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Season 8 (1979-1980)[]
Pricing game calendar for Season 8, hosted by Scorpz.
Week 1 (336): August 27-31
- Weeks 336-339 appear to have originally been planned as the last four weeks of Season 7, to air the weeks of July 30, August 6, August 13, and August 20, for reasons unknown, they were re-designated as the first four weeks of Season 8, and their original airdates were replaced with an additional four weeks of summer reruns.
- On Thursday, Race Game is played for season tickets to all four Los Angeles sports teams.
Week 2 (337): September 3-7
- On Monday, Safe Crackers is played for a car.
Week 3 (338): September 10-14
Week 4 (339): September 17-21
- On Wednesday, the Turntable walls are still using the same patterns as at the end of Season 5.
- On Wednesday, Race Game is played for season tickets to all four Los Angeles sports teams.
- By Friday, the stripes behind the numbers in Lucky Seven have been removed.
Week 5 (340): September 24-28
Week 6 (341): October 1-2, December 31, October 4-5
- Originally scheduled for October 1-5
- Wednesday, October 3 has a rerun of the half-hour October 6, 1977 episode.
- On Thursday, the fully-orchestrated version of "Walking" is still being used during the opening.
- On Thursday, Golden Road's velvet rope is still in use.
Week 7 (342): October 8-12
- Around this time, probably on Tuesday, the version of Walking used during the opening is replaced with an identical edit of the less fully-orchestrated version of the cue already used during the body of the show, the cue is definitely in place by Thursday.
Week 8 (343): October 15-19
Week 9 (344): October 22-26
- By Tuesday, the behavior of the opening titles has changed, the text now appears, rapidly grows, and disappears four times.
- By Tuesday, the pattern on the game side of the spinning Turntable wall panel has changed to a series of orange and brown zigzags.
- By Tuesday, Temptation’s logo has been changed to the font it would use until its 2010 set change.
Week 10 (345): October 29-November 2
Week 11 (346): November 5-9
Week 12 (347): November 12-16
Week 13 (348): November 19-21, December 17
- Originally scheduled for November 19-21, 23.
- Thanksgiving week, only four shows.
Week 14 (349): November 26-30
Week 15 (350): December 3-7
Week 16 (351): December 10-14
- On Tuesday during the car description for 3 Strikes, “The Bean Stalker” stops playing partway through the description and the Family Feud theme starts playing. The Family Feud theme was used for the car description for Dice Game earlier in the show.
- On Thursday, the "Punch a Bunch" logo still has its original, rainbow color scheme.
Week 17 (352): December 18-21
- Only four shows, Monday has the delayed November 23 episode.
Week 18 (353): December 24-25, February 4-6
- Originally scheduled for December 24-28.
- Except for two out-of-order episodes, reruns are broadcast for the remainder of December and all of January.
- By 1979, the show has begun its annual tradition of decorating the set for Christmas.
- By the end of the ‘70s, the practice of playing car games fourth seems to have become essentially discontinued, it will not resurface on any sort of regular basis until 2005.
- By Tuesday, the Big Wheel's beep has changed to a more pronounced, but quieter beep.
- On Tuesday, Johnny signs off during the credits with, "This is Johnny Olson saying, 'Merry Christmas!' for The Price Is Right, a Mark Goodson-Bill Todman production!"
Week 19 (354): February 7, 8, & 11
- Originally scheduled for February 6-8.
- Only three shows, on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
Week 20 (355): January 7, February 12-15
- Originally scheduled for February 11-15.
Week 21 (356): February 18-22
Week 22 (357): February 25-29
- On Wednesday, the Goodson-Todman asterisks on the Hi Lo price cards still have eight points.
Week 23 (358): March 3-7
- On Wednesday, a contestant wins both showcases with a difference of $1.
Week 24 (359): March 10-14
Week 25 (360): March 17-21
- On Tuesday, a contestant loses 3 Strikes by drawing three strikes in three draws, less than a minute into gameplay.
Week 26 (361): March 24-28
- As of Wednesday, the 3 Strikes sign is still green.
- By Thursday, the large gap in the bottom of the Temptation board has been filled in.
Week 27 (362): March 31-April 4
- As of Tuesday, Hole in One's $500 sign is still the yellow flower, and the golf ball backings have not yet been added to the grocery displays.
Week 28 (363): April 7-11
Week 29 (364): April 14-18
Week 30 (365): April 21-25
- Tuesday show features the debut of Barker's Bargain Bar.
- By Thursday, Danger Price's price podiums have begun to be arranged in a square formation immediately behind Door #3.
Week 31 (366): April 28-May 2
- Tuesday show features the debut of Trader Bob.
Week 32 (367): May 5-9
- On Thursday, in addition to being used for one of Items up for bids, the Train is also used during Secret X to bring out a set of luggage for a trip.
Week 33 (368): May 12-16
- Beginning this week, pricing games, with rare exceptions, do not get played more than once a week.
- Friday show features the debut of Grand Game.
Week 34 (369): May 19-23
Week 35 (370): May 26-30
Week 36 (371): June 2-6
Week 37 (372): June 9-13
Week 38 (373): June 16-20
- On Friday, the last of the first four contestants is Vanna White, who at the time had no claims to fame, she never gets out of Contestants' Row.
- On Friday, the Train is used during Hi-Lo to bring out a set of luggage for a trip. The Train makes a later appearance during one of the Items up for Bids.
- By Friday, the Goodson-Todman asterisks on the Hi Lo price cards have been altered to have the standard six points instead of eight.
Week 39 (374): June 23-27
- Season finale week.
- Summer reruns begin next Monday.
- By Tuesday, the "3 Strikes" sign has become gold.
- By Thursday, the velvet rope has been removed from Golden Road.