The Price is Right Timeline/Season 12

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Season 12 (1983-1984)[]

Pricing game calendar for Season 12, hosted by Scorpz.

Week 1 (499): September 12-16

The set is decorated for the start of the new season all week.
Monday show's opening spiel is, "And here it comes! It's the beginning of the 12th year of television's most exciting hour of fantastic prizes. The fabulous, 60-minute Price Is Right!"
The set is decorated for the season premiere on Monday.
All of Monday's opening titles read "12th Year."
On Monday, Range Game is played for a car.
Monday show features the debut of The Phone Home Game.
On Monday, The Phone Home Game's intro cue is missing the fourth of its five measures, this is believed to have been added on the game's second playing, on Wednesday.
For the first two weeks of this season, The Phone Home Game is played every other day, on the remaining episodes, Bob plugs its appearance on the next day's show at the beginning of Act 5 or Act 6.
By Monday, two $900 cards have been added to New Card Game's special deck.
On Monday, the split-screen arrow for the Big Wheel is enlarged to nearly the whole height of the screen.
On Monday, a rule is added to New Card Game allowing contestants to hold an ace and play it later in the game.
On Monday, after the credits end, a white version of the "12th Year" opening title is put on the screen for several seconds.
By Tuesday, Now....and Then has adopted its second color scheme.
On Tuesday, the interior of the Clam is changed to a series of blue and white zigzags, this pattern was technically present on Monday, as well, but the Clam was not used on that episode.
On Tuesday, Race Game is played for season tickets to four of LA's pro sports teams.
In Tuesday's One Right Price, one of the digits on the first prize's price tag falls off and can be seen resting on the podium's shelf before Dian opens the flap, fortunately, the gameplay has already ended before anyone notices this.
On Tuesday, Deluxe Dice Game malfunctions during the price reveal, the second and third numbers are initially lit up in the wrong rows, and the second number disappears entirely while the third number is being fixed.
On Tuesday, the Dice Game board's chase lights are slowed down to their current speed.
Throughout this season, beginning on Wednesday, cars are occasionally offered in the fourth game again, the practice is still uncommon but is noticeably less so than at any point since the late '70s. Whether by coincidence or not, just over half of these cars are offered in 3 Strikes, with no other game being used more than once.
On Wednesday, 3 Strikes' first strike is burned out.
Circumstantial evidence suggests that Fremantle does not currently possess airable copies of Thursday or Friday's shows.
On Thursday, the zooms in Plinko's intro do not begin until after the sign has flipped to "$25,000."
On Thursday, the rightmost "card" in the top row of Poker Game refuses to light up.
On Thursday, the second showcase, The Price Is Right Department Store, is presented with the Beauties all still in character from the first showcase, Big John, Roving Reporter, Dian runs the elevator dressed as Marilyn Monroe, and Holly and Janice model the prizes as a wino and a fairy, respectively.
On Friday, the recently married Fingers is listed in the credits as "Mrs. Frank J. Greco, Jr."

Week 2 (500): September 19-23

Circumstantial evidence suggests that Fremantle does not currently possess an airable copy of Monday's show.
On Monday, the opening pan of Contestants' Row is replaced with a close-up of a mother and son (presumably a staffer's family) in the back of the audience.
On Monday, contestant Therese initially does not understand Super Ball!!, throwing her practice ball and ball #2 instead of rolling them, she wins nothing with ball #2, which ends up just rolling back down the ramp.
On Monday, Holly breaks the second Item up for Bids, a ceiling fan, snapping one of the blades partway off.
On Monday, 3 Strikes is played for a 5-digit car for what is believed to be the first time. At this time, the name "3 Strikes +" has not been introduced yet. An extra window is attached to the right side of the board to accommodate the fifth number.
On Tuesday, the Switcheroo board is revealed before the small prizes are described.
On Tuesday, Switcheroo's checkmarks refuse to light up, Janice is eventually signaled from offstage which price to reveal.
Beginning on Thursday, the list of products in The Phone Home Game is shown beside the contestant during gameplay.
On Thursday, the contestants in The Phone Home Game lose their second turn when the at-home player accidentally names an item instead of a price.
On Thursday, Bob sends contestant Rita back to her seat in the audience for the fifth Item up for Bids because she had told him during the commercial that she'd been bidding better before she was called down. Her location in the studio does not turn out to be the cause of her issues.
On Thursday, the colored arrow car backdrops are added to the backs of the Five Price Tags backdrops, additionally, the props' bases, which had originally been white, are painted red, and the sides of the light-up price tags, which had originally been red, are painted white.
On Thursday, Five Price Tags' small prize podiums begin using the G-T asterisk backdrops from Give or Keep.
On Friday, the staff forgets to bring out the price holder for the second prize in Golden Road, Bob ends up carrying it out from behind the frame of Door #1 himself.
On Friday, none of Trader Bob's small prize podiums have manufacturer cards on them.

