The Price is Right - UKGameshows The Price is Right Bobby Bragg (1989: early shows) Allan Sherwin (Sky version from late 1989) Peter Dickson (1995-2001, 2005, 2006-7) Mike Hurley (2006-7) Suzie Marlowe (Sky version from 1989) Tracie Williams (Sky version from 1989) Katrina Maltby (Sky version from 1989) Julie Broster (Sky version from 1989) Peitra Caston (Sky version from 1989) Kimberley Cowell (1995-2001) Natalie Pike (2006-7, Beauty and the Geek contestant) Male models: Ray Tizzard (as Raynard) (2006-7) Broadcast Central in association with Mark Goodson Productions and Talbot Television for ITV, 24 March 1984 to 8 April 1988 (100 episodes in 5 series) The New Price is Right: Talbot Telegame and Mark Goodson

 Productions for Sky One, 4 September 1989 to 1994?

Bruce's Price is Right: Yorkshire Television and Talbot Television in association with Mark Goodson Productions for ITV, 4 September 1995 to 1 January 1996 and 27 December 1996 (17 episodes in 1 series) Yorkshire Television and Fremantle (UK) Productions for ITV, 2 September 1996 to 15 January 1999 (51 episodes in 3 series) Yorkshire Television and Grundy for ITV, 10 September 1999 to 16 December 2001 (48 episodes in 3 series + 3 unaired) Granada and Thames for ITV1, 17 September 2005 ( Gameshow Marathon one-off) TalkbackThames for ITV1, 8 May 2006 to 12 January 2007 (124 episodes in 1 series) ITV Productions and TalkbackThames for ITV1, 7 April 2007 ( Gameshow Marathon one-off) Synopsis It's often stated as Britain's Biggest Game Show. In what way it was the biggest is unclear. Is it the one with the biggest prizes?

No. Biggest audience? No. Biggest set? No. But for sheer cheek and pluck, you'd have to argue that this American classic does have a lot of heart and a big-hearted "anyone can play" attitude. Contestants Row Contestants are plucked (seemingly) at random from the audience and take their places in Contestants Row, where they're each invited to guess the price of an object. The one who guesses the nearest goes on to play a pricing game - different every time, but each involves guessing the prices of various objects in some way (actually and rather curiously, there were games in the Crowther run that didn't involve having to know prices at all, such as the luck and memory game Matchmaker). Win or lose, the contestant who played goes onto the next round. Another contestant comes down from the audience to fill the gap and they guess another price, with the nearest going through again. And so on six times (in the original version) or three times (on the revived 30-minute versions). Contestants who made it to Contestants Row in the Crowther years automatically won "an Olympic-style gold medal" and later, a cuddly teddy bear named William.

Contestants Row as seen in 1995 In the original Crowther version, the final six players went to the Supermarket and had to pick items adding up to a particular total, and spin a numbered wheel in the hope of getting 100, with the two nearest going through to the final. If someone managed to get 100 exactly they'd win a bonus prize, such as £1000 in the Forsyth version (although in Warman's episodes they'd need to repeat the feat). The wheel was later removed from the Crowther episodes after the IBA complained about the lack of skill. Instead, all six took part in a quiz on how much things cost in the past (called Check the Difference), with those furthest away eliminated each time. Spinning the wheel The two surviving contestants each got the Showcase - basically, Big Stack O'Prizes - which they had to calculate the value of, and the one who was nearest won it all. In the nineties version, the wheel was back and only one contestant went through, where they would have to estimate the value of the showcase, and if they got within a specified range they'd win it.

In the modern Brucie version, the player got to randomly pick a value between £1000 to £5000 by pressing a button to stop a flashing light on the Range Finder. If they could get their guess to be within that amount of the actual amount, without going over, then they won the whole showcase which was usually between £15-25,000. In these cash-strapped times, Pasquale's version has ranges from £500 to £4000 and the prizes are a step down from the primetime Bruce era. Veteran game show contestant the Reverend David Smith gives Bruce his showcase price Prize time So, what of the prizes? There were Innovations-style gadgets or horrible carriage clocks given away in the first round to whoever got the price right (those who bid about fifty quid in this round clearly didn't want to win them), then in each of the games there'd be loads of household appliances and sometimes even cars and holidays - in some you won a selection of them, in some you won everything on display.

Then the showcase at the end would have loads more prizes, normally either the entire contents of a room or a car, holiday and loads of audio-visual stuff. At a time when other quizzes were still giving away sets of luggage, this was a massive deal. Of course, contestants were simply plucked out of the audience and invited to Come on Down, so you sometimes got a right dozy selection of people there. The producers would bus in whole factories, offices, universities or social clubs en masse, the idea being that the contestants would all have hundreds of supporters behind them, hollering the answers at the top of their voices. In the original version, the contestants got a Price Is Right medal to wear throughout the show, just to congratulate them on successfully negotiating the stairs. The fact the contestants never knew they were going to be on meant that occasionally you'd get people who were completely shocked and hardly said a word throughout the programme. At least it meant the interviews weren't very long. Glitzy "Oooh, it's all American isn't it?" With these words, my parents welcomed The Price is Right to Britain.

It may seem tame now, but when the show started, nobody had seen anything like it before, such was its brashness and razzle-dazzle. Indeed, they even had to tone it down halfway through the run because it was so incredibly vulgar and over-the-top. Most of this is undoubtedly thanks to original producer William G Stewart, who used to bound through the audience at the start of a show, wearing a pink jumpsuit and playing Land Of Hope And Glory at full blast, just to get the audience wound up. The fact he gave them all party hats and, best of all, Central flags to wave throughout meant that they were excited, even if the viewers weren't. There was also a truly mental vaudeville-esque theme tune which ratcheted up the excitement another notch. The other bit you watched The Price Is Right for was the games, of which there were a massive amount. If some of them were a bit dull - "do you want to swap these prices over or not?" was a low point - others were fantastic.

