This show features the same social distancing changes that were introduced in Season 38 of the regular nighttime syndicated Wheel of Fortune (1983). However, the grippers used to put over the pegs to spin the wheel are gold instead of white since this is a primetime show.
The show features the golden look the syndicated nighttime Wheel of Fortune (1983) featured in it's first 20 years and abandoned once the LED and Plexiglas set was introduced.
With ABC picking this show up, all 3 major networks have aired a version of Wheel of Fortune. The original daytime network version of Wheel of Fortune (1975) aired on NBC from 1975-1989 and again in 1991 and on CBS from 1989-1991.
The intro sequence has announcer Jim Thornton announce the night's celebrity contestants with a brief preview clip from the show of the celebrity he just announced.
This show features a new rendition of the 2017 theme song that the regular syndicated nighttime Wheel of Fortune (1983) had been using since Season 34. All off the music cues except for the Toss-up think bed, Final Spin, and Speed-Up Round cues are also given new rearrangements by Bleeding Fingers Music. This is similar to how Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time (2020), which aired on ABC a year prior to this show's premiere, used a new rendition of the 2008 Jeopardy! (1984) music.