Pat Sajak and Vanna White tape a whole season in less than 40 days including road trips, promotions, and commercials.
As of 2019, it is estimated Vanna White has cumulatively walked more than 2,000 miles on the stage revealing letters.
Since Pat Sajak began hosting, he has almost never missed an episode, only trading places with Alex Trebek on April Fools Day 1997. However, Pat had to have emergency surgery and had to miss a few tapings while he was recovering from surgery. Vanna White filled in for Pat as host for a three-week stint of shows that aired in December 2019.
On March 6th 1986, Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! (1984) become the first game shows to be close-captioned for the hearing-impaired. Strangely, this does not appear to have been noted in any way on Wheel of Fortune until at least October 1989. Although, a bug is used in Season 11.
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