The Joker's Wild (Jayverse)

The Joker's Wild is an American television game show that aired at different times during the 1970s through the 1990s. Contestants answered questions based on categories that were determined randomly by a mechanism resembling a slot machine. The show's title refers to the game's slot-machine mechanism also having jokers.

The show was billed as "the game where knowledge is king and lady luck is queen", and was notable for being the first successful game show produced by Jack Barry after his company's role in the quiz show scandals during the late 1950s. The success of the series led in part to the reformation of Barry & Enright Productions in the 1970s, which reunited Barry with his partner Dan Enright. The show aired on CBS from 1972 to 1975, and from 1977 to 1986 in broadcast syndication. A children's version, titled ''Joker! Joker!! Joker!!!'', aired from 1979 to 1981, also in syndication.

Barry's sons, Jonathan and Douglas Barry, were co-executive producers for a revival of the series that aired in 1990 and 1991, which was produced in association with Richard S. Kline and billed as "a Kline and Friends production in association with Jack Barry Productions". The series returned in 2017 on TBS, with Snoop Dogg as host. He is also co-executive producer with Michael Strahan. In December 2018, it was announced that the show would be moving to TNT in 2019 but later on with UBC picking up The Masked Singer, Nick Cannon became the host for the Syndicated Revival of The Joker's Wild and still goes on to this day.

Hosts
1968 & 1969 (Pilot): Allen Ludden

1971 (Pilot), 1972-1975, 1977-1984: Jack Barry

1981-1984 (Sub), 1986, 1991-1994: Jim Peck

1984-1986: Bill Cullen

1990-1991: Pat Finn

2017-Present: Snoop Dogg (TBS/TNT Primetime Version)

2019-Present: Nick Cannon (Syndicated Version)

Announcerrs
1968 & 1969 Pilot: Lee Vines

1972-1975, 1978 (Sub): Johnny Jacobs

1977-1981: Jay Stewart

1981-1986: Charlie O'Donnell

1990-1991: Ed McKay

2017-Present: Dave Burchell

Sub Announcerrs
1974, 1977-1980: Johnny Gilbert

1980: Bob Hilton

1980: Art James

2018-Present: Neil Ross

2018-Present: Jim Thornton