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Season 5 (1976-1977)[]
Pricing game calendar for Season 5, hosted by Scorpz.
Week 1 (201): September 21-24
- Originally scheduled for August 31-September 3.
- Only four episodes; no Monday show.
- The program aired on Monday, September 20, is Season 4's delayed May 20 episode.
- Based on a series of odd re-scheduling early in this season that involves Weeks 201-204 airing after Weeks 205-207, it seems possible that Weeks 201-204 were originally planned as part of Season 4.
- On at least this week's Friday show, the "Hour Power" text in the opening is full-sized the entire time it is onscreen.
- On Friday, the color of "Price" in the graphical logo is still yellow.
- Friday's second Showcase Showdown is the first known occurrence of "Dig We Must" being played as the cue for winning bonus money in the Showcase Showdown. It was likely put in place as the bonus money cue whenever it was made the Showdown win cue back near the end of Season 4.
- On Friday, the mid-show bumper still behaves as it did on the first permanent hour show.
Week 2 (202): October 18, September 28-30, October 1
- Originally scheduled for September 6-10.
Week 3 (203): October 4-8
- Originally scheduled for September 13-17.
Weed 4 (204): October 11-15
- Originally scheduled for September 20-24.
Week 5 (205): August* 30-September 3
- Originally scheduled for September 27-October 1.
- CBS regards this week's Monday show, which was the first Season 5 episode to air, as the season premiere; however, I have chosen to regard episode #2012D as such, as there are indications that the first seven weeks of the season were not originally intended to be broadcast so dramatically out of order.
- By Friday's show, the game side of the spinning panel of the Turntable Wall has been changed to a solid red-orange color. This was probably done as part of set changes for Season 5 and likely first appeared on Monday's episode.
Week 6 (206): September 6-10
- Originally scheduled for October 4-8.
- On Thursday, Range Game is played for a car.
Week 7 (207): September 13-17
- Originally scheduled for October 11-15.
- As of Thursday, the white section of Door #2 still extends to the floor.
- By Thursday, the color of "Price" in the graphical logo has changed from yellow to white.
Week 8 (208): September 27, December 10, October 20-22
- Originally scheduled for October 18-22.
- Friday show features the debut of Switcheroo.
- On early playings, Bob himself pushes the release buttons on the game board to reveal the prices of any prizes won. By the end of the season, Janice starts doing the price reveals, and the models have always done so since.
Week 9 (209): October 25-29
- On Wednesday, the Top Winner is still using the green Showcase podium.
Week 10 (210): November 1-5
Week 11 (211): November 8-12
- Assuming that episode #0013D is not included in the episode count, this week's Monday show is the real episode #1,000.
- By Thursday, the range on the Bullseye board has been changed to $1-$6, with $5-$6 as the bullseye.
- Fairly early in Bullseye's life, the rules are altered to state that the contestant will win if the hidden bullseye is with any product that has a marker on the target; it seems likely that this change also occurs this Thursday.
Week 12 (212): November 15-19
Week 13 (213): November 22-24
- Thanksgiving week; only three shows.
Week 14 (214): November 29-December 3
Week 15 (215): December 6-8
- Only three shows; Thursday has December Magazine, and Friday has the delayed October 19 episode.
- On Tuesday, Switcheroo is played for a $9,400 camper truck.
- On Tuesday, Clock Game is played for a car.
- As of Tuesday, there are still no prize labels on the price stands in Danger Price.
- By Tuesday, the Showcase podiums have switched places; the Top Winner now uses the red podium, and the Runner-Up uses the green one.
Week 16 (216): December 13-17
Week 17 (217): December 20-24
- At this point, it is believed that Double Prices and 1 Right Price are still the original Double Prices podiums.
Week 18 (218): December 27-31
- On Monday, the Big Wheel's original handlebars are still present.
- Tuesday is Anitra's last episode.
- On Wednesday, auditions to replace Anitra begin; three rotating models try out, including Holly.
- By this time, the green Range Game board has debuted.
- Golden Road is believed to still be using the gold carpet for its road at this point.
Week 19 (219): January 3-7
- Sometime in 1977, a velvet rope that runs along the path is added to Golden Road.
- By Thursday, the word "new" has been removed from the final line of the opening spiel, changing it to simply, "The fabulous, 60-minute Price Is Right!"
- By Thursday, the colored stripes on Door #2 have been extended across the bottom of the door.
