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Season 53 (2024-2025)[]

Pricing game calendar for Season 53, hosted by Scorpz.

Week 1 (2,068 – 070xL): September 23-27 + unknown night

The Price Is Right at Night 46 (#083SP) airs on an unknown night.
Primetime show originally scheduled for this Monday night.

Daytime

Monday's opening ends with, "You are the first four contestants on the amazing Season 53 premiere of The Price Is Right!"
On Monday, the words "53 Years" appear on the center-left and center-right Turntable screens.
On Monday, the graphics on the envelopes and price tags for the Items up for Bids and the Showcase are shuffled around and, in some cases, completely redesigned. These changes are not present on Tuesday through Thursday, some of the earliest tapings of the season, but return permanently on Friday.
On Monday, One Wrøng Price is played for three cars.
- This playing of One Wrøng Price uses the game's classic trip staging, with one car behind each door. Oddly, Drew and the contestant stand on the Turntable.
- In a departure from protocol, each car is revealed and described separately.
- With all three doors in use, George models the third car.
On Monday, the logo remains on the center Turntable screen during the Showcase.
On Tuesday, the pink version of George's calldown window is used.
Beginning on Tuesday, when the logo returns to the center Turntable screen during Drew's sign-off, it forms the same way it does at the end of the opening.
On Wednesday, Flip Flop's price reveal initially refuses to work when the contestant tries to trigger it. Drew eventually manages to pound the button hard enough to activate it.
On Wednesday, some aspect of the lighting appears to have malfunctioned during Most Expen$ive; the second backdrop is inexplicably tinted pink from the second price reveal onward.
On Friday, Side by Side is shown in front of the Turntable before the prize reveal.
On Friday, the Turntable walls turn blue and light blue during Race Game.

Week 2 (2,069 – 071xL): September 30-October 4 + Monday night

The Price Is Right at Night 47: Money Madness (#084SP) airs on Monday night.

Daytime

On Thursday, Bonus Game's lights return to full brightness permanently.
On Thursday, contestant Monick accumulates $5, the highest possible total, in Pocket ¢hange, picking both the $2.00 and the 75¢ as well as two of the 50¢ cards.
On Friday, Card Game is moved directly in front of Contestants' Row, and its car is moved from Door #3 to Door #1, from which it drives out to the game's previous position in front of the Turntable. With this restaging, Drew and the contestant go back to standing in front of the Turntable after the Item up for Bids.

Primetime

All six pricing games on this episode are played for cash, with those that normally offer it being played for a larger prize than usual, for a total of nearly $1,000,000. The games' prizes are as follows:
- Plinko is played for $500,000 (announced by George as "half a million dollars"), with the center slot worth $100,000 and the lower values increased to $500, $1,000, and $2,500.
- Pick-a-Pair is played for $20,000.
- Master Key is played for $10,000, $20,000, and $70,000, with $70,000 functioning as the "car."
- 1/2 Off is played for $50,000.
- Safe Crackers is played for $25,000. Obviously, the total value of the prize package is not announced for this playing.
- To the Penny is played for $250,000, with the lower prizes increased to $10,000, $25,000, $50,000, and $100,000.
By this episode, the opening animation has begun using the gold Barker logo in primetime.
By this episode, the colors of the primetime light border have changed; its front is gold, and its light strip is blue.
By this episode, the G-T asterisks in the animation at the end of the opening have become gold in primetime.
The G-T asterisk between Door #1 and Door #2 briefly turns gold during Drew's entrance.
Plinko's "$500,000" graphic is in a different font than usual.
Pick-a-Pair's prize is introduced with the full version of Fortune Hunter's intro cue.
The logo that appears during commercial outros now includes the "At Night" text.
Master Key's total prize package is displayed with Pay the Rent's "$100,000" sign.
By the time this episode was taped, the G-T asterisks on the Turntable wall have returned to their original shade of blue. This change carries over to the daytime show once the tapedates catch up.
For this episode, the dots around To the Penny's cash values are replaced with stars.
Three small prize games and two grocery item games are played.
When the logo returns to the center Turntable screen during Drew's sign-off, it shifts upward slightly to accommodate the "at Night" portion.

Week 3 (2,070 – 072xL): October 7-11 + Monday night

The Price Is Right at Night 48: Cars Cars Cars (#085SP) airs on Monday night.

Daytime

On Tuesday, Hot Seat is not shown on-camera until after Drew announces that they're playing it.
On Tuesday, Stack the Deck's grocery display is restaged to be slightly behind the end of the game board.
On Thursday, thanks to a bad edit, Drew is briefly seen pulling out the envelope for the fourth Item up for Bids during the third Item up for Bids.
On Thursday, Drew does both a CBS.com streaming plug and a ticket plug after the first Showcase Showdown.
On Friday, while attempting to lower the overhead display to show a trip for Coming or Going, the crew accidentally lowers the "To the Penny" sign instead. This ended up being edited out of the show.

