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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 + night of Monday, September 30

The Price Is Right at Night 46: Money Madness (#084SP) airs on the night of Monday, September 30; originally scheduled for this Monday night.
- As noted at the end of Season 51, circumstantial evidence suggests that episode #083SP, theorized to have been intended as a celebration of Bob's 100th birthday, was scrapped in the wake of his passing and replaced with episode #83DT, A Tribute to Bob Barker.

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.
Beginning with this episode, when One Wrøng Price or Most Expen$ive is played for three cars, their classic trip staging is used, with one car behind each door; Drew and the contestant stand on the Turntable for these playings rather than in front of it. Additionally, the cars are now revealed and described one at a time instead of all at once.
- Since this staging uses all three doors, George models the third car when it is used.
On Monday, the logo remains on the center Turntable screen during the Showcase.
On Tuesday, the pink version of George's calldown window is used.
Tuesday's show is the first daytime episode on which the logo forms the same way it does at the end of the opening when it returns to the center Turntable screen during Drew's sign-off. This animation's overall debut came on this week's primetime show, which was aired out of order next Monday.
On Wednesday, Flip Flop's price reveal initially refuses to work when the contestant tries to trigger it. Drew eventually manages to pound the button hard enough to activate it.
On Wednesday, some aspect of the lighting appears to have malfunctioned during Most Expen$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.

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.
As of this episode, the opening animation uses the gold Barker logo in primetime.
Beginning with this episode, the colors of the primetime light border change; its front is gold, and its "light strip" is blue.
On this episode, the G-T asterisks in the animation at the end of the opening 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.
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.
As noted above, beginning with this show, 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. This change immediately carries over to the daytime show.
- When this occurs on primetime episodes, the logo shifts upward slightly to accommodate the "at Night" portion.

Week 2 (2,069 – 071xL): September 30-October 4 + night of Monday, October 7

The Price Is Right at Night 47: Cars Cars Cars (#085SP) airs on the night of Monday, October 7; originally scheduled for this Monday night.

Daytime

On Thursday, Bonus Game's lights return to full brightness permanently.
On Thursday, contestant Monick accumulates $4, 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, 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 3 (2,070 – 072xL): October 7-11 + night of Monday, September 23

The Price Is Right at Night 48: Global Getaways (#086SP) airs on the night of Monday, September 23; originally scheduled for this 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

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.

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, July 2

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, Bonus Game's bonus prize goes back to being 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.
For a brief period beginning 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.
Beginning 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 light columns and G-T asterisks in the audience are accidentally left on the alternate, autumnal color scheme used for November 27's Thanksgiving special, which was taped the same day (although oddly, the asterisks seem to be on a different version of it than the one actually used for that episode). 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.
- By this point, the staff appears to have become comfortable enough with the storage situation at Haven to use games from surrounding tapedates on "third shows;" while this had already been occurring in the later months of Season 52, some "first" and "second" shows are now used as sources for multiple "third shows," with other "first" and "second" shows not being drawn from at all.
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, August 7, November 15

Originally scheduled for November 11-15.
This week is a "third show" week; its episodes were taped alongside Weeks 3 and 4.
Monday's show is themed around Veterans Day; everyone in the audience is a veteran. Additionally, the following aspects of this episode are different than usual:
- Most of the lights on the set are or fluctuate between various shades of red, white, and blue.
- Door #4 shows the logo, with the word "Veterans" at its base, against a field of blue with cascading red and white stars; additionally, diagonal stripes with a red tint move rightward across the screen. The background also appears on the Turntable screens, the Contestants' Row wall, and George's display, and the "Veterans" text also appears on the center-left and center-right Turntable screens and George's display.
- The light border's interior "light strip" cascades red, white, and blue, and its front "light strip" is red.
- The borders of the Contestants' Row displays are white.
- All four Contestants' Row displays are red.
- The opening ends with, "You are the first four contestants as we salute veterans on The Price Is Right!" The contestants called during the body of the show are told, "You're the next veteran on The Price Is Right!"
- The G-T asterisks in the logo animation at the end of the opening are all red, white, and blue.
- The Barker Wall is blue with glittery stars, and its dollar sign is covered in red glitter.
- The set is decorated for the holiday.
- The "wrong price" in Cover Up is simply five identical shots of the day's logo on Door #4.
- Contestants' Row does not turn solid blue during the Showcase.
On Monday, the first time the buzzer sounds during Cover Up, the bell is mistakenly also rung once.
On Monday, thanks to a bad edit, Drew is briefly seen holding the envelope for the fifth Item up for Bids during the fourth Item up for Bids.
On Monday, Balance Game is played for a car.
On Tuesday, the Gas Money sign is burned out.
In Wednesday's Clock Game, contestant Wilhelmina starts her final, correct bid on the second prize a split second before time runs out; unfortunately, no one in the studio realizes this, and she is only awarded the first prize.

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

On Monday, Check-Out is played for a car.
On Thursday, thanks to a bad edit, Drew is briefly seen holding the envelope for the first Item up for Bids during the second Item up for Bids; oddly, this video is not seen during the first Item up for Bids, although the accompanying audio is identical.
On Thursday, a new Most Expen$ive carpet is introduced; it expands the blue coloring around the text and surrounds that with borders in white, then orange, and then yellow.
- Despite the carpet now having a significantly different shape than the original one, the price tags continue to use the "Family Feud" lookalike logo.
On Friday, the Giant Price Tag is lowered only to its Grand Game height for It's in the Bag.

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

Thanksgiving week; only three shows.
This is mostly a "third show" week; Monday and Tuesday's shows were taped alongside Weeks 4 and 5, respectively.
On Tuesday, the Take Two board is brought onstage during the prize descriptions.
Wednesday's show is themed around Thanksgiving. The following aspects of this episode are different than usual:
- Most of the lights on the set are shades of red, orange, and yellow (although a few G-T asterisks are green and light blue). This also applies to the light border and the G-T asterisks in the animation at the end of the opening.
- The red and orange backgrounds of the graphical logos are noticeably darker than usual (except on the Showcase podiums and at the end of the credits).
- Door #4's background is a scene of a dining room with the table set for Thanksgiving dinner and an autumnal forest with falling leaves outside the windows. This graphic also appears on the center row of Turntable screens (with the text "Happy Thanksgiving" replacing the logo on the left- and right-hand screens), while the remaining screens show the forest seen through the windows. The forest is also shown on the Contestants' Row wall and George's display, with the latter also showing the logo.
- The opening ends with, "You are the first four contestants as we celebrate Thanksgiving on The Price Is Right!"
- The Contestants' Row displays are all orange, and their borders and the wall's borders are yellow.
- In Cliff Hangers, the mountain climber and his corresponding graphics are holding a cooked turkey instead of his pickaxe.
- The G-T asterisks on the Showcase podiums are orange.
On Wednesday, the lights on Balance Game's upper diamond are turned off.
On Wednesday, the crew accidentally lowers the To the Penny sign right into the game board. This ended up being edited out of the show, although the sign can still be seen wobbling from the collision.
On Wednesday, Push Over is played for a car.

