Welcome to The Joker's Wild guide at TV Tome. The Joker's Wild marked the first time the team of Jack Barry and Dan Enright produced a game show since the Quiz Show Scandals of 1958. The game, which was totally clean, proved to be a success and paved the way to greater fortunes for the Barry-Enright empire. Before the show's premiere in 1972, several pilots were produced, several employing a bizzare celebrity format. The Joker's Wild married elements of a Las Vegas slot machine to a general quiz. Two contestants, including a returning champion, competed. Five categories are announced. The players, one at a time, take turns spinning a huge three-reel slot machine, each containing the names of the categories (along with appropriate pictures) and "Joker" cards. The player chose a category depicted on one or more of the reels, with cash values determined as follows: one of a kind, $50; two of a kind, $100; and a natural triple, $200. If the player answered a question correctly, h
