Wheel of Fortune (Australia) (19 Jul 1996) - End of Tony Barber's First Week 

I couldn't believe how much the production values dropped when the Price Is Right returned. In the previous run of the show they were giving away $400,000 apartments. Even the games themselves looked like nasty cheap props. No wonder the show didn't last.

I attended a taping of the show and all I could think about was how backwards it went. No surprise it didn't last the year

Yeah Tony Nasso is my dad

The sound of a 100rpm horse cart engine🤣

@Spi Cybershark It wasn’t exclusive to round 1, it’s just most of the episodes on RU-vid that featured it had the prize go off in the first puzzle. There was an episode from the 1995 family week where it didn’t go off at all that night and was placed in round 1 on the yellow $180 space, the green $165 space beside the Bankrupt in round 2 and then the $700 space in round 3. It was later revived in October 1996 under the guise of the Top Dollar Prize.

Not so. Tony had no input into the production side of the show. It was producers behind the scenes slowly undoing everything they’d done. 5 weeks worth of shows was taped at first and when the next round of taping started after the Olympics, the decision was made to bring back the old music. The music used here to introduce the new contestants remained for a little while longer trying to get both themes to co-exist but was eventually scrapped. When his “resignation” from the show was announced in November he did mention about objecting to being held responsible for ALL of the changes and everything the viewers didn’t like about it.

@@7120Magnum that’s sad. Tony is a great game show host and even though it was weird having a different host, people should have cut him some slack.

I got to see not so long ago on Facebook a video shared to Tony’s page - it was a “Hey Dad” repeat and went to the ad break, the first ad was a preview of that day’s Wheel. I’m assuming it was July 23 because they opened the ad up alluding to the fact Tim had been beaten. From what I could see, Tim was beaten by a bloke named Angelo (the carry over champion in the ad), the blue player that night was bloke called Lucas, and I don’t know who the female yellow player was because I couldn’t catch the name tag. Another thing that came up in the ad was the shot of Tony walking up to his spot on the podium mouthing the lyric “Wheel Of Fortune, Australia’s Game” from the new theme song.

I would beg to differ. Quite often Tony was encouraging them to solve as soon as they knew the puzzle, thus trying to avoid the "speed-up" round. And yes, they did actually discontinue the 4-round game in October 1996, taking it back to the old 3 puzzles until the change of set at the beginning of 1999. There are episodes floating around from late-1996 (including Tony's final episode) that show the format was changed back.

It was a change made in terms of revamping the show. The Major Prize Round concept remained the same, but used the envelopes instead of the golden wheel. Unsurprisingly though, it wasn’t well received and was replaced with a new-look Golden Wheel a matter of weeks later.

Yeah cause its my dad

As of 2001, the US version has a miniature 24-wedge wheel, the contestant spins it to determine their bonus prize but it's still sealed in an envelope and not revealed until after the round. Also in 2008 they added a $1 million prize. To win it the contestant has to land on the million dollar wedge in the main game, call for a correct letter and win that round. Then they have to win the game without hitting a bankrupt from then on. If they succeed the $100,000 envelope is replaced on the bonus wheel with a $1 million dollar envelope. Then it's hit that envelope and solve the bonus puzzle. Not easy to do needless to say but it's been done a few times.

Briefly, it didn’t take off in Australia.

@@Inaworldoflove Kinda funny, the two most popular shows in syndication here in US for many years (paired together in fact in most areas nightly) where I'm from (unsure if you are or not), he hosted and didn't last but a year or less on either of them. Interesting how that works.

It was a theme of game shows in the ‘90s, kiss kiss.

What do u expext, the Answér was sport relatéd AND thé Answér was an ARSE-STRAAAAYLEAN

I thought it was Dean Jones which also fitted

B for Bob

You’re too biased.