Week 10.5: Nights of January 8, January 15, May 19

The Price Is Right at Night 49-51: Jackpot January (#087SP-#089SP) air on the above-listed nights.
Logically scheduled for the nights of January 8, 15, and 22.
Originally scheduled for the nights of January 8, January 15, and February 5.
At this point, the schedule takes a detour into primetime (and 2025) for a series of Jackpot January episodes. While they are not the only Jackpot shows of the winter, they are the only ones whose production codes precede the upcoming Christmas special, as well as the only ones taped before the summer break; as such, I have chosen to place them in the rerun week that comes after Thanksgiving.
- At this point, the "Jackpot January" billing permanently changes to "Jackpot Special;" however, I have chosen to continue using their original titles for the sake of consistency (and because, frankly, it sounds better).
Each Jackpot January episode now has its own subtitle, as follows:
- #087SP is called "The Cash Is in the Bag."
- #088SP is called "Go for the Hundred Grand."
- #089SP is called "Two Cars, One Putt."
The dream cars offered on these shows are as follows:
- On #087SP, Pocket ¢hange is played for a Lexus.
- On #088SP, Pathfinder is played for a BMW.
- On #089SP, That's Too Much! is played for a Range Rover; additionally, a Lincoln is offered in the Showcase.
The big money games are as follows:
- On #087SP, It's in the Bag is played for $160,000, with all of the prizes multiplied by 10.
- On #088SP, Grand Game is played for $100,000, with the lower prize values adjusted accordingly.
- On #089SP, Hot Seat is played for $200,000, with the lower prizes values increased to $10,000, $20,000, $50,000, and $100,000.
The games modified to offer a bonus are as follows:
- On #087SP, Cliff Hangers offers cash bonuses for ending the game with the mountain climber at various heights -- $10,000 for finishing on 15-19, $25,000 for finishing on 20-24, and $100,000 for finishing on 25. The track on the mountain is recolored to reflect these ranges, with 0-14 being surrounded by white, 15-19 by green, 20-24 by gold, and 25 by red; the cash awards are also displayed on the game, with similar coloring.
- On #088SP, if One Away is won on the first turn, the contestant wins a bonus of the cash equivalent of the price; Drew describes this as "a trunkful of cash," and the car's trunk is, in fact, later shown to be filled with dollar bills.
- On #089SP, Hole in One uses its windmill; if the contestant wins the game with it in place, he wins two of the car being offered. The contestant also has the option of removing the windmill and playing the game normally.
The following notes also apply to specific episodes:

#087SP

The G-T asterisk between Door #1 and Door #2 briefly turns gold during Drew's entrance.
In Cliff Hangers, "On the Franches Mountains" restarts from the beginning the second time the mountain climber moves.
One Wrøng Price is more or less played for three rooms -- a home gym, a game room, and home spa. The game uses its classic trip staging for these large prizes, with George modeling the third prize.
- For this playing, Drew and the contestant stand on the Turntable.

#088SP

The G-T asterisk between Door #1 and Door #2 briefly turns gold during Drew's entrance.
Beginning on this episode, the lights in Grand Game do not shut off when the game's graphics turn red. This change immediately carries over to the daytime show.

#089SP

Hole in One's "$500" flag is not present.
Hole in One's second car is revealed behind Door #2 after Drew's inspiration putt. Since it requires no prize copy, it is accompanied by the fanfare for Triple Play's third car.

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

This is mostly a "third show" week; its Tuesday-Friday shows were taped alongside Weeks 5 and 6, as well as Wednesday of Week 10.
Monday's show celebrates the 10th anniversary of James's first appearance on the show, which occurred over the weekend on Sunday. James helps to present the second showcase, which is themed around him.
As this week's shows were taped out of order, Most Expen$ive's two-piece carpet makes one final appearance on Monday.
On Wednesday, second-time contestant Brian is the same Brian who Bob allowed to do the ticket plug on March 13, 1992.
On Friday, Eazy az 1 2 3 is played for three trips.

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

On Monday, after winning the Showcase, contestant Yvette trips and falls while running down the stairs from the Turntable, leading to a 10-minute stopdown while the staff assesses her injuries; she ends up in a wheelchair with an ambulance waiting outside the studio but otherwise remains in good spirits. The last 80 seconds of the show are taped after the stopdown, picking up at the exact moment Drew announces Yvette's total winnings; Yvette is unusually stationary during the credits, with her wheelchair carefully positioned behind her car so as to avoid making her injury obvious.
On Thursday, Coming or Going's price reveal uses two cards despite the prize being behind Door #2.
On Thursday, Shell Game does not begin with a close-up of the game's logo.
On Friday, the envelope with the price of the first Item up for Bids gets stuck in Drew's pocket, and he ends up pulling out the price tag without the envelope.
On Friday, in honor of National Crossword Puzzle Day on Saturday, the second showcase, despite using graphics instead of a physical prop and not being announced as such, is effectively The Price Is Right Giant Crossword Puzzle.

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

Only four shows; no Wednesday episode.
The Price Is Right at Night 52: Holiday Heroes (#090SP) airs on Tuesday night.
For several weeks beginning this Monday, in addition to the new episodes aired at the regular time, CBS broadcasts reruns from Season 52 at 2 P.M. Eastern, the timeslot occupied until last Friday by the now-cancelled The Talk.

Daytime

This week is partly a "third show" week; its Thursday and Friday shows were taped alongside Week 9.
Monday and Tuesday's shows are Christmas episodes. The following aspects of these shows are different than usual:
- The set is decorated for Christmas.
- Door #4 shows the logo surrounded by ball ornaments and pine needles, all against a green background. The backing of the left side of the logo is also striped like a candy cane, while the right side is semi-transparent; this version of the logo also appears at the end of the opening, on the center Turntable screen, on George's display, during every commercial outro (except, oddly, Act 3 on Tuesday), and on the Showcase podiums.
- Most of the lights on the set are shades of red or green, while the G-T asterisks in the audience cycle through red, green, yellow, and orange.
- Oddly, none of the six Contestants' Row seat covers have red dollar signs; the two on the left are green, the two in the center are blue, and the two on the left are yellow.
- The light border is red.
- Both shows are team episodes, with couples playing on Monday and groups of adult relatives playing on Tuesday.
  - On Tuesday, contestants are called down in groups as "The [last name] family."
- The G-T asterisks in the animation at the end of the opening are all red, yellow, and green.
- The end of the opening varies, as follows:
  - Monday's opening ends with, "You are the first four couples as we celebrate the holidays on The Price Is Right!"
  - Tuesday's opening ends with, "You are the first four families as we celebrate the holidays on The Price Is Right!"
- On Monday, calldowns during the body of the show end with, "You're the next couple on The Price Is Right!"
- The borders of the Contestants' Row walls cascade red, orange, and yellow.
- The Contestants' Row wall shows a variant of the Door #4 graphics, with snowflakes and ornaments raining down in front of the green background; these graphics also appear on the Turntable screens and George's display.
- All four Contestants' Row displays are dark green, and their borders are yellow.
- The Barker Wall is a mottled green with ornaments and pine needles across the top and bottom, and its dollar sign is covered in red glitter.
- The front side of the Turntable's spinning panel is decorated as a cozy fireplace with Christmas decorations.
- The lights between the Turntable screens are yellow, as is the border on the game side of the spinning panel.
- Gift boxes and ribbons are strewn about the sets of several pricing games and the Big Wheel.
- On Monday, the "elf" running Squeeze Play has a ribbon around his hand.
- On Monday, Plinko's "$50,000" graphic uses a different font with a green front and candy cane-striped sides. The game's "$10,000" graphic is also green instead of pink.
- The G-T asterisks on the Showcase podiums are covered in orange glitter.
- The background on the Showcase podium displays is falling snow against a field of blue.
- On Tuesday, each of 1/2 Off's boxes has a ribbon on it.
- On Tuesday, the bags in Balance Game are red with white trim.
On Monday, when Drew reveals the first price in That's Too Much!, the second price reveals itself, as well. After laughing at the error, Drew immediately asks the contestants whether they want to stop at the second price, tacitly acknowledging that the first price is never the right answer.
On Tuesday, to accommodate for having so many contestants, the show's prize structure is slightly altered; one cash game is played in each half, while only one car game is played.
On Tuesday, 1/2 Off is played for $30,000.
On Tuesday, the pink version of George's calldown window is used during Act 3.
On Tuesday, Most Expen$ive is played for three cars.
- This episode is the first appearance of the new three-car staging for Most Expen$ive that was previously introduced on the season premiere in One Wrøng Price. Unlike that game, Most Expen$ive actually receives a completely alternate set for these playings; the two-tiered monitor prize backdrops are placed behind the cars, two of them in Door #2 and one in each of the other doors, with the prize numbers on their top screens and the "Most Expen$ive" logo on their bottom screens.
- On this episode, the snowfall graphics from the Turntable screens are also used on Most Expen$ive's screens. This will presumably not be standard practice on other episodes.
On Tuesday, Grand Game is played for $20,000, with the lower prize values increased accordingly.
On Tuesday, no real car games are played.

