The end of an era is almost upon the game show community, as Pat Sajak’s final episode hosting Wheel of Fortune airs tomorrow, June 7. As far as what he’ll be doing after his 43-year tenure hosting one of the best TV games shows of all time comes to an end, Sajak recently said that he’d be “perfectly happy” just doing crosswords and playing with his potential grandchildren . However, it’s now been revealed that the man has lined up a Columbo play as his first post- Wheel of Fortune professional gig, and I have some questions to ask upon hearing this news.
As reported by Variety , Pat Sajak is reuniting with longtime friend Joe Moore, an actor and KHON-TV newscaster in Honolulu, Hawaii, for a stage production of Prescription: Murder at the Honolulu Hawaii Theatre. The two friends, who’ve done nine previous plays together, will team back up from July 31 to August 10, 2025. Sajak will play a “brilliant psychiatrist named Roy Fleming “who hatches a plot with a perfect alibi to murder his neurotic and possessive wife,” and Moore will play Lieutenant Columbo, “the seemingly bumbling detective who engages the psychiatrist in a cat-and-mouse battle of wits right up to the play’s surprising climax.
” Prescription: Murder was written by Richard Levinson and William Link, and they adapted it from “Enough Rope,” an episode of The Chevy Mystery Show that aired in 1960, with Bert Freed playing Columbo. The play version debuted in 1962, and six years later, Levi.
