The Price Is Right - Showcase Showdown round (1977)

[GSNSmashFan3]

I. HATE. THE. THIRD. GENERATION. BEEPING.

[Newsjunkie87]

man the show was soooo subdued back then!

no energy.

[jemerson722]

The wheel looks naked without the green sections.

[iwanttobeajesusfreak]

The second contestand spinning the wheel looks like Elvis Presley.

[WhatInTheHellO]

This is my favorite wheel beep out of all four, with the first one coming in a close second.

[ooxcfhxoo]

from 76 to 77 tha handles, beep, abd tightness have been figured out

[gameshowguy2000]

It says $100 in the Annotation..shouldn't it be $1.00 (or in terms of the money, $1,000)?

[Hondo20132]

Sorry. I rated this wrong.

[Shane07752]

Look at this young BOB.

[1906tpir]

The best moment of my life was spinning The Big Wheel on The Price Is Right on March 17th,2008

[1906tpir]

The greatest highlight of my life was spinning The Big Wheel on The Price Is Right on March 17th, 2008.

[ClassicMariah03]

Love that wheel.

[gatorcc70]

No green section for the 5 and 15 cents. That's pretty old school!

[KAYLASHAYprodutions]

HOLY SHIT,,

look at bob.

[D32007]

Clifton wasn't so magnificent when he spun himself over and out of the game

[antpile99]

Pamela was smokin' hot!

[AreaQNH870]

that was the most pointless 2 minutes & 30 seconds of my life.

I've learned nothing today.

[Kjr0se]

The wheel looked good then, but it looked even BETTER when they added the old school dollar signs on the walls on either side of the wheel, and when they changed the background color to red wi the old school dollar signs, I wish they would go back to the old school dollar signs on the wheel and put the flashing red lights on the big wheel as well, I miss the flashing red lights that were on the big wheel.

[Pdasilva0324]

Was the wheel "looser" back then? Nobody spins that fast these days!

[Hondo20132]

Apperantly so.

[bwitz72]

Ya that "Professor Price" game was the shortest -lived game in TPIR history. Only made 2 appearances, I believe.

[whammy850]

Man, was that wheel fugly. They done good when they added the green to it.

[Hawqis1]

is it just me or is the pointer on the wheel pointing downward a little instead of being straight?

[gutchman84]

why does Bob yell at James after his first spin? It's not like he purposely meant to just miss spinning $1.00 on his first spin

[the69chevykid]

Back in 1977, winning $1,000 was a very big deal. (almost like winning $5,000 today)

[garycalgary]

thanks for the info

[garycalgary]

what happened to the green sections?

[puppyshoes]

They put on the green sections in 1978

[bankpank]

@garycalgary Green Sections did not come into play until 1980.

[WhatInTheHellO]

@garycalgary They didn't add those until around 1978 or so.

[calebdude570]

@garycalgary they didn't have them back then

[mateo096]

The sad part is, i know exactly what the last guy won. He won a car in the short-lived Professor game.

[dmine45]

Yup - when he still colored his hair. He quit doing it (I think) in 1987.

[travis7310]

You are correct!

[AarHan3]

And became one of the sexiest blondes on TPIR (aside from Janice and Dian). :-)

[gameshowluvr86]

This was ten years before he went gray. :)

[OnTheRun167]

I had forgotten there was a time when the 5 and 15 cent spots weren't green!!

[apachette07]

Wow...

Bob was hott back then! lol

[tomgene1976]

The wheel beeping sound is way different than what it is now. I wonder when they came out with winning $5,000 for either green section. Anybody know?

[steve01659]

The bonus spins were implemented in December 1978.

[scott5114]

Indeed!

[steve01659]

Who knows when this show started adding "pricedown" fonts as art cards for winning $1,000, $5,000, and $10,000?

[RetroWinnipeg]

2007, when Drew Carey became host.

[steve01659]

I meant to ask when the Barker era started adding "pricedown" fonts.

[RetroWinnipeg]

I think you are mixing up fonts (according to qwizx) since the font prior to October 2007 had a different name. I think it had to be sometime after 1992.

[steve01659]

Really? I thought maybe it started in December 1978.