Week 3 (501): September 26-30

Tuesday's episode begins a stretch of 16 shows of which 14 were taped before the summer break and thus do not include the various set changes listed in Weeks 1 and 2 unless otherwise noted. Not coincidentally, the remaining two shows in this span are the only ones on which The Phone Home Game is played.
- The changes to Plinko's intro seen in Week 1 are an exception to this, they are present this Tuesday.
On Wednesday, the opening pan of Contestants' Row is replaced with a close-up of an older gentleman (presumably a staffer's father) in the back of the audience, Johnny also changes the first line of the opening to, "Here it comes, Father!"
On Wednesday, during the credits, Dian holds up a cue card reading, "Congratulations! Marc Breslow." While no context for this is provided on the air, it likely refers to Breslow's winning a Daytime Emmy as Price's director.
On Thursday, Take Two is played for season tickets to four of LA's pro sports teams.
On Friday, the staff mistakenly starts the theme once Bob reveals the fourth slip in Punch a Bunch, evidently not realizing it was a Second Chance.
On Friday, during Safe Crackers, the staff accidentally starts the second part of The Pink Panther after Dian opens the safe before switching to the prize cue a second later, subsequently, the song starts over from the beginning during the game.
On Friday, Squeeze Play is played for a car.
On Friday, the digits in Squeeze Play refuse to squeeze together, Bob eventually ends up moving them himself one at a time. The dollar sign, concealed inside the board, never does appear.

Week 4 (502): October 3-7

In Monday's Master Key, as soon as the contestant opens the first prize with her first key, Bob takes it from her and has her use her other key in the other two locks. While she wins the game with this key, which unlocks the car, it is never revealed whether the first key was the prize one key or the master key (and, thus, whether or not she won the second prize).
Monday and Tuesday's shows have no consolation prize plugs.
Tuesday's show was taped out of order and includes the set changes seen in Weeks 1 and 2.
On Tuesday, the base grille falls off the refrigerator being offered in Take Two when Dian opens the freezer door.
On Wednesday, the opening pan of Contestants' Row is replaced with a close-up of two children (at least one of whom is Marc Breslow's) in the back of the audience, Johnny also changes the first line of the opening to, "Here it comes, Marky and Mary!" The kids are also zoomed in on at the end of the opening, just before Bob's entrance.
On Thursday, contestant Laura wins Deluxe Dice Game without making any decisions, rolling three 6's and the fifth number.
On Thursday, the full version of "On the Franches Mountains" is played during the Showcase for a trip to Germany.

Week 5 (503): October 10-14

On Monday, the opening titles malfunction and take several seconds to begin moving, this ultimately leads to them appearing only three times instead of the usual four.
On Monday, none of Trader Bob's small prize podiums have blue manufacturer cards on them.
On Tuesday, after his entrance, Bob mentions that he had dressed almost entirely in blue but had mistakenly put on his black shoes, later on in the episode, during Dice Game, Janice brings out his blue shoes for him along with the table.
On Tuesday, Check-Out's first grocery bag pops up on its own, fortunately, it happens at the exact point in the game at which it would have been revealed anyway.
Wednesday's show was taped out of order and includes the set changes seen in Weeks 1 and 2.
On Wednesday, a production error causes the opening titles to briefly disappear and then fly across the screen at a huge size five seconds into the episode.
On Wednesday, before the first Item up for Bids, Bob has the audience wish Fingers a happy first birthday as Mrs. Frank Greco, Jr.
On Wednesday, the $10,000 cash award in The Phone Home Game is found for the first time.
On Wednesday, Range Game's rangefinder tilts counterclockwise as it moves, as it had several times early in Season 11, it stops moving entirely about $200 up the scale, and the contestant presses the button before it has a chance to start again.
On Wednesday, the buzzer sounds noticeably deeper and more hollow than usual, as the episode was taped out of order, this change does not immediately become permanent.
Wednesday's show marks the first playing of The Phone Home Game which does not end with a plug for at-home players.
In Wednesday's second showcase, The Price Is Right Department Store, the elevator is run by Queen Dian, still in-character from the first showcase, "The Royal Nag."
On Thursday, in an unusual move, "The Cats" is used for both Barker's Bargain Bar and Clock Game.
On Friday, Hit Me's neon lights do not work.
On Friday, Bob makes a rare reference to a retired game -- specifically, It's Optional -- when he mentions that a contestant might have seen them offer a car "or even two cars in one game."
In Friday's Plinko, one of the contestant's chips gets stuck far enough up on the board for her to knock it loose by herself, despite this, Bob does not count it and has her drop it again.

Week 6 (504): October 17-21

On Monday, while modeling Money Game's car, Dian opens its passenger door into a camera.
On Tuesday, a stagehand is caught on-camera while Bob and the winner of the first Item up for Bids walk to the Giant Price Tag, while this is not terribly uncommon during this era of the show, it is uncommon for the person to walk right in front of Bob and block the view with their head.
On Wednesday, the set changes seen in Weeks 1 and 2 take effect permanently. The deeper buzzer first heard last Wednesday returns permanently, as well.
On Thursday, the contestants in The Phone Home Game lose a turn when the at-home player accidentally names an item instead of a price.

Week 7 (505): October 24-28

On Monday, contestant Ralph wins Dice Game without having to make any decisions, rolling all 1s and 6s (including two correct 6s).
On Tuesday, during the "The Price is Right Department Store" showcase, the right-hand door of the elevator breaks. Based on Johnny's unusual delivery of the script and his announcement during the credits that "this program was edited for broadcast," it seems plausible that the malfunction was worse than it looked on the air and forced all or part of the showcase to be retaped.
On Wednesday, Hit Me's neon lights malfunction again, they work initially but fail during the third grocery plug.
On Thursday, Double Prices is played for a car.
On Thursday, during Ten Chances, the new buzzer and the previous buzzer both sound at the same time.
After Friday, The Phone Home Game begins its annual hiatus for the Home Viewer Showcase.

