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That celebrity trend finally did in Jeopardy and it was replaced by The Magnificent Marble Machine, a disastrous program with celebrities playing a room sized pinball machine that constantly tilted The original theme to Jeopardy! (from '64-'75) was called "Take Ten" by Julann Griffin (Merv's then wife who originally came up with the show's format).
In the 1978-79 version, only one contestant went on to the Final Jeopardy round and it was a barrage of questions. Other than that, the show has stayed pretty much the same as the current syndicated version, now hosted by Alex Trebek, the host of High Rollers in the seventies.
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Sadly, very few episodes of the original Jeopardy series still exist, they were destroyed by NBC.