Primetime

All six pricing games on this episode, including Vend-O-Price, are played for cars, including three dream cars.
The Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour theme is used for Spelling Bee's car.
Spelling Bee is played not only for a Porsche, but also for a tour of the Porsche factory (made feasible by the Item up for Bids, a trip to Germany), at the end of which the contestant will receive the car for a self-guided road trip; after the vacation, the car will be shipped directly to the contestant's home.
For this episode, the value of Spelling Bee's cards is raised to $3,000.

Week 4 (2,071 – 073xL): October 14-18

On Monday, Squeeze Play is played for a car.
On Friday, Drew briefly forgets to do Hole in One's price reveals, only remembering halfway through explaining how the lines on the putters work.

Week 5 (2,072 – 074xL): October 21-24, Unknown

Originally scheduled for October 21-25.
On Monday, for no apparent reason, the Turntable walls briefly turn red and orange at the end of Drew's opening monologue.
On Tuesday, Grocery Game is played for a car.
On Tuesday, Grocery Game's items all have references to pricing games in their names.
On Wednesday, for the first time in several seasons, Bonus Game's prize package is actually announced as "a bonus" rather than "a prize package."
On Wednesday, Safe Crackers is played for a trip to Orlando, which had been hit by two strong hurricanes in the preceding month. The episode's credits include a disclaimer saying that the show had been taped before the hurricanes struck; stating, "Our thoughts are with all those affected;" and directing anyone who wishes to help the storm victims to RedCross.org/CBS.
On Thursday, the staging for Rat Race's first two prizes outside the Big Doors is altered; the first prize is moved to the left, sitting at the edge of the Race Game Curtain.

Week 6 (2,073 – 075xL): October 28-November 1

On Monday, thanks to a production oversight, the outcome of Switch? is given away to the TV audience during the prize descriptions; the presentation of the first prize was reshot after the game without anyone remembering to unswitch the prices and undo the price reveals.
On Tuesday, the crew forgets to direct any lights at Drew's entrance, causing the Barker Wall to look much darker than usual.
On Tuesday, the Giant Price Tag is lowered only to its Grand Game height for Check-Out.
On Wednesday, the first showcase includes a trip to Orlando, which had been hit by two strong hurricanes in the preceding month. The episode's credits include a disclaimer saying that the show had been taped before the hurricanes struck; stating, "Our thoughts are with all those affected;" and directing anyone who wishes to help the storm victims to RedCross.org/CBS.
Thursday's show is a Halloween episode dubbed "The Price Is Fright!" that is themed as a haunted house. Drew is dressed as the elderly, cobweb-draped master of an old mansion; Alexis appears as his "spiritual advisor," a fortune teller who uses her crystal ball to channel the soul of crazy-haired announcer/mad scientist "George Grayveyard;" James appears as butler "James O'Ghoulloran," who models prizes with one hand while holding his own head on a platter with the other; and Rachel is dressed as "Dolly Reynolds," a macabre, emotionless wind-up doll who carries a doll of her own. Additionally, the following aspects of this episode are different than usual:
- The Barker logo that flies off the screen at the top of the show is accompanied by a swarm of bats.
- Most of the lights on the set are shades of green and purple; in an unusual move, this includes the lighted squares on the Big Doors, which are turned purple for this episode.
- The set, especially the Turntable, is decorated as a haunted house, with the Turntable screens displaying a panorama of the mansion's library. The spinning panel of the turntable functions as a creaky secret passage triggered by tilting one of the books on the library's shelves. A fog machine is also run at the back of the audience at various points during the show.
- Door #4 shows the moonlit exterior of the spooky mansion.
- The logo on Door #4 has a light blue left-hand background and a purple right-hand background, and its "Right" is replaced by "Fright!" going diagonally in a creepy, purple font. This logo is also used on the center Turntable screen and in the animation at the end of the opening; during the animation, "Fright!" appears out of a cloud of green mist, after which the entire logo is electrified in green. Additionally, it appears during every commercial outro in addition to the usual spots.
- George announces the show in a deeper voice than usual, in keeping with his persona.
- George's opening spiel is, "Here it comes! From Hollywood, it's television's spookiest hour! It's The Price Is Fright!!"
- The light border is replaced with a ring of green-tinged spiderwebs that are occasionally lit up by purple pulses.
- The opening ends with, "You are the first four guests to enter our haunted house today on The Price Is Fright!!" Contestants called during the body of the show are told, "You're the next guest to enter our haunted house!"
- The Contestants' Row wall shows the mansion's graveyard, and its borders are purple with cascading green highlights.
- The Contestants' Row displays are purple with green borders. When the contestants bid, the numbers appear in a ghostly font.
- All of the G-T asterisks in the animation at the end of the opening are green and purple.
- The logo animation at the end of the opening is accompanied by a swarm of bats flying out from behind the Big Wheel.
- George introduces Drew with, "And now, back from the dead, it's your master of ceremonies. The keeper of the house: Drew Carey!"
- Drew enters via the secret passage on the Turntable, which activates when its book trigger hums with green electricity and tilts of its own accord.
- A spooky rendition of the theme plays at the end of the opening. This version of the song does not supplant the regular theme during the body of the show, although it does take over from that version during the credits after Drew's sign-off, and a portion of it is used while coming back from commercial during the Showcase.
- The Turntable stairs and the dollar sign statue between the Turntable and Door #1 are covered in spiders.
- George's podium is completely replaced by a table with a Alexis's crystal ball on it, backed by a red curtain and a candelabra. Alexis stands here whenever she needs to "summon" George.
- Spooky lighting, scary music (in place of most regular prize cues), and claps of thunder are employed throughout the show.
- All of the items in Grand Game have some kind of reference to Halloween or monsters in their names.
- The Big Wheel is covered in cobwebs and spiders.
- A special pair of bookcase-like Showcase podiums is used. They display their text in a gothic font and use the "The Price Is Fright!" logo, and their displays' backgrounds are a mass of spiderwebs.
- Danielle Pinnock and Devan Chandler Long, the portrayers of Alberta and Thor on Ghosts, appear to help present the second showcase, which is loosely themed around their show.
- George signs off on-camera with, "This is George Grayveyard speaking for The Price Is Fright!, a Fremantle production!"
As noted above, on Thursday, three Barker's Beauties are present.
At the beginning of Friday's show, the lights in the audience are accidentally left on an alternate color scheme for November 27's Thanksgiving special, which was taped the same day; the light columns fluctuate between red and orange, and the G-T asterisks are all red, orange, yellow, and green. They switch to the normal color scheme at about the same time as George calls down the third contestant.