Week 8 (506): October 31-November 4

On Monday, the previous buzzer briefly pops up again during 3 Strikes.
Monday's show does not have a door prize plug.
On Tuesday, Dice Game adopts its yellow color scheme. The black base and edges of the board become light green at this time (although the base of the table remains black for this episode), and the gray backing above the base becomes red. Additionally, the light bulbs are removed from the "Dice Game" sign at this point, their sockets remain, unused, for the rest of the first board's existence.
On Tuesday, Holly accidentally runs the Dice Game table into Dian's foot.
On Wednesday, the fifth Item up for Bids, a freezer, initially refuses to open for Holly, she eventually yanks it open with enough force to hurt her knee with the door.
On Wednesday, Hit Me's neon lights again do not work.
Wednesday's second showcase, which sees "our priceless rescue team" saving a woman from burning building, repeatedly switches between frantic and calm music cues, notably, the former, which also ends up playing over the credits, is the "think" music from Switcheroo.
Circumstantial evidence suggests that Fremantle does not currently possess an airable copy of Thursday's show.
On Thursday, one of Temptation's gift podiums is used to display the fifth Item up for Bids.
On Thursday, Bob nearly forgets to have Johnny read the grocery plugs in Check-Out, changing in mid-sentence from asking for the price of the first item to asking for a description of it.
Friday show features the debut of Walk of Fame.
On Tuesday, Dice Game adopts its yellow color scheme, at this time, the gray backing on the bottom of the board becomes red.
On its first two playings, the word "Fame" in Walk of Fame's logo is green.
On at least its first playing, Walk of Fame has three autograph books, only one of which contains the words "Second Chance." The books also had all brown covers at this point.

Week 9 (507): November 7-11

On Tuesday, Hit Me's neon lights begin working properly again.
Tuesday show has an extremely rare appearance of a regular car game fourth.
On Wednesday, Bob accidentally throws to Hi Lo's prize reveal before having Johnny describe the groceries. There is a noticeable delay after the camera cuts to Door #3 while the staff prepares to present the game in the wrong order.
On Wednesday, after joking that the sixth contestant is the daughter of a CBS executive with the same last name, Bob makes a rare on-air reference to episode #0013D, noting that "we once threw out an entire show after it was all taped because a winner happened to know a cameraman."
Beginning on Wednesday, "That's Entertainment" is played during Walk of Fame's prize plugs.
Walk of Fame's second playing occurs on Wednesday, as the contestant wins the first three prizes, it cannot be determined if the autograph book rule has been changed yet at this point.
On Thursday, no model is present for Double Prices when the Giant Price Tag goes up, instead, Dian walks out from behind the Turntable after the prize description.
On Thursday, Holly attempts to demonstrate the fourth Item up for Bids, a piece of exercise equipment, but instead ends up sliding off of it onto the floor. Bob announces "on behalf of the manufacturer" that it doesn't usually operate that way.
On Thursday, Range Game's price burns out a split second after it lights up and is never actually seen on-camera, Bob ends up announcing it himself after the staff shows it to him from offstage.
On Thursday, an odd sequence of events occurs during Master Key. When the contestant tries his only key in the first lock, it does not open, however, no buzzer sounds, either. Bob, who had already been signaled from offstage that it was the master key, has him move onto the second lock, which does open. Knowing that he can't end the game yet even though it looks like it should be over, Bob has him try the first lock again. This time, it does open, and the bells, clangs, whoops, and theme all start sounding. After having the contestant unlock the car, Bob explains that he'd continued the game because "I thought you had the master key, see? I had a feeling you had it."
On Friday, Super Ball!! contestant Jimi throws her practice ball overhand and bounces it clear off the board. Fortunately, she plays the rest of the game much better.
On Friday, the base of the Dice Game table is painted light green to match the board's new color scheme.

Week 10 (508): November 14-18

The Home Viewer Showcase "Home for Christmas" is presented each day this week before the fifth Item up for Bids, Johnny repeats the contest's mailing address each day before the winner of the Showcase is revealed.
As this week of shows was taped out of order, several changes occur that do not immediately become permanent:
- The studio has new cameras.
- The manufacturer cards go back to always being blue, with the exception of one greenish card on Tuesday and one yellowish card on Thursday.
- Holly is absent, a model named Chanel takes her place this week.
- The original, thin split-screen arrow is used in the Showcase Showdown, this may not be an intentional change so much as a side effect of having to reconfigure things for the new cameras.
On Monday, the word "Fame" in Walk of Fame's logo becomes gold.
By Monday, on its third playing, Walk of Fame has begun using two autograph books.
On Monday, Squeeze Play is played for a car.
On Tuesday, Johnny models a tuxedo during the second showcase.
On Wednesday, Five Price Tags's diagonal price tag small prize backdrops are introduced.
On Wednesday, Bob costs the Clock Game contestant three seconds when he tells her to go higher instead of lower while bidding on the first prize, she is given no extra time and ultimately only wins the first prize.
Thursday's show opens on a shot of Marc Breslow's son, Marc, Jr., in the back of the audience, in accordance, Johnny opens the show with, "Happy birthday, Marky Breslow! And here it comes! Television's most exciting hour of fantastic prizes! The fabulous, sixty-minute Price Is Right!"
On Thursday, the second contestant called is Kyle Aletter, the future long-term TPIR substitute model, she ends up winning Poker Game but is beaten at the Big Wheel.
On Thursday, Bullseye is played for a car.
On Friday, Pick a Pair's lower display does not work.
On Friday, Safe Crackers is played for a car.
Friday's show marks a rare playing of Safe Crackers with neither a 0 nor a 5 in the combination.

