"If I wouldn't have left 'Wheel of Fortune,' I'd be making about $10 million a year now," Woolery recalled in a 2003 interview.

Chuck Woolery, the game show veteran who was the original host of "Wheel of Fortune" and went on to host "Love Connection," has died at 83.

It seemed that many viewers still longed for the familiarity of the long-continued era where Sajak could be trusted to appear each weeknight with his lovely co-star Vanna White flipping the letters with her legendary grace and poise.