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Wheel of Fortune (1952)

Wheel of Fortune poster
Genre
game show
Country
Australia
Length
1 season, 1 episode
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Contestants spin a large wheel to win cash and prizes. Two separate American game shows shared the same name and a similar format, with the earlier one airing in the early 1950s.

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What happens

Wheel of Fortune is an American game show which ran from 1952 to 1953 on CBS in both daytime (October 3, 1952 – December 25, 1953) and nighttime (July 7 – September 15, 1953). It was presented by Todd Russell and narrated by Hal Sims. Another American game show also titled Wheel of Fortune, that was produced by Merv Griffin and which debuted in 1975, had no connection to the original 1952 game show, although both followed a similar type of format, featuring cash and prizes that could be won by contestants, and both had the same respective logo visible in the center of the wheel. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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