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Price Is Right 40th Anniversary Special has at least one major omission

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Tim from Springfield IL

Bob Barker himself! But apparently he's "fine" with his exclusion from the special:

http://www.pjstar.com/free/x1903461360/Bob-Barker-fine-with-exclusion-from-Price-special

About the special, I'm surprised it didn't air tonight on CBS primetime (as had the 25th and 30th anniversary specials--plus the many primetime "million dollar spectaculars" from about 2002-2007), rather than the first of two NCIS episodes before Democratic convention coverage at 10/9.
 
TPIR may never be a nighttime special anymore.....should be, though, on occasion.

Another thing omitted, obviously on purpose:

I saw the clip where Bob came out for the first time, and said, "Here's the first item up for bids----" but we never saw the prize.

That was because the first prize ever offered was a fur coat, a no-no in game shows today. Bob pretty much led the way, as far as the end of furs on game shows. The last show, IIRC, to offer furs, was "Wheel of Fortune" in 1985.

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I believe it it best not to produce another evening edition of "The Price is Right" since I doubt many folks who be interested in such an edition after all the unnecessary changes to the regular version since Bob Barker retired. I have not watched an entire edition of the program with its current host Drew Carey since 2009 after losing all hope in the program ever retaining the dignity and style it had prior to Bob Barker's retirement.
 
...was there any acknowledgment whatsoever of Bill Cullen and the NBC/ABC original run of the '50s and '60s?...
 
Ultimajock said:
...was there any acknowledgment whatsoever of Bill Cullen and the NBC/ABC original run of the '50s and '60s?...
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Not really...although earlier in the season there was a contestant who was a previous winner in the Cullen version in 1961, and she said as much.

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Ultimajock said:
...was there any acknowledgment whatsoever of Bill Cullen and the NBC/ABC original run of the '50s and '60s?...
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Why would there be? This is the 40th anniversary of "The NEW Price Is Right"!

Just a trivia note: in the clip of the first episode of TNPIR, the contestants were told to "stand up". Once all 4 contestants were called, they were told to "come on down". Obviously, that changed very quickly to the familiar, classic TPIR line "So and so, come on down!!!!"
 
formeraa said:
Just a trivia note: in the clip of the first episode of TNPIR, the contestants were told to "stand up". Once all 4 contestants were called, they were told to "come on down". Obviously, that changed very quickly to the familiar, classic TPIR line "So and so, come on down!!!!"
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My initial post in The Price Is Right - The '70's thread I reference a YouTube video of Dennis James hosting daytime TPIR taped on the day the series launched in 1972 and it had already changed to "So and so, come on down!!!!"
 
@Ultimajock: If they kicked Bob Barker to the curb for this special, the chances of them recognizing Bill Cullen would be slim to zero...
 
Bill DeFelice said:
formeraa said:
Just a trivia note: in the clip of the first episode of TNPIR, the contestants were told to "stand up". Once all 4 contestants were called, they were told to "come on down". Obviously, that changed very quickly to the familiar, classic TPIR line "So and so, come on down!!!!"
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My initial post in The Price Is Right - The '70's thread I reference a YouTube video of Dennis James hosting daytime TPIR taped on the day the series launched in 1972 and it had already changed to "So and so, come on down!!!!"
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Do you mean Dennis James taping the nighttime TNPIR?
 
formeraa said:
Bill DeFelice said:
formeraa said:
Just a trivia note: in the clip of the first episode of TNPIR, the contestants were told to "stand up". Once all 4 contestants were called, they were told to "come on down". Obviously, that changed very quickly to the familiar, classic TPIR line "So and so, come on down!!!!"
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My initial post in The Price Is Right - The '70's thread I reference a YouTube video of Dennis James hosting daytime TPIR taped on the day the series launched in 1972 and it had already changed to "So and so, come on down!!!!"
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Do you mean Dennis James taping the nighttime TNPIR?
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...no, apparently Barker was ill and unable to tape on the day in question and James was brought in to sub for him...
 
