Wizard of Odds - March 19th, 1974 on NBC, Full Episode (unknown episode #) 

Pat Sajak announced he will retire from WOF at year's end.

​@@luisreyes1963And now, minus some celebrity specials, he officially has.

More than you could know. It’s very special and I was so excited to be able to have it digitized. I am so glad everyone is enjoying it. Unfortunately, this is the only episode I have.

Definitely well missed in everything he did. Ken Jennings can't hold a candle to him as an emcee and comes off as conniving and untrustworthy.

He’s dead and won’t be reading this.

Same here. But, while the video quality is poor, I'm glad this was uploaded since NBC wiped all the videos from this short-lived series. A great memory from the past!

R.I.P. ❤❤❤❤❤❤🕊🕊 Both gone too soon. ❤️❤️❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

The man in the Decaf commercial is David Groh. Valerie Harper’s husband on “Rhoda”.

Blame the late-60s early-70s practice of "wiping". You know when you used to have a VCR and you taped over something you wanted to keep on a tape of yours? Television networks made a practice of it -- called "wiping" -- and that's why most of these shows have been completely lost to time.

Who did you expect, Vince Russo? 😂😂😂😂

True

It goes into the lost media wiki!

@@anthonyguarino4242 Actually there is another episode of "The Wizard of Odds" at the UCLA Film and Television Archives. I visited there a few years ago, and watched it. All I know is it featured a cameo appearance by actor Don Defore ("Th Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" and "Hazel").

@@disneyfan8178 can you post another episode on RU-vid?

@@anthonyguarino4242 Sorry, I can't.

I was 8 years old when this show was on tv, and I remember liking it when I saw it.

he was also a real quizenater in double dare.

AND his mustache.. Up until then I never saw any game show host that sported a mustache..

Vaguely, my brother more so. I was 3, lol

Speaking of Jeopardy!, Looks who's name is one of the clues at 10:35

@@jessyleppert2 Yes and Merv Griffin became his boss 10 years later.

It certainly was, and Alex wasn't freaking out over assholes in the audience that much either compared to this turkey!

Chuck Woolery is pretty good too.

They probably recorded it on tape ages ago. It is a miracle!

Be bold!!! So my mother is the winning contestant and had passed recently and my original intent was a memorial to her. I knew we had the tape and that was converted to a Betamax tape. I had no idea my father had had it digitally burned to a disk. I knew I had to rip it and post this as soon as possible. I am blown away at the response it’s getting. I couldn’t more joyed. My whole family loved game shows and I carry that as well. I only wish I had more.

This is really fantastic. So awesome to see your mother be so happy and win all those prizes after all these years all over again. I will echo the other comments above that this was a great find, and we are all grateful for your efforts to have had this digitized and shared with the world.

@@JDsk8r215 Thank you so much for sharing your family's passion for the genre with the rest of us.

@@JDsk8r215 Your mom had a wonderful smile and she was very smart! I am so glad your family has this great keepsake & thank you for sharing this with all of us. I was 10 when this came out and I remember watching "Wizard Of Odds" with my grandfather.

As well as Celbrity Sweepstakes and the Midnight Special

It’s been in the garage, lol. It’s a digital rip of the original network tape.

I was mistaken that this was the network copy, but rather my father had some television education and had recorded this on a super Betamax when it aired. He then transferred it onto an regular Betamax tape later in the 80s. Even later he had the Betamax tape put on a dvd, (not sure when exactly). We always had planned on digitizing it and were pretty surprised when he told me he already had it. I took the disk home that night and ripped it, only to find the audio was not playing correctly on the left side, so I had my brother make the audio mono so it sounded better. We’re going to look to get a digital copy of the super Betamax, so we can restore the audio to stereo and hopefully have it enhanced so it’ll remove the poor tracking static so it'll appear clearer.

@@JDsk8r215 You mean a 3/4" U-matic tape? Still very interesting. (Original audio was mono - even on the studio master tape.) Did your father record anything else? I (and a lot of others) would be quite interested to see more stuff like this.

