"Wrong reel/scene" errors

[azumanga]

I once heard a story that WPGH/53 Pittsburgh would frequently show episodes of "The Flintstones" in which the middle part would run first, then the beginning, then the end. I don't recall seeing such incidents occurring.

When WTOG in Tampa Bay carried "The Flintstones", there was a couple of episodes that featured the announcer saying "The Flintstones, brought to you by...", then a couple of seconds of silence before the episode started in earnest. And another episode where, between scenes in a middle of the episode, featured an announcer saying, "We'll be back after a word from our alternate sponsor", before going to the next scene. (The commercial slots on WTOG's "Flintstones" were in different places than the network version.)

 

[PirateJohnny]

The Jeopardy incident is more likely to happen today in this digital world than it was in a video tape world. Syndicated shows are delivered to stations as one clip, with the different elements separated as sub-clips, (like songs on a CD). The broadcast day is now played back from a server by a playlist (like iTunes). If a board op edits the playlist and mistakenly inserts the wrong code for a show segment, like from a different day, the players on Jeopardy will change during commercial breaks.