Talk:Wheel 2000/@comment-29394979-20190703234214/@comment-35988681-20190707033547

That's just the oddest thing, because it was a kid's version that had so many significant differences from the originating show and made to comply with e/i requirements in Saturday morning programming on CBS. I really don't get why they include it among the other versions (daytime either under Chuck, Pat, Rolf or Bob) the current version during the first one and done era from 1983 to 1989, the returning champions era in 1989 to 1996 as well as Friday Finals and one and done since 1998. Since Wheel 2000 technically is not exactly the same as all of the former ones that should eliminate it from being grounds for rendering contestants who appeared on the show as kids ineligible from the process to be on the adult show.

That's honestly never made sense to me, especially in terms of Jeopardy's former kid version Jep! as they don't AFAIK have the same rules as Wheel in terms of contestants who may have played on that. Given how it's been operations on that since the five appearance limit was done away with back in 2003/2004 leading up to Ken Jennings' historic run and not to mention the Tournament of Champions.