The game that scared us most when we were younger was Cliffhanger, where for every pound the contestant was out in their guess, a little man would climb a mountain, yodelling all the way, until falling to his death off the top after 25 steps - one step for each £1 you were out on three different pricing items. Games from the original Crowther version The most fun ones were the ones that involved a little bit more than just pricing, such as Hole in One where to win the big prize the player had to putt a golf ball into the hole but for every item he/she priced correctly the player could putt from closer. Every week this came up there was always a bet with one of the scantily dressed assistants that ol' Brucie wouldn't be able to putt it in, which he never usually did. Also hilariously, the giant cardboard sign had a handle that changed to 'Hole in Two' so that if the player lost they could have another shot. Hole in One in progress And then there was Plinko where players dropped discs into holes in the hope that they'd fall into a cash pocket, with more discs going to people who'd guessed prices correctly.

There is a gamble at the end where you can choose to risk your prize money (sadly, typically only a few hundred quid) for a 50/50 shot at a larger prize (this was later changed to include the additional chance to double your money). It was also a piece of proverbial to join in with the games at home, and indeed in our attic there are still toys with price labels on from when we played our own versions of Supermarket. Hosts with the most Both of the first two hosts worked well - Les had some cracking old-school mannerisms, and at the end of each round he'd tell the contestant to "Go and have a chat with Cindy/Lyndsey/Debbie/etc". Every single time. Brucie, of course, was Brucie and so was always great with the dozy contestants and handling the prop-based games like Plinko. Our favourite thing ever about the show, though, is the way Look-In announced that there would be two more hostesses in one series, to wit "Busy Les will now be assisted by six hostesses rather than four". We just love that "Busy Les". You're working him to the bone, Bill!

All the ladies loved Les But they loved Brucie more. Sometimes, if you weren't in the mood for it, The Price Is Right could come across as, well, irritating. This certainly wasn't a show to watch if you had a headache, such was the constant shouting and screaming. It also wasn't the most cerebral of quizzes, with some contestants walking away with stacks of prizes purely through sheer luck. At the time, critics complained about the air of money-grabbing about the show, with losing contestants just slinking off or being forced to stand there like lemons, and the public coming a very poor second to the games and the prizes. All that really mattered was that they did the games and there were some prizes, and tough tit if the prizes were hugely inappropriate. You sort of felt that if there was only one contestant playing all the games, they wouldn't really notice. Conversely, though, when they dropped Supermarket, the replacement game - "A Mini Mayfair costs £4000, how much did it cost in 1966?" - was actually pretty dull and sedate.

Note also the hopeless attempts at making the set look glitzy in the Les version - ie, bunging a few palm trees around the place. The Brucie version was a bit disappointing because you always felt Brucie could do better than shepherding this sort of thing. For some reason, the members of the audience were always convinced they knew exactly what the price of everything was, so they'd be shouting and making hand signals throughout - even when the options were something like £2501 and £2502, they'd still be hollering at the contestants and groaning when they chose the 'wrong' one. You sort of felt that if they weren't careful, some of the audience would storm the stage and do the games themselves as they didn't think the contestants could be trusted. Sometimes they were right to think that, though - note all the instances in Contestants Row where one wouldn't be listening and so would bid a quid below what someone else had (you can't go over, of course, so they had no chance) or bid insultingly low - where Brucie would always go "Fifty quid!?!" in response.

On the Les incarnation, one curious bit was that they'd take the value of the prizes won by the most successful contestant before the final, and then give that amount in cash to 'our nominated charity' - clearly a William G idea to stop people complaining it was soulless. Channel hopping The series began on Saturday nights in 1984 and, much to the critics' chagrin, was an enormous hit, instantly making it to number one in the charts with some sixteen million viewers a week. It stayed on Saturday nights for a number of years, and viewing figures were steady throughout, as was the criticism levelled at it, with everyone pointing out that this was the most vulgar, most inane show ever produced and the obvious step towards mass dumbing down. This was never the case, of course, and after a move to Fridays for a bit (the "Busy Les" period), ITV decided to axe it in 1988, presumably figuring that the public could only watch it for so long before becoming thoroughly sick of the whole thing. That said, Les later said that he only knew it had been axed when he read it in the paper, as ITV had neglected to tell him.

In 1989, Talbot Telegame produced a new version of the show, for the embryonic Sky One, using the facilities and services of Central TV. However this was hardly noticed as a) it was on Sky One, and b) Central News' Bob Warman was not really a very inspiring figure as host. The prizes, however, were more expensive than those during the Les period, due to the more relaxed regulation of satellite channels. Bob Warman with contestant in the Talbot Telegame production for Sky One. Brucie convinced Yorkshire to pick up the rights in 1995, and it was back on ITV, though originally opposite EastEnders and, if anything, even more vulgar and gaudy than the original version (unsurprisingly, it had the same producers as Supermarket Sweep). It did well enough for ITV for the next few years, but often it would turn up in all sorts of weird slots, with odd ones showing up months, or even years, after the series they were actually part of.

Eventually endless Emmerdale meant there was no room for quizzes on the channel anymore, so they bunged it out on Saturday teatimes in the middle of summer, much to Brucie's disappointment. They kept it going for a bit, but Brucie's falling out with ITV meant it abruptly finished. Brucie and his prize touching crew. By turns, the Joe Pasquale version is both refreshingly different and slightly annoying. Joe himself is a master at interacting with the contestants, and his grip of the games is better than the cue card-assisted Brucie in the first series. However, he garbles a little too much over the rules for our liking. For every positive there is a negative. For each new game (of which there are many), the sound effects just don't sound right. For each new bit of comedy business with stooges, the new models wave their hands around the prizes just a bit too much. For each new clever game set, there's direction problems with late shots and the vision mixer's love of Joe's back rather than his face. Yes, it's The Price is Right but many of the minor details are a bit rough and ready.