Primetime

This show, like Monday and Tuesday's daytime shows, is a Christmas episode; it also has an audience full of first responders, members of the military, and other workers who keep society functioning on days most people have off. The following aspects of this show are different than usual:
- The set is decorated for Christmas, albeit much more elegantly than on the daytime show.
- The lights on the set use a slightly different color scheme than usual, with more of a focus on white-golds. The light columns in the audience are also gold instead of blue, while the lights between the Turntable screens are blue instead of gold.
- Door #4 shows a nighttime scene of snow falling in a village decorated for Christmas. These graphics also appear on the center row of Turntable screens and George's display.
- The background of Door #4's logos, which are red-violet on the left and blue-green on the right, are transparent; this version of the logo also appears at the end of the opening, the center-left and center-right Turntable screens, on George's display, during every commercial outro, and on the Showcase podiums.
- The opening ends with, "You are the first four heroes as we celebrate the holidays on The Price Is Right at Night!"
- The Contestants' Row wall shows snow-covered rolling hills, seemingly in an extension of the graphics on Door #4; fittingly, they also appear on the bottom row of Turntable screens.
- The Barker Wall is bright gold with snowflakes on it, and its dollar sign is covered in silver glitter.
- The dollar sign on the Turntable wall is covered in gold glitter.
- The top row of Turntable screens shows snow falling on a night sky, serving as the top of the image shown on the other two rows.
- The logo does not appear on the center Turntable screen, likely because the decorations block the view of it for most of the episode.
- Several music cues have sleigh bells added to them.
- The game side of the Turntable wall is covered with a silver border and a cream interior full of G-T asterisks that are covered in silver glitter; the border and the interior are separated by a slightly darker cream strip. The overall pattern mimics but does not duplicate that of the normal wall.
- As on Monday and Tuesday's daytime shows, gift boxes are strewn about the sets of several pricing games (but not the Big Wheel).
- Any Number, Check-Out, the Punchboard, and Card Game are decorated with garland.
- Do the Math's school supplies are replaced by Christmas decorations.
- The Showcase Showdown's "$10,000" graphic is silver, as are the graphics for Punch a Bunch.
- Punch a Bunch's giant bill has a different picture of Drew wearing a red suit and a Santa hat.
- The backgrounds of the displays on the Showcase podiums are roughly the same as the graphics on the top row of Turntable screens.
- The G-T asterisks on the Showcase podiums are covered in gold glitter.
While not billed as such, this special also has all the hallmarks of a Jackpot January episode, as follows:
- The dream car game, Any Number, is played for a BMW.
- The big money game, Punch a Bunch is played for $250,000; each of the regular prizes is moved down two spots on the frequency chart, with $250,000 and $50,000 being added at the top and $100 and $250 falling off entirely.
- For the jackpot modification, every perfect bid made in Check-Out wins the contestant a bonus of $20,000, for a potential total of $100,000.

Week 14 (2,081 – 083xL): December 30-31, January 2-3

Only four shows; no Wednesday episode.
On Monday, Drew operates Pick-a-Number by himself.
On Tuesday, the trip graphics malfunction during Vend-O-Price, switching between images with cuts instead of the usual wipe transitions.
On Tuesday, Vend-O-Price's last price reveal appears to have been edited in; between shots, the quantity of the item suddenly switches back to the graphic it replaces, which does not interact with the subsequent animations.
On Thursday, the back side of the flap covering the price in Push Over is white instead of black.
On Thursday, Temptation does not begin with a close-up of the game board.
On Thursday, Back to '74 receives its annual name change, becoming Back to '75.
- In addition to the name change, Back to '75 also receives a new color scheme, going from browns to bright colors as the show itself did on August 19, 1975; the "Turntable" wall switches to the Barker era's more familiar colors, and the shag carpeting becomes green.
On Thursday, Back to '75 is played for $25,000.

Week 15 (2,082 – 084xL): January 6-10

This week's Friday show is a "third show;" it was taped alongside Thursday and Friday of Week 20.
PriceIsRight.com's schedule initially had Wednesday's broadcast listed as "To Be Determined;" it is unclear what caused this, as #0843L ultimately aired in order.
On Wednesday, Hot Seat's "think" music does not shut off properly when the contestant makes his final selection, instead running almost to the end alongside the "finished" sound effect.
On Thursday, Most Expen$ive is played for three trips.
On Friday, all four Contestants' Row seat covers have silver dollar signs; this is presumably a byproduct of the color scheme for the "Galentine's Day" show, which was taped the same day.
On Friday, thanks to a bad edit, Drew is briefly seen holding the envelope for the fourth Item up for Bids during the sixth Item up for Bids; oddly, this video is not seen during the fourth Item up for Bids, although the accompanying audio is identical.

Week 16 (2,083 – 085xL): January 13-17

On Tuesday, Rat Race's first prize is moved back to the right of Door #3.
On Tuesday, the G-T asterisks on the Showcase podiums are not lit up.
On Wednesday and Thursday, the G-T asterisk between Door #1 and Door #2 is red instead of yellow.
On Thursday, the Turntable walls do not change colors during Vend-O-Price.

Week 17 (2,084 – 086xL): January 22, 21, August 28, January 23-24

Originally scheduled for January 20-24.
Monday's show is a "$1 Redemption" special; all nine contestants had been called down previously and were kept from getting out of Contestants' Row by someone else bidding $1 more than they did. The usual 10-year waiting period between appearances is waived for this episode. Additionally, the following aspects of this episode are different than usual:
- The G-T asterisks in the animation at the end of the opening are accompanied by "$1" graphics.
- The opening ends with, "You are the first four contestants seeking redemption on The Price Is Right!"
- When the logo moves into place at the end of the opening, the screen briefly flashes red; the red light than coalesces into an ink stamp reading "REDEMPTION" at the bottom of the logo.
- When Drew says, "Redemption!" at the end of his explanation of the contestant pool, a weathered, "metallic," blue panel with the TPIR logo on it slams down over Door #4's usual graphics, complete with the slamming sound effect from Safe Crackers, followed by the "REMDEMPTION" graphic stamping itself onto the panel; this is accompanied by the audience light rings briefly becoming red and the light columns briefly adding red to their cascade pattern.
On Monday, While Drew explains the episode's theme, Door #4's normal graphics freeze for several seconds; they eventually restart off-camera.
On Monday, Most Expen$ive is played for three trips.
On Thursday, when the To the Penny contestant uses a penny with only two answers left, the sound effect plays a single time with no lights flashing.

