Author Topic: More Price is Right DVD news... (Read 55745 times)

Steve Gavazzi · « **Reply #120 on:** March 14, 2008, 01:02:15 PM »

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'181314\' date=\'Mar 14 2008, 12:45 PM\'][quote name=\'mmb5\' post=\'181310\' date=\'Mar 14 2008, 12:33 PM\']Disc 1: BC-3/10/57, 1/13/60, 1/27/60, 9/4/64
Disc 1: 8/21/72 (#12), 8/26/72 (#13), 8/21/72 (#15) [third date probably in error]
Disc 2: 9/3/72 (#25), 9/17/72 (#44), 6/17/73 (#455), 6/17/73 (#462), 8/27/73 (#573), 9/23/73 (#612), 12/10/73 (#701)
Disc 3: 3/11/74 (#861), 6/17/74 (#972), 8/5/74 (#1024), 8/31/75 (#1585), 10/11/75 (#1651), 10/12/75 (#1652), 10/20/75 (#1661)
Disc 4: Last 5 (#4031-#4035)[/quote]Let me ask the fans what the numbering means. I'd assume based on Disc One that the last digit is the episode number for that week, and the earlier nunber(s) represents the week of production. So the last episode on Disc Thre, for example, would more logically be written #166-1. That would mean we're getting the Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday show for the premiere week. But the final week on Disc Four must represent some slightly different numbering pattern, because surely there have been more than 403 original weeks of TPIR produced.[/quote]
You're absolutely right, although the Wednesday show from the first week is actually 0013D("R")* (0013D was never aired, plus it has a fur coat). The show numbers loop around from 9995D to 0011K near the end of Season 24, so that explains Barker's last week.

And the tapedate for 0015D is correct.

*There aren't supposed to be quotation marks in there, but I can't figure out how to type it properly without it turning into ®.

Matt Ottinger · « **Reply #121 on:** March 14, 2008, 01:05:18 PM »

[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' post=\'181316\' date=\'Mar 14 2008, 01:02 PM\']The show numbers loop around from 9995D to 0011K near the end of Season 24, so that explains Barker's last week.[/quote]
Oh, of course! Should have thought of that, though I imagine they also could have just had five-digit episode number too.

OK, fine, what do the "D" and "K" mean?

Joe Mello · « **Reply #122 on:** March 14, 2008, 01:07:40 PM »

IIRC, D stood for Daytime (since I think the syndie episodes used N), and K stood for the 1000 tape weeks they already did. (Addendum: The FAQ agrees)

Matt Ottinger · « **Reply #123 on:** March 14, 2008, 01:08:20 PM »

[quote name=\'Joe Mello\' post=\'181321\' date=\'Mar 14 2008, 01:07 PM\']
IIRC, D stood for Daytime, and K stood for the 1000 tape weeks they already did.
[/quote]
Brilliant! I've learned something today, thank you both.

Steve Gavazzi · « **Reply #124 on:** March 14, 2008, 01:53:03 PM »

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'181319\' date=\'Mar 14 2008, 01:05 PM\'][quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' post=\'181316\' date=\'Mar 14 2008, 01:02 PM\']The show numbers loop around from 9995D to 0011K near the end of Season 24, so that explains Barker's last week.[/quote]Oh, of course! Should have thought of that, though I imagine they also could have just had five-digit episode number too.[/quote]
Well, the slates have always written the daytime codes with four digits, using leading zeroes before the hundreth week (and the nighttime codes with three digits and leading zeroes, for that matter)...I'm not sure why that prevented them from going to five digits, really, but at least it provides some context.

[quote name=\'Joe Mello\' post=\'181321\' date=\'Mar 14 2008, 01:07 PM\']IIRC, D stood for Daytime (since I think the syndie episodes used N), and K stood for the 1000 tape weeks they already did. (Addendum: The FAQ agrees)
[/quote]
You know, as obvious as that seems now, it took me over two years to figure it out.

Matt Ottinger · « **Reply #125 on:** March 14, 2008, 02:00:50 PM »

[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' post=\'181316\' date=\'Mar 14 2008, 01:02 PM\']And the tapedate for 0015D is correct.[/quote]
Interesting that we bemoan the modern practice (especially with GSN) of having self-contained shows that can air in any order, when it turns out that's exactly what they did on TNPIR in its very first week!

mmb5 · « **Reply #126 on:** March 14, 2008, 02:04:32 PM »

[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' post=\'181332\' date=\'Mar 14 2008, 01:53 PM\']
Well, the slates have always written the daytime codes with four digits, using leading zeroes before the hundreth week (and the nighttime codes with three digits and leading zeroes, for that matter)...I'm not sure why that prevented them from going to five digits, really, but at least it provides some context.
[/quote]
I will guess that whatever accounting system either CBS or GT used at the time couldn't handle a sixth digit in the production code. Quite common in the older days of computin'.