- By Thursday's show, the vertical price range scale has been removed from the left side of the Hurdles game board. As this is the first playing of Hurdles from Season 5 that is available, and the last available playing is the Season 4 finale, it's likely this change was made back at the start of the season.
- Also on Thursday's playing of Hurdles, a production gaffe leaves the MSRP of one of the hurdle products (a package of Epoxy Bond Furniture Fix) clearly revealed on its packaging.
- By Thursday, the Big Wheel's normal handlebars have been introduced.
- By Thursday, the spaces on Cliff Hangers' mountain have been numbered, and their associated hash marks have been reduced to their normal lengths.
- By Thursday, Cliff Hangers has begun using the yodeling song On the Franches Mountains from the album Swiss Mountain Music; it had originally used The Silly Song from Disney's movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.
- Thursday's playing of Cliff Hangers features contestant James Van Patten, who famously guesses $280 for the price of a $50 set of Sarah Coventry casual jewelry, thinking they were more valuable pieces.
Week 20 (220): January 10-14
Week 21 (221): January 17, March 7, January 19, March 8, January 21
- Originally scheduled for January 17-21.
- During this week's shows, Holly is auditioning to be Anitra's replacement.
- As would become a hallmark of her tenure on the show, she is involved in several gaffes with product presentation, including, on Wednesday's playing of Ten Chances, almost falling off the 1st/2nd prize platform while not paying attention when it starts moving away to reveal the car.
- By Wednesday's playing, Danger Price's price stands have had prize labels added to them. The game, however, is still being played on the turntable and will be there for several more weeks.
- This playing of Danger Price also features one of the earliest appearances of the infamous "LA Pro Sports Season Ticket" prize package (that no one seems to be able to win over the years).
Week 22 (222): January 24-28
Week 23 (223): January 31-February 4
- As of Monday, Dice Game is still using its original rules, with car prices containing zeroes and numbers higher than six.
- On Wednesday, a contestant sets a daytime winnings record of $23,457.
- Thursday's "Department Store" Showcase is the first known showing where Bob does not ask for all the prizes to be brought out and displayed again to the contestant who bids on it.
Week 24 (224): February 7-11
Week 25 (225): February 14-18
- Around this point, give or take a couple weeks, Holly joins the show permanently.
- By Wednesday, the Danger Price board has been moved to center stage and is concealed by the Giant Price Tag.
Week 26 (226): February 21-25
Week 27 (227): February 28-March 4
- By Thursday, the opening spiel has been changed to, "Here it comes! Television's most exciting hour of fantastic prizes! The fabulous, sixty-minute Price Is Right!"
- By Thursday, Grocery Game's table has changed to a solid, light red.
- By Thursday, the beeps on the Big Wheel have grown deeper in pitch but are still the same buzzing-type noise.
- Thursday's show is the first "official" known occurrence of three - and then four - contestants in total winning $1,000 across both Showcase Showdowns (two in each Showdown).
- Three contestants in total should have won $1,000 back on #1774D, but Bob made a mistake in counting a spin that didn't go all the way around, and that contestant went over instead of spinning $1.00.
Week 28 (228): March 9-11
- Only three shows; Monday and Tuesday have the delayed January 18 and 20 episodes.
- On Monday, March 7, the show moves to 10:30 Eastern/9:30 Central.
Week 29 (229): March 14-18
- On at least Tuesday's episode, the opening titles are yellow. The titles are back to blue on Thursday's episode.
- By Tuesday, the behavior of the mid-show bumper has been reversed; it now begins with a full shot of the logo, which then shrinks toward the center as the light border moves onto the screen.
- By Tuesday's playing of 3 Strikes, when the contestant is drawing from the bag, the camera is now focused towards Door #1 instead of the Turntable. It isn't focused on the dark gap between the door and Turntable, but the door itself.
Week 30 (230): March 21-22, April 18, March 23, March 25
- Originally scheduled for March 21-25.
Week 31 (231): March 28-April 1
Week 32 (232): April 4-8
- There is still no bonus for perfect bids in Contestants' Row at this time.
- At this point, Money Game is still using its original color scheme, and it still has no logo.
Week 33 (233): April 11-15
Week 34 (234): March 24, April 19-20, May 16, April 22
- Originally scheduled for April 18-22.
- Monday show is a half-hour episode.
Week 35 (235): April 25-28, May 12
- Originally scheduled for April 25-29.
