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Season 16 (1987-1988)[]
Pricing game calendar for Season 16, hosted by Scorpz.
Week 1 (656): September 14-16, November 17, September 18
- Originally scheduled for September 14-18.
- By Thursday, Dice Game is still offering 4-digit cars.
- At this point, Hole in One is believed to still be using its original set.
Week 2 (657): October 19-23
- Originally scheduled for September 21-25.
- For no apparent reason, the entirety of Week 2 was taped and aired out of order. As a result, changes that take effect permanently on Thursday of Week 6 are present this week, including Bob having white hair. Additionally, this is the only week of the season outside of its usual hiatus during which The Phone Home Game is not played. Thursday's playing of Hi Lo might have likely been a substitution for The Phone Home Game.
Week 3 (658): September 21-25
- Originally scheduled for September 28-October 2.
Week 4 (659): September 28-October 2
- Originally scheduled for October 5-9.
- On Monday, Squeeze Play is played for a car.
- On Wednesday, Super Ball!! is played for a car.
- On Thursday, Money Game is played for a boat.
- Thursday's show features an extremely rare appearance of a regular car game (albeit one being played for a boat) fourth.
Week 5 (660): October 5-9
- Originally scheduled for October 12-16.
Week 6 (661): October 12-16
- Originally scheduled for October 19-23.
- After Monday, The Phone Home Game begins its annual hiatus for the Home Viewer Showcase.
- On Wednesday, Double Prices is played behind the Giant Price Tag.
- On Thursday, the first episode recorded after the two-month summer taping break, Bob's hair turns white.
- During Thursday's Punch a Bunch, Janice uses a piece of chalk to recolor Bob's hair on the $10,000 bill.
- Beginning on Thursday, there is a second "The Price Is Right" sign on the wall behind the left side of the audience. It is identical to the one on the right side.
- On Thursday, the design of the Clam has changed. It now shows a yellow dollar sign with other, larger dollar signs flowing out behind it in all colors of the rainbow.
- On Friday, Hole in One's second sign has been introduced: the logo now reads "Hole in One" again, with "One" on a golf ball that can be flipped around to read "or Two" if the contestant misses their first putt.
- On Friday, Hole in One's original grocery podium is still in use.
Week 7 (662): October 26-30
- On Monday, the car's actual retail price in Five Price Tags is still indicated by an orange price tag.
- On Friday, there are still only eight curtains behind the audience.
Week 8 (663): November 2-6
Week 9 (664): November 9-13
- On this week's shows, the Home Viewer Showcase "Christmas Memories" is presented.
- Certain records not belonging to Roger or the show indicate that Monday's Pick a Pair may have been Grand Game.
- On Monday, Safe Crackers is played for a car.
- On Tuesday, Bullseye is played for a car.
- On Thursday, Squeeze Play is played for a car.
Week 10 (665): November 16, 18-20
- Only four shows, Tuesday has the delayed September 17 episode.
- On Friday, the audience curtains are still flat.
- On Friday, the second showcase, a "Price Is Right Goes to the Movies" showcase centered on Cinderella, includes a private screening of the movie for the contestant and 25 friends. This is regarded as a bonus, and the contestant is instructed not to include it while bidding.
Week 11 (666): November 23-25
- Thanksgiving week, only three shows.
- On Monday, for no apparent reason, two cash games are played.
- On Wednesday, the Big Wheel's beeps do not work during the second Showcase Showdown, the members of the audience take it upon themselves to do the beeps themselves.
- On Wednesday, after being distracted by the audience beeping for the Big Wheel during the second Showcase Showdown, Bob mistakenly believes that the first spin of a spin-off has not gone all the way around and has the contestant re-spin. This ends up not mattering, as the other contestant's spin beats both of hers.
Week 12 (667): November 30-December 4
Week 13 (668): December 7-11
- Monday's show features the debut of Credit Card.
- By Thursday, the circle wipes used during Bob's entrance have been changed to star wipes. However, they do not animate.
- On Friday, at the end of the show, Bob calls the winner of the Home Viewer Showcase.
Week 14 (669): December 14-17
- Only four shows, beginning on Friday, reruns air for the remainder of 1987.
- By the end of 1987, Hole in One is believed to have introduced its second, two-tiered grocery display.
- Some (or perhaps all) of the reruns aired during the remainder of December are older episodes from before Bob stopped dying his hair. On these rerun broadcasts, the line, "Don't let this dark hair fool you, this is a holiday rerun that was taped before I let my hair go gray," is dubbed in as he makes his entrance.
Week 15 (670): January 4-8
- Certain records not belonging to Roger or the show indicate that Monday's 1 Right Price may have been Most Expensive.
- On Thursday, Money Game is played for a boat.
- Thursday's show has an extremely rare appearance of a regular car game (albeit one being played for a boat) fourth.
- On Friday, Dice Game is played for a 4-digit car for the last time. For the remainder of the season, the game exists solely as Deluxe Dice Game.
Week 16 (671): January 11-15
Week 17 (672): January 18-22
- On Monday, The Phone Home Game returns to the rotation.
Week 18 (673): January 25-29
- On Wednesday, Safe Crackers is played for a car.
Week 19 (674): February 1-5
- On Monday, Money Game is played for a boat.
- Thursday's episode is most likely the last appearance of the "Price is Right Department Store" showcase until Season 33 with a new set and music cue.
