Wheel of Fortune: "Big Wheel" | 60 Minutes Archive

In 1986, Morley Safer went behind the scenes of "the game show of game shows": "Wheel of Fortune." At the time, Safer reported the show's success was "so pervasive" that it affected the nation's news-watching habits.
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[@edyann]

I wish I could go back to those days! He will be missed for sure..

[@ReallifeBambiDeerattheFarm1]

So true.

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

Don't forget the OG's: Chuck Woolery and Susan Stafford...

[@calebhkelley]

We can forget Chuck Woolery.

[@Wyattinous]

3:13 Pat Sajak being an “interesting young man” 😂 boy I bet he’d love to hear those words again. It’s also interesting the way Vana is being described, being America’s “darling” at that time, the media world’s gotten much bigger since then.

[@jmiller297]

That's "VANNA."

[@tristonalexis2164]

Goodbye Pat! Nice knowing ya, you're will be missed... as an all-time favorite game show host for the past 41 years. 😍 wishing 🤞🏿 you the best of luck on your new chapter.

[@MrDuds1984]

Vanna was so amazingly gorgeous in the 80’s

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

Yes, a "Price is Right" contestant, and the "Goddess of Love"... and still gorgeous at 67...

[@alexthompson9516]

She was in Playboy, May 1982....you talk about gorgeous...yow!

[@MrDuds1984]

@@alexthompson9516 remember it well it was almost a national scandal

[@Stevesautopartsify]

​@@alexthompson9516remember getting that issue in the mail! 😮

[@jmiller297]

​@@alexthompson9516 1987

[@fixagent81]

I’m glad I lived to see Alex and Pat on game shows the golden era for sure!

[@YankeeStacking]

Ah yes. When the SHOPPING after the win was in WoF. 😂

[@opticscolossalandepicvideo4879]

Pat Sakak once drunkenly punched Bob Hope in the face

[@minarue]

Lmao wow

[@rillest75]

Pat would show to work coked up constantly. Not surprised

[@TripSoul10]

1986 game shows included wheel of fortune, Jeopardy, the price is right, sale of the century, the $100000 pyramid, card sharks, super password, scrabble.

[@aleomedia]

I used to work at a TV station that was #1 in the ratings 23 out of 24 hours of the day. The only time we weren't #1 in our market was when Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy were on another competing TV station.

[@imal25]

WAY A GO PAT SAJAK FOR 43 YEARS OF HOSTING THE SHOW.

[@thisisme3238]

What a great job to have 👍

[@marlene4465]

So sad life just went by so fast. This was the best Game Show, Ryan will ever fit the part. We will Miss You PAT Sajak.🥰🥰🥰🥰😃

[@mattkramer4132]

Happy R_T_RM_NT Pat!🥳

[@mattmayo3539]

Hang man and roulette. I always wondered where they got the concept for this game.

[@DDELE7]

The story goes after the original run of Jeopardy! With Art Fleming ended on NBC, Merv Griffin was looking to create his next big hit for TV and after much tinkering he came up with Wheel of Fortune for NBC. And then in the 1980’s King World (the predecessor of CBS Media Ventures) paired the syndicated version of Wheel with a newly revived Jeopardy! The rest is TV history. Today Sony (who owns the rights to both Wheel and Jeopardy!) takes in over $100 Million in revenue per year just from that program.

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

Does Pat get to take the $50 ceramic Dalmation home (I hear that it's still somewhere on the set for luck)? ;-)

[@johnnyballenatl]

At the time of this story, Fairbanks, AK was stuck with just daytime Wheel; it wasn’t until 1988 when then-CBS station KTVF finally took the plunge and picked up the nighttime show (after they dropped the shopping and went to all-cash). But these days…no more Rice-A-Roni; _everybody_ wins on Wheel (though only the night’s top winner plays the bonus round for more money - up to $100,000 or even $1 million! - or a car).

[@material___]

Vanna still is very beautiful, but her beauty in the 80s was truly unmatched.