Week 36 (236): May 2-6
Week 37 (237): May 9-11, April 29, May 13
- Originally scheduled for May 9-13.
- Monday's show features the debut of Hole in One.
- Hole in One's original "$500" sign is a white oval with a thin, red oval just inside the inner edge; the text on the sign is also red.
- In early playings of Hole in One, a drumroll plays while the contestant putts.
- Also during early playings, not all of the correctly-placed product price flags are removed before the putt is attempted - only the ones at the putting line and near the contestant - and Bob does not attempt an "inspirational putt" from the far end of the strip.
- On Wednesday, Five Price Tags is played for a $10,141 van; this may be the first 5-digit car offered in a game other than Golden Road.
Week 38 (238): April 21, May 17-20
- Originally scheduled for May 16-20.
- Monday show is a half-hour episode.
- On Wednesday, during the third playing of Hole in One, Bob tells the contestant that there is a 10-second time limit for each grocery pick; there is no official record of the game having a timer, so this was likely just Bob trying to move the game along when it started to take longer than the staff thought it would.
- Oddly, Bob tells Wednesday's Hole in One contestant that she is the second person to play the game; she is the third.
- By Wednesday, Double Prices and 1 Right Price have begun using their second/third podiums.
Week 39 (239): May 23-27
- By Monday, a $100 cash bonus has been instituted for making a perfect bid in Contestants' Row.
- By Monday, Any Number is revealing its two prizes separately, with the 3-digit prizes being shown and described first. The two prizes also get separate music cues.
- The old simultaneous reveal of both prizes with the car cue is still used occasionally through the rest of the season, especially when the 3-digit prize is a smaller item.
- On Tuesday, Switcheroo is played for a $7,700 motorhome.
Week 40 (240): May 30-June 3
- On Tuesday, the Turntable walls still have the same appearance as on January 6.
- Tuesday's Cliff Hangers is won with the mountain climber having only moved four total steps.
- On Tuesday, the second showcase for titled "Everything for the Price is Right fan," which includes a copy of the first edition board game by Milton Bradley & a chance to be a Barker's Beauty for a day. The showcase uses the Family Feud theme music instead of The Price is Right theme.
- As it turns out, this Showcase ends up being bid on by a Lebanese man who owns a gas station, and Johnny and the Beauties are uncomfortably amused during the presentation of the Barker's Beauty of the Day portion of the Showcase. The man comes close, but does not win the Showcase.
Week 41 (241): June 6-10
- Thursday show is a half-hour episode.
Week 42 (242): June 13-17
- Monday's show was rerun on Game Show Network during the 1990s despite a fur coat being offered.
- On Monday, Danger Price is played for season tickets to the four LA pro sports teams. This is the first time that all four ticket packages are won.
- Interestingly, neither of the usual Danger Price cues - "Big Banana" or "Star-crossed" - are played during the prize reveal.
- Linda Serine, who previously appeared during tryouts to permanently replace Anitra, fills in for Dian for Wednesday & Thursday.
Week 43 (243): June 20-24
- On Thursday, the opening titles are a greenish-blue.
- By Thursday, the patterns on the spinning Turntable wall panel have been reversed - the red bricks are on the game side, and the solid red-orange is on the front side.
- If Bob is to be believed, Thursday's Hole in One is the first time he misses the inspiration putt.
- By Thursday's playing, the Dice Game has changed over to using its well-known car pricing rules, with no zeros or numbers higher than six in the price of the car.
Week 44 (244): June 27-July 1
- Season finale week.
- Summer reruns begin next Monday.
- On Monday, Bob makes an entrance with the award to show to the audience.
- On Wednesday, the second showcase is dedicated to Famous Marks including "TPiR" co-creator Mark Goodson and the prize offered is $1,000 cash and the show's theme music plays with this piece, marking the first of only two known times in which the main theme is used as a prize cue.
- On Friday, Bob makes a rare reference to Dennis James when a contestant reveals that she goes to school during the day but has learned to play Clock Game by watching the nighttime show; coincidentally, Dennis would no longer be the host of the nighttime show after this episode, as Bob took it over for Seasons 6-8.
- On Friday, in an odd turn of events, 1 Right Price offers the largest prize package of the day, including both of the showcases, thanks to the presence of the world's most expensive Monopoly set.
- On Friday, Lyle Waggoner makes a surprise appearance as Janice's date at the end of a "How to Survive a Blind Date" showcase.