There are approximately 200 new episodes of Wheel of Fortune recorded each season. Saturday or Sunday episodes are always from the previous season and the Summer encore episodes are encore episodes from the current season
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About 200 new episodes are taped for each new season of Wheel of Fortune.
The Game show network shows previous episodes of the wheel of fortune show from earlier in the shows history that were not erased as were most of the early daytime shows. They never show the current program year's episodes
They have about 200 new episodes a year that are shown from September until June. The New Episodes are on from Monday through Friday of each week. They also air additional episodes during the summer from Monday through Friday of repeat broadcasts. Those are always repeat episodes from the current season . Saturday shows are always repeat shows from the previous season. New wheel of Fortune episodes are scheduled to begin on September 14 2009 and continue until June 2010.
During the summer they rerun episodes so the number of episodes would depend on whether you wanted only new episodes of the show. Their are about 200 new shows each season and about 60 repeat broadcasts of that season during the summer before the new season begins. In 2008 Wheel of Fortune ran reruns from Jun 9 through Sept 5 and also did not have an episode on New year's day or the Nov 4 2008 election day. They also had an additional episode on Feb 29 2008 because 2008 was a leap year. This year Wheel of Fortune will run repeat episodes from Jun 1 2009 until the beginning of the 27th season on September 14 2009. For the Show Wheel of Fortune their year is the 26th television season of Wheel of Fortune which began on with the season premiere on September 8 2008 and will end either with the last show new show on 29 May 2009 or the last repeat episode episode airing of the 26th season on September 12 2009.