Week 17.5: Nights of January 22, May 12, February 19, February 12, January 29

The Price Is Right at Night 53-57: Jackpot January (#091SP-#095SP) air on the above-listed nights.
Logically scheduled for the nights of January 29, February 5, February 12, February 19, and May 12.
At this point, the schedule again detours into primetime for another set of Jackpot January episodes, this time all taped alongside the Holiday Heroes episode from Week 13. I have again placed them separately from any daytime shows, this time right before the week of the first one's logically-scheduled airdate, both for consistency and because their airdates are wildly out of order.
This group's Jackpot January subtitles are as follows:
- #091SP is called "Little Red Corvette."
- #092SP is called "Shell Shocked."
- #093SP is called "Supercharged Jackpot!"
- #094SP is called "100K Payday."
- #095SP is called "The Golden Plinko Chip."
The dream cars offered on these shows are as follows:
- On #091SP, Bonus Game is played for a $133,000 Corvette.
- On #092SP, Stack the Deck is played for an Audi, and Gridlock! is played for a Porsche; additionally, a Cadillac is offered in the Showcase.
- On #093SP, Lucky $even is played for a $53,000 Jeep Wrangler Willy's 4x4, and 6-digit 3 Strikes is played for a Tesla Cybertruck.
- On #094SP, Switcheroo is played for another Porsche, and Dice Game is played for a $45,000 Volvo; additionally, both a BMW and a Lexus are offered in the Showcase.
- On #095SP, More or Less is played for a $62,000 Infiniti QX60 Luxe.
The big money games are as follows:
- On #091SP, Time I$ Møney is played for $200,000, with the money ticking down 10 times as fast as usual.
- On #092SP, Shell Game is played for $75,000.
- On #093SP, Let 'em Roll is played for $150,000, represented on the cubes by Pricedown dollar signs; the regular cash values are also increased to $2,500, $5,000, and $10,000.
- On #094SP, 1/2 Off is played for $100,000.
- On #095SP, Bullseye is played for $50,000, and Plinko is played for $100,000, with the the center slot worth $20,000 and the lower prize values increased to $1,000, $2,000, and $5,000.
The games modified to offer a bonus are as follows:
- On #091SP, rather than using a traditional bonus, Check Game is played for a car, with the target range raised to $45,000-$50,000.
- On #092SP, if 2 for the Price of 1 is won without taking the free number, the contestant wins a $20,000 bonus; the contestant also has the option to forgo the bonus and play the game normally.
- On #093SP, if Race Game is won on the first try, the contestant wins a Ford Mustang as a bonus.
- On #094SP, if Grocery Game is one with a single purchase, the contestant wins a $25,000 bonus; while not explicitly stated on the air, all five items on this playing do have prices that make this possible.
- On #095SP, the Plinko chip with one of the small prizes is golden; if the contestant wins this chip, whatever it lands in is multiplied by 10, for a potential total of $280,000. Notably, this also allows Plinko's "win" condition to be met without putting all five chips in the center slot or even winning all five chips.
The following notes also apply to specific episodes:

#091SP

Check Game's special ranges are on wooden placards affixed to the board over top of the usual ranges.
Check Game's checks have the primetime logo on them in place of the daytime logo.
Side by Side's prize reveal uses a wide shot of Door #2 that also reveals the game.
Beginning with this episode, the G-T asterisks on the Showcase podiums are gold at night.
In the "Around the World" showcase's graphics, the clouds and sky that normally surround the planet are replaced with the starfield from the Turntable screens.

#092SP

Shell Game's prize is introduced with the full version of Fortune Hunter's intro cue.
Shell Game's win is accompanied by part of Pay the Rent's win fanfare.
When Drew explains Shell Game's cash bonus, the "$75,000" on the trip screen is replaced with "$150,000".

#093SP

The G-T asterisk between Door #1 and Door #2 briefly turns gold during Drew's entrance.
Race Game's car is staged behind Door #2.
Oddly, Race Game's car has no prize copy beyond its make and model, and its price is not announced.
On Let 'em Roll's cubes, the middle cash value is blue, and the highest cash value is green; this is normally the other way around. This does not affect gameplay, as the values themselves remain in their usual positions.
For this episode only, 3 Strikes is completely restaged, seemingly because the Cybertruck being offered is too large to fit behind Door #3; the truck is instead placed in Door #2, while the 3 Strikes board itself is set in front of the Turntable and Door #1. Drew and the contestant stand in front of Door #2, where the bag is also located. Presumably due to the unusual way the game had to be shot, the "NO" graphic is also absent on this episode.
- Alternatively, it also seems possible that the staff, who circumstantial evidence suggests did not actually want to offer the Cybertruck and rather had it forced upon them by someone above Evelyn, simply decided to make lemonade from a lemon and stage things so that the truck's ridiculousness would have as much screen time as possible.

#094SP

Most Expen$ive is played for three trips.
The $25,000 bonus for Grocery Game is displayed on a trip screen outside of Door #3.
Contestant Miguel wins Dice Game without having to make any decisions, rolling the second number, 6, 1, and the fifth number.
1/2 Off's prize is introduced with Pay the Rent's "$100,000" sign; the game's normal "$10,000" wall is not used.

#095SP

Bullseye's prize is introduced with the full version of Fortune Hunter's intro cue.
When Bullseye is won, the cash graphics form and explode twice.
Switch? is played for two rooms of furniture. The rooms are displayed in Door #2 and Door #3, and the Switch? podiums and logo trip screen are placed onstage between the doors.
- To accommodate the altered staging, Drew and the contestant stand on the Turntable instead of at the Big Doors.
- Thanks to the altered staging, Switch?'s price reveal only requires a single camera shot; unlike when this staging was used in Season 52, the positions of the podiums are not switched.
Plinko's "$100,000" graphic is in a different font than usual.
The G-T asterisks on the Showcase podiums use their normal colors on this episode.

Week 18 (2,085 – 087xL): January 27-31

For this week only, reruns of Hollywood Squares air at 2 P.M. Eastern instead of reruns of The Price Is Right.
On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, only one Barker's Beauty, Rachel, is present. This leads to a number of changes in how the episodes are presented, as follows:
- On Wednesday, George models the second prize in Do the Math.
- On Wednesday, Rachel operates Danger Price by herself.
- On Thursday, Rachel operates 1 Right Price by herself.
- On Thursday, George helps Drew operate Pick-a-Number.
- On Thursday, George models a mini sailboat in the second showcase.
- On Friday, George helps Drew operate Balance Game.
On Friday, thanks to a bad edit, Drew is briefly seen holding the envelope for the first Item up for Bids during the fourth Item up for Bids; oddly, this video is not seen during the first Item up for Bids, although the accompanying audio is identical.
On Friday, Balance Game is played for a car.

Week 19 (2,086 – 088xL): February 3-7

This week is a "third show" week; its episodes were taped alongside Weeks 9, 12, 13, and 14.
On Monday, the Giant Price Tag is lowered only to its Grand Game height for Secret "X" and It's in the Bag.
On Tuesday, the dollar signs on the Contestants' Row seat covers are blue, blue, yellow, and yellow; this is likely related to the odd, redless color scheme used for Monday and Tuesday of Week 13, which were taped the same day.
On Tuesday, after Act 1, the Turntable walls are mistakenly left on their color scheme for Grocery Game; they only revert to their default color scheme during the description of the second Item up for Bids.
On Wednesday, thanks to a bad edit, Drew is briefly seen holding the envelope for the fourth Item up for Bids during the third Item up for Bids.
On Thursday, Coming or Going's price reveal uses two cards despite the prize being behind Door #2; this was also done on episode #0814L, which was taped the same day.
On Friday, contestant Sally's shirt has a picture of her parents with Bill Cullen on March 10, 1958's episode of The Price Is Right.

