Barker TPIR coming to Pluto TV 12/1/20 (Confirmed)

[Mr. Armadillo]

For all of our retroactive sanity, I'm just going to pretend that he would have changed his bid to $481 instead of $581.

[jlgarfield]

Holy smokes. Look at how much this dude won. That one-day high (for a CBS game show) won't stand for long, as some ice cream truck driver obliterates it a month down the road......

[Joe Mello]

The folks on the golden-road.net Discord have a Google Sheet with some notes on the episodes that have aired so far.

Right now, the channel is airing all 335 episodes that they've converted so far in chronological order (from September 13, 1982-April 23, 1984), taking about 2 weeks to get through each cycle.

If they're correct in their presumptions, I believe new episodes would start 10/4 at 9AM ET.

[Kevin Prather]

I recall in the Big Bucks documentary, Peter Tomarken mentioned that prior to Michael Larsen, CBS daytime contestant's grand totals "never, and I mean never, went over $40,000." I figured that was just as a general rule, not that the actual record was right at $39,000 and change. Nice precise research on their part, I suppose.

[TLEberle]

I think that goes more to the fact that no show save for $25,000 Pyramid would let people get close. If you’re on Double Dare and have $19,750 your next swing at the spoilers puts you over the $20,000 limit, ditto with Match Game even if you spin double. Other than hitting a trifecta on TPIR of a huge prize in your stage game, getting paid at the wheel and the both showcases it wasn’t an issue until the mid-80s, and then just PYL and Card Sharks.

[Kevin Prather]

I think that goes more to the fact that no show save for $25,000 Pyramid would let people get close.

Very true. Tomarken even said "Even on The Price is Right...", indicating that was pretty much your only chance to do it at the time.

[WarioBarker]

If you’re on Double Dare and have $19,750 your next swing at the spoilers puts you over the $20,000 limit

Not necessarily. You got $100 each time a Spoiler didn't give the correct answer, so in that case it's possible to get $0-$200 and then go over the limit on your next front-game win.

[TLEberle]

Thanks, Dan, for totally bulldozing over my intent.

[chargeradiocom]

No date announced (and it’s not showing up in the lineup yet), but TPIR: The Barker Era, along with BUZZR, is set to join Redbox’s free live streaming service. (Which will make it the first non-Pluto service to carry TPIR Barker if I’m not mistaken.)

https://www.cordcuttersnews.com/redbox-will-add-3-new-channels-in-content-deal-with-freemantle/?source=home

[WhammyPower]

No date announced (and it’s not showing up in the lineup yet)

Literally says twice (once in giant letters), they start December 1.

[weaklink75]

No date announced (and it’s not showing up in the lineup yet), but TPIR: The Barker Era, along with BUZZR, is set to join Redbox’s free live streaming service. (Which will make it the first non-Pluto service to carry TPIR Barker if I’m not mistaken.)

https://www.cordcuttersnews.com/redbox-will-add-3-new-channels-in-content-deal-with-freemantle/?source=home

they're adding them on 12/1 (maybe Pluto had a 1-year exclusivity on TPIR:Barker Era, so the date makes sense)

[chargeradiocom]

No date announced (and it’s not showing up in the lineup yet)

Literally says twice (once in giant letters), they start December 1.

I stand corrected.

(In my defense, I saw this story earlier elsewhere, skimmed it & figured it was the same write-up.  )

[Kevin Prather]

Has Pluto been pulling a Milli Vinilli for anyone else? After playing for about an hour, the stream gets stuck in about a two-second loop until I restart it.

[Kevin Prather]

This Sunday, episodes from October-December 1984 will be added to the rotation. This according to their Facebook.

[Casey Buck]

The Roku Channel just added the Barker Era stream to their live TV guide. Also, IMDB TV recently added the stream to their service.

Interestingly, they play different episodes than the Pluto feed, and has fewer commercials; each episode plays in about 50 minutes. A few days ago, they played some episodes from late 1984/early 1985 that Pluto's stream skipped over.