--Mike

tpirfan28 · « **Reply #127 on:** March 14, 2008, 02:08:40 PM »

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'181333\' date=\'Mar 14 2008, 02:00 PM\']
[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' post=\'181316\' date=\'Mar 14 2008, 01:02 PM\']And the tapedate for 0015D is correct.[/quote]
Interesting that we bemoan the modern practice (especially with GSN) of having self-contained shows that can air in any order, when it turns out that's exactly what they did on TNPIR in its very first week!
[/quote](cross-post from Golden-Road and myself when this info broke)
Ok...just from my quick calculations and figurings...here's kind of a possibility for the tape/air order situation in the first few episodes.

If you place the shows in order of slate number, you get the following:

#0011D - Any/Bonus/Double
#0012D - Grocery/Bullseye/Double
#0013D - Any/Bonus/Double (the unaired one)
#0013D ® - Grocery/Bullseye/Double
#0014D - Any/Bonus/Double
#0015D - Grocery/Bullsye/Double

Now we all know that wasn't the taping order...and #0013D ® was the end of the week/start of the next week

NOW, if you re-arrange the order by the order the shows were taped, you get something really really interesting...

Tape 1 - Any/Bonus/Double - 0011D
Tape 2 - Any/Bonus/Double - 0013D (unaired)
Tape 3 - Any/Bonus/Double - 0014D
Tape 4 - Grocery/Bullseye/Double - 0012D
Tape 5 - Grocery/Bullseye/Double - 0015D
Tape 6 - Grocery/Bullseye/Double - 0013D ®

Apparently, they wanted to tape shows with the same games together, then, when the bad contestant came up, they stuck it at the end of the taping set, and so they didn't have to truck out the other games, they gave it the Grocery/Bullseye/Double lineup.

Hopefully this makes sense to people.

mmb5 · « **Reply #128 on:** March 14, 2008, 02:23:22 PM »

What was the reason for the unaired game?

WhammyPower · « **Reply #129 on:** March 14, 2008, 02:27:45 PM »

[quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'181335\' date=\'Mar 14 2008, 01:08 PM\'] Hopefully this makes sense to people.[/quote]
Aha, it does make sense now. Basically, they did the same thing they did with Drew at the beginning of this season.

[quote name=\'mmb5\' post=\'181338\' date=\'Mar 14 2008, 01:23 PM\'] What was the reason for the unaired game? [/quote]
I believe one of the contestants was found ineligible after the taping.

NickintheATL · « **Reply #130 on:** March 14, 2008, 04:01:32 PM »

If anyone would like to know the airdates associated with what mmb5 reported above... then head on over to this link for a list of the episodes plus some notes (as far as I can make out), of what is on these episodes.

Steve Gavazzi · « **Reply #131 on:** March 14, 2008, 05:15:30 PM »

[quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'181335\' date=\'Mar 14 2008, 02:08 PM\']Tape 1 - Any/Bonus/Double - 0011D
Tape 2 - Any/Bonus/Double - 0013D (unaired)
Tape 3 - Any/Bonus/Double - 0014D
Tape 4 - Grocery/Bullseye/Double - 0012D
Tape 5 - Grocery/Bullseye/Double - 0015D
Tape 6 - Grocery/Bullseye/Double - 0013D("R")[/quote]
This is almost right, except that 0013D("R") was the second taping on August 26, after 0022D, which has the same lineup. The next session was 0021D and 0023D (which also both have the same lineup), and after that, everything goes pretty much in order.

DoorNumberFour · « **Reply #132 on:** March 14, 2008, 08:55:15 PM »

[quote name=\'WhammyPower\' post=\'181342\' date=\'Mar 14 2008, 02:27 PM\']
[quote name=\'mmb5\' post=\'181338\' date=\'Mar 14 2008, 01:23 PM\'] What was the reason for the unaired game? [/quote]
I believe one of the contestants was found ineligible after the taping.
[/quote]
The ineligible contestant was a relative of one of the cameramen.

Steve Gavazzi · « **Reply #133 on:** March 14, 2008, 10:02:15 PM »

[quote name=\'DoorNumberFour\' post=\'181398\' date=\'Mar 14 2008, 08:55 PM\']The ineligible contestant was a relative of one of the cameramen.[/quote]
Common-law wife, actually.

Ian Wallis · « **Reply #134 on:** March 16, 2008, 02:15:00 PM »

I'm looking forward to this set. One of my regrets is that I didn't record more half-hour shows from GSN when I had the chance. By looking at Nick's air-date list, I see at least a dozen hour-hour shows I don't already have, so it will be neat to have access to them. I think there's a certain charm about the show's early years which was missing a little in recent years (although Drew's brought some of it back, IMHO).

I guess we shouldn't count on too many more (if any) of these sets if 25 years worth of episodes are on the "no-go" list though.