03-02-2024, 03:40 PM
(02-02-2024, 10:46 PM)Neil Jones Wrote: Cash prizes on Wheel of Fortune came later in the original run. Originally it was just a car on offer, as there was naff all else, as whatever you racked up on the wheel just decided to went to play for the car - you might have racked up 20k points but you weren't going to get £20k like you did in the original format and the later reboot...
That's actually not the case, there was always a cash prize- in the first 5 series they had the option of cash, a car, or a holiday (in fact in series 2 they made a point that the £5,000 jackpot was the biggest cash prize on British TV at the time) though I don't think anyone ever went for the holiday, series 6 was £10,000 and a car, series 7-10 was either £20,000 or a car (via choosing an envelops), then it was £2,000 on the daytime episodes.