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Season 53 (2024-2025)[]

Pricing game calendar for Season 53, hosted by Scorpz.

Note: This season's The Price Is Right at Nights seem to have a more disorganized schedule than usual; as such, I will be listing most of them and their notes on their actual airdates until it becomes clearer how they can be grouped in numerical order.

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 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.
- 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; while this animation technically debuted on-air on this week's primetime show, which aired the previous night, it likely also occurred on the as yet unaired previous special, #083SP.
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.
Starting with this primetime episode, 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 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.

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, 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, 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.
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 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, Unknown, 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, the Giant Price Tag is lowered only to its Grand Game height for Check-Out.
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 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, February 5

The Price Is Right at Night 49-51: Jackpot Specials (#087SP-#089SP) air on the above-listed nights.
Logically scheduled for the nights of January 8, 15, and 22.
At this point, the schedule takes a detour into primetime (and 2025) for a series of Jackpot episodes, which function the same way as Season 52's Jackpot January but officially no longer have a month in their title. 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 such, I have chosen to place them in the rerun week that comes after Thanksgiving.
This time around, each Jackpot episode 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.
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.
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.
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.

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

This is a "third show" week, with the possible exception of Monday, which may have been a two-show tapedate; its episodes were taped mostly 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.
On Monday, the lights in Grand Game's graphics do not shut off when the graphics turn red.
As this week's shows were taped out of order, Most Expen$ive's two-piece carpet makes one final appearance on Monday.

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

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

Only four daytime 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.

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

Only four shows; no Wednesday episode.

Week 15 (2,082 – 084xL): January 6-10

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.

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

Week 17 (2,084 – 086xL): January 22, 21, Unknown, January 23-24 + Wednesday night

The Price Is Right at Night 53: Jackpot: Little Red Corvette (#091SP) airs on Wednesday night.
Daytime shows originally scheduled for January 20-24.

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

The Price Is Right at Night 57: Jackpot: The Golden Plinko Chip (#095SP) airs on Wednesday night.