Week 20 (2,087 – 089xL): February 10-14

This is the final week of reruns of The Price Is Right at 2 P.M. Eastern. The time slot is filled next week by half-hour behind-the-scenes previews of the new soap opera Beyond the Gates and reruns of The Bold and the Beautiful; Beyond the Gates itself takes over the full timeslot on February 24.
This week is partly a "third show" week; its Monday-Wednesday shows were taped alongside Weeks 14 and 15.
On Monday, Temptation does not begin with a close-up of the game board.
On Wednesday, Hot Seat is not shown on-camera until Drew introduces it, although this is likely because the contestant threw off the cameramen when she jumped right over the light strip at the edge of the audience instead of "coming up the stairs."
On Wednesday, Hot Seat's red button does not work the first time the contestant presses it.
On Thursday and Friday, all of the Contestants' Row seat covers have silver dollar signs; this was likely done primarily for Friday's show and was simply left in place for the entire tapeday.
On Thursday, for no apparent reason, all three of Check Game's displays use the compressed text normally reserved for 5-digit numbers.
Friday's show is themed not around Valentine's Day, but rather around "Galentine's Day," with contestants playing in teams of three girlfriends (in the platonic sense). Additionally, the following aspects of this episode are different than usual:
- Most of the lights on the set are shades of red, pink, and purple; the light bar around the audience in particular is pink with a red strip through its center.
- The lights columns in the audience are white and gold.
- Door #4 shows the logo, with a pink left-hand background and the text "Galentine's" at its base, against a purple background with a cascading pattern of hearts on it. This version of the logo is also used in the animation at the end of the opening, on the center Turntable screen, and on George's display, as well as appearing during every commercial outro in addition to the usual spots; the "Galentine's" text appears on the center-left and center-right Turntable screens; and the background also appears on the Contestants' Row wall, the Turntable screens, and George's display.
- The "light strips" on the light border are red.
- The opening ends with, "You are the first 12 galpals as we celebrate Galentine's Day on The Price Is Right!"
- The Contestants' Row displays are all pink, and their borders are gold.
- The G-T asterisks in the animation at the end of the opening are all red, pink, and purple.
- The Barker Wall is pink with hearts on it, and its dollar sign is covered in red glitter.
- To accommodate having teams of contestants, the usual lineup structure is inverted -- one cash game is played in each half, and cars are only offered in one game.
- 1/2 Off is played for $30,000, triple its usual prize.
- One Wrøng Price is played for three cars.
- It's in the Bag is played for $24,000, with all of its prize values multiplied by 1.5.
- It's in the Bag's intro graphics are pink instead of green.
- The G-T asterisks on the Showcase podiums are pink.
On Friday, at the end of 1/2 Off, James accidentally knocks over the podium with the final box on it, revealing the box's contents (and also breaking it) when it hits the floor. No graphic accompanies the ensuing win, presumably as a byproduct of the confusion.
On Friday, the logo is absent from the center Turntable screen for most of Act 3; it reappears off-camera partway through the game.
On Friday, thanks to the reduced space behind the doors in the Haven studio, the backdrops for One Wrøng Price's first car are briefly visible while the second car is being described.
On Friday, when everyone goes over on the sixth Item up for Bids, Drew asks the staff to "erase all the bids again," seemingly indicating that it had occurred twice; while editing out all-overbids is far from uncommon, it is unusual for a reference to them to remain in the show.
On Friday, no real car games are played.

Week 21 (2,088 – 090xL): February 17-21

Tuesday's episode is a "third show;" it was taped alongside Thursday of Week 6 and Monday of Week 11, with games shared across all three episodes.
On Monday, only one Barker's Beauty, Rachel, is present.
On Wednesday, Drew introduces a new "rule" during the first Showcase Showdown: Any time a "bendy" occurs, meaning that the Big Wheel stops with the pointer bent against a peg, the viewers are allowed to use it as an excuse to have a donut.
On Wednesday, Hi Lo is played for a car.
Beginning on Thursday, the "To the Penny" sign is already in place when the game is revealed.
On Friday, the logo is already on the center Turntable screen when the show returns from the last commercial.

Week 22 (2,089 – 091xL): February 24-28

Wednesday's show is the 10,000th episode. The following aspects of this show are different than usual:
- Most of the lights on the set are purple and gold.
- Door #4 shows the text "10,000th Episode" in front of an array of gold chase lights, all against a purple background. This background also appears on the Contestants' Row wall, the Turntable screens, and George's display, and the text also appears on the center-left and center-right Turntable screens; it also replaces the logo on the center Turntable screen during the Showcase.
- The opening ends with, "You are the first four contestants on our 10,000th episode of The Price Is Right!"
- The Contestants' Row displays are all purple, and their borders are gold.
- The G-T asterisks in the animation at the end of the opening are all gold.
- Drew's entrance is shot differently than usual: Before the logo finishes forming in front of Contestants' Row, the entire shot dissolves to an angled view of Door #2 with a "$10,000" sign made from Pay the Rent's "$100,000" sign in front of it; the sign then rises as Door #2 opens. The "$10,000" sign is also lowered for the mid-show bumper and part of the Showcase.
- The primetime Barker Wall is used.
- The set is decorated for the special.
- The TPIR logo is shown on George's display.
- The G-T asterisks in front of Contestants' Row are gold.
- All six Barker's Beauties are present.
- A trip skin is used in the first showcase, which focuses on how things have changed since the first episode.
- During credits, an 11-layer cake with "10K" at the top is brought out. The base of the cake is the Big Wheel, while the other layers are each themed around one game -- from bottom to top, Rat Race, Plinko, Punch a Bunch, Hole in One, Cliff Hangers, Dice Game, Golden Road, Lucky $even, Clock Game, and Any Number (with "10000" written out in the used digit windows).
- Also brought out during the credits is a large floral display in the shape of "10K".
Additionally, numerous aspects of Wednesday's show are themed around the number 10, as follows:
- Grand Game is played for $100,000, 10x its normal prize, with the lower prize values adjusted accordingly.
- Grand Game's target price is $10.00.
- Lucky $even is changed to "Lucky Ten" for the day, giving the contestant an extra $3; the game's sign is altered, as well.
- Do the Math's equation involves $10,245.
- Winning Double Prices earns a $10,000 bonus.
- Cliff Hangers is played for a trip for 10 to Whistler.
- Any Number uses the mega piggy bank, multiplying its worth by $10,000; this essentially causes the piggy bank to function as the car, the car as the prize, and the prize as the piggy bank. Despite effectively being played for cash, it still unambiguously functions as the second half's car game.
- At the beginning of the Showcase, Drew announces that the show is donating $10,000 to NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
- The second showcase includes $10,000 in cash.
Wednesday's show was originally planned with Lucky $even first and Grand Game second instead of the other way around.
On Wednesday, in honor of Bob, Any Number's prize is a golf package.
On Wednesday, with the mega piggy bank in play in Any Number, the bell sounds twice both for numbers in the car and for numbers in the piggy bank.
On Wednesday, the Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour theme is used for a car in the first showcase.
On Thursday and Friday, only one Barker's Beauty, Rachel, is present. This leads to a number of changes in how the episodes are presented, as follows:
- Rachel operates Danger Price, Hole in One, and One Wrøng Price by herself.
- George models the second prize in Switch?.
On Thursday, contestant David wishes Bob "a happy birthday tomorrow;" the episode was, in fact, taped on December 11, the day before what would have been Bob's 101st birthday.
On Friday, Hot Seat's red button initially does not work on the third item.

