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Season 28 (1999-2000)[]
Pricing game calendar for Season 28, hosted by Scorpz.
Week 1 (1,117 – 118xK): September 20-24
- Monday's show features the debut of "Let 'em Roll."
- On Monday, the set is decorated for the season premiere.
- Beginning with Monday's show, season premieres replace the opening's line "Television's most exciting hour of fantastic prizes!" with "The first show of our XXth year (on CBS)!"
- On Monday, a closed-captioning plug replaces the standard pre-1st-Showcase Showdown plugs, additionally, the show's logo appears in the bottom-left of the screen during the intro to this promo.
- Monday has the first appearance of CBS split-screened credits (although real credit rolls are still taped each day), as a result of the change, the Mark Goodson logo no longer scrolls off the screen on days with a full credit roll. Additionally, the "short" credits now include the listings for Executive Producer, Producers, Director, and Associate Producer.
- Monday's show is Chantel's last episode and Nikki's first episode. As a send-off/introduction of sorts, each of them reads the price of one of the showcases.
- Monday's Double Prices is a substitution for Range Game.
Week 2 (1,118 – 119xK): September 27-October 1
- For reasons unknown, this week and the next four have an unusual number of game substitutions. The substitutions this week are as follows:
- Monday's Barker's Bargain Bar is a substitution for Clearance Sale.
- Tuesday's Double Prices is a substitution for Check Game.
- Wednesday's 1 Right Price is a substitution for Barker's Marker$.
- Thursday's Barker's Bargain Bar is a substitution for Buy or Sell.
- Thursday's Range Game is a substitution for Switch?.
- Friday's Most Expensive is a substitution for Eazy az 1 2 3.
- On Monday, in an unusual move, a used motorcycle is offered in Barker's Bargain Bar.
- On Monday, the first-ever wheelchair-bound contestant appears. He ends up winning Cover Up on one attempt. The contestant gives the numbers he wants to Bob, who has Janice pick the numbers off of the board.
- On Tuesday, the standard appearances of the money amounts on Let em Roll's cubes debuts, as do the game's regular price covers.
- On Tuesday, Double Prices is played at Door #3.
- On Friday, the Big Wheel's beeping mechanism gives out at the beginning of the second Showcase Showdown, leading Bob to have the audience do the beeps.
Week 3 (1,119 – 120xK): October 4-8
- This week's game substitutions are as follows:
- Tuesday's Dice Game is a substitution for One Away.
- Wednesday's Range Game is a substitution for Dice Game.
- Thursday's Squeeze Play is a substitution for Range Game.
- Friday's Dice Game is a substitution for Any Number.
- Wednesday show debuts the second Golden Road set. At this time, the colors of the first two price holders are swapped, changing the sequence from blue-green-red to green-blue-red.
- On Wednesday, Range Game is played for a car.
- On Thursday, Let em Roll's grocery portion is played after the first roll, this is the only time this has been done.
Week 4 (1,120 – 121xK): October 11-15
- This week's game substitutions are as follows:
- Monday's Double Prices is a substitution for Penny Ante.
- Monday's Cliff Hangers is a substitution for Joker.
- Tuesday's Pick-a-Number is a substitution for Take Two.
- Wednesday's Bullseye is a substitution for Check-Out.
- Thursday's Most Expensive is a substitution for Swap Meet.
- In an extremely rare occurrence, Monday's show has no grocery product game played.
- On Monday, Double Prices is played at Door #3.
- On Monday, Cliff Hangers is played for a car.
- On Thursday, before the third pricing game, Bob acknowledges Janice's birthday as this episode was taped on July 8.
- Also on Thursday, because it's her birthday, Bob lets Janice do the Inspiration Putt in Hole in One.
- Thursday's episode also features the first of only two appearances of the Train outside of the showcases.
- On Friday, Cliff Hangers is won with the contestant having guesses all three small prizes' prices correctly.
