wheel tenure, Nancy appeared in several behind-the-scenes reports on the show and played herself in the 1989 documentary American Beauty Ltd. She was nominated for Daytime Emmys in 1982 and 1984-89 for the daytime show, and from 1990-95 for the nighttime run, but never won.

Jones' tenure on Wheel has become most remembered for an incident during the week of February 27, 1995, when she accepted a contestant's Megaword sentence for BOMBASTIC ("Being on Wheel of Fortune is a bombastic experience.") with "If she really feels that way!"

Following Wheel, Nancy worked on the 1990s version of Pictionary (hosted by original Wheel music composer Alan Thicke), where she received an Emmy nomination but again did not win. She was married to comedian Joe Piscopo from 1973-88, having one child (Joey) in 1979 and executive-producing Joe's 1984 TV movie The Joe Piscopo Special.