[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' post=\'158880\' date=\'Jul 27 2007, 08:29 PM\']
I've got The Price Is Right's entire first-run air schedule posted
here. Summer reruns did indeed start in 1976.
Back when TPIR was airing on GSN, people made a lot of bad assumptions because they were skipping episodes -- like, any time a pricing game showed up that hadn't been seen in that timeslot before, people seemed to assume it was the first playing.
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Thanks for the link. It's the first time I've seen that and I'm amazed at the info. Good stuff!
I think I can help with the GSN reruns question: when they first picked up the show in Dec 1996, they aired the half-hour episodes at 9 AM each day. They ran through the entire three-year package in just over a year (probably because of the fur-coat issues).
At 6 PM each day, they ran hour-long episodes. They started with the very first hour-long show from 11/3/75, but only aired '75 shows on Mondays. On Tuesdays it was 1979, Wednesdays 1982, Thursdays 1986 and Fridays 1991.
After about a year of that schedule, they then seemed to run mostly 1983 shows (with a lot of the Phone Home games) Monday-Friday when they aired the show at 4 PM.
I think that clears that up...if I've omitted any info, feel free to correct...