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Griffin thought Fleming was "authoritative, yet warm and interesting", and Fleming was invited to audition to be the host of Griffin's new game show Jeopardy!. Fleming won the job, and hosted the show during its original run of March 30, 1964, to January 3, 1975, [ 6 ] and again from October 2, 1978, to March 2, 1979.
Only a small number of episodes survive from Fleming's run as host of Jeopardy!. From the original NBC daytime version, archived episodes mostly consist of black-and-white kinescopes of the original color videotapes. [174] Various episodes from 1967, 1971, 1973, and 1974 are listed among the holdings of the UCLA Film and Television Archive. [175]
The original Jeopardy! series, hosted by Art Fleming, premiered at 11:30 a.m. Eastern (10:30 Central) on March 30, 1964, originating from studios at the NBC headquarters in New York City's 30 Rockefeller Plaza.
Art Fleming was the original host of "Jeopardy!" NBC. The first-ever episode of the show premiered in 1964 and was on air until 1975. "The All New Jeopardy!" then ran from 1978 to 1979.
It was the start of an entirely new era of the Merv Griffin-created show, which had been hosted by Art Fleming in daytime and in an earlier syndicated version between 1969 and 1974. Trebek's ...
The earliest board games based on Jeopardy! were produced by Milton Bradley, which produced thirteen such games throughout the course of the original Fleming version's run (issued annually from 1964 through 1976); these games were numbered 1–12 and 14, skipping 13. The Trebek version has also seen various board game adaptations of its own.
After 50 years, contestant Martha Bath returned to Jeopardy!, Wednesday. In 1972 the show was hosted by Art Fleming and the prizes weren’t quite as large. “I won $40 and a set of encyclopedias ...
The show, originally titled What's the Question?, premiered on NBC in 1964, with Art Fleming as host, and ran for 11 years. Griffin composed the 30-second music piece for the Final Jeopardy! round, which later became the theme song for the syndicated version hosted by Alex Trebek starting in 1984.