The Pasquale version was axed in January 2007 due to ratings averaging 800,000 viewers. Summing up Sometimes, you want to switch your brain off and enjoy a bit of inanity, and that's when The Price Is Right really came into its own. Yeah, so it was vulgar, and noisy, and soulless, but on a Saturday night you couldn't really ask for more. They'd clearly pumped loads of money into it, and at a time when many other game shows were giving away rubbish, here was a series that gave away decent prizes, and loads of them. It only really worked in small doses, though, and five years was probably about right first time round. It's certainly not our favourite of Brucie's shows, if only because the presenter couldn't really put a lot of their personality into it, and the prizes and audience tended to overshadow anything that actually happened on the show. It wasn't, as some suggested, the end of television, but neither was The Price Is Right a particular high point in the medium's history.

Catchphrases (Brucie): "We have a space in Contestants' Row - who's it going to be, Peter?" "Take a look... at this..." "The actual retail price is..." "Go and have a chat with [Cindy]" (During the Supermarket game): "Fifteen seconds - not a long time". (During the Showcase Showdown): "...And whichever contestant is furthest away from the actual price, either above or below, sits down and is eliminated. In the event of tied losing answers, both contestants are eliminated - and in the event of this happening when there are only three of you left, we will play a tie-breaker. At all events, the two contestants who remain standing at the end of the game will go into the Showcase Final". "It's Saturday Night! So come on down! The Price is Right" "And here he is - Leslie Crowther!" "The Time is Right. The Place is Right. So come on down. The Price is Right!" (Crowther): "Ladies and gentlemen - I hope you'll be able to join us next week, when once again I shall be saying 'Come on down - The Price Is Right'!" "Here we go.

It's Britain's biggest game show! Bruce's Price is Right!" Brucie, just before the break: "We'll see you later on for the Showcase Showdown - and (to the viewers) that goes for you too!" "...And I hope you're going to play along at home!" "Flash the cash!" "As ever, over is out..." "Remember - you can be up to (however much) under, but not one penny over..." "What is the price of your showcase?" "Remember, no matter what happens, Bruce's price is always right - good night!" Audience: "Plin-ko! Plin-ko! Plin-ko!" "....And all this could be yours tonight, if the price is right!" "There'd be no show without Joe... Joe Pasquale!" Inventor Based on the classic US format of the same name. Trivia The original producer was William G. Stewart , now best known as the presenter of Fifteen-to-One . Apparently, he used to get the crowd excited by marching in to the tune of Land of Hope and Glory at full volume, and leapt around the audience wearing his trademark lurid pink tracksuit.

We've seen the footage of this, and it's scary. Producer William G. Stewart (left) and presenter Leslie Crowther (second from right) with contestants Michael Crawford and Matthew Kelly were considered as hosts. Central TV wanted a fresher face such as Joe Brown, who Stewart agreed to make a pilot with on the condition that he could also make one with Leslie Crowther. On the very first TPiR, a woman called Mary Brown was invited to "come on down" but she refused. Producer William G. Stewart wanted to start the new series with a rhyme "Mary Brown, Come on Down!" but clearly it didn't go to plan! In the Crowther era, the winner actually got their name in the end credits. Which was nice. Following Leslie Crowther 's death in 1996, William G. Stewart revealed that Crowther had initially been reluctant to shout 'Come on down!' on the show and had said that he'd need to speak to his wife, Jean, first, in case she didn't approve.

Somewhat nonplussed, William G said, "But I'm your producer - she's only your wife", to which Crowther immediately responded, "No - she's my wife - you're only my producer!" Fortunately, Jean did eventually approve and Crowther soon made the catchphrase his own. When Crowther died in 1996, the next Bruce's Price is Right broadcast was preceded with an announcer saying "Bruce Forsyth would like tonight's programme to be dedicated to the memory of Leslie Crowther". After seeing the first few episodes, the IBA stepped in to block the Giant Wheel eliminator because they believed it was a pure gamble with no skill involved. This action coincided with an electricians' strike at Central's studios, which took the programme off the air for a month. During the hiatus, and after much head scratching, the producers came up with a game where they had to name the price of an expensive item. The contestant with the answer furthest away from the correct price was eliminated, until two were left for the final. In rehearsals, however, one of the extras pointed out that the final contestant in the row only has to name a price between two he's already heard and he'll always make the final.

Therefore, they changed it so that the contestants wrote down the figures first. During at least two of the Crowther-shows, contestants won inappropriate prizes. One lady won a lawnmower and a set of garden furniture, among other things - and she didn't even have a garden! Crowther's response was, "Well, we'll have to fix you up with one". (Quite how they'd have done that is unclear). On another occasion, a contestant won a car as part of her showcase and then announced that she couldn't drive. Fortunately, just as Crowther was starting to suggest that they might arrange some driving lessons for her, she added, "But my husband can" - no doubt much to the relief of both Crowther and the crew! On another memorable occasion, a contestant named Maggie made it past Contestants' Row and Crowther soon started calling her 'Giggly Maggie' (his words, not ours - but it's true that she did giggle a fair bit). Her game was 'Secret X', in which she had to price up to three items in order to win a maximum of two X's to place on the board to make a line of three.

She managed to price the two items correctly and gain her requisite two X's as well as win the items concerned, but then she demanded to know why she wasn't playing for the third small prize - a swan-design teapot. Crowther explained that she didn't have to play for said teapot, because she'd already priced enough items correctly, but Maggie was having none of it, as she was obviously very taken with the teapot. Crowther exclaimed in mock-despair, "I don't know - she's got all these lovely prizes and now she's on about 'the lickle teapot'" (again, his turn of phrase, not ours). Guess what? They eventually let her keep the teapot. Bruce once confided to one of the prize researchers that he hadn't heard of one of the Supermarket Game ingredients - creme fraiche - and worried whether the contestants would have done either. In terms of studios, the show moved around quite a bit. After a year or two, the Crowther version moved over from Central's Birmingham HQ to their Nottingham complex. It was moved back to Brum for the Warman era.