- By Friday, Five Price Tags has begun using the "WIN" tag to indicate the actual retail price of the car.
- Early in its existence, the border of the "WIN" tag in Five Price Tags is blue instead of red.
- On Friday, the main Five Price Tags podium is still on wheels.
- On Friday, Check Game is still using Range Game's "think" music.
Week 20 (675): February 8-12
- On Wednesday, Kyle begins a fairly long stint filling in for an ill Dian.
- On Thursday, about 2/3 of the audience is empty thanks to a huge storm in Los Angeles on the day the show was taped. Everyone is seated in the center section, and efforts are made by the cameramen not to shoot the sections by Rod and the producers' table.
Week 21 (676): February 15-19
- Tuesday's show is a half-hour episode.
Week 22 (677): February 22-26
- On Monday through Thursday, a model named Anna fills in for an ill Holly. Bob states on Monday that she had previously spent several years as a Beauty on Ok, Il Prezzo E Giusto, the Italian version of The Price Is Right.
- On Monday, Safe Crackers is played for a car.
- By Monday, Credit Card has begun to be introduced with a close-up of the "Credit Card" sign.
- By Monday, Credit Card's standard "right/wrong" indicators have been introduced.
- Monday's show is the first known occurrence of Lucky $even being slotted in the second half of the show. This practice would be kept up until Season 27.
- On Tuesday, One Away is lost on the first turn.
- On Friday, Bob destroys a copy of The Encyclopedia of TV Game Shows, a part of the sixth Item up for Bids, upon discovering that his picture is not on its cover.
Week 23 (678): February 29-March 4
- By Tuesday, the audience curtains have been altered so that each one has two sets of curves going down it.
- By Tuesday, a ninth colored curtain has been added behind the audience, to completely cover the center wall. Each existing curtain has been moved one space to the left, for an order of green-orange-blue-red-green-orange-blue-red-green.
- Tuesday's Range Game features the last known appearance of Play-Along.
Week 24 (679): March 7-11
- By Tuesday, the star wipes during Bob's entrance now spin.
- On Tuesday, the decimal point is still present on the Big Wheel. Its borders still have pink Pricedown dollar signs on them.
- On Wednesday, Dian returns.
Week 25 (680): March 14-18
- On Monday, Super Ball!! is played for a car.
- By Thursday, the pink dollar signs on the Big Wheel have been replaced with gold, Super Ball!!-style dollar signs.
Week 26 (681): March 21-25
- At the end of Wednesday's show, Bob appears in the empty audience in a separately-taped segment to announce the death of executive producer Frank Wayne. In the aftermath of Wayne's death, Bob becomes Price's executive producer.
- By Wednesday, the decimal point has been removed from the dollar on the Big Wheel.
Week 27 (682): March 28-April 1
- On Tuesday, Squeeze Play is played for a car.
- On Wednesday, Money Game is played for a hovercraft.
Week 28 (683): April 4-8
- Monday's show features the second known instance of a contestant being called down while they were in the bathroom.
Week 29 (684): April 11-15
- Monday's show has the first appearance of Temptation's second set.
- Possibly by Monday, the price tags for Temptation's prizes have also been changed to match the new set's colors.
Week 30 (685): April 18-22
- On Monday's show, 1 Right Price begins to use its own podiums. The game also receives a logo after being in the pricing game rotation for over twelve and a half years.
Week 31 (686): April 25-29
Week 32 (687): May 2-6
- On Monday, Fingers Greco's husband Frank (a club pro who Bob calls "Thumbs") models an IUFB (golf clubs) and does the inspiration putt.
- By Tuesday, the font for the "money win" graphics used for the Showcase Showdown is now in Helvetica.
- Beginning on Wednesday, Bob wears a tennis shoe on his right foot due to a broken toe.
- On Wednesday, as Bob and the contestant walk to Door #2 to play Most Expensive, the Super Ball!! board is plainly visible between the Turntable and Door #1, ready to be brought on stage in the next act.
- After Most Expensive, Bob has a chat with the models over his toe injury.
- From Wednesday through Friday at least, Kyle is back as this time around, she's filling in for Holly.
- By Wednesday, the zigzags on Super Ball!!'s price covers have been replaced with a circle pattern.
- On Wednesday, the theme is accidentally played instead of "Walking" as the sixth contestant comes on down.
- On Friday, during the first act, the models join in on the fun as they each wear a tennis shoe on their right foot, imitating Bob's broken toe injury.
- On Friday, Money Game is played for a trailer.
Week 33 (688): May 9-13
Week 34 (689): May 16-20
Week 35 (690): May 23-27
Week 36 (691): May 30-June 3
- On Thursday, Kyle fills in for Janice.
- On Thursday, Most Expensive is played for three trips.
Week 37 (692): June 6-10
Week 38 (693): June 27-July 1
- Season finale week.
- Summer reruns begin next Monday.
- On Monday, Deluxe Dice Game is played for the last time. Beginning next season, it is known simply as Dice Game.
- On Tuesday, Ray Combs appears during Bump to plug Family Feud. During his appearance, he dubs Janice and Dian "Combs's Cuties."
- On Thursday, The Phone Home Game is completely won, as far as it is known, this is the fourth time it has ever happened.
- For a brief period around this time, including on Friday, the show experiments with using Chyron graphics. The graphics are used to display the brand names of prizes on-screen and also allow for colored Mark Goodson Productions and TPIR logos during the credits. They are also used for the opening titles.