Week 11 (509): November 21-23

Thanksgiving week, only three shows.
On Monday, the top of the pull tab for Golden Road's first prize is noticeably chipped off, this does not affect the gameplay but does cause Bob a small amount of grief while trying to reveal the price.
On Monday, for reasons likely lost to time, the fourth "90" on the Range Game scale is noticeably whited out and rewritten in pen.
On Monday, a loud crashing noise can be heard from backstage while Bob is explaining the Showcase, leading him to quip, "I think that was one showcase down the drain." It never becomes apparent during the broadcast what the noise was.
On Tuesday, Bob notes that the fifth contestant, Nancy Muser, has the same last name as baseball player and manager Tony Muser, she turns out to be his wife.
On Tuesday, Take Two is played for season tickets to four of LA's pro sports teams.
On Wednesday, the total value of the prize package for Master Key stops being announced.
On Wednesday, when the contestant gets the first price in Walk of Fame exactly right, Bob notes that the same thing also happened "the last time I played this game." This actually refers to the game's second-last playing, on November 9, as noted above, the last playing, in Week 10, had not been taped yet when this show was recorded.
On Wednesday, the perfect bid bell goes off by mistake during the fifth Item up for Bids, startling Bob, who had already pulled out the price, the winner was actually $1 short.

Week 12 (510): November 28-December 2

On Tuesday, the opening pan of Contestants' Row is replaced with a close-up of two unidentified women (presumably a staffer's family) in the back of the audience. Instead of skipping the pan completely as is usually done when this occurs, the camera eventually tilts down and does an abbreviated version of the usual shot.
In Tuesday's Hit Me, Bob has the house hit on a soft 24, the contestant ultimately wins the game with a 20-20 tie.
Circumstantial evidence suggests that Fremantle does not currently possess an airable copy of Wednesday's show.
On Thursday, the fifth Item up for Bids, a freezer, refuses to open for Holly, she ends up moving the prize display in the process of finally yanking the door open.
Friday's show is Holly's last episode before leaving the show to pursue an acting career, she ultimately returns to Price later in the season.
On Friday, in an unusual move, Bob explicitly acknowledges the zero rule at the end of Safe Crackers.
On Friday, something appears to have gone wrong during Switcheroo that was edited out of the show, while nothing can be determined for certain, the evidence seems to suggest that when the game initially came around on the turntable, the car's price was already revealed. The staff appears to have decided that since only that price was visible, they could retape the reveal and have the contestant legitimately play for the small prizes while automatically getting the car right. Several factors support this idea:
- The transition from the small prize plugs to the reveal of the Switcheroo board appears to be edited.
- The audience seems absolutely certain the game will be won even before the contestant begins playing and laughs when Bob so much as suggests that any other outcome is possible.
- Bob spends much of the game making veiled references to something about the car that the studio audience is aware of but the home audience isn't.
- Janice walks up to the Turntable immediately after the contestant's first turn, evidently assuming (wrongly) that she wouldn't change anything.
- While signing off, Johnny says that the program "was edited for broadcast."
On Friday, Walk of Fame is played for a car.

Week 13 (511): December 5-9

Starting this week, Holly Hallstrom leaves the show to pursue an acting career, she'll return to Price later in the season.
- Chanel Lee (also known as Cindee Appleton from the game show Beat The Clock), is the first model to substitute for Holly Hallstrom, she first appeared during Week 10 (#5081D-5085D) due to out-of-order taping and returns beginning this week. Several other substitute models rotate in between now and the end of March '84 - Janice Baker, formerly of Jim Perry's Card Sharks, Dianne Beatty, Kyle Aletter, an actress who first appeared as a contestant on this daytime version of Price back in November of 1983, and the daughter of actress Lee Meriwether, a model who was black named Pat, (who is believed to be actress, Pat Colbert), who was the first African-American model to appear on the daytime version, and Andi Rapagna, who later went on to appear as one of the models on the Italian version of the show titled OK, il Prezzo è Giusto! and lastly, Kristin Bjorklund, a substitute card dealer on Jim Perry's Card Sharks & assistant crew member on Family Feud and other Goodson-Todman shows.
- Later in the week and into the following week, Chanel Lee wears a dark wig to somewhat resemble Holly during her absence (as Dian Parkinson did back in late Season 3 to resemble then-Barker's Beauty model Anitra Ford during her absence).
On Monday, Bob's mother, brother and cousin are in the audience.
On Monday, during Five Price Tags, the manufacturer card falls off of the first small prize podium after Bob opens the flap. Dian can be seen picking it up off the floor afterward.
On Tuesday, Janice wrecks the Train into the Turntable.
On Tuesday, the turntable does not stop at the proper place while revealing the sixth Item up for Bids. The crew eventually manages to move it partway back.
On Wednesday, Plinko is played in the same half as a car game.
Thursday's show marks the permanent debut of the studio's new cameras that were present for the later-taped Week 10.
Beginning on Thursday, Chanel, as mentioned above, wears a dark brunette wig to possibly resemble Holly during her absence.
On Thursday, the manufacturer cards permanently go back to all being blue (again with occasional exceptions).
On Thursday, Take Two is played for season tickets to four of LA's pro sports teams.
On Thursday, the Showcase Showdown's arrow shot permanently reverts to its original, narrow version, as noted in Week 10, this may be directly related to the presence of the new cameras.
On Friday, with its fourth appearance, the counter is removed from the title of the "The Annual Price Is Right Costume Party Contest" showcase.

