The music is a Christmas style tune composed by Mike Jones. On a dark blue screen, we see bars with orange inside, and the text 'Sony Pictures Television' appears zooming away slowly. They still use the Columbia Tristar Television jingle until November 8, 2002. At the beginning of this season, Columbia Tristar Domestic Television still owns the production of Jeopardy!, and its sister show, Wheel of Fortune until November 8, 2002, then Sony Pictures Television took over the production starting with the Novemepisode.

The large Jeopardy! logo still appeared on the set.The show still used the 1996-2002 sushi bar set.Both Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune were still produced by Columbia TriStar Domestic Television.This is also the first full season to feature $2,000 for second place and $1,000 for third place as cash for the runners-up.This is also the first full season to feature $200 increments in the first round and the $400 increments in the Double Jeopardy! round.This is the first full season where Alex Trebek was clean shaven.Starting with this season, Alex’s wardrobe was removed from the closing credits.