- All of this week's episodes, the end credits are displayed differently as they begin with "Recorded at The Bob Barker Studio" rather than the "Suppliers of Products" list and Rod's Mark Goodson sign-off is most likely a voice-over recording as he is seen onstage while the end credits are rolling.
Week 5 (1,121 – 122xK): October 18-22
- This week's game substitutions are as follows:
- Monday's Bonus Game is a substitution for Shell Game.
- Wednesday's Double Prices is a substitution for Pick-a-Number.
- Thursday's Cover Up is a substitution for Ten Chances.
- Friday's Money Game is a substitution for Any Number.
- On Tuesday, Range Game is played for a car.
Week 6 (1,122 – 123xK): October 25-29
- This week's game substitutions are as follows:
- Wednesday's Ten Chances is a substitution for Hole in One.
- Wednesday's Pick-a-Pair is a substitution for 2 for the Price of 1.
- Wednesday's Range Game is a substitution for Secret "X." (Notably, this gives the original lineup two small prize games and a grocery item game.)
- Thursday's Most Expensive is a substitution for Eazy az 1 2 3.
- Friday's One Away is a substitution for Line em Up.
- On Wednesday, Range Game is played for a car.
Week 7 (1,123 – 124xK): November 1-5
- On Monday, Check-Out is played for a car.
- On Friday, when Rod calls down contestant Daniel Gomez, both he and Manuel Gomes arrive in Contestants' Row. Once it has been determined which one is supposed to be there, Manuel asks Bob, "Can I at least get, like, five bucks?" Bob proceeds to dig into his wallet and give Manuel $5 before he returns to his seat.
Week 8 (1,124 – 125xK): November 8-12
- On Wednesday, two draws into 3 Strikes, Bob discovers that Rod's prize copy listed the wrong car model, to make up for the mistake, he allows the contestant to make new guesses for both of his first two numbers.
- On Wednesday, Bonus Game is played for a car.
- On Thursday, Barker's Bargain Bar is accidentally set up with the bargain prices on yellow and the actual retail prices on orange.
Week 9 (1,125 – 126xK): November 15-19
- Friday's show is the first taping after a long break caused by Bob having surgery. As he comes through the Big Doors, the audience can be heard chanting, "We love Bob!"
- On Friday's show, Bob inadvertently has contestant Grant start placing items before Rod has described the items. Only one item is picked before the mistake is discovered.
Week 10 (1,126 – 127xK): November 22-24
- Thanksgiving week, only three shows.
- Monday's show has the Showcase podiums set up during the first game for no apparent reason.
- Monday's show has the first known playing of Hole in One played sixth.
Week 11 (1,127 – 128xK): November 29, 30, December 2, 1, 3
- Originally scheduled for November 29-December 3
- On Monday, the spelling of Let em Roll is changed to "Let 'em Roll."
- Wednesday's credits contain a tribute to then-recently deceased former staffer Jill Brandt Ostrove, CBS aired the real credits for this episode.
Week 12 (1,128 – 129xK): December 6-10
- On Monday, 2 for the Price of 1 is played for a car.
- Friday's show has Season 28's only playing of Shell Game.
- On Friday, Shell Game is played for a car.
Week 13 (1,129 – 130xK): December 13-17
Week 14 (1,130 – 131xK): December 20-24
- The set is decorated for Christmas this week.
- Three of the five shows this week (Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday) feature double overbids in the showcase.
Week 15 (1,131 – 132xK): January 3-7
- Monday's show features two "famous" contestants, one from within the game show community and one from Hollywood: Longtime fan Rob Rosa plays Spelling Bee, and a then-unknown Aaron Paul, who would go on to star in Breaking Bad but had at the time just moved to Hollywood, plays Dice Game.
- On Wednesday, Safe Crackers is played for a car.
Week 16 (1,132 – 133xK): January 17-21
- On Monday, the copyright date from the end credits is back to Roman numerals since early Season 23 in late 1994.
Week 17 (1,133 – 134xK): January 24-28
- On Monday, Golden Road is played for a boat.
