S3·E124 Show #579, 1987 Teen Tournament final game 1.

Episode recap

This episode of Jeopardy! is season three, episode 124, designated as show number 579, and features the first game of the 1987 Teen Tournament. The contestants competing in this episode are Mitch Epner, Dana Venator, and Michael Galvin.

As a fixture of television programming, Jeopardy! is a quiz show where contestants are presented with general knowledge clues framed in the form of answers. The program features clues valued by dollar amounts from lowest to highest, which ostensibly correlate to their level of difficulty. In the structure of the show, the values of the clues increase over time, with the clues in the Double Jeopardy round always maintaining double the range of the values found in the Jeopardy round.

The series is part of the television landscape with credited crew members across its run including directors Kevin McCarthy, Dick Schneider, and John Lauderdale, alongside notable figures such as host Alex Trebek and announcer Johnny Gilbert, joined by Jimmy McGuire, Kelly Miyahara, and Sarah Whitcomb.