I believe we're talking about two different events here. Bob had an extended illness where James subbed, but it wasn't the very first episode. I actually REMEMBER when James substituted -- the daytime version confused him because it took a break between the display of the showcases and the revealing of their actual retail prices. The nighttime version did not take a break during the showcases. It's amazing what an 11-year old remembers. :D
 
formeraa said:
I believe we're talking about two different events here. Bob had an extended illness where James subbed, but it wasn't the very first episode. I actually REMEMBER when James substituted -- the daytime version confused him because it took a break between the display of the showcases and the revealing of their actual retail prices. The nighttime version did not take a break during the showcases. It's amazing what an 11-year old remembers. :D
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...IIRC, there were four or five week's worth of TNPIR taped in advance of the broadcast premiere, and then Barker experienced his illness, leading to James being brought in to pinch-hit on a taping that was conducted on the day CBS ran the first daytime show. Less confused, everybody? ;D ...
 
EJM said:
I'm sticking with my theory that the episode in that thread is actually a nighttime episode--and that they didn't specifically use "nighttime" at that point.

There are plenty of game-show fans and other experts around who would have made sure that any references on Wikipedia to how many episodes Mr. Barker missed (not to mention when) would be correct; it looks like it was a total of four episodes that were taped on one day in late 1974.
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I'm definitely in the 1974 camp. Dennis James even said in one of the later of the four episodes, "Thank you for all the letters. Bob is getting better." At the time, I thought he was being sincere. As an adult, I'm sure that he was just making it up.

I've also read on a game show website that the "Stand Up" was either one of the first week of episodes OR one of the test episodes (possibly never aired) as they smoothed out the games and flow of TNPIR. One of the websites actually had the same clip that was shown (I wish I remembered which website). As I look back, the complexity of the TNPIR games must have been a huge deal in 1972! On the 40th anniversary special, Drew had a touchscreen "two-price" game. Time rolls on... ;D
 
EJM said:
I'm sticking with my theory that the episode in that thread is actually a nighttime episode--and that they didn't specifically use "nighttime" at that point.
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It was pointed out to me as I missed it as well, that if you listen to Johnny O's vamp he says "a fabuous fortune of prizes may go to these people tonight" - our speculation is that it would have been confusing to call the show either the "new, NIGHTTIME Price is Right" or the "nighttime, NEW Price is Right."

I also just noticed the slate at the beginning of the referenced YouTube clip that indicates the program number was 006N - my guess was the N was the nighttime edition.
 
Interesting...so the clip may well have been an early episode of the nighttime version of TNPIR. I remember it specifically being called "the nighttime version of The New Price Is Right".

IIRC, many of the game shows had nighttime versions, but many of them only aired once per week. For example, TPIR on Monday, the 25K Treasure Hunt on Tuesday, Name That Tune on Wednesday, Jeopardy on Thursday, etc. Or maybe it was just how it was done in Seattle.
 
Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions was highly dysfunctional around 1970.

Mark Goodson wanted to shift all tapings to LA and Todman fought for New York.

However NY had extra union costs that LA did not have. The NY studios also had stage issues of just getting the prizes on stage.

Mark and Bill fought over where to tape one syndicated show - 'Beat The Clock with Jack Narz' and they wound up taping it in Montreal.

New York was a union nightmare 40 years ago and LA offered better stages with less union problems.

The person who kept NYC relevant as a game show location was Bob Stewart. He told CBS the '$10000 Pyramid' must be done in NY or it doesn't happen.

Eventually Stewart threw in the towel and shiows were moved west.
 
formeraa said:
As I look back, the complexity of the TNPIR games must have been a huge deal in 1972! On the 40th anniversary special, Drew had a touchscreen "two-price" game. Time rolls on... ;D
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Of course, TPIR had pride on being low-tech -- the use of video walls (save for the 1994 Doug Davidson nighttime version) and touchscrens did not become prevalent until Drew took over the show. In fact, the use of electronic chyrons for the credits wasn't even adopted until around 1994 -- they still used the old credit scroll technique.
 
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