Week 14 (512): December 12-16

On Monday, the first time Bob hits a button in Penny Ante, the buzzer plays briefly instead of the proper sound effect, this is made extra awkward when the contestant's guess turns out to be correct.
Monday is Bob's 60th birthday. During the credits, Dian holds up a cue card with "HAPPY BIRTHDAY BARKER" drawn on it.
Tuesday's Grand Game contestant, Kathleen, is called down again 29 years later, on Price's 40th anniversary episode, #6023K, she ended up playing Plinko.
On Wednesday, Hole in One begins with a ball already on the green, which Bob acknowledges as a "trick ball" the staff must be using to mess with him, indeed, he proceeds to putt it, and it gradually bounces along for about four feet.
On Thursday, Hit Me's neon lights either malfunction again or are simply left off once the game's "attract mode" is shut off.
On Friday, Chanel goes back to her normal hairstyle.
On Friday, the chase lights around the first number in Deluxe Dice Game never turn on.
On Friday, the staff forgets to dim the lights at the beginning of the Every Room in the House showcase, not to be deterred, they dim them briefly once it starts and then immediately turn them back on.
On Friday show, the winner and price of the Home Viewer Showcase are revealed.
At around this point, the light border is still being keyed in roughly the same manner as it was in 1975.

Week 15 (513): December 19-23

The set is decorated for Christmas this week.
The opening titles are Christmas-related this week. On Monday through Thursday, they say, "Happy Holidays," on Friday, they say, "Merry Christmas."
The opening titles are recolored for Christmas this week. On Monday through Wednesday, they are green, on Thursday and Friday, they are red.
Monday's show features the first appearance of the Robot.
On Monday, the middle bag in Check-Out initially refuses to come up, Bob eventually jars it loose by banging on the table.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, something appears to have been wrong with one of the studio's cameras, a number of specific shots on these two episodes have a noticeable series of red streaks running across them.
In Tuesday's Card Game, a contestant is $2 outside the winning range - the closest loss ever recorded in the game's history.
On Tuesday, for unknown reasons, Janice brings out the Hi-Lo table by herself.
On Wednesday, Bob announces that he had again tried to sign the check in Blank Check as "Bob Baker," this time, however, Phil "caught him" and had him add the "r."
Wednesday and Thursday's shows appear to have no consolation prize plugs, although they may simply have been edited out for airing on The Price is Right: The Barker Era.
On Thursday, the Barker's Beauties are dressed in green Santa outfits.
On Thursday, the last digit in Temptation initially refuses to reveal itself despite Bob pounding the button several times, eventually, the contestant takes over the assault and does finally get the panel to drop.
On Thursday, the left-hand price in the last pair of items in Trader Bob is already revealed when they are brought out.
On Friday, Walk of Fame is officially won for the first time, as the contestant wins all four prizes.
On Friday, a contestant automatically loses Bullseye by not hitting the target with a single grocery item.
On Friday, Johnny signs off with, "This is Johnny Olson wishing you a Merry Christmas from The Price Is Right, a Mark Goodson-Bill Todman production!"

Week 16 (514): January 3-6

New Year's Week, only four shows.
Circumstantial evidence suggests that Fremantle does not currently possess an airable copy of Tuesday's show.
On Tuesday, actor Philip McKeon is in the audience. Bob points him out act the top of Act 3.
On Tuesday, the digits in Squeeze Play refuse to squeeze together, Bob eventually ends up moving them himself. The dollar sign, concealed inside the board, never does appear.
On Tuesday, Take Two is played for season tickets to four of LA's pro sports teams.
On Tuesday, one of Temptation's gift podiums is used to display the sixth Item up for Bids.
On Wednesday, the chase lights around the Big Doors do not work for most of the show. Dice Game's electronics do not work terribly well, either, with many of the lights and numbers not turning on until well after they are supposed to. The door lights finally turn on during the third spin of the second Showcase Showdown.
On Thursday, the Plinko sign has been moved to the Turntable.
On Thursday, Bob and the contestant walking to the Plinko board stops being shot from the left, the game's reveal is now viewed from the right.
On Friday, the presence of a Brit in Contestants' Row leads to Bob briefly discussing the then-upcoming British version of the show for ITV with Leslie Crowther, ironically, he mistakenly says that they had had observers in "from the BBC," ITV's direct competitor.
On Friday, the fifth grocery label is missing in Grand Game.

Week 17 (515): January 9-13

On Monday, the crew forgets to turn on the lights behind Door #2 during Bob's entrance, causing the Barker Wall to look like cheap plastic.
On Monday, none of Trader Bob's small prize podiums have manufacturer cards on them.
Tuesday show opens with the infamous "Susan Derbeck/Dupont incident," in which contestant Susan Derbeck does not get up during the opening for about 45 seconds after Johnny calls her because she is (wrongly) expecting to hear her future married name of "Susan Dupont." Once she finally arrives in Contestants' Row (to Johnny's quip of, "there she is. Forgot her name!"), the Big Doors open for Bob, and he does not appear for nearly 20 seconds. When he finally reaches the stage and takes his microphone, he quips, "Welcome to "The Price Is Right." If it's good enough for you, Susan, it's good enough for me!"
In Tuesday's first game, Blank Check, the contestant's name is not written on the check, with the staff presumably having forgotten about it after the chaos during the opening. Bob decides to take advantage of this and writes his own name in instead.
On Tuesday, the dot that had been present on Blank Check's upper display since the previous season is finally cleaned off.
On Tuesday, the turntable briefly gets stuck while bringing around Bonus Game.
On Wednesday, the Family Feud theme is used for the last time for a car description.
On Thursday, Janice Baker, formerly of Jim Perry's Card Sharks, makes her debut as a substitute Barker's Beauty.
In Thursday's first Showcase Showdown, the sound effects operators jump the gun on the second spinner's first spin, sounding the bell and starting "Dig We Must" on the assumption that it will stop on the dollar, unfortunately, it ends up clicking over to 15¢.
On Thursday, the money graphics for the Showcase Showdown use a different font, the most noticeable differences are the lack of a serif on the 1 and the presence of a curve in the comma. These graphics only appear on this episode.
On Thursday, Bob refers to the Robot as "Arnold."
Thursday's show marks the debut of the second Race Game Curtain. The new curtain has a Super Ball!!-style dollar signs in boxes with an orange background.