- On Wednesday, Clearance Sale's regular think-music is introduced. Two versions of the cue exist, one of which starts four measures farther in than the other, the two are used interchangeably.
- On Wednesday, 2 for the Price of 1 is played for a car.
Week 18 (1,134 – 135xK): February 7-11
- On Tuesday, Most Expensive is played for three trips.
Week 19 (1,135 – 136xK): February 14-18
- On Tuesday, Range Game is played for a car.
Week 20 (1,136 – 137xK): February 21-25
- Friday show features the debut of Flip Flop.
Week 21 (1,137 – 138xK): February 28, March 1-3
- Only four shows, Tuesday has the Pillsbury Bake-Off and a rerun of episode #0115D from November 17, 1972.
- Friday features the first playing of 5-digit Push Over.
- On Friday, Push Over is played for a car.
Week 22 (1,138 – 139xK): March 6-10
- On Monday, a new font is introduced for the "$10,000" portion of Grand Game's winnings display, oddly, the ".00" retains the original font on this episode.
- Thursday marks the final appearance of the original Check-Out set.
- On Friday, Bob instructs a page to remove a member of the audience from the studio when he attempts to yell advice during the Clock Game. (Roger has stated, though, that Bob wasn't being serious and no one was removed).
Week 23 (1,139 – 140xK): March 27-31
- Tuesday show has the debut of a new, gold-trimmed, asterisked Big Wheel carpet.
- On Wednesday, Cliff Hangers is played for a car.
Week 24 (1,140 – 141xK): April 3-7
- On Tuesday, Range Game is played for a car.
- On Tuesday, the ".00" portion of Grand Game's winnings display is changed to the new font introduced on the game's previous playing.
Week 25 (1,141 – 142xK): April 17-21
- On Tuesday, Most Expensive is played for three trips.
- On Thursday, in a likely last-minute change, Bob enters through the audience, despite Credit Card is played first.
- On Friday, there is still no base at the bottom of Pick-a-Pair.
Week 26 (1,142 – 143xK): May 1-5
Week 27 (1,143 – 144xK): May 8-12
- Thursday show features the final playing of Fortune Hunter.
Week 28 (1,144 – 145xK): May 15-19
- Tuesday show features the third known instance of a contestant being called down while they were in the bathroom.
- Wednesday show has the first appearance of the current One Away sign.
Week 29 (1,145 – 146xK): May 22-26
Week 30 (1,146 – 147xK): May 29-June 2
- Wednesday's show features the Train's second and last appearance of the season outside of the Showcase.
Week 31 (1,147 – 148xK): June 5-9
- On Friday, Safe Crackers is played for a car.
Week 32 (1,148 – 149xK): June 12-14
- Only three shows, not season finale week.
- Summer reruns begin on Thursday.
Week 33 (1,149 – 150xK): September 18-22
- For reasons unknown, some backstage records refer to the last two weeks of Season 28 as being the first two weeks of Season 29.
- Starting on Monday, the second Showcase Showdown is preceded by a second closed-captioning plug and only two consolation prize plugs.
- On Monday, unbeknownst to the cast, there is only one check on the Check Game board, as opposed to the usual two, this eventually results in Janice tearing the check into two pieces as she attempts to unglue it from the board to give it to the contestant.
Week 34 (1,150 – 151xK): September 25, 26, Unaired, 27, 28, 29
- Originally scheduled for September 25, 26, 27, 27, 28, 29
- Season finale week.
- Season 29 begins next Monday.
- This week consists of six episodes, with two Wednesday shows. The original Wednesday show, taped on June 26 and re-designated at some point as episode #1513X, was never aired, apparently because two contestants ended up in the wrong spots in Contestants' Row at some point during the proceedings, it was replaced with a new episode #1513K, taped on September 11. According to a Golden Road.net member named MrBill1978, who was at the taping of episode #1513X, the two episodes had identical prizes and pricing game lineups.