Naturally, Brucie's YTV version came to you from Leeds but the Pasquale revival was recorded at Granada's Manchester site, also known as 3SixtyMedia. As a rather sad coda to the Pasquale era, studio director Phil Chilvers died mid-way through the production of the series. He was found dead in his hotel room, and the crew and audience of 400 waiting in the studio were sent home. Merchandise A board game of the Leslie Crowther version was made. A Bruce's Price is Right board game was made. Web links The Price Is Right / Funny - TV Tropes Bob: Trust me, it's great on the rocks . Her performance there caused the rest of the show to be somewhat rushed. She managed to get to the Showcase, and showed that she wasn't paying attention to Johnny Olson's prize descriptions: Boo Boo: Is that [trip to London] by plane, or boat? Bob: By airplane. Boo Boo: Is that just for me at one? Bob: Is it for one or two? Two. Boo Boo: Oh, good. Bring my boyfriend.

(silence) Bob: ..."Are the [six] clocks wound or unwound?" I know, I know... Any time a contestant who is called down accidentally runs past Contestant's Row and onto the stage. 1990s: An extremely-excited contestant named Ruby Jean ran right up in this fashion as she embraced Barker. Bob: Now, Ruby Jean? You wanna play a pricing game, don't you? Ruby Jean: Yes! AAAIIIEEEHOOHOO! Bob: And you wanna play it right now, don't you? Ruby Jean: Yes! Yes! YES! OHHH! Bob: (pointing to Contestant's Row) Will you explain to them why you get to play and they don't? Ruby Jean: I'm up here. (realizes her mistake, then shrieks in embarrassment before scampering for Contestant's Row) A similar moment when a very old lady named Lily got called down and went up onstage next to Barker. Bob: Now you want to play a pricing game? Lily: I'd love to. Bob: Now, how am I going to explain it to these people down here [in Contestant's Row]? Lily: Well, they're young and they'll understand.

(Bob laughs) Blanche: You know what, you still sleep with one leg off? Bob: Now, wait, just a moment... Blanche: You said that! Bob: Now, you've watched me ever since Truth or Consequences, and what did I say about my leg? Blanche: You said you sleep with a leg off the bed! Bob: That's... (laughs) I probably did say I sleep with one foot out from under the cover. Blanche: Well, I don't know, but that's what you said! In general, pretty much every time the show did something weird for April Fool's Day: 1974: A No Budget "Every Room In The House" Showcase with such "prizes" as paper plates and an eggbeater; the real Showcase was a Cadillac (or something similar). Apparently, the contestant who got this rare opportunity bid a mere $100 because "I didn't want to go over!" "...and goes downhill very quickly.

(Clips of it were used in this promo , which we had previously thought to be from 1977.) 1976: A " Bicentennial Salute " Showcase (done sporadically during the 1975-76 period for obvious reasons) honoring Dr. John Barrett Clapinger (played by a very young Roger Dobkowitz), a famous American physician and author who had a wife and a mistress; the real Showcase was a Cadillac El Dorado. 1977: There was very clearly some sort of prank done, as there's a title card at the end of the previous video which assembles just enough to say "April 1, 1977". 1981: As Johnny Olson introduced Bob at the top of the show, Door #2 opened to reveal...a small stand with a white card reading "APRIL FOOL'S!" Bob was then shown making his very first audience entrance. 1999: A Showcase with six cars. Six toy cars, anyway. The real Showcase was three actual-sized Chevrolet Metros. 2005: A Showcase where Teri plays some pranks ...and then one gets played on the contestant for about two seconds.

Circa 1973, when it was still the New Price is Right: A contestant is about to play Clock Game and voices how she doesn't like the game and she wanted to play a new pricing game. Bob got "offended" and the rest is history. Circa 1974: A Range Game contestant named Saba pressed stop way too early and lost. Bob's interaction with him was classic. (it's not on YouTube anymore.) Circa 1975: A lady playing Shell Game asks her mother for help. Circa 1976: Patricia Bernard is the next contestant to "Come on down", but there's one problem: she's just gone to the little girl's room, so her husband rushes out of the studio to get her. The item up for bid afterwards? A waterbed! Bob alluded to this incident in the April 4, 1988 episode, when contestant Rita Scott seemed to have disappeared under similar circumstances. 1976: The Amana freezer incident.

September 14, 1977: This episode featured the debut of Secret X...and opened with Yolanda Bowsley, a contestant whose tube top also "came on down". Bob had no idea what was going on, so after he made his entrance, he saw the excessive amount of cheers and applause, got confused, misinterpreted it, and said things like "Whatever brought this, this is the way I want it from now on!" Bob would be informed of the incident after the first commercial break. Bob: Wait a minute! ...I know you all truly love me, but you don't really love me this much, do you? Johnny: Bob, they have given their ALL for you! Before the second-to-last One-Bid, the contestant called down almost had a similar incident. Of this, Bob said that she was "the best thing to happen to this show since Yolanda!" Years later, Bob would hang a lampshade on the whole thing by saying "She came on down and they came on out!" September 4, 1978 (aired June 30): The debut of Shower Game, and the contestant begins taking his shirt off before Bob stops him.

