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The Joker's Wild debuted on CBS September 4, 1972, incidentally on the same Labor Day when both the modern incarnation of The Price Is Right (which debuted after Joker) and the Wink Martindale hosted show Gambit (which debuted after Price) premiered. It ran until June 13, 1975, on that network, airing at 10:00 a.m. Eastern (9:00 Central).
Series co-creator, and father of comic Michael McIntyre, Ray Cameron, appeared as a panellist on several episodes in the first series. In the first series, compère Barry Cryer was joined by an assistant, although her role in the show was very limited and the idea of an assistant was dropped after a handful of episodes.
Barry even brought Dan Enright back as The Joker's Wild's executive producer toward the end of its first network run, mentioning Enright at the end of the final CBS installment. The two renewed their working partnership full-time in 1976, launching Break the Bank, hosted by Tom Kennedy, on ABC's daytime lineup. When ABC cancelled the show ...
The Joker's Wild, an American TV game show; Jokers Wild, a British comedy panel show "Joker's Wild" (Batman: The Animated Series), a 1992 episode of Batman: The Animated Series; Jokers Wild, a 1987 novel in the Wild Cards series by George R. R. Martin; Jokers Wild (band), a 1960s UK blues-rock band; Joker's Wild (quartet), an American ...
The Joker's Wild which premiered the same day as Gambit (September 4, 1972) also had a majority of its episodes lost to time until the first two seasons of the CBS run were found. Five episodes of the CBS version from 1973 are held by the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
"The Joker Is Wild" is an episode of the Batman television series in its first season, most notable for being Cesar Romero's debut as the Joker. It was first telecast as the fifth episode on ABC January 26, 1966, and was rerun on May 25, 1966, and May 24, 1967.
He hosted two game show pilots during the early 1980s that never made it to the air: Everything's Relative for ABC in 1980 and The TV Game in 1982 and hosted occasional infomercials. Beginning in 1981, however, he returned as a frequent substitute for Jack Barry on the syndicated quiz The Joker's Wild. Over the next three years, Peck gradually ...
The Joker breaking into TV broadcasts is an adaption of him breaking into radio broadcasts from Batman #1. The gimmick was also used in comic book story "The Laughing Fish" by Steve Englehart, as well as the 1989 film Batman , the 1992 animated series, and 2008's The Dark Knight .