Pat Sajak: Self - Host

Quotes 

• [opening of the very first "Wheel of Fortune" on September 19, 1983] 

  [Audience chant "WHEEL... OF... FORTUNE!" then the theme song starts playing] 

  Announcer : Look at this Studio filled with glamorous prizes, fabulous and exciting merchandise. Including a once in a lifetime trip Around the World, this magnificent seven-thousand nine hundred dollar gold swiss watch, and this sensational twelve-thousand dollar American made sports car. Over $85,000 ready to be won on Wheel of Fortune and now here's your host, Pat Sajak.

  [Pat enters the studio] 

  Host : Oh a sitting ovation I can't believe it. Thank you very much. Welcome to Wheel of Fortune, good to have you here. And now if you do that one more time for our Hostess here comes Vanna White, Vanna hello.

  [the curtain opens and Vanna makes her entrance] 

  Host : We have a lot of great prizes on the show and 3 great players, you are all great right?

  [Contestants respond] 

  Host : Ok that's what I like to hear.