February 27, 1980: A funny segment all around, but Squeeze Play just isn't cooperating. And Bob insists on neatness. Right before this in the One Bid, Bob went on a rant about how he accidentally pulled out the price out the envelope out of his coat pocket. Bob: Are you interested at all in my problems? (camera shakes left and right as if to say "No.") November 10, 1980: The first Grand Game win (long believed to be the debut, but actually the eighth playing) in which Pauline (a Samoan) chased Bob around the stage. Bob: I would have let you grab me sooner, Pauline, but I didn't want to have you pay for my hospital bills. Pauline would go onto the Showcase, and gave Bob a bearhug when she won. Bob then signed off saying "Goodbye forever!!" Samoans in general seemed to love Bob just a little TOO much...! 1981: A game of Cliff Hangers in which all sorts of things go awry. Most notably, after the contestant guessed on the last prize, the mountain climber was shown falling off the cliff...

but then the winning bells were heard and the price revealed that she had missed it by just enough that the mountain climber should have stopped on the very last step. This causes Bob to bring Roger Dobkowitz out from behind the prop to give an explanation. April 20, 1982: A contestant bid $1, thinking that her opponent had gone over; her opponent not only didn't overbid, but was a mere $9 off, winning both Showcases. This incident is a good example of why you shouldn't bid an intentionally-low amount in the Showcase (current Showcases begin at around $15,000), but to be fair there was little chance of her winning no matter what she bid. September 29, 1982: Holly vs. an uncooperative Gibson refrigerator. 1983: Race Game is played for season tickets to sporting events for the L.A. Dodgers, Kings, Lakers, and Raiders. It just happened to be played by a female contestant and: Bob: I always hope in this game when we have these tickets as prizes that we'll get a sports fan. She turned around to me and she said "What do the Kings do?".

February 8, 1983: An entire episode where pretty much everybody was drunk. Christmas 1983: Toward the end of a Temptation playing, the concealer for the last number in the car's price was stuck partway. Bob tried pushing the button several times to no avail, then the contestant started hitting it herself; the concealer finally dropped upon her third or fourth hit, revealing that she had won. January 10, 1984: During the open, Johnny Olson called for Susan Derbeck. She, expecting to hear her future last name of Dupont, didn't stand up for 35 seconds. After she finally came down, Johnny introduced Bob, but he wasn't there...and didn't appear for 15 seconds. Bob: Welcome to The Price Is Right ï¿½ if it's good enough for you, Susan, it's good enough for me! February 8, 1984: Ethel. Ethel: I had a dream about you so I had to come down here. Bob: What were we doing in the dream? Ethel: You were chasing me in the hayloft.

December 1984: An incident shortly after One Away debuted had Bob under the mistaken assumption that the "correct number" horns would be used after the contestant's second turn as well. Upon asking for the first horn, the standard bell sounded instead and the first number of the price was revealed; Bob, after asking if she had "one number right" (noting that the first number was already revealed), hit the flat part right above the price ï¿½ i.e., the signal to move the price reveal another digit down. Bob continued to ask for horns, not noticing any of this, until the price had been fully exposed. Bob: But... I wanted to ask for another horn! Making this a little weirder is that none of Bob's shenanigans were necessary ï¿½ the game had been won immediately after the first number was revealed, as it was the only one left unchanged. Christmas 1984: In a game of Pick a Pair, the contestant didn't make a match on his first try.

Bob then told everyone the correct match and started explaining that he knows because the cards hiding the prices stick far out front that you could look in from above and see the price, then he realized that the contestant still had a second chance! Needless to say, the contestant won. 1985: An older lady about to play Clock Game really didn't want a computer. Needless to say, very Hilarious in Hindsight ; the title of the video even namechecks It Will Never Catch On . Contestant: I can't even balance my checkbook, what the hell am I gonna do with a computer? Bob: After you make a remark like that, what the hell are we gonna do with no computers on this show in the future? August 21, 1986: On the second nighttime special, the fourth number accidentally revealed itself during Lucky $even. As the contestant had been asked to give the third number, and the fifth was revealed at the outset, this resulted in a win.

(The fact that the last number was revealed at the outset during an era of $10,000 cars, which in turn meant the player really only had to guess three numbers, didn't help matters .) October 6, 1986: The Shell Game cheating incident had several of these through Bob ï¿½ his reactions to the contestant (Deborah) and, later, playing up the rather anti-climatic reveal. Upon winning her first chip, she lifted one of the four shells (which didn't have the ball under it), and saw that the ball wasn't there. After Bob scolded her, she put her chip next to the shell she just looked under, to which Bob said that she was sweet for doing it but added "that's dumb" and had her place the chip elsewhere. After Deborah won the last two chips (and marked all the shells except the one she lifted) , the audience applauded the upcoming win. ( "You know, I'm pretty sure she's won this!" ). Bob: You know, you've ruined my show. You've ruined my game. This [reveal] would be exciting, but everybody knows the damn thing's not there! It's here, you win!

Late 1986: A contestant playing Cliff Hangers misses the first two prizes by several dollars. After the second, the mountain climber accidentally moves up several fewer spaces than he was supposed to, before it is discovered that he should be on 24. Cue the contestant pricing the third prize exactly, then asking Bob, "how the hell did I do that?!" 1987 (or thereabouts): Dian makes a Freudian Slip . October 15, 1987: During Bob's first gray hair day, Punch-A-Bunch was played. "No stone goes unturned" as Janice updates Bob's hair on the $10,000 bill using a white crayon. February 26, 1988: After the sixth IUFB was shown, Bob noticed that one of the books was a copy of The Encyclopedia of TV Game Shows. When he noticed that his picture wasn't on there... he ordered that book be thrown away . June 30, 1988: Before the playing of Phone Home game, Dian and Holly reveal the $15,000 top prize scroll, but the text is facing the wrong way.

