CBS relocated "Gambit" to 10:30a.m. on April 1, which ran about even with "Jeopardy!" in the ratings, with "Gambit" having perhaps a slight lead, due to its more traditional housewife target audience. However, Bolen was not interested in seeing an aging show like "Jeopardy!" stand in the way of her plans for a more youthful image for NBC's daytime lineup. So, on July 1 of the same year, NBC moved "Jeopardy!" time slot again, this time to 1:30p.m. EST (12:30p.m. CST) (replacing "Three on a Match," yet another Bob Stewart-produced game) and placed it against ABC's "Let's Make a Deal" and CBS' "As the World Turns," both of which had easily beaten the ratings of several programs placed in that same time slot by NBC since December 1968. At that time, "Deal" moved to ABC from NBC, which had carried it in that very time slot during much of the 1960s, in a dispute by packagers Stefan Hatos and Monty Hall over the latter network's refusal to make a weekly prime time version of the show permanent. With the July move, many of the previously devoted viewers began abandoning the program. "Jeopardy!" became the seventh show since 1968 to fail at 1:30p.m. EST (12:30p.m. CST), and a cancellation notice was issued by November 1974. Its replacement was the expansion of "Another World" to a full hour, the first daytime serial to expand to that duration; in April 1975, another serial, "Days of Our Lives" began occupying that time slot and eventually brought success to NBC there. "Jeopardy!" broadcast the 2,753rd and final episode of its original network run on January 3, 1975. Some affiliates, including KNBC in Los Angeles, aired reruns in various other time slots through the first quarter of that year. To compensate Griffin for canceling the program, which still had a year left on its contract, NBC purchased "Wheel of Fortune", another creation of his, which premiered on January 6, 1975 at 10:30a.m. Eastern (9:30 Central). Griffin secured the rights from NBC to produce new episodes for first-run syndication, with Metromedia (who also syndicated Griffin's popular talk show) as their distributor. Griffin took this action mainly to keep the show in production in light of the show's deteriorating ratings on NBC daytime that eventually led to cancellation.