Week 23 (2,090 – 092xL): March 3-7

On Tuesday, CBS also reruns last Wednesday's 10,000th daytime show in primetime at 8:00 Eastern/7:00 Central.
This week is mostly a "third show" week; Monday-Thursday were taped alongside Weeks 16 and 17.
On Tuesday, the G-T asterisk between Door #1 and Door #2 is red instead of yellow; this also occurs on Wednesday and Thursday of Week 16, which were taped the same day.
On Tuesday, when Drew removes the label for the second prize in 10 Chances, he taps the panel with it and somehow triggers the price reveal, leading to the contestant winning it automatically.
On Wednesday, the Clock Game contestant's face is never superimposed on the board when she bids on the second prize; oddly, the vertical line intended to separate that shot from the clock face is shown.
Thursday's first showcase features a now rare appearance of an "I won this car on The Price Is Right" license plate holder.
From this week through the end of May, Fridays are "Payday" shows, with all six games played for cash; more specifically, one game is played for $7,500, one for $10,000, one for $15,000, one for $20,000, one for $25,000 (or $16,000 if It's in the Bag is in the lineup), and one for some amount higher than $25,000 (it should be noted that Plinko falls into this last category by default, as do 1/2 Off and Punch a Bunch for reasons listed below). This is believed to have been a workaround developed when a cramped production schedule briefly forced Price to tape four shows per day; the lack of physical prizes allowed them to keep the existing storage problems at Haven from becoming even worse. The 12 episodes were taped four to a day over three days, with the shows for Weeks 23, 27, 30, and 33 on the first day, Weeks 24, 28, 31, and 34 on the second, and Weeks 26, 29, 32, and 35 on the third. (Week 25 is only three days long and does not have a Friday show.)
- Additionally, several cash games have their prizes increased for all "Friday Payday" playings, as follows:
  - 1/2 Off is played for $30,000.
  - Grand Game is played for $20,000, with the lower prizes adjusted accordingly.
  - Punch a Bunch is played for $50,000, with five $500 slips, 15 $1,000 slips, 15 $2,500 slips, 10 $5,000 slips, four $10,000 slips, and one $50,000 slip.
- Weeks with Payday shows also have noticeably fewer cash games than usual on Monday-Thursday.
Friday's extra Payday cash games are as follows:
- Bullseye is played for $10,000.
- Back to '75 is played for $7,500.
- Pick-a-Pair is played for for $15,000.
- Bonus Game is played for $20,000.
- Pass the Buck is played for $25,000.
On Friday, Pick-a-Pair uses the full version of Fortune Hunter's intro cue.

Week 24 (2,091 – 093xL): March 10-14

This week is partly a "third show" week; its Wednesday and Thursday shows were taped alongside Week 31.
On Monday, a trip screen used in the first game, Master Key, is left onstage during Act 2 and is briefly visible as the winner of Range Game runs to Door #3.
Friday's extra Payday cash games are as follows:
- Cliff Hangers is played for $15,000.
- 2 for the Price of 1 is played for $10,000.
- Vend-O-Price is played for $7,500.
- Grocery Game is played for $25,000.
On Friday, Cliff Hangers uses the full version of Fortune Hunter's intro cue.
When 2 for the Price of 1 is played for cash, a separate music sting is used for the "description" of the money after the first prize.
For obvious reasons, when 2 for the Price of 1 is played for cash, the total value of the prize package is not announced.
On Friday, no car games are played.

Week 25 (2,092 – 094xL): March 17-19

March Madness week; only three shows.
- As mentioned above, as this week has no Friday show, it also has no Payday episode.
This week is partly a "third show" week; its Wednesday show was taped alongside Week 30.
Monday's show is themed around spring break; everyone in the audience is a college student. Additionally, the following aspects of this episode are different than usual:
- Door #4 shows the logo, with a seafoam green right-hand background and the text "Spring Break" at its base, against a scene of a seashore at sunset. This version of the logo also appears at the end of the opening, on the center Turntable screen, on George's display, during the mid-show bumper, and on the Showcase podiums; the "Spring Break" text appears on the center-left and center-right Turntable screens; and the background (or a variation on it) also appears on the Contestants' Row wall, the Turntable screens, and George's display, as well as cascading across both displays on the Showcase podiums.
- Most of the lights on the set are shades of pink, orange, yellow, and light blue; this also holds true for the G-T asterisks in the animation at the end of the opening.
- The borders of the Contestants' Row displays are light orange, while the borders of the wall cascade yellow and seafoam green.
- The first and third Contestants' Row displays are dark orange, and the second and fourth displays are seafoam green.
- The opening ends with, "You are the first four contestants as we celebrate spring break on The Price Is Right!"
- Drew's entrance is backed by a set of prize backdrops that show the ocean at sunset instead of by the Barker Wall.
- The G-T asterisks in front of Contestants' Row are orange on the left and seafoam green on the right.
On Monday, the logo does not disappear from the center Turntable screen during the Showcase.
On Tuesday, contestant Travis, a golf pro, ends up playing Hole in One; to the surprise of no one, he wins.

Week 26 (2,093 – 095xL): March 24-28

This week is mostly a "third show" week; Monday-Thursday were taped alongside Weeks 17, 18, and 21.
On Monday, contestant Yanira breaks the casing for the second block at the end of her first turn in Switcheroo; the casing for the third block ends up doubling as a shelf for the second block for the rest of the game.
On Monday, contestant Julie turns out to be a former Dallas Cowgirl who was on a USO tour with Drew in 2001.
On Wednesday and Thursday, only one Barker's Beauty, Rachel, is present. This leads to a number of changes in how the episodes are presented, as follows:
- On Wednesday, George models the prize for Check Game.
- On Wednesday, Rachel operates Danger Price by herself.
- On Wednesday, Rachel operates 1 Right Price by herself.
- On Thursday, George helps Drew operate Balance Game.
On Wednesday, the back side of the flap covering the price in Push Over is white instead of black.
On Wednesday, in a rare oversight, George's sign-off does not coincide with the Fremantle logo appearing on the screen.
Friday's extra Payday cash games are as follows:
- Now....or Then is played for $7,500.
- Secret "X" is played for $10,000.
- Master Key is played for $2,500, $7,500, and $15,000, with $15,000 functioning as the car; this functions as the day's $25,000 game.
- Check-Out is played for $15,000.
On Friday, Now....or Then uses the full version of Fortune Hunter's intro cue.
On Friday, Master Key uses Pay the Rent's intro cue.

Week 27 (2,094 – 096xL): March 31-April 4

This week is mostly a "third show" week; Monday-Thursday were taped alongside Monday-Thursday of Weeks 34 and 35.
On Wednesday, the staff forgets to shut off the lights on the 5 Price Tags backdrops during the description of the first item; when the item is won, this leads to the odd sight of the first backdrop blinking to "turn on" while all of the lights are already on.
On Thursday, when Drew reveals the second number in Temptation, the third number reveals itself, as well.
Friday's extra Payday cash games are as follows:
- Secret "X" is played for $10,000.
- Vend-O-Price is played for $15,000.
- Clock Game is played for $7,500.
- Bullseye is played for $20,000.
On Friday, Secret "X" uses the full version of Fortune Hunter's intro cue.
On Friday, no car games are played.

Week 28 (2,095 – 097xL): April 7-11

This week is mostly a "third show" week; Monday-Thursday were taped alongside Weeks 36 and 37.
On Monday, Karla Mosley, the portrayer of Dani Dupree on Beyond the Gates, appears as a guest model alongside Alexis; she also helps to present the second showcase, which is themed around her show.
On Monday, in an odd coincidence, the difference in Do the Math is the same as the price of the preceding Item up for Bids.
On Monday, the Turntable color scheme for Grocery Game is mistakenly loaded while its player is still coming out of Contestants' Row.
Friday's extra Payday cash games are as follows:
- Master Key is played for $2,500, $7,500, and $15,000, with $15,000 functioning as the car; this functions as the day's $25,000 game.
- Hi Lo is played for $7,500.
- 2 for the Price of 1 is played for $10,000.
- Bonus Game is played for $15,000.
On Friday, Master Key uses an extended cut of Pay the Rent's intro cue.
On Friday, Hi Lo uses the full version of Fortune Hunter's intro cue.