Bob is noticeably embarrassed. September 15, 1988: Rod Roddy gets through a Showcase skit full of tongue-twisters without slipping up once ...then fluffs his own name at the end. Circa 90's: One of those mannequins doesn't look right... 1991: The fourth contestant's shirt says "LEAVE ME ALONE"... Bob does just that . But when that contestant doesn't want Bob to leave her alone, Bob has a solution: " Take your shirt off! ". Followed by the contestant nonchalantly agreeing. June 3, 1992: A small lady named Fan grabs and hugs Bob so much before a Take Two playing. Bob: I think I've been mugged. November 30, 1992: A younger contestant named Cherish spins the Big Wheel backwards. Bob quickly stops the wheel. Bob: Have you ever seen anyone spin in reverse? Cherish: I wanted to be different! Bob: Well, you were different. Now be normal. She then proceeded to spin the right way...and got the dollar . Bob: Do you know what she has done?

I will be haunted with this for years to come ï¿½ people'll come, they'll say "I wanna spin it backwards, then I'll get a dollar!" January 22, 1993: Rod calls down two long names: Ebunoloron Sims and Sathyanarayanan Ganysamyrthy . February 22, 1993: Holly and the dancing dummy. That's all I'm saying. November 11, 1994: "Bob Barker saying, "goodbye," and hoping all your ...prices are right!" , a contestant bids $12,000 on a Honda Rebel 250 motorcycle.note (For those unaware, this is a cruiser-style motorcycle with an engine displacement of about 250 cc's.) Bob: Anybody got a surfboard? January 20, 1998: A contestant playing Clock Game gave several slow, random guesses and, with about 15 seconds left, backed her way into the right answer of $749. Bob was stunned and sat down for a few seconds to "regain [his] composure".

Bob: I hope you realize...that we are in the presence of a miracle! February 11, 1999: Brian makes his first Clock Game bid on a dinnerware set ï¿½ $89, then $105. Bob soon caught on and reprimanded him for bidding so low on dinnerware. "You couldn't buy those saucers for $89!" Brian proceeded to bid $45, then claimed he said $485 when Bob asked for clarification. The game continued until Brian made a bid that sounded like "eight or nine hundred". Bob's stunned silence right before time runs out is priceless. Bob: Brian, what kind of a show do you think this is? February 24, 2000: You remember the yodeling song that plays during the game "Cliff Hangers", right? Well, it turns out, it's an actual song, and the contestant playing it that day, a man named Walter, is an actual yodeler! Instead of the tape playing the song, as usual, Walter yodels the song himself!

Add to that: After he wound up losing, he intentionally fell down quickly just as the mountain climber dropped from the cliff. November 1, 2000: The easiest playing of Ten Chances ever. (Oh, and a few minutes later? Automatically qualifies for the Showcase.) Bob: This young man has won a car, an oven, a shredder, and he's in the Showcase...and he has done nothing! The logical inverse was this playing on May 1, 2006, mostly because the contestant was a Brainless Beauty who staggered through every chance she was given. At the end, when she wins, Bob sits down in shock and starts talking away from his mic. Bob's inner monologue: "I can't believe this stupid bitch won a $20,000 car." January 21, 2002: A contestant gets one-upped for both of the first two one-bids and looks visibly pissed off. Bob says this to the offender. June 6, 2002: The big reveal in Flip Flop was averted by a stuck price cover.

Although the price was revealed enough that the outcome was known, Bob and the contestant ended up ripping the cover in half , shaking the game board considerably in the process. Needless to say, it got repaired. October 2, 2003: Bob spins the Big Wheel for a wheelchair-bound contestant...and fails to get it all the way around. His response? "This is the most humiliating moment of my life." And then Bob hands the microphone to the contestant and spins the wheel with both hands. November 10, 2004: During the Showcase Showdown, Michael decides to propose to his girlfriend Rosie. As he's doing this, he gets the dollar from his spin , and he celebrates by balancing his ring on his nose. April 20, 2009: This Spin-Off. First spinner gets the dime, the second gets the nickel. (Bonus points for the winner looking an awful lot like Santa Claus .) It happens again on October 4, 2013...and AGAIN on February 6, 2014.

September 23, 2009: A contestant playing One Away claimed that she had practiced the game beforehand, then went on to do...Bob Barker's "Ladies, do I have at least one number right?" routine ï¿½ a routine that had been ousted in favor of "Oh, mighty Sound Effects Lady" when Drew became host two years earlier. January 13, 2011: One IUFB was an automatic pancake maker , to which Drew asked "Where were you when I was fat?!" April 1, 2011: Another April Fools' Day episode where things appear to go completely Off the Rails ... The boom mic randomly appears in the shots Right off the bat with the first IUFB: George: It's a new plasma TV and a new Xbox system! (Models flourish and knock the TV over, smashing it) George: ...you know what, a new XBox system ! Drew: ~_~ Gwendolyn coming around on the turntable to the sound of harsh metallic grinding and smoke billowing out (and the turntable doesn't rotate properly) George helps plug an unusually accessorized steam shower...and then the steam shower soaks him.

And the contestant joins him. The Double Prices display is full of garbage! The Contestants' Row displays randomly glitching out, forcing Scott to come out and show off the prices by hand George is in the bag representing the "prize" in Balance Game ...and gets pelted with tennis balls in the following IUFB, putting on a Thousand-Yard Stare after the whole thing falls apart The back display tilts and goes static An IUFB comes down from the ceiling...and stays down Rachel plows a car THROUGH door #3 Rachel: Oh, No... Not Again! Drew remarks that nothing went wrong since that during the second Showcase Showdown. Cue a spotlight dropping out of the rafters, the stage going (mostly) dark, and a TPIR themed test pattern within moments of that happening. April 3, 2012: One of the small prizes used for a game is introduced as a "non-stick waffle maker". When it is opened to show the waffles inside, a waffle sticks to the top .

