@jeopdary60611: normally, Final Jeopardy had a square similar in size to the other answer boxes in the first two rounds. After Fleming would say "the final Jeopardy answer is....", the panel covering the answer would be raised by a stagehand behind the board, revealing the text (as you saw in the Double Jeopardy round). The DNA visual Final Jeopardy question was the only visual question I ever saw. Normally it was presented with text as in non-audio-visual Jeopardy and Final Jeopardy questions.
Well, my mistake, it was actually another $200 giving him $220 total. They didn't want him only having $40 if he won and wagered $20 to give to his charity, I guess.
This is so cool. I am a Jeopardy! fan as well as an archivist on the J-Archive, and it's nice to see how Jeopardy! used to be done. It is quite different seeing Art Fleming come and flip the cards over for Final Jeopardy instead of the electronic display they have now.
It feels real different, doesn't it? I mean, when I hold a whiteboard in a whiteboard-based activity in my Spanish class, I feel like I'm one of those old Jeopardy! contestants like the ones shown in this video.
For the 45 th Anveristary of Jeporday Have Trebek host a week of shows on the Art Flemming set and used the soundbites of the Flemming era and have don Pardo be announcer After Jonny Gilbert say THIS IS JEPORADY .
What an incredible disappointment to see the final credits roll without playing "Take Ten" (the REAL Jeopardy! theme whose opening bars can be heard on the 194 clip on YouTube). If anyone has a copy of the original Take Ten theme, I would love to acquire it.
Oh yeah -- for the first 13 seasons of the current Jeopardy!, they went ahead and re-used the classic Jeopardy! think music, and this is the very place where it came from. Personally I wish they wouldn't have tampered with the instrumentation of it starting with the '97 season. It's OK, but it's just not the same according to my ears.
Fleming should also be remembered for his appearance on the "Weird Al" music video "I Lost On Jeopardy", alongside Don Pardo's appearance in the same video.
Fleming had died of cancer in his pancreas six days before his 71st birthday.
Oddly enough, Pardo's still alive at 89 years of age. Scary. Even my grandparents are around his age.
@jeopdary60611: normally, Final Jeopardy had a square similar in size to the other answer boxes in the first two rounds. After Fleming would say "the final Jeopardy answer is....", the panel covering the answer would be raised by a stagehand behind the board, revealing the text (as you saw in the Double Jeopardy round). The DNA visual Final Jeopardy question was the only visual question I ever saw. Normally it was presented with text as in non-audio-visual Jeopardy and Final Jeopardy questions.
PassatDoc 1 year ago
Ok, so Art isn't a math whiz
assmunch1 1 year ago
What a ridiculously easy final question.
bbbbbbbbbbbbb100 2 years ago
Back then it wasn't so universally known.
Qermaq 1 year ago
The production in this version of Jeopardy
was very miminal no bells or whistles of the Alex Trebec version.
TIPTON340 3 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
Use the bombastic 2001 theme + The Merv Griffin Production logo shown at the end + some cheezy animation = the scariest closing logo ever created.
sugarbear522 3 years ago
no it's not.
GarfieldnPyramid 3 years ago
I'm sayin if one would combine with what I stated.
sugarbear522 2 years ago
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
studleyj 3 years ago
Uh, where did that guy get an extra $200? He had only $20 going into FJ!
UltraMaXAtAXX 4 years ago
In the interest of his charity they gave him another $180 heading into the final round.
SilentBob20 3 years ago
Well, my mistake, it was actually another $200 giving him $220 total. They didn't want him only having $40 if he won and wagered $20 to give to his charity, I guess.
SilentBob20 3 years ago
These days there's a minimum the show will award for charity games; in fact, iirc, 15000 to the winner and 10000 to the runners-up.
Qermaq 1 year ago
it lasted longer than any version of the "think" music on jeopardy from '64 to '96.
PSPdude36 4 years ago 3
That was where the modern Jeopardy theme song came from. I like the thinking theme from this show.
edray1416 4 years ago
Merv Griffin was a genius when creating J! and composing it's trademark theme.
AdamStabelli555 4 years ago
This is so cool. I am a Jeopardy! fan as well as an archivist on the J-Archive, and it's nice to see how Jeopardy! used to be done. It is quite different seeing Art Fleming come and flip the cards over for Final Jeopardy instead of the electronic display they have now.
jeopardy60611 4 years ago 4
It feels real different, doesn't it? I mean, when I hold a whiteboard in a whiteboard-based activity in my Spanish class, I feel like I'm one of those old Jeopardy! contestants like the ones shown in this video.
VictorGolfCharles 4 years ago
For the 45 th Anveristary of Jeporday Have Trebek host a week of shows on the Art Flemming set and used the soundbites of the Flemming era and have don Pardo be announcer After Jonny Gilbert say THIS IS JEPORADY .
bmulla1560 4 years ago 8
Who is that guy in the black?
ShaDeed329 4 years ago
Mel Brookes
Unit545 4 years ago
Name's familiar.
ShaDeed329 4 years ago
He made well known movies.
Unit545 4 years ago
Like Yonug Frankinstein and Spaceballs.
gsn93 4 years ago
Yep, and blazing saddles, as well as the History of the World movies.
Unit545 4 years ago
What an incredible disappointment to see the final credits roll without playing "Take Ten" (the REAL Jeopardy! theme whose opening bars can be heard on the 194 clip on YouTube). If anyone has a copy of the original Take Ten theme, I would love to acquire it.
thegamesthatrate 4 years ago
Heh they used the think music before Trebek's version made it cool!
ljenkin6 4 years ago
Oh yeah -- for the first 13 seasons of the current Jeopardy!, they went ahead and re-used the classic Jeopardy! think music, and this is the very place where it came from. Personally I wish they wouldn't have tampered with the instrumentation of it starting with the '97 season. It's OK, but it's just not the same according to my ears.
fredbird67 4 years ago
sony loves to fuck up a classic. I loved the old think theme used here better.
Unit545 4 years ago 2
I'll have you know Harry Friedman is the best thing to happen to Jeopardy! since the passing of Merv.
gamshwfan 2 years ago
what the fuck are you smoking? I said nothing about Harry Friedman ya Stoner fuck.
Unit545 2 years ago
RIP Art Fleming.
AdamStabelli222 4 years ago
Fleming should also be remembered for his appearance on the "Weird Al" music video "I Lost On Jeopardy", alongside Don Pardo's appearance in the same video.
Fleming had died of cancer in his pancreas six days before his 71st birthday.
Oddly enough, Pardo's still alive at 89 years of age. Scary. Even my grandparents are around his age.
VictorGolfCharles 4 years ago
And Don's STILL announcing "Saturday Night Liiiive!"
btw, Art Fleming hosted the radio show "When Radio Was" till he died, and was replaced by Stan Freberg.
rnigma 3 years ago 3