Week 7 (2,074 – 076xL): November 4-8

This week is a "third show" week; its episodes were taped alongside Weeks 1 and 2. Oddly, none of the games from Week 2's Monday show are used this week.
On Monday and Tuesday, which were some of the first shows taped for the season, the old cards and envelopes last seen in Week 1 are used for the IUFBs and the Showcase.
On Tuesday, Drew accidentally breaks the illusion that the first Showcase Showdown is still taped between Acts 3 and 4 when he makes a reference to the outcome of the sixth game.
As this week's shows were taped out of order, Tuesday's Rat Race does not use the new prize staging seen in Week 5.
On Wednesday, Manu Bennett, the host of The Summit, appears to model the prize for Cliff Hangers; he also helps to present the second showcase, which is loosely themed around his show.
On Wednesday, Most Expen$ive is played for three trips.
On Wednesday, Door #3 never closes during It's in the Bag.

Week 8 (2,075 – 077xL): November 11-13, Unknown, November 15

Originally scheduled for November 11-15.

Week 9 (2,076 – 078xL): November 18-22

Week 10 (2,077 – 079xL): November 25-27

Thanksgiving week; only three shows.

Week 11 (2,078 – 080xL): December 9-13

Week 12 (2,079 – 081xL): December 16-20

Week 13 (2,080 – 082xL): December 23-24, 26-27

Only four shows; no Wednesday episode.

Week 14 (2,081 – 083xL): December 30-31 (at least)

This week is currently only listed with two shows, on Monday and Tuesday; as it extends into January, it is likely that the remaining two or three episodes have simply not been formally scheduled yet.

Week ??: Night of Monday, September 23

The Price Is Right at Night 49: Global Getaways (#086SP) airs on the night of Monday, September 23; originally scheduled for an unknown night.
This special is focused on trips, offering vacations to all seven continents. The following aspects of this episode are different than usual:

Trips are offered in all six games; notably, Pass the Buck is played for vacations to Australia and New Zealand, with the pair of trips functioning as the car.
- The trips are represented behind the numbers by an image of the two countries and on the frequency chart by the word "Trip."
While two car games are played, only one game, Rat Race, is played for a car.
In an odd juxtaposition for an episode focused on world travel, no trips are offered in the Showcase.

The G-T asterisk between Door #1 and Door #2 briefly turns gold during Drew's entrance.
While the prices of Rat Race's prizes are, as per usual, not announced, Drew does note during the game that the total package is worth over $43,000.
Two grocery item games and a small prize game are played.
On this episode, the price of Clock Game's bonus prize is announced.
In Clock Game, the prices fly onto the screen before the contestant starts bidding.