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The Joker's Wild was an American television game show that aired at different times during the 1970s through the 1990s, It billed itself as the game "where knowledge is king and lady luck is queen," and was notable for being the first successful game show (earlier attempts were significantly less successful) produced by Barry-Enright Productions after their role in the quiz show scandals in the late 1950's. Originally, the show was simply a Jack Barry Production, but Barry added Enright's name a few years after. Although it was a Barry & Enright-produced game show from 1977 onward, The Joker's Wild was copyrighted and a property of Jack Barry Productions during its entire run and in the 1990 version, with Barry's sons Jonathan and Douglas Barry as co-executive producers.







Jack Barry, who created the show and eventually used it to revive his partnership with longtime producer Dan Enright, hosted all versions of the show up until his death in May 1984. Bill Cullen hosted for the remainder of the syndicated run. Although Joker is commonly named by several game show historians as the first series Jack Barry was part of following the disastrous quiz show scandals, that is not actually true.

Creator and original host Jack BarryBarry had hosted two earlier series (The Generation Gap and The Reel Game) prior to the premiere of Joker (the latter of the two produced and created by Barry himself), and some evidence suggests he and partner Dan Enright were "silent partners" in several game shows of the 1960s (in the United States and Canada), defying their unofficial blacklisting by the industry. Enright was brought on as executive producer of The Joker's Wild during its final CBS season. Jim Peck began subbing for Barry beginning in 1981, which he would continue to do on occasion until Barry's death in 1984; he would also fill-in for Cullen during the final season for a few weeks in late 1986. Barry and producer Ron Greenberg wanted Peck to become Barry's successor, but after Barry died, Dan Enright gave the hosting duties to Cullen instead. This was the final game show hosted by Bill Cullen. Pat Finn hosted the 1990 remake, which lasted one season.
AnnouncersJohnny Jacobs was the original announcer of The Joker's Wild, which he served through most of its CBS run, with Johnny Gilbert and Roy Rowan filling in on occasion, as well as Marc Summers, then a page at CBS. When the series returned to first-run syndication in 1977, Jay Stewart and Johnny Jacobs became the primary announcers, alternating during the first two seasons before Stewart assumed full duties during the 1979-1980 season; Bob Hilton announced the final three months of the 79-80 season and Art James announced the 1980-1981 season, with Stewart announcing the final three months of that season as well as the 1980 ToC. In 1981, Charlie O'Donnell became the standard announcer of Barry & Enright game shows, announcing for the final five seasons. Gilbert and John Harlan would fill in for O'Donnell on occasion. Ed MacKay, a local Los Angeles radio DJ and one-time overnight news anchor at station KNX AM-1070, announced the 1990-1991 revival.
Game OriginsIt has been said from sources that the concept of The Joker's Wild came as early as the mid-1960s, and that Jack Barry pitched the concept to Goodson-Todman Productions (Which is where Barry worked after the scandals). G-T was not impressed with the format, so Barry eventually continued revamping Joker for several years before CBS finally gave him the green light to bring it onto its daytime schedule (following a local tryout on station KTLA in Los Angeles one year prior to debuting on CBS).