[mtprice1978]

I was born in 1978

[puppyshoes]

When was it that they added the green sections.

[steve01659]

December 1978.

[Landaux]

Ill never forget around this era when everyone kept landing on the dime! lol! It must of hit it at least 6 xs ! :D

[peanut389]

What Professor Price I don't think I saw that Game!

[the06bug]

They only played it twice before they booted the Professor OFF the stage!

[blueberridreams2007]

I wish the Big Wheel looked like this still, especially with that triangle on the side of the screen and no green spaces. I guess they had to put green spaces on there though.

[art2007]

At 1:51 Bob Yells "STOP!!!"

[coolwafferman]

I know it hasn't changed much in 30 years but I like the Showcase Showdown better back then than now.

Like that Split Screen.

[4starcashier]

Man this is so retro...I mean I'm glad I get to see all this cool stuff...but I'm SOOOO glad I didn't have to live in the 1970s lol...I know it makes me hypocritical to say that cuz I love TV shows like Maude and of course TPIR.

[LAtheDJ]

The wheel seems a lot looser... Look how blank those side panels look.

I know there is some kind of mathematical reason for the placing of the wheel values. They're broken up so that the highs and lows aren't in the same place. Moreso than your average dartboard.

[gfalcon]

The wheel does have 9 conspicuously-placed pairs of numbers that happen to total 95 cents

In the area from 70 through 60: there are four pairs of adjacent numbers totaling 95

In the area from 20 through 55: the alternating numbers (ABAB) total 95

In the area form 50 through 45: the bracketed pairs (ABCCBA) of numbers total 95.

Mere coincidence? Maybe... but I'm doubtful.

[gfalcon]

There does seem to be 9 conspicuously-placed pairs of numbers that total 95 cents.

In the area from 70 through 60: There are four pairs of adjacent numbers that total 95.

In the area from 20 through 55: The alternating numbers (ABAB) pair up to total 95.

In the area from 50 through 45: The three bracketed sets of numbers (ABCCBA) pair up to total 95.

Coincidence? Maybe.. but I'm doubtful

[gsnman]

I thought it was 1977.

[thejoint25]

I missed when they stopped showing the person in the triangle.

[eljeep]

the men in the middle loves disco i think.... hahaha

[Tekkin58]

I love that wheel beep.

[dsturbed10]

did u ever notice that the denominations r almost the same as on a dart board?

[MysticArksRevenge]

I like the Showcase Showdowns from 1977 to 1994 because at 1:07, there is an arrow showing the contestant, along with higher pitched beeps, whereas in the episodes from 2006, and 2007, they don't show the arrow showing the contestant in it, plus the beeps are in a lower pitch.

[QBCNetwork]

If you notice, the 5 & 15 are black, instead of green. The bonus spin didn't start until 1978.

[heine71]

And long before the bonus spin rule in 1978, the Showcase Showdown Big Wheel offered a $1,000 bonus with no bonus spin for getting $1 in one spin or a 2 spin combo.

[tpirman1982]

Actually, it's 1979

[freeek04]

no, 1977. This is the episode with Professor Price, which was only played in 1977 so...

[DrLove0378]

That's right. Not only was it played ONLY in 1977 -- but for only one week, that year. On the two times it was ever played, it was won -- therefore making Professor Price, crappy as it was, the only pricing game with a perfect win-loss record.

[wvoutlaw2002]

Actually, Double Bullseye also has a perfect won-loss record......only because the game guaranteed a winner. But Double Bullseye is also the only game to guarantee a loser.

[XRayX4416]

Also the arrow is on a slant unlike todays it looks straight.

[tvlondon]

The arrow does flip, look carefully.

[heine71]

This was from Game Show Network when the network aired TPIR reruns? RetroWinipeg: Did Winnepeg have on its cablesystem Game Show Network in the late 1990's?

[RetroWinnipeg]

I got this from a VHS giveaway on a game show website last year. I believe Videon/Shaw began getting Game Show Network around 2000.

[gameshowfreak]

cool stuff. If you get a chance to respond to my comment, how did James do in the Showcase? Did he win?

[pricemodel1983]

notice how the arrow doesn't flip?

[updownturnaround]

this is cool!

[westmanguy]

thanks