Week 18 (516): January 16-20

On Monday, actress, Kyle Aletter makes her debut as a substitute Barker's Beauty after previously appearing as a contestant on the show.
On Wednesday, future Dallas actress, Pat Colbert makes her debut as a substitute Barker's Beauty and the first African-American model to appear on the daytime version of this show.
Wednesday's show features an extremely rare appearance of a regular car game fourth.
On Thursday, before the playing of Hit Me, Bob acknowledges Dian's (then-39th) birthday as this episode (and the Wednesday, January 18 episode before-hand) was taped on November 30, 1983.
On Friday, Kyle returns as a sub Barker's Beauty.

Week 19 (517): January 23-27

On Monday, Race Game is played for season tickets to the four LA sports teams.
On Tuesday, former Card Sharks dealer and model Janice Baker returns to Price once again as the sub Barker's Beauty filling in for Holly while she was on leave to pursue her acting career, she appears on Wednesday's show as well.
By Wednesday, the bases of Dice Game's board and table have become blue.
On Wednesday, Bullseye's green arrow still has its original appearance.
On Thursday's show, after the first pricing game (Most Expensive), the Beauties on this show: Janice Pennington, Dian Parkinson, and a model named Dianne Beatty, who makes her first debut appearance on this show, also subs for Holly Hallstrom during her absence, lead the audience in singing "Happy Birthday" to Bob (then-60th birthday) as this episode was taped on December 12, 1983.
On Thursday, The Phone Home Game returns to the rotation.
On Thursday, Dianne Beatty returns as the substitute Barker's Beauty, filling in for Holly Hallstrom during her leave of absence, which is her first known appearance.
On Thursday, an aircraft was the main prize in one of the Showcases -- and, apparently, a censored colorful response to that aircraft by the contestant bidding on it.
On Friday, Double Prices is played for a car.
On Friday, Double Prices is played at Door #3.

Week 20 (518): January 30-February 3

On Monday, Bob counts how many kisses he has received "after 2,590 episodes," an incorrect number, in reality, it is only the 2,493rd episode.
Thursday show features an extremely rare appearance of a regular car game fourth.
By Thursday, Five Price Tags' third (and current) small prize podiums have been introduced, along with their original, red-and-blue prize backdrops.
On Friday, Janice Baker returns as a substitute Barker's Beauty and appears all next week.
On Friday, Safe Crackers is played for a truck.

Week 21 (519): February 6-10

Circumstantial evidence suggests that Fremantle does not currently possess an airable copy of Wednesday's show. However, the episode was shown by Game Show Network in early 2000 as one of the last few run during the time it had TPIR re-broadcast rights.
Wednesday's show features the now-famous contestant Ethel, who came to the show to tell Bob she'd had a dream that he "was chasing her in the hayloft."
On Thursday, Clock Game is played for a car.
On Thursday, Danger Price is played for season tickets to the four LA sports teams.
Thursday's show was the final episode to air on Game Show Network in 2000, during the time it had TPIR re-broadcast rights in the mid to late 90's and up until April of 2000, which this show was the last episode to appear on GSN before GSN could no longer air anymore rerun episodes of TPIR due to TPIR re-broadcast rights being expired that year.

Week 22 (520): February 13-17

Kristin Bjorklund, a substitute card dealer on Jim Perry's Card Sharks and assistant crew member on Family Feud and other Goodson-Todman shows, makes her debut as a substitute Barker's Beauty. She appears all this week, as well as the following Monday.
Bob declares that Monday's show is Price's 2,601st episode, in reality, it is only the 2,503rd episode.
On Monday, Bonus Game is played for a car.
Circumstantial evidence suggests that Fremantle does not currently possess an airable copy of Tuesday's show.

Week 23 (521): February 22, 21, 20, 23, 24

Originally scheduled for February 20-24.
Tuesday's show is a half-hour episode.
Tuesday's show has a different opening spiel, although exactly what it is is not known, as the copy of the episode available to the fan community is missing the first several seconds. It is known to end with, "The fabulous Price Is Right!"
Tuesday's consolation prize plugs occur at the beginning of the Showcase. Similar to how things are done on hour shows, Johnny finishes the plugs with, "And now, here's Bob Barker with our fabulous showcases!"
Beginning on Tuesday, Dianne Beatty returns once again as a substitute Barker's Beauty taking Holly's place once more.
Circumstantial evidence suggests that Fremantle does not currently possess an airable copy of Wednesday's show.
On Wednesday, after playing Plinko, a Samoan contestant hugs Bob so hard, he ends up with cracked ribs.
On Thursday's playing, the Range Game malfunctions, with the range finder going off its track again and being stopped by the production staff before the contestant actually presses the button. Bob remarks that the range finder looks like it must have had a bad night.

