User:Daniel Benfield/Price Is Right 1970s Syndicated Video Archive

Dennis James/Bob Barker (1972-80)
Syndicated, Weekly: September 10, 1972 - September 13, 1980 (300 episodes + 1 unaired, taped August 27, 1972 - March 12, 1980)

The most obscure one of all, primarily because it's never seen the light of repeats...which in turn is probably because something like five episodes don't have a fur.

This version loved to experiment with the games, and even use a couple before the daytime show did (Double Bullseye, Most Expensive, and both formats of One Right Price). A huge thanks to Scott Robinson for the recording dates, game lineups, and other info about the entire 301-episode run.

(Note: The audio files put up by J-Shea will, eventually, make their way here.)

Dennis James (1972-77)
 * Taped 2/16/72 (Pitchfilm with Dennis and Mark Goodson outlining plans for the New show, then only intended for syndication; an early Take Two and "Cut Price" {an early Ten Chances} are shown, followed by clips of Dennis hosting Let's Make A Deal)

Season 1 (1972-73)
 * Taped 8/27/72 (#002N: Any Number, Bonus Game, One Right Price {the original version, only played twice}; montage including slate, open, and One Right Price)

Season 2
 * Late 1973-Early 1975 (Clip seen on Game Show Moments Gone Bananas where a contestant makes Dennis trip on the Turntable steps)
 * [The red stripe is present just inside the wall border on both sides of the spinning Turntable panel, which was added on the September 19, 1973 daytime show (#0553D, taped 8/19/73). The Turntable carpet is still brown, however, putting this before the March 27, 1975 daytime show (when it became green). As such, it's somewhere between #046N (taped 8/26/73) and about #114N (taped 3/3/75).]

Season 3 (1974-75)
 * December 25, 1974 (#1213D: Grocery Game, Any Number, Most Expensive; Dennis fills in for Bob! {taped 12/2/74}; taped from GSN!)

Season 4 (1975-76)
 * Taped 8/11/75 (#125N: One Right Price, Any Number, Grocery Game {Part 3, Part 4}, with a weird slate)


 * Taped 2/15/76 (#152N: Lucky Seven, Shell Game, One Right Price; Pamela wins a plane, clips of which appeared in a Season 5 promo, the show's 40th-Anniversary Special, and the official YouTube account; Showcase #2 through end of show only, with a voiceover promo at the end)
 * Taped 3/2/76 (#154N: Five Price Tags, Race Game, Range Game; Dennis plugs the 2nd Edition board game)

Season 5 (1976-77)
 * 1977 (KIRO promo)
 * Taped 3/1/77 (#193N/Dennis' 3rd-to-last: Money Game, Grocery Game, Clock Game; Dennis plugs the 3rd Edition board game)

Tom Kennedy (1985-86)
Syndicated, Daily: September 9, 1985 - May 30 [September 5], 1986 (170 episodes, taped March 1985 - late February 1986)

By this point, Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! were ruling in syndication. This version, still called The Nighttime Price Is Right, couldn't really air before 7:00 PM Eastern as a result...and was hence frequently shoved into post-Midnight slots.

This is the only nighttime version that GSN has aired, and even then I don't think they aired the whole run (although by all indication, if they didn't they got pretty close).

Needless to say, this run was also affected by Johnny Olson's death, although since this version had started taping in March they had enough to go into the new year without problem. As such, the below is divided by announcer: Johnny Olson (taped March-October? 1985), Gene Wood (October-November? 1985), and Rod Roddy (seemingly only February 1986).

Granted, there's other dividers along the way, but that's the major one. And boy, were there a lot of changes made during this period...

Johnny Olson

Gene Wood

Rod Roddy

Doug Davidson (1994-95)
Syndicated, Daily: September 12, 1994 - January 27, 1995 (80 episodes)

Called The New Price Is Right to avoid the timeslot issues of its predecessor, and instead got confusion over whether the daytime show had been canned. Usually shortened to TNPIR'94 by fans.

Originally, the opening consisted of a few clips from this version, a few from the 1993 pilots, and some from the daytime version. Partway through the run, this was changed to exclusively use clips from this version, much like later episodes of the 1980-81 Let's Make A Deal.

Original opening

Second opening