George Gray: (mockingly angry) I said, "Non-STICK!" Drew laughs so hard, he slaps the table the waffle-make is sitting on, accidentally revealing the price. Drew Carey: Non-stick waffles, everybody! *waving the model and the waffle-maker away* You never saw that. May 11, 2012 (Mother's Day show): Edited out of the actual show, but when special guest Florence Henderson and her "eye candy" model Johannes drove out the car for Lucky $even, Johannes accidentally steers the car into the frame of Door #3. George: ...a used SUV! May 29, 2012: A contestant, Novel, bids on the tugboat, which is sometimes used to bring out the items up for bid, thinking that the tugboat itself is the item up for bid. " "WHO WON WHAT!? WHO WON WHAT?! WHO WON WHAT!?! HOLD UP!!" April 1, 2013: An amusing Gender Swap edition for April Fools' Day.

The models take over hosting and announcing duties, leaving Drew and George to model the prizes — which leads to instant hilarity when the very first item up for bid is a set of designer accessories. May 15, 2013: During the Showcase Showdown, a contestant gives a bit too much oomph in her spin and she falls down against the prop set, pushing the entire thing back a few inches. June 4, 2013: The game Cover Up has the wrong numbers for the price of the car replaced by pictures of Drew's face , causing him to laugh uncontrollably at the fact that the producers took up his suggestion from several episodes earlier of not bothering showing the contestant the wrong numbers since it had no bearing on the game.

It has since become a Running Gag with a different set on each playing (including punctuation symbols, elements from the periodic table, the word "car" in five different languages, notes from the theme song , etc) December 23, 2013: The five grocery items for the Grocery Game are a bag of Funnyuns, Birds' Eye vegetables, microwavable cordon bleu chicken, a stick of Dove deodorant, and canned pear halves in syrup. It took Drew a moment to get it, but he found the reference hilarious: days 1 through 5 of the Twelve Days of Christmas. January 8, 2014: After winning Most Expen$ive, contestant Kalyn trips over the "Most Expen$ive" rug, tackles George (who is holding one of the price tags), and knocks him into a pair of television sets. Ouch. November 11, 2014: A contestant comes on who looks a lot like how Drew looked before his weight loss, and even refers to himself on his shirt as "Old Drew". Cue before and after pictures of the real "Old Drew" and "New Drew" in the corner of the screen.

January 15, 2015: One of the prizes in Most Expen$ive is a treadmill. George runs on the treadmill backwards while reading the copy, and promptly falls off , then continues reading the prize copy as if nothing happened . George: Didn't miss a word! March 3rd, 2015: Drew's brain fart while playing Squeeze Playnote (The price is revealed when Drew manually presses a button on the side of the game...and for some reason, Drew thought it was automated): Drew: Give it to her! (focus on the display) The Price is Right - Show News, Reviews, Recaps and Photos - TV.com The Price is Right Weekdays 11:00 AM on CBS Premiered Sep 04, 1972 In Season USER EDITOR Tim Surette - Jul 24, 2007 Previously Aired Episode EDIT The Price Is Right has long been a staple of daytime and nighttime television.

It has seen five incarnations: the 1956-1965 daytime version hosted by Bill Cullen on NBC and ABC, the 1972-1980 nighttime version hosted by Dennis James and Bob Barker, the 1985 nighttime version hosted by Tom Kennedy , the 1994-1995 nighttime version hosted by Doug Davidson , and the current daytime version hosted by Barker and Drew Carey. This guide covers the current daytime version. The object of The Price Is Right is to correctly guess the retail prices of items, without going over, to either win the items themselves or other prizes. At the beginning of each show, the announcer calls out the names of four contestants, imploring each to "come on down!" A prize is announced for which each contestant (one at a time) makes a bid (called the One Bid). After the host announces the actual retail price, the contestant who bid closest without going over is invited on stage to play a pricing game for a larger prize.

If a contestant's bid is exactly correct, he/she wins a $500 bonus (on the Armed Forces and $1,000,000 Spectacular Specials, the bonus for an exact bid is $1000). Frequently, during Barker's tenure as host, an animal would be brought out on stage by one of the models during the One Bid prize plugs. Barker would then comment that the pet was available for adoption at an area animal shelter. He also encouraged viewers to visit their local humane society. Pricing game prizes often include cars, trips, rooms of furniture, cash, and various other items. Furs were also given away during the early years, but this practice was dropped per Barker's wishes due to his involvement with animal-rights issues. The episodes that offer furs as prizes will likely never be seen again as Barker continues to fight against their re-airing. There were over 100 total individual pricing games with 72 in the current rotation. Some games involved pricing grocery or small, everyday items. Others involved chance, deduction, skill and/or patience. Many games quickly became very popular.

Contestants chomp at the bit to play such entries as Plinko, Ten Chances, Cliff Hangers, Any Number, Grocery Game, Range Game, Race Game, and many others. While each of the pricing games uses only one player, there was one game (known by fans as Bullseye 2) which used two players. This game, which was retired during the first season, had the players alternating bids on a car or boat, and the first to guess the price exactly won. The second contestant was determined by immediately playing another One Bid. Some pricing games have been retired. The reasons include frequent mechanical malfunctions, complicated rules, low odds of winning, and negative responses from viewers. Pictures, audio files, and videos of most of the retired pricing games can be seen on various fan pages on the World Wide Web. After each pricing game is played (except for the final game of the day), one more contestant is called from the audience to "come on down," and another One Bid item is shown for another chance to play a pricing game. Until the fourth season, the two contestants with the highest winnings after all three pricing games had been played went to the Showcase round.

Two showcases (prize packages worth several thousand dollars) are shown, one at a time. After the first showcase is revealed, the top winning contestant has the choice to bid on the showcase or pass it to his/her opponent and force him/her to bid. The contestant coming closest to the actual retail price of his/her own showcase without going over wins their showcase. Originally, the contestant could win only his/her showcase. Early in the show's run, a stipulation was added stating that if a contestant's bid came within $100 of his/her showcase's actual retail price, they'd win everything in both showcases. In 1998, the stipulation was modified, and, now, winning contestants who are $250 or less away from the actual retail price of their showcase win both showcases. For the week of November 3-7, 1975 the show expanded from 30 to 60 minutes, following a successful week of experimental hour-long shows the week of September 8-12. A new round called the Showcase Showdown was added.

