Video: “Price is Right” Celebrates 7,000 Episodes on Thursday
The Price is Right has a big reason to cheer this Thursday, November 5th. The long-running CBS show will reach its 7,000th episode. It’s unbelievable that it’s hit that many episodes and it’s still going on, isn’t it? Actually it’s amazing to think that if someone would lay down the money for reruns they’d have enough episodes to abuse them to death. But I digress. The number 7,000 will play a theme into some of the pricing games that day. In addition, as a really nice surprise, Price will play the first three games that were played on the first episode in 1972. I’ll know we have some super-fans of the show reading. What are they?
In addition this will be Drew Carey’s 415th episode and announcer Rich Fields’s 1,001st show which is an amazing accomplishment so extra congratulations to him as well. According to CBS, “nearly a quarter of a billion dollars in prizes to almost 62,000 contestants has been given away. In addition, over two million people have been welcomed to the studio audience. The contestants have ranged in age from 18 to 99 years old, and from all 50 states, as well as multiple countries. The phrase “A new car!” has been shouted over 15,000 times and over 7,000 cars have been given away.”
Price’s website posted a behind the scenes preview of the 7,000th episode and it looks to be great as they have been all season. They really found their groove finally and the shows they are pumping out are great one-after-another. Here’s the clip. As always, be careful of spoilers.
Any Number. Bonus Game. Double Prices.
The showcases are going to be so cool! Can't wait for tomorrow! How cares if it's really show 7200-something? I'm glad #7000 will finally get recognition.
Contestants from 18 to 99 years old?
I distinctly remember a 100 year old woman winning a car while Barker was hosting.
I remember that too, mrbrown2195. They’re gonna play the very first 2 games? Ok, I was born in ‘77, which was 5 years after it premiered, so it would be nice if they did that. Plus show some clips from past episodes (which includes all 3 nighttime versions but especially the James/Barker and Kennedy versions).
If the first 3 are:
Any Number
Bonus Game
Double Prices
then the last 3 should be fairly recent:
More or Less
Stack the Ceck
Balance Game '06
Is that iJustine?
This episode is actually #7,145…or 7,146 since CBS seems to count that "Salute to the Troops" *daytime* episode that aired in primetime as a primetime special. The count has been off like this since at least 1998.
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SPOILERS!
* Fortunately, nobody bid stupid amounts in Contestant's Row, much less $7,000. Surprisingly, Check Game didn't show up.
* Most Expensive was played for three trips totaling about $40,000. The contestant *happened* to pick the only trip that was NOT five digits.
* Grand Game's target price was $7.
* Lucky $even was played with seven $1,000 bundles. Based on how Drew phrased the rules, perfect pricing would have awarded the car without payment.
* There was a contestant named Janice who was called down. She wore a shirt reading "The hostess with the mostest", which I think Miss Pennington was called at least once during her tenure.
* Games 4-6 were Any Number, Bonus Game, and Double Prices.
** Bonus Game was lost through the last item, which *looked* easy but really wasn't.
** Double Prices was played for a single Rolex watch.
** Drew mentioned that this episode was Rich's 1,001st show.
* The Showcases were, respectively, modernizations of the two Showcases from #0101-1/0011D. Clips were shown of the prizes from then (revealed by the plasma screens through a representation of the "TNPiR '72" Door #2), but without sound and — most upsetting — no shots of Janice/Anitra's faces.
In an ironic twist (completely opposite to that on Show #1), Showcase #1 was the one awarded.
If they wanted to play the very first games, they should have messed with the contestants' minds a bit and dusted off Bullseye I for this show! (Lets off evil laugh)
Sadly, not all of "TPIR's" reruns would be abused to death, because due to Barker's 'fur ban' clause, none of the Dennis James nighttime episodes have been show, and due to all of the people he had conflicts with (i.e. the classic models, Rod Roddy, Marc Breslow, etc.), probably the only shows that will see the light of day will be the Barker episodes after Rod died. The rest will probably be sitting in Fremantle's vaults until someone can turn over those BS clauses once it's time for Barker to be 'called on down!'
Barker might have had conflicts with Dennis as well, considering that *some* of the James run (albeit less than 50 episodes) *didn't* have furs.
Yes. Yes that was. I can confirm that YouTube user iJustine did in fact appear on that Price is Right episode.
She even talked about it on her account there!