WebTV introduces an interactive element that allows users with WebTV to play along with Wheel and Jeopardy! from home, indicated by a 'WebTV interactive program' bug at the top of the show.Perhaps in an attempt to make them easier, Puzzlers have more letters revealed than in Season 16, typically closer to half of the answer.With very few exceptions, the video screen stops showing the Wheel in mid-spin.Each word shines as shouted in the chant, before zooming into the center to cut to the studio. In fact, the Bankrupt between the orange $900 and purple $500 is replaced by the sparkly green $1,000. The logo used in the intro now has a graphic of the Wheel around it this graphic is rather inaccurate, as it has no Bankrupts, and it keeps the $250 spaces even after they are retired.
A white spark causes the words to fly out and stack-up in two-row form, with the normal looking 'O' in 'of' from the previous logos. The intro starts out with a flyover of the new Sony Pictures Studios complex, starting through the gateway, which has photos of Pat and Vanna: Vanna on the left, and Pat behind the previous season's logo on the right, before the gate opens, a spark flies out, explodes to a flashback clip, and then swirls into multi-color sparks to form the 1997 logo which starts on the Wheel's center.