Week 29 (2,096 – 098xL): April 14-16, May 12, April 18

Originally scheduled for April 14-18.
This week is mostly a "third show" week; Monday-Thursday were taped alongside Weeks 37, 38, and 39.
On Monday and Wednesday, only one Barker's Beauty, Alexis, is present. This leads to a number of changes in how the episodes are presented, as follows:
- On Monday, Alexis models both the first and second prizes in Most Expen$ive.
- On Monday, Alexis models for It's in the Bag's intro by herself, with no one standing on the right.
- On Monday, Alexis operates Bargain Game by herself.
- On Wednesday, George models the second prize in Switch?.
- On Wednesday, George helps Drew operate Balance Game.
On Monday, Rat Race's first prize is again staged next to the Race Game Curtain.
On Thursday, the first showcase's description on the podiums is initially improperly pluralized, reading "ATV'S/TRIPS". Surprisingly, this is corrected to "ATVS/TRIPS" during the commercial.
Thursday's second showcase features a now rare appearance of an "I won this car on The Price Is Right" license plate holder.
Friday's extra Payday cash games are as follows:
- Clock Game is played for $10,000.
- Cliff Hangers is played for $15,000.
- Check-Out is played for $25,000.
- Back to '75 is played for $7,500.
Friday's Punch a Bunch, its first Payday playing, introduces a $50,000 bill with a different photo of Drew than the $25,000 bill.
On Friday, Check-Out uses the full version of Fortune Hunter's intro cue.
On Friday, no car games are played.

Week 30 (2,097 – 099xL): April 21-25

This week is partly a "third show" week; Monday was taped alongside Week 25, and Thursday was taped alongside Week 24.
Tuesday's show is themed around Earth Day, offering eco-friendly prizes and nature-themed trips. Additionally, the following aspects of this episode are different than usual:
- Door #4 shows the Barker logo against a spinning globe with the text "Earth Day" at its base, all against a nature scene; this background is also used on the Contestants' Row wall (with the top half of the image extending across the three left-hand screens and the bottom have extending across the three right-hand screens); the logo also appears on the center Turntable screen, George's display, and the Showcase podiums; and the "Earth Day" text also appears on the center-left and center-right Turntable screens (as well as the center screen during the first part of the Showcase).
- The opening ends with, "You are the first four contestants as we celebrate Earth Day on The Price Is Right!"
- Green light cascades out from the center of the borders of the Contestants' Row wall, which are otherwise still blue.
- Drew's entrance is backed by a set of prize backdrops that show a woodland trail instead of by the Barker Wall.
- The Turntable stairs are green, as are the light strips on its "doorframe" and the front side of the spinning panel.
- The Turntable screens each show a scene of a rainforest; this graphic also appears on the Showcase podiums.
- The G-T asterisks in front of Contestants' Row are green.
- George's display shows fish swimming above the ocean floor.
- The lights between the Contestants' Row displays are gold.
On Thursday, Drew enters with his dog, Mamba, who "wanted to say hi to everybody."
On Thursday, during the mid-show bumper, the live shot mistakenly fades out a second before the logo and the music do.
Friday's extra Payday cash games are as follows:
- Pick-a-Pair is played for $15,000.
- Hi Lo is played for $20,000.
- Spelling Bee is played for $25,000, with the cards spelling "WIN" instead of "CAR."
- Vend-O-Price is played for $10,000.
- 2 for the Price of 1 is played for $7,500.
On Friday, Pick-a-Pair uses the full version of Fortune Hunter's intro cue.

Week 31 (2,098 – 100xL): April 28-May 2

This week is Pet Adoption Week. Each day, Drew and one of the Barker's Beauties appear at the top of Act 3 to do a pet adoption segment. During these segments, the center row of Turntable screens shows a graphic of a puppy in a doghouse on a sunlit field, with the words "Pet Adoption Week" next to it; the other two rows show only the background.
- Additionally, each day this week, the third Item up for Bids is somehow pet-themed.
On this week's shows, during Act 3, George's calldown window focuses on the dog from the pet adoption segment instead of George.
On Monday, the pink version of George's calldown window is used during Act 3.
On Monday, the car key in Master Key was somehow calibrated incorrectly and initially opened one of the other two prizes instead. This error was edited out of the show.
On Wednesday, when a bendy occurs during the first Showcase Showdown, Manuela and James come onstage and pass out donuts to everyone in the studio.
Friday's extra Payday cash games are as follows:
- Let 'em Roll is played for $25,000. On this playing, the cubes have Pricedown dollar signs on them instead of cars.
- Bullseye is played for $10,000.
- Cliff Hangers is played for $15,000.
- Clock Game is played for $7,500.
- Bonus Game is played for $20,000.
On Friday, Cliff Hangers uses the full version of Fortune Hunter's intro cue.
In Friday's Cliff Hangers, "On the Franches Mountain" restarts every time the mountain climber moves.
On Friday, with 1.5 seconds left in Clock Game and the contestant $5 away from the second price, Drew accidentally tells her to go higher instead of lower, leaving her no time to course correct; out of fairness, she is awarded the prizes.

Week 32 (2,099 – 101xL): May 5-9

This week is partly a "third show" week; Monday was taped alongside Tuesday and Wednesday of Week 39, and Thursday was taped alongside the last two shows of the season, the Fridays of Weeks 39 and 40.
On Monday, the crew accidentally leaves Spelling Bee's color scheme on the Turntable throughout the following commercial; the lights only go back to purple while Drew is asking George for the next contestant.
On Tuesday, contestant Reginald loses Bonkers, getting the right combination about half a second after time runs out; however, the staff, presumably taking into account the time lost when one of the paddles had fallen on the floor earlier in the game, awards him the win after the price is revealed.
On Tuesday, the prize for Check Game is staged behind the Giant Price Tag. The one-tag price reveal is used for this staging.
Friday's show is themed around Mother's Day; only mothers are called to be contestants. Additionally, the following aspects of this show are different than usual:
- Door #4 shows the logo (with a dark pink left-hand background and a purple right-hand background), with the text "Mother's Day" at its base, against a green background with white sparkles and numerous red, yellow, purple, and white flowers on it. This background is also used on the Turntable screens, the Contestants' Row wall (with a pink border bleeding into the image), George's display, and in cash displays on trip screens and Door #4 instead of the usual Payday backgrounds; the logo is also used at the end of the opening, on the center Turntable screen, on George's display, during every commercial outro, and on the Showcase podiums; and the "Mother's Day" text also appears on the center-left and center-right Turntable screens.
- The G-T asterisks in the audience and between the Big Doors cascade pink and orange during the opening, while contestants are coming onstage, during come on downs, and during commercial outros; for the rest of the show, they are white.
- The light columns around the audience are pink and yellow.
- The large light strip around the audience is purple, as are the light strips along the aisles on the floor. The other light strips in the audience are green, including the floor strip at the "edge" of the stage.
- The Contestants' Row displays are pink, purple, pink, and purple, and their borders are gold.
- The opening ends with, "You are the first four contestants as we celebrate Mother's Day on The Price Is Right!"
- The G-T asterisks in the animation at the end of the opening are all pink, yellow, purple, and white.
- The Turntable light strips, stairs, and lights are pink and purple, as is George's podium.
- The borders of the Contestants' Row wall cascade pink and purple.
- The light strip on the spinning Turntable wall panel is pink.
- The Showcase podiums' displays are purple instead of blue, although their graphics are otherwise the same as usual.
Friday's extra Payday cash games are as follows:
- 2 for the Price of 1 is played for $10,000.
- Pass the Buck is played for $25,000.
- Secret "X" is played for $15,000.
- Now....or Then is played for $7,500.
On Friday, 2 for the Price of 1 does not use a special fanfare for its cash prize; instead, the prize music continues as it would on a normal playing.
On Friday, Secret "X" uses the full version of Fortune Hunter's intro cue.
On Friday, the logo does not disappear from the center Turntable screen during the Showcase.

