Author Topic: Paul Alter (Read 51774 times)

Jimmy Owen · « **Reply #90 on:** May 10, 2009, 01:29:17 PM »

I thought it was Bobbo's Box for some reason.

PYLdude · « **Reply #91 on:** May 10, 2009, 04:12:43 PM »

[quote name=\'colonial\' post=\'215334\' date=\'May 10 2009, 12:17 PM\']Wikipedia (as always, issues about accuracy) refers to a game called "Barker's Box" played on ToC when Zeke hosted.

JD[/quote]

Well, this time the Wiki is right.

(IIRC was the last game played on each show.)

clemon79 · « **Reply #92 on:** May 10, 2009, 04:16:26 PM »

[quote name=\'PYLdude\' post=\'215341\' date=\'May 10 2009, 01:12 PM\'](IIRC was the last game played on each show.)[/quote]
I don't remember it being on *every* show, but it was on a lot.

(This is, mind you, thirty-year-old memories I'm going on here. But it sticks in my head because it was one of my favorites.)

chris319 · « **Reply #93 on:** May 10, 2009, 05:59:53 PM »

Bob Barker's Lucky Seven is a game I never want to see played if it's anything like the All-New Monty Hall Problem.

Kevin Prather · « **Reply #94 on:** May 10, 2009, 06:00:42 PM »

[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'215353\' date=\'May 10 2009, 02:59 PM\']Bob Barker's Lucky Seven is a game I never want to see played if it's anything like the All-New Monty Hall Problem.[/quote]
How about Bob Barker's Hole in One?

/Or Two?
//Here we go again.

clemon79 · « **Reply #95 on:** May 10, 2009, 06:10:49 PM »

[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'215353\' date=\'May 10 2009, 02:59 PM\']Bob Barker's Lucky Seven is a game I never want to see played if it's anything like the All-New Monty Hall Problem.[/quote]
There's a joke in here about the ten-peckered owl, whose pants fit him like a glove.

TimK2003 · « **Reply #96 on:** May 10, 2009, 08:48:34 PM »

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'215342\' date=\'May 10 2009, 04:16 PM\'][quote name=\'PYLdude\' post=\'215341\' date=\'May 10 2009, 01:12 PM\'](IIRC was the last game played on each show.)[/quote]
I don't remember it being on *every* show, but it was on a lot.

(This is, mind you, thirty-year-old memories I'm going on here. But it sticks in my head because it was one of my favorites.)
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My guess is that Barker's Box was used to fill the time when their 2 or 3 planned segments on each show ran short.

davemackey · « **Reply #97 on:** May 10, 2009, 10:48:08 PM »

[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'215305\' date=\'May 9 2009, 07:39 PM\']

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he wanted the name of the show to be changed to Bob Barker's Price Is Right

I never heard this one, either during or after my time at G-T. Pentellit, do you think Dennis James leaving the show had anything to do with Barker's increased sense of self importance, as he was no longer one of two emcees doing the same show?[/quote]
I'm sure Miss P. has answered this one but I wanted to jump in - this was pretty much the same deal as Chuck Barris taking over the nighttime Gong Show from Gary Owens. Barris was not yet sole owner of the Gong Show - there was that pesky Chris Bearde partnership, and with Barris ousting Owens (clearly a Bearde hire), that just gave Chuck more of the upper hand. By maneuvering himself into the nighttime seat of power, that gave Barker much more leverage.

chris319 · « **Reply #98 on:** May 11, 2009, 06:15:53 AM »

You're reading an awful lot into it, Dave. I have no reason to believe Barker "maneuvered himself" into the nighttime show. I do know that they needed to replace Dennis James and Barker was the logical first choice. The money must have been good enough because adding a nighttime show meant doing three shows per day, something Barker had actively resisted for the daytime show.

Steve Gavazzi · « **Reply #99 on:** May 11, 2009, 11:54:02 AM »

[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'215383\' date=\'May 11 2009, 06:15 AM\']The money must have been good enough because adding a nighttime show meant doing three shows per day, something Barker had actively resisted for the daytime show.[/quote]
How often were they taping the nighttime show, anyway? After all, they only did 39 episodes per season...they might not even have needed to be done during the same session as the daytime show.

calliaume · « **Reply #100 on:** May 11, 2009, 01:35:09 PM »

[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'215383\' date=\'May 11 2009, 05:15 AM\']You're reading an awful lot into it, Dave. I have no reason to believe Barker "maneuvered himself" into the nighttime show. I do know that they needed to replace Dennis James and Barker was the logical first choice. The money must have been good enough because adding a nighttime show meant doing three shows per day, something Barker had actively resisted for the daytime show.[/quote]
I had always assumed James was let go in favor of Barker. Did Dennis James, in fact, leave on his own terms?

I have to say, during the first few years of the show's run I saw a lot more of James' version than Barker's. There were no other game shows on Saturday nights, and the daytime run was generally at times too early to watch (i.e. I'd get home at 3:30 or so from school, in time for Match Game but too late from Price.

BillCullen1 · « **Reply #101 on:** May 11, 2009, 01:36:03 PM »

When I was in L.A. in 1977, the did three TPIR shows during one of the taping days. They did one hour-long daytime show and two half-hour nighttime shows. Barker had just signed on as the nighttime host, so it was possible to do this. Doing two half-hour shows meant 12 people were chosen. At the nighttime taping, someone in the audience asked why Dennis wasn't hosting. Bob's response was "He didn't want to host it anymore." I think I read somewhere, possibly in TV Guide that Dennis didn't like the terms of his new contract. How true that was I don't know. I also read that Dennis had trouble learning some of the newer games. From what I saw, he handled The Clock Game OK, and I think that was the most difficult game he had to handle.

Ian Wallis · « **Reply #102 on:** May 11, 2009, 05:49:11 PM »

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I personally think Barker was an ass all along, but that it was only as the show became bigger, his gynormous ego became apparent and ultimately out of control, especially after Mark Goodson died.

You know, the more I read about this the more this reminds me of another person we heard became an ass - Richard Dawson. Seems to be a lot of similarities between the two.

calliaume · « **Reply #103 on:** May 11, 2009, 06:18:50 PM »

[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' post=\'215423\' date=\'May 11 2009, 04:49 PM\']You know, the more I read about this the more this reminds me of another person we heard became an ass - Richard Dawson. Seems to be a lot of similarities between the two.[/quote]
Paul Alter had a book proposal a few years back that had both Dawson and Barker in his "difficult people to work with" category.

Dawson, however, never got sued. And being out of work for the better part of nine years was probably a pretty humbling experience.

Jimmy Owen · « **Reply #104 on:** May 11, 2009, 06:23:32 PM »

Did Paul write anything about John Bartholomew Tucker?