Week 24 (522): February 27-March 2

On Wednesday, for no apparent reason, the lights around the doors are turned off during the show.
Wednesday's Lucky Seven contestant, Sandra, is called down again 29 years later, during Season 42's Big Money Week, on episode #6451K (October 14, 2013, aired out of order on October 21), she ended up playing Rat Race.
On Wednesday, the staff forget to take down the Now....and Then sign after the game is played, and leaves it in place behind Blank Check, most of the latter game is shot zoomed farther in than usual to avoid showing the sign.
On Friday, a staff member named Sharon (possibly Sharon Friem) celebrates her birthday, and gets a kiss from Bob on-stage. After this and a number of other Bob moments indicative of the era, the models playfully rough-house him after the Showcases as the credits roll.

Week 25 (523): March 5-9

On Wednesday, Bob accidentally called Squeeze Play "Switcheroo," then sardonically recognizes the misnomer at the beginning of the next act.
In Wednesday's Ten Chances, a contestant used a number twice in one guess, but neither the audience nor Bob noticed.
On Thursday, Race Game is played for season tickets to the four LA sports teams.
On Friday Range Game’s border becomes light green.

Week 26 (524): March 12-16

Clips of a contestant named Barbara playing Bullseye on Monday's show were shown in the second "TV's Funniest Game Show Moments" special in 1985.
In Tuesday's Walk of Fame, a buzzer sounded as soon as the contestant made her first bid, before Bob can reveal the actual price, incidentally, it turned out to be outside the range.
On Wednesday, the total display in Phone Home Game malfunctions, for no apparent reason, it displays $32,100, then $3,120, while the contestants' actual total is $4,200. The total is finally displayed correctly at the end of the segment.
On Friday, Andi Rapagna makes her debut as a substitute Barker's Beauty. She is the last guest model to appear before Holly's return and appearing for the next two weeks. She would later go on to appear as one of the models on the Italian version of The Price is Right, titled OK, il Prezzo è Giusto!
On Friday, a technical error occurs in Race Game when the jukebox shows 4 despite the contestant having only two right. When the prices are revealed, it turned out that she got all four right in the first time, but they mistakenly shown 2. Bob was confused about the situation, and then he decided to give her all the prizes. The contestant actually told Bob she had won the game on her first selection during the confusion.
The cue music played during Friday's second Showcase, "Spot the Leprechaun," is the alternate theme that was used at various points during the 1974-75 Jack Narz run of "Now You See It."
- This theme was used most often at "halftime" of the opening round when teammates would switch roles, but was brought on more frequently for a while in late 1974, replacing the more familiar main theme, Quincy Jones' "Chump Change."

Week 27 (525): March 19-23

Monday show opens with the infamous incident where Dian kisses Bob and flees as the big doors open.
On Thursday, the show's production company designation changes from Goodson-Todman to Mark Goodson.
Friday show features the first known perfect playing of Ten Chances.

Week 28 (526): March 26-30

On Wednesday, Danger Price is played for season tickets to the four LA sports teams.
On Friday, Holly returns to the show.
On Friday, Safe Crackers is played for a car.

Week 29 (527): April 2-6

On Thursday, Squeeze Play is played for a car.
On Thursday, for no apparent reason, an instrumental version of "The Hustle" is used during the grocery descriptions in The Phone Home Game. As far as is known, this song does not appear on any other episode.
Circumstantial evidence suggests that Fremantle does not currently possess an airable copy of Friday's show.

Week 30 (528): April 9-13

Monday show features the debut of Balance Game '84.
Monday show features an extremely rare appearance of a small prize game fourth.
On Monday, Safe Crackers is played for a car.
By Wednesday, the Grand Game-esque winnings graphic used since 1981 is now supplemented with "$1,000" and "$5,000" graphics that are primarily used in the Showcase Showdown. When On the Nose debuts, the $1,000 graphic will be used for that game as well. These graphics do not have a trailing ".00." Oddly enough, however, whenever a contestant gets $1 in their bonus spin, the "$10,000.00" graphic, with trailing zeroes, is used.
On Wednesday, Sugar Ray Leonard is a guest in the audience.
On Friday, Super Ball!! is played for a car for the first time.

Week 31 (529): April 16-20

In Monday's Hole in One, after Bob successfully made his inspiration putt, a plush turkey holding a 'Congratulations!' sign, resembling the duck in You Bet Your Life, descends from the ceiling to surprise him.
On Monday, a contestant sets a new Plinko winnings record of $11,500.
Tuesday's show features an extremely rare appearance of a small prize game fourth.
During the beginning of Friday's show, Bob acknowledges Janice is getting married on the day the show airs, and the second showcase celebrates the event, titled "Janice Prepares for Her Wedding."

Week 32 (530): April 23-27

On Monday, Most Expensive is played for three trips.
On Wednesday, Take Two is played for season tickets to the four LA sports teams.

Week 33 (531): April 30-May 4

On Tuesday, Clock Game offers a 4-digit prize.
On Tuesday, the second showcase is dedicated to international versions of The Price is Right, offering trips that had their own versions of the show at the time (England, Italy and Australia), it uses a slower variation of the theme music.
On Thursday, Squeeze Play is played for a car.

Week 34 (532): May 7-11

On Monday, Safe Crackers is played for a car.
On Tuesday, contestant John sets a new daytime winnings record of $39,518.
On Wednesday, Range Game is played for a car.
Friday's sixth item up for bids marks the first appearance of the Tugboat.

