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** Lin Bolen, who was then NBC's vice president for daytime programming, wanted to oust all of the network's games hosted by middle-aged men on technologically-obsolete sets, as part of an aggressive attempt to bolster ratings among women aged 18-34, so she moved ''Jeopardy!'' on January 7, 1974 from its long-held (and ratings-proven) Noon slot to 10:30 AM — directly against ''[[Pyramid|The $10,000 Pyramid]]'' on [[CBS]]; Fleming pummeled Clark's new game into a ''very'' unexpected submission at the end of March and ran equal with ''Pyramid''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s replacement at that slot, ''[[Gambit]]''. Needless to say, this was ''not'' what Bolen wanted, and so she moved it on July 1 to 1:30 PM Eastern/12 Noon Pacific — against ''[[Let's Make a Deal]]'' and ''[[As the World Turns]]'' in the east (against local programming on CBS affiliates and ''[[Password]]'' on ABC in the west), which pummeled it into submission. In exchange for the final year of the show's contract, Merv Griffin debuted ''[[Wheel of Fortune]]'' the Monday after ''Jeopardy!'' ended.
** The 1978-79 version began its life on October 2 at 10:30 AM against the first half of ''[[The Price Is Right]]''. On January 5, the show moved to its old Noon slot — now against ''[[The Young and The Restless]]'' and a beefed-up ''$10,000 Pyramid'' (now ''The $20,000 Pyramid''). ''Jeopardy!'' was canned two months later.
* [[Scully Box]]: Shorter contestants are placed on boxes so that they can see over the podium. One contestant on October 23, 2014 actually played from a chair on top of a box, because her leg was in a cast.
** The 1993 College Tournament winner Phoebe Juel recounts how the coordinators had to search the studio for more boxes because the ones which were on hand were too short for her.
* [[Throw It In]]: More than once, Alex has misread a clue and insisted that his slip-up be left in. One example is when he misread "sewers" (i.e., people who sew) as "sewers" (i.e., sanitary sewer).
** Late 1990s: Johnny Gilbert mistakenly said "Glenn Trebek". While this may seem a totally arbitrary name-switch, Glenn was the name of one of the contestant coordinators, who at the time hosted the "practice" games that contestants-to-be played.
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