Jeopardy! Timeline (syndicated version)/Season 11

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Season 11 (1994-1995)

Season changes

• Starting with this season, and during early episodes of Season 13, the Jeopardy! logo wraps around the globe, and the Jeopardy! logo gave a yellow and orange gradient on a blue globe. The globe explodes, and the Jeopardy! logo zooms forward reveals the 1991-1996 set.
• This is the last season where the closed captioning bug appeared in the opening credits.
• This is the first season to be produced by Columbia TriStar Television.

The show is now produced by Columbia TriStar Television, rather than Merv Griffin Enterprises in the first 10 seasons.

• As the 10th anniversary season passed, Johnny's opening catchphrase changed back to "This is Jeopardy!".
• This is the last full season with the sound of the studio audience chattering before the show starts.
• Also at the beginning of this season, Alex Trebek and his program moved to Sony Pictures Studios Stage 10, which later became The Alex Trebek Stage in Season 38 in honor of his legacy after Trebek's death in 2020.
• On early episodes of this season, the new Jeopardy! globe logo changed its color to a bright blue sky background, and the Daily Double graphic was changed to a bright red sky with pink clouds background, and it does not have a shadow outline.
• The Daily Double text is changed to a yellow Bau logo.
• The Jeopardy! logo became darker than before.
• Also, on contestant plugs for the Teen Tournament, and the College Championship, the full bright blue sky background is used.
• During the College Championship, the winner takes home a Volvo car. Volvo would remain the sponsor until Season 20.
• On later episodes of this season, a shadow outline is added to the globe logo, and the blue sky background became darker. Also, on later episodes of this season, a shadow outline was added to the Daily Double graphic, and the red sky background became darker. The wardrobe provider credit reads: "Alex Trebek's Wardrobe Furnished by Perry Ellis", and the Greif Companies byline was removed.
• During this season, the first Columbia TriStar Television logo consisted of a blue background, with the Columbia Pictures torch lady, and the TriStar Pictures Pegasus, and the text reading "Columbia TriStar Television" in yellow, with the text reading the Sony byline, also in yellow, and the music is a bombastic horn fanfare.
• On early episodes of this season, Johnny said: "This is Johnny Gilbert speaking. Jeopardy! is a production of Columbia TriStar Television. Distributed by KingWorld."
• Starting this season, Columbia TriStar Television produces Jeopardy!, and its sister show, Wheel of Fortune.
• The music of the KingWorld logo sounds truncated from this time until 1996.
• On later episodes of this season, the closing credits had "Created by Merv Griffin" appear after the closing credit scroll. Also on later episodes of this season, Johnny said: "This is Johnny Gilbert speaking. Jeopardy! was created by Merv Griffin. Produced by Columbia TriStar Television. Distributed by KingWorld."
• In later episodes of the season, in the players' introductions, the current champion (or Player #1, if there isn't a current champion) is introduced in a shot featuring the flashing Jeopardy! logo.
• The show used darker shades of blue and red for the set's backdrop similar to season 8 after the lighter shades used for seasons 9 and 10, and would stay that way all the way to the set's final episode on November 8, 1996, early in season 13.

September 1994

• September 5, 1994: Season 11 premieres.
• September 7, 1994: Steve Chernicoff retires undefeated with $83,902, becoming the first 5-time champion to split their wins across 2 seasons, leading Alex to announce that starting this season, the eligibility period for the ToC includes the first 2 months of a season prior to the tournament.

October 1994

• October 10, 1994: Tom Nichols came back on the show and retired undefeated with $57,680.
• October 28, 1994: Bill Pitassy retires undefeated with $72,702.

November 1994

• November 7-11, 1994: Celebrity Jeopardy! is held.
  • General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Stefanie Powers, and Tony Randall compete on Monday.
  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Alexandra Paul, and Larry King compete on Tuesday.
  • Jason Alexander, Marilu Henner, and Lou Diamond Phillips compete on Wednesday.
  • Kathy Mattea, Doug Savant, and Michael Sabatino compete on Thursday.
  • David Hyde Pierce, Markie Post, and Tim Matheson compete on Friday.
• November 14-25, 1994: The Tournament of Champions airs. This is the first Tournament of Champions not to have any 5-day champions as a finalist, and is also the first ToC to have winners from 2 different seasons instead of only the previous season.
• November 25, 1994: Rachael Schwartz, an attorney from Bedminster, New Jersey, becomes the first woman and 4-day champion to win the Tournament of Champions.
• November 30, 1994: Ryan Holznagel retires with $49,413 despite losing his fifth game.

January 1995

• January 5, 1995: John McKeon retires with $44,901 despite losing his fifth game.
• January 19, 1995: Jim Morgan retires undefeated with $41,899.

February 1995

• February 6-17, 1995: The Teen Tournament airs. Matt Zielenski won the tournament with $42,300, the highest winning score of any tournament in the pre-doubled era.

March 1995

• March 20, 1995: Jonathan Groff retires undefeated with $60,500. During his last game, he ties with Alex McNeil, making them the new champion.
• March 31, 1995: Bruce Borchardt retires undefeated with $54,099.

April 1995

• April 3, 1995: Johnny Gilbert's closing tagline remains in use since September 1994.
  • Between April and May 1995, he would later state: "This is Johnny Gilbert speaking. Jeopardy! was created by Merv Griffin. Produced by Columbia TriStar Television; Distributed by KingWorld."

May 1995

• May 1-12, 1995: The College Championship airs. Ben Lyon won the tournament.

June 1995

• June 19, 1995: Jim Vercolen retires with $40,200 despite losing his fifth game.

July 1995

• July 3, 1995: David Siegel retires undefeated with $86,200.
• July 10-21, 1995: The Seniors Tournament airs. Aaron Klein won the tournament.
• July 21, 1995: Season 11 ends.
• July 24-September 1, 1995: Summer reruns air.