Week 33 (2,100 – 102xL): April 17, May 13-16

Originally scheduled for May 12-16.
This week is mostly a "third show" week; Monday-Thursday were taped alongside Weeks 21 and 22.
Monday's car reveal in Golden Road appears to have been reshot later in the taping, as Door #1 and Door #3 are both otherwise-inexplicably closed during it.
Monday's second Showcase Showdown features the origin of the "get a bendy, have a donut" rule, which Drew creates on the fly when one occurs and which he initially envisioned with cupcakes. Wednesday of Week 21, which includes the "rule's" on-air debut, was taped later the same day.
On Tuesday, the lights in the Bargain Game logo are not turned on when the game is revealed; they are lit up off-camera during the description of the first prize.
On Wednesday, the Giant Price Tag is lowered only to its Grand Game height for One Away.
On Tuesday, only one Barker's Beauty, Rachel, is present. This leads to a number of changes in how the episode is presented, as follows:
- Rachel operates Danger Price and Hole in One by herself.
- George models the second prize in Switch?.
On Thursday, Hot Seat's red button does not work the first time the contestant presses it.
On Thursday, Squeeze Play is played for a car.
Friday's extra Payday cash games are as follows:
- Secret "X" is played for $10,000.
- Vend-O-Price is played for $20,000.
- Back to '75 is played for $7,500.
- Pick-a-Pair is played for $15,000.
On Friday, Pick-a-Pair uses the full version of Fortune Hunter's intro cue.
On Friday, no car games are played.

Week 34 (2,101 – 103xL): May 19-23

On Friday, Drew's birthday, George introduces Drew as "your host and the birthday boy, Drew Carey!"
Friday's extra Payday cash games are as follows:
- Grocery Game is played for $10,000.
- Hi Lo is played for $15,000.
- Master Key is played for $2,500, $7,500, and $15,000, with $15,000 functioning as the car; this functions as the day's $25,000 game.
- Cliff Hangers is played for $7,500.
On Friday, Master Key uses an extended cut of Pay the Rent's intro cue.
On Friday, Cliff Hangers uses the full version of Fortune Hunter's intro cue.

Week 35 (2,102 – 104xL): May 26-30

Friday's extra Payday cash games are as follows:
- Check-Out is played for $25,000.
- Clock Game is played for $7,500.
- Now....or Then is played for $15,000.
- 2 for the Price of 1 is played for $10,000.
On Friday, Check-Out uses the full version of Fortune Hunter's intro cue.
On Friday, both bidding sessions in Clock Game show what appears to be a stock video of the clock counting all the way down from 30 instead of the live footage of it ticking down. It is unclear what caused this to happen; the live video of the contestant and the live audio are not affected, and based on wider shots of the Turntable after correct bids, the clock appears to have been working normally.
On Friday, Punch a Bunch's $50,000 bill has a different photo of Drew than the $25,000 bill.
On Friday, no car games are played.

Week 36 (2,103 – 105xL): June 3, 2, 4-6

Originally scheduled for June 2-6.
On Monday and Tuesday, only one Barker's Beauty, Alexis, is present. This leads to a number of changes in how the episodes are presented, as follows:
- On Monday, George models the first Item up for Bids at his podium.
- On Monday, Alexis operates Danger Price by herself.
- On Monday, George helps Drew operate Balance Game.
- On Tuesday, the Dice Game table is already in place when the game starts.
- On Tuesday, George helps Alexis operate 1/2 Off.
On Monday, the crew initially forgets to turn on 3 Strikes's dollar sign; it is eventually lit up while Drew is putting the balls in the bag.
In Tuesday's opening, the crew waits an unusually long time to start the theme after George calls the first four contestants; it does not begin playing until a moment before the shot switches to Door #2 for Drew's entrance.
On Wednesday, Hi Lo is played for a car.
This week, Friday shows go back to being normal episodes.

Week 37 (2,104 – 106xL): June 9-13

On Monday, the Pass the Buck contestant passes the buck by himself.
On Wednesday, the crew forgets to shut off the Turntable's Bullseye color scheme after the game ends, causing it to reappear after George calls the next contestant; it is switched back to purple during the description of the Item up for Bids.
On Thursday and Friday, only one Barker's Beauty, Alexis, is present. This leads to a number of changes in how the episodes are presented, as follows:
- On Thursday, Alexis models for It's in the Bag's intro by herself, with no one standing on the right.
- On Thursday, Alexis models both the first and second prizes in Most Expen$ive.
- On Thursday, no one models the small prizes in Pathfinder; rather, Alexis walks to them off-camera during the prize plugs.
On Friday, Squeeze Play's price does not open when Drew pushes the button; he ends up flipping it down himself.

Week 38 (2,105 – 107xL): June 16-20

On Monday, the crew forgets to shut off the Turntable's Any Number color scheme after the game ends, causing it to reappear after George calls the next contestant; it is switched back to purple during the description of the Item up for Bids.
On Monday, One Wrøng Price is played for three trips.
On Wednesday and Thursday, only one Barker's Beauty, Alexis, is present. This leads to a number of changes in how the episodes are presented, as follows:
- On Wednesday, George models the second prize in Switch?.
- On Thursday, George helps Drew operate Balance game.
- On Thursday, Alexis models both the first and second prizes in Most Expen$ive.
On Thursday, the lights on the doorframes and the Turntable do not turn red during the second Showcase Showdown; this is made odder by the fact that they were red during the first Showcase Showdown, which is taped immediately prior and uses the same color scheme.

Week 39 (2,106 – 108xL): June 23-27

This week's Thursday show is a "third show" week; it was taped alongside Tuesday and Wednesday of Week 32.
On Monday, Cover Up is played perfectly.
On Wednesday, Drew uses a Drew Carey doll someone had brought to the studio to host the CBS.com plug at the end of the first Showcase Showdown.
On Thursday, Drew announces at the beginning of the first Showcase Showdown that contestant Kathy, who had played Gridlock! earlier in the episode, had since had an emergency (which, based on shots of the audience later in the program, appears to have occurred during or after Act 6) and was unable to continue with the show; as her entire party had left the studio, leaving no one to act as a proxy for her, the first Showcase Showdown is thus played with only two spinners. Drew wishes her well again during his sign-off, and a disclaimer during the credits states that she "could not continue gameplay but will be receiving [her] prizes."

Week 40 (2,107 – 109xL): July 4

Season finale week; only one show, on Friday.
Friday's show is themed around Independence Day. The following aspects of this episode are different than usual:
- Everyone in the audience is a first responder.
- The lights in the audience, on the Turntable, on George's podium, and on the G-T asterisks between the Big Doors are red, white, and blue.
- Door #4 shows the logo, whose right-hand background blue and whose left-hand background is red, against a waving American flag. This version of the logo is also used at the end of the opening, on the center Turntable screen, on George's display, in the mid-show bumper, and on the Showcase podiums; the background is also used on George's display, while a variation of it is spread across all nine Turntable screens.
- The light border's exterior "light strip" is red, and its interior "light strip" cascades red, white, and blue.
- The opening ends with, "You are the first four contestants as we honor our heroic first responders on The Price Is Right!"
- The Contestants' Row displays are all navy blue, and their borders are red.
- The Contestants' Row wall shows white stars with red borders cascading across a dark blue night sky.
- The graphics at the end of the opening uses all red, white, and blue G-T asterisks and the version of the logo from Door #4.
- Drew's entrance is backed by a set of prize backdrops showing the American flag instead of by the Barker Wall.
- The set is decorated for the holiday.
- The G-T asterisks on the Showcase podiums are blue.
On Friday, everyone in the audience receives a pair of JBL earbuds, a portion of the third Item up for Bids.
On Friday, Balance Game is played for a car.
After Friday's show, Evelyn is removed as executive producer.

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