Week 35 (533): May 14-18

On Monday, a contestant manages to win 3 Strikes without a strike drawn.
Wednesday's show is notable for featuring several very unfortunate game results:
- In Range Game, the contestant loses by stopping the rangefinder exactly $1 short of the actual price.
- Race Game is played for season tickets to the four LA pro sports teams. The contestant, who says she's studying sports broadcasting, fails to get any of the prices placed correctly at any point during the entire 45 seconds of game play.
- In Hit Me, the contestant manages to come up with a score of 20, with the product containing the ace still in play. However, she decides to stand on 20, and the house, which was showing a 3 up, turns a hole 7 and draws an ace, beating her with 21.
- In Dice Game, the contestant loses despite rolling the first number in the price of the car (6), then another 6, a 5, and a 1. She unexpectedly chooses to go higher than 5 for the third digit, which is a 1.
Friday's show marks Barbara Hunter's last day as producer as she became an executive for CBS.

Week 36 (534): May 21-25

On Monday, Safe Crackers is played for a car.
Beginning on Tuesday, a lower-pitched variant of the Make Your Move cue replaces "That's Entertainment" as the prize cue for Walk of Fame.
Thursday show features an extremely rare appearance of a car game fourth.

Week 37 (535): May 28-June 1

On Monday, Bob refers to 5-digit 3 Strikes as "3 Strikes +" for the first time, despite this, the game's name is not actually changed on the board yet.
On Monday, for no apparent reason, the light border briefly went out during the mid-show bumper.
On Tuesday, before the 6th pricing game (Secret X) is revealed/played, a crew member is seen running backstage.
On Tuesday, after the Secret X is revealed, the "X" on the top left yellow square falls off the board and it goes unnoticed.
Wednesday's episode features the final playing of Card Game under the name "New Card Game."
On Wednesday, Most Expensive is played for three trips.
Beginning on Thursday, two of every three light bulbs in the light border are changed to yellow and red respectively.
By Friday, pet adoption segments have started.
On Friday, Tom Kennedy makes an appearance to promote the premiere of Body Language.
On Friday, the Tugboat is used during Give or Keep as it brings in a set of luggage for a trip.

Week 38 (536): June 4-8

Fremantle's copy of Monday's show appears to have serious audio problems -- on The Price is Right: The Barker Era's stream, most of the episode is barely audible, and the sixth game and most of the second Showcase Showdown have no sound whatsoever besides loud static. (As of 1/5/2025's airing, the audio problems have been fixed).
On Tuesday, the opening titles are pink.
On Wednesday, the Train makes its second appearance in the showcase, representing Canadian & European Rail Tours.
Starting with Thursday's show, the Robot takes over for Dian as the elevator operator in the "TPIR Department Store" showcases.
- The cue music for these showcases changes to a classical composition played on analog synthesizers (like "Switched-On Bach").
- Johnny voices the robot in a deadpan, mechanical style, and the read-throughs are comical, featuring rhyming sets of unrelated products, random "bleeps" and "boops," and getting "stuck" on words and repeating them multiple times.
Friday's show features the now-famous incident in Master Key when a key gets stuck in the lock. Bob attempts to resolve this with a karate kick, but he winds up breaking the key in half.

Week 39 (537): June 11-15

During Monday's playing of Ten Chances, like back in March, the contestant again uses the same number twice for the price of the car in one of the chances ($9,049). Bob and the staff again don't catch this and allow the guess to go through as incorrect.
On Wednesday, the opening titles are green.
On Wednesday, for no apparent reason, the dollar sign at the left of the 3 Strikes board is missing.
On Thursday, the opening titles are pink.
During the call downs at the start of Thursday's show, the first two contestants end up coming directly on stage instead of going to Contestants' Row and have to be ushered back down, with one contestant almost pushing the other down the stairs. The scene results in Johnny laughing so hard he has trouble finishing the call downs, and when Bob comes out, he remarks that they were just going to start the show without him.
On Thursday, The Phone Home Game is completely won, this is the first time it has ever happened.
During Friday's playing of Walk of Fame, the contestant wins the first three prizes easily, but inexplicably guesses $25,000 as the price for the final prize (a camping trailer), even though the price display for the game only has four digits. Bob lets her go ahead with that price and she loses with a difference of over $20,000.

Week 40 (538): June 18-22

Season finale week. Summer reruns begin next Monday.
On Monday, Johnny Olson's birthday is acknowledged as this episode was taped on May 22.
On Monday's show, when the robot appears with an IUFB, a contestant asks whether the robot is included with the item. Bob says that it isn't and that it costs somewhere around "$15,000." Someone on the production staff then tells him it actually costs "$25,000," to which he responds incredulously that they "could've hired a person for less than that."
- During a subsequent IUFB, where Holly is having trouble loading a dishwasher and drops a dish on the floor, Bob remarks that now he understands why they decided to get the robot.
On Monday, Holly wrecks the Tugboat into the Turntable during the third item up for bids.
On Tuesday, the opening titles are green.
On Tuesday, Super Ball!! is played for a car.
On Wednesday, New Card Game's name is changed back to "Card Game," however, the game is still using its second set.
On Thursday, a contestant manages to lose Lucky Seven despite having $5 left for the last number.
On Friday, in an unusual move, a cash game is played in the first half instead of a car game, and two cars are offered in the second half.
On Friday, Double Prices is played for a car.