[@DannyShipley-rb4nj]

👍🇺🇸 good run, Pat…. Enjoy ur long awaited Retirement with ur family 👍🇺🇸 “today is the last episode with Sajak at the helm”

[@Irejectthisspying]

Glenda Lewis from Detroit could flip them letters nicely

[@alexthompson9516]

This aired the day before I was born.

[@jf9488]

I wish the set still looked like this. I hate all of the green board imagery now.

[@thedeliciousrecap]

“What is blander than mashed potatoes? Pat Sajak” 😂. I love how 60 minutes’ question in this report is basically “why is this mindless, boring show so popular?”

[@minarue]

Cryyyy no! The best co-hosts

[@malcolmdean6899]

Too bad Pat and Vanna couldn't stick it out till 2026 to make it 40 years even.

[@UrsusTheodorusdoesGameShows]

They were on the show together since the daytime version since December 1982.

[@neglectoid]

i'll take that deck of cards for $250.

[@SwampBarbie]

What's blander than mashed potatoes?? 😂Pat Sajak!😂

[@thedeliciousrecap]

Right? 😂 I laughed at that too!

[@rillest75]

I don't care how dry she might be nowadays. Id still love a ride with Vanna White

[@darrylh1971]

I wish that the 60 Minutes feature from 1975 about the 1974-1975 New Treasure Hunt Rolls Royce fainter was posted.

[@EnchiladaBoulevard]

Is this the same pink door that ran down from Texas as Judge Roy Bean? If so I'd worry for everyone in between who are affected by a Church speaking as the trust of it's listeners. These shows are available in dead end streets, here called a ' cul-de-sac' ( culled a sack ) where they accidentally get into expecting public responses and the viewer either can't, won't, has no way, has just cause not to of r is under different orders than the speakers knew about. No recognizeable response comes in and tone takes the place of driver's licence English wherever the responders sense it. There the speaker can't be the speaker for or of the house, especially if they're a stranger in real life or truth is breached and the federalist extends into the bellies of the show's staff as salads or something in the area, usually lettuce, as an emergency way to try to pull the power invested in the viewer who is pudding so far away yet with no way to help the people who never helped the mysterious non responsiveness of the on signal from the other side of the fence they didn't know they're expected to hop. Then feelings get hurt, readers trust the codes, hasty judgement processing takes the place of the priest, cook's woulds and won't signs, and the order's inreach that somehow manifest as arrests against the order;a normal social behavior when the beef just isn't cooked to match the speaker as priests, for examples and chocolate, cocoa and other non-domestic, reoccurring symptoms of a 'fools labels/corner-red' NOTICED by the station far sooner than the viewers we're NOTICED and had a business tool specialty teaching in the style of the 'government class know + how 101' that got the television show broadcasters the rights to speak as everyone else where they can't all be filed under the proof of the HOUSE CHANGES needed - from the stores code - that prove the powers invested in the viewer are returning the same rights as the trapped viewers. Or, unusually tough stains replace the changes instead of new roofing materials ~ overdue by 30 years and stuff are replaced by in~securities insteads, relating to the ages of the television show broadcasters as a vulture culture who's ages prove they're now victims of the station's short falling where they refuse to send their missionary to the front door 🚪. It's an or! Weee out it daily to see the sun! That's saving grace! Because the Equal Opportunity Employment Funds has a letter placement rule ( F ) in it's backpedal toolkits at the station - where the viewer can't reach in. So, by the power invested in the viewer, by the 'E.O.E. and F'

[@anandguruji83]

Wheel of Fortune: "Big Wheel" | 60 Minutes Archive

[@anandguruji83]

Wheel of Fortune: "Big Wheel" | 60 Minutes Archive

[@dreadfuldonkey]

I’d like to solve the puzzle, TRUMP2024

[@thesand808]

Jeopardy Crossover: I'll take "Things that will never happen" for 200.

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

It's C_NV_CT 2024

[@jimmyboyzable]

Yeah, Trump for PRISON 2024

[@minarue]

@@jimmyboyzable Lmao

[@jf9488]

Yesssss!!! TRUMP 2024!!!

[@zachhoran]

This was posted in the wake of the Pat Sajak hosting stint on Wheel of Fortune's appearance as a contestant on the June 7, 2024 episode of Bucket Kickers.