After three contestants have played their pricing games, each has the chance to spin a large wheel called "The Big Wheel." The order of spinning is determined by each contestant's winnings with the player having won the least going first and the player having won the most going last. The Big Wheel contains 20 spaces with numbers in increments of five cents (not in order). Each contestant gets up to two spins in an attempt to get as close to $1.00 without going over. If he/she does not have $1.00 after the first spin, the contestant can choose to spin again to get closer to $1.00 or stop at their current score with the hope that the other contestants will either score lower or go over $1.00. Getting $1.00 exactly earns the contestant a $1000 bonus. Going over $1.00 automatically disqualifies the contestant from going any further. A one-spin spin-off is held if there is a tie between two or all three contestants. If the first two contestants go over $1.00, the third player automatically advances to the Showcase but is still entitled to one spin.

After the first Showcase Showdown of each show, three more pricing games are played, followed by the second Showcase Showdown. When the Showcase Showdown was first introduced, during the experimental hour-long week, the wheel spun sideways, and there was no $1000 bonus. When the hour-long show became permanent on November 3, 1975, the $1000 bonus was added, and the current wheel debuted. Beginning in June, 1978, contestants scoring $1.00 were now allowed to spin again in an attempt to win an additional $5000 for hitting one of the green sections above or below the $1.00 space (five and 15 cents) or $10,000 for hitting the $1.00 space. During the prime time specials that first aired in 2002, contestants that hit $1.00 during the bonus spin win $100,000. During the $1,000,000 Spectacular specials airing in 2003, this bonus was increased to one million dollars. The winners of each Showcase Showdown (two per show) advance to the Showcase round.

Numerous other changes have taken place through the years, and several prime time specials have aired. The Price Is Right's 5000th episode aired in March, 1998 at which time the studio at CBS's Television City where the show is shot was renamed the Bob Barker Studio. Also, the set and some of the pricing game boards went through numerous minor changes due to inflation or to give it a modern look. The bloopers that have occurred on The Price is Right are among the most celebrated in television history. In early 1976, a woman called to Contestant's Row was in the ladies' room. Her husband had to leave the studio to tell her she'd been called. At the beginning of an episode early in the sixth season, a woman's tube top slipped down as she was running toward Contestant's Row. Also during that season, a woman fainted when she learned she won her showcase ($11,000 in prizes). Other bloopers include cars with malfunctioning brakes and other prizes which give way at the wrong time.

Usually, one of the models is often a victim of these unfortunate mishaps (such as Janice Pennington and Rachel Reynolds hitting the wall with the car they are revealing for the Lucky $even pricing game). Many pricing games have malfunctioned at one time or another. Many contestants spinning the Big Wheel spin it so hard that they fall to the floor. There have been a fair share of contestants who claim to or actually don't understand how to play a given game. The most notable is the Check Game (where the contestant writes in an amount that when added to the actual retail price of a prize must total between $5000 and $6000. In addition, one game was victimized by a cheater on the April 4, 2005 playing of Flip Flop (where a contestant is presented a string of two sets of two numbers, representing an incorrect price, and must correct one or both sets to win a prize). The contestant, after receiving input from the audience, pressed the reveal button without making any changes. Barker awarded the contestant the prize anyway, although many fans believe the player should have been disqualified. Some contestants eventually became celebrities - Vanna White in particular.

She was called to "come on down" in June, 1980, but did not get out of Contestant's Row. Other future stars include Rick Schroeder and Linda Cardellini . Main Title Theme Song "The Price Is Right Theme" by Edd Kalehoff CBS Broadcast History September 4, 1972 - March 23, 1973 .... Monday - Friday at 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM March 26, 1973 - August 15, 1975 .... Monday - Friday at 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM August 15, 1975 - November 28, 1975 .... Monday - Friday at 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM November 3, 1975 - March 25, 1977 .... Monday - Friday at 10:00 AM 11:00 AM March 28, 1977 - November 4, 1977 ....

Monday - Friday at 10:30AM - 11:30 AM November 7, 1977 - December 16, 1977 .... Monday - Friday at 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM December 19, 1977 - April 20, 1979 .... Monday - Friday at 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM April 23, 1979 -present ....

Monday - Friday at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Emmy Awards Nominations Outstanding Host in a Game Show or Audience Participation Show 1975 - Bob Barker Outstanding Game Show Host 1979 - Bob Barker 1982 - Bob Barker (winner) 1985 - Bob Barker 1986 - Bob Barker 1987 - Bob Barker (winner) 1990 - Bob Barker (winner) 1991 - Bob Barker (winner) 1992 - Bob Barker (winner) 1993 - Bob Barker 1994 - Bob Barker (winner) 1995 - Bob Barker (winner) 1996 - Bob Barker (winner) 2000 - Bob Barker (winner) 2002 - Bob Barker (winner) 2003 - Bob Barker 2004 - Bob Barker (winner) 2005 - Bob Barker 2007 - Bob Barker (winner) Outstanding Game Show Host/Hostess 1984 - Bob Barker (winner) 1988 - Bob Barker (winner) Outstanding

 Game Show 1976 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 (winner) 1989 1990 1992 1993 1994 1995 Outstanding Game/Audience Participation Show 2002 2003 2004 (winner) 2005 2007 (winner) 2008 Outstanding Technical Direction/Camera/Video for a Miniseries or a Special 1997 - The Price Is Right 25th Anniversary Primetime Special moreless By Patrick Sullivan Aug 15, 2013 Story By Patrick Sullivan Sep 26, 2013 Story

Question: In the 1980's, on which TV game show did Leslie Crowther proclaim, "Come on Down"?
Answer: THE PRICE IS RIGHT