@@JDsk8r215 Poor tracking or not, you have given us a glimpse into a show that many of us had only heard about, but never seen. My compliments to you and your family for preserving this.

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Yes. Actress Mary Frann (who was on Newhart in the 80's) was in the Future commercial.

@@hoagie1978 No, it was Florence Henderson.

@@tyrese3745 Florence is in the Klean N Shine ad. Mary Fran is in the Future floor wax ad where she is standing on the see through acrylic floor.

@@hoagie1978 Got it. Thanks.

Me too. I saw a photo with Alex standing in front of the wheel assuming they use the wheel by the end of each show.

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he was indeed a spoiler.

I was just a sperm in my daddy's sack for 15 more years

70's 🤣

From the grave, a full blown episode of The Wizard of Odds never before seen since it originally aired!!

An extremely rare piece of game show history

1:35 , etc. - For that matter, announcer Charlie O'Donnell would work for Merv as well, a year or so after this episode, alongside Chuck and Susan (and, in his second stint, Pat and Vanna) on "Wheel of Fortune".

Don't forget about Alan Thicke working for Merv, he'd create the original theme for Wheel of Fortune in 1975, a theme that would be used for a solid eight years.

My family has had it since it aired and I didn’t realize we had a digital copy or it would have been up sooner. I am so pleased you enjoy it.

@@JDsk8r215 It's awesome your family managed to keep it! It's sad that the show got wiped but it's wonderful someone kept an episode!

@@JDsk8r215 Was your family the first to get a VCR, or were they on the show?

I’m JDSk8r’s brother. Our mother was the main contestant and our father had this recorded by a friend at a local affiliate. This is not from the network.

@@LogoMan7777 My mom is the winning contestant. And I was mistaken that this was the network copy, but rather my father had some television education and had recorded this on a super Betamax when it aired. He then transferred it onto an regular Betamax tape later in the 80s. Even later he had the Betamax tape put on a dvd, (not sure when exactly). We always had planned on digitizing it and were pretty surprised when he told me he already had it. I took the disk home that night and ripped it, only to find the audio was not playing correctly on the left side, so I had my brother make the audio mono so it sounded better. We’re going to look to get a digital copy of the super Betamax, so we can restore the audio to stereo and hopefully have it enhanced so it’ll remove the poor tracking static so it'll appear clearer.

We do have the original tape from the network. There’s some minor additional footage that goes into Hollywood Squares, but only for a minute. We’re going to try and have better copy of it down the road so we can have a better tracking rip, as yo you can see all the static. But this is such a gem, that I wanted to post it asap. Glad you like it!!!

I was mistaken that this was the network copy, but rather my father recorded this on a super Betamax when it aired. He then transferred it onto an regular Betamax tape later in the 80s and then had the regular Betamax digitized to a dvd.

@@JDsk8r215 Betamax wasn’t out til November 1975. Wonder what this really was recorded on.

As far as I know this is the first known episode of this show to exist publicly, one other episode is known to exist privately in the UCLA archives

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Yes and later was replaced with Alex Trebeks 2nd show and a great big hit High Rollers which he hosted NBC 74-76 & 78-80 and Syndicated Nighttime in 1975 which I liked a lot better.

He thought she said Jay ZEE - but they say "Zed" in Canada and England.

It’s the Cerritos Jaycees.

But she was the president of the Jaycettes, the wives of the Jaycees.

I heard her say "Jaycees" earlier, but figured Alex heard Jay Zees. I just thought it was funny that Alex was trying to lose his Canadian accent, but let a "Zed" slip out.

At least two episodes exist from 1975, one from July 4th can be seen on You tube and features a plug in for the Magnificent Marble Machine.

There is a good reason why Jack Barry (Joker's Wild), and Wink Martindale (Gambit) kicked the crap out of Alex Trebek that season!

No. Charlie O. announced for 2 short-lived ABC game shows in the late '60s-Everybody's Talking, where he replaced Wink Martindale, and Wedding Party-Charlie's only NYC-based game show circa 1968.