More Price is Right DVD news...

[Ian Wallis]

I got mine today for $29.99 (too much?).  Anyway, I watched 3 episodes so far, and I was especially interested in the Oct 1975 episodes just before the show expanded to an hour.

On the Monday ep, Bert Convy drops by; and on Tuesday Charles Nelson Reilly actually "comes on down" to congratulate Bob on the expansion to an hour starting the following week.  I don't believe these episodes ever aired on GSN (and since I was in school when they did, it was my first time seeing them!)

If they were going to pick an entire week to put on the discs, it should have been this one.  I think it's probable that the Wed-Thurs-Fri shows that week also had guests congratulating them - anyone know who they were?

I think they were quite inventive with the tix plugs as well.

[mcsittel]

[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' post=\'182465\' date=\'Mar 25 2008, 07:20 PM\']
I got mine today for $29.99 (too much?).  
[/quote]

Remember when that would have been a great price given the exchange rate?

/ Going to Canada later this year
// I'm saving my loonies for poutine

[Eric Paddon]

I'd sure like to know how the people writing the notes came up with 3/10/57 as the date for the Cullen daytime show (the oldest surviving TPIR and the first one that GSN always aired in their cycle of episodes) when all the comments made on the show clearly indicate it's still February.

[Steve Gavazzi]

[quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'182451\' date=\'Mar 25 2008, 05:16 PM\']1585D has some excellent moments with Bob and the contestants (notably how complex Card Game is made).[/quote]
Odd thing I've discovered about this recently...this is the only appearance of Card Game in 1975 between July 24 and November 8.

Actually, based on the game lineups of September 8-12 and November 3-7 (the lists are identical aside from Range Game and Poker Game flip-flopping between Monday and Tuesday, and Poker Game and 1 Right Price are in similar situations to Card Game), I've got a theory going that the "trial hour shows" weren't planned until the hour format was already finalized...I think they just scrapped whatever they'd originally had planned for that week and duplicated the lineups from November.  There's things about them that just don't make a lot of sense otherwise.

[ClockGameJohn]

[quote name=\'Eric Paddon\' post=\'182480\' date=\'Mar 25 2008, 11:14 PM\']
I'd sure like to know how the people writing the notes came up with 3/10/57 as the date for the Cullen daytime show (the oldest surviving TPIR and the first one that GSN always aired in their cycle of episodes) when all the comments made on the show clearly indicate it's still February.
[/quote]

Well, I don't know how much more to the source I can get; but I wrote the notes.

I was given the episodes dates directly from BCI/Fremantle and did what I could with them.  Granted, I didn't see the Cullen eps (as several eps were switched around before production) when I was tasked to do the notes, but I did what I could with what I was given.

If you had complained about my typo of the episode taped in 75 but aired in 73...I could take some blame

[WhammyPower]

[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'182461\' date=\'Mar 25 2008, 03:51 PM\']
DeepDiscount has it for $22.14.
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...but now have it on backorder until April 5th.

[clemon79]

A whole nine days? Oh noes! Everybody panic!

[William A. Padron]

[quote name=\'snowpeck\' post=\'181851\' date=\'Mar 18 2008, 09:35 PM\']
We knew it wouldn't be.  A fur coat was offered as the first IUFB.
[/quote]

But there is a leather outfit from Zinman Furs in one of the mid-70's episodes, and there is even a prize plug for Kentucky Fried Chicken, which has been on the attack by Pamela Anderson and her PETA colleagues.  Do not forget the meat products, such as bacon packages, in some of these early Grocery Game rounds (too many of those on the DVD set).

[quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'182451\' date=\'Mar 25 2008, 05:16 PM\']
Sadly for Barker-lovers, it really shows how far Barker "fell" in his hosting abilities from the 70s to today.
[/quote]

Darn right...Barker was fantastic in the 1970's and 1980's, I will admit, after I watched all on this DVD box set.  Looking and hearing him speak at such a lackluster manner during his last week of hosting was pathetic at most.  Glad he's retired, because Barker was running on fumes at the end.

[Matt Ottinger]

[quote name=\'William A. Padron\' post=\'182548\' date=\'Mar 26 2008, 03:40 PM\']
But there is a leather outfit from Zinman Furs in one of the mid-70's episodes, and there is even a prize plug for Kentucky Fried Chicken, which has been on the attack by Pamela Anderson and her PETA colleagues.  [/quote]
Not sure whether you're being facetious or not, but Pamela Anderson and her PETA colleages were not the Executive Producer of The Price Is Right.   Bob simply had a problem with the furs, he was not specifically representing PETA or their sometimes extremist views.

[Casey]

[quote name=\'William A. Padron\' post=\'182548\' date=\'Mar 26 2008, 01:40 PM\']
Darn right...Barker was fantastic in the 1970's and 1980's, I will admit, after I watched all on this DVD box set.  Looking and hearing him speak at such a lackluster manner during his last week of hosting was pathetic at most.  Glad he's retired, because Barker was running on fumes at the end.
[/quote]
It should go without saying that a man of 47 or so would have much more energy than a man of 82...  That he wasn't as lively in his last week should hardly be considered surprising.  Now, I'm all for criticizing some of Bob's decisions as executive producer, but this seems a bit extreme to me...

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'isucgv\' post=\'182562\' date=\'Mar 26 2008, 03:02 PM\']
It should go without saying that a man of 47 or so would have much more energy than a man of 82...[/quote]
It should also go without saying that when the energy level drops to the point where you can't do the job competently anymore, you quit.

[tvwxman]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'182563\' date=\'Mar 26 2008, 06:11 PM\']
[quote name=\'isucgv\' post=\'182562\' date=\'Mar 26 2008, 03:02 PM\']
It should go without saying that a man of 47 or so would have much more energy than a man of 82...[/quote]
It should also go without saying that when the energy level drops to the point where you can't do the job competently anymore, you quit.
[/quote]
And there's our winner.

Barker should have retired at 25 years of Price. Everything else jumped the bell curve.

Now, in 1997, who would have ended up as host? I'd wager Michael Burger.

[BrandonFG]

[quote name=\'tvwxman\' post=\'182569\' date=\'Mar 26 2008, 07:11 PM\']
Now, in 1997, who would have ended up as host? I'd wager Michael Burger.
[/quote]
My money's on Marc Summers, MAYBE Chuck Woolery.

[Jimmy Owen]

I'm sure Burger would have been on the list. CBS seemed to go to Gordon Elliot or Mark McEuen for their game pilots, so they might have been in the running as well.  Maybe Peter Tomarken.

[Joe Mello]

[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'182573\' date=\'Mar 26 2008, 07:42 PM\']
[quote name=\'tvwxman\' post=\'182569\' date=\'Mar 26 2008, 07:11 PM\']
Now, in 1997, who would have ended up as host? I'd wager Michael Burger.[/quote]My money's on Marc Summers, MAYBE Chuck Woolery.[/quote]
I feel bad when this happens, but every time I think Marc Summers would be a great host for Price, I wonder if he would be able to handle the more.....enthusiastic contestants.  I doubt it would've been an issue, but I'm not sure if a network would want to take that liability.