History Trivia / ThePriceIsRight

** On December 17, 2003, Bob accidentally reversed the order of the Eazy Az 1 2 3 blocks, telling the contestant to put "1" on the most expensive prize and "3" on the least expensive. The contestant won with the changed rules.

** The third Dennis James episode (#003N) got replaced as well, this one due to a mistake in the Showcase that there was no satisfactory way to fix. According to one account, the original plan was that, if there was a double overbid, both players would be allowed to make new bids, until there was a winner. That came into play here, and because someone forgot to keep track of which bid went with which Showcase, it supposedly led to Dennis declaring the wrong contestant to have won (there should've been a third bid, according to the "must be a winner" rule, since both players were still over). A replacement was taped at the end of the season, but it remains unknown how the episode wrapped production (or, as with #0013D, if it still exists). When the daytime show premiered, 10 episodes, not counting the unaired #0013D, were in the can.

** On September 13, 1993 the Season 22 premiere was pre-empted in it's entirety and never aired in 99% of the US due to the Olso Accords signing (preempting the premiere of the game Cover Up). However, the episode did aired on WIVB-TV and CHCH TV one hour early, thus only a few east coast viewers got to see the episode.

** Parodied on the AprilFoolsDay 2011 episode, where the show celebrated an unspecified 10,000th event. Drew explained that loyal viewers will immediately recognize the event when it happens. As with other milestone celebrations, the set was decorated for the momentous event, and everyone was in good spirits... but things went awry throughout the episode. [[spoiler:The 10,000th event never happened.]]

* DearNegativeReader: Two years into his tenure as host, Drew opened [[http://drewfromtv.blogspot.com his now-dormant personal blog]] and within days (not weeks as was expected), ruthless fans began attacking him over the firing of Roger Dobkowitz and various other things. One took his commentary too far and pushed Drew into disabling comments temporarily. After disabling comments, Drew [[https://drewfromtv.blogspot.com/2009/06/comments-turned-off.html condemned the irrational fans]], referring to them as "people that are metaphorically out on the street with their pants down yelling at a telephone pole", or "telephone pole screamers" for short.

** Creator/BobBarker's fur ban encompasses episodes with fur coats as prizes from the 1972 premiere to the first week of Season 11. The 1972-1980 nighttime run is even worse off with fur coats offered regularly. It remains to be seen whether or not the ban has been lifted following Bob's death in August 2023; the primetime tribute special ''The Price Is Right: A Tribute to Bob Barker'' featured clips from the first episode in 1972, which may indicate that it has at least in part. Notably, Creator/PlutoTV announced in November 2023 that they will be adding 60 Season 1 episodes (either back-to-back owing to the show's half-hour length in its early seasons on CBS or paired with the Bob Barker tribute) but would, not surprisingly, be skipping episodes that had fur coats as a prize.

*** Partially rescued as of December 2020, when Creator/PlutoTV (which already carries Fremantle's Buzzr) struck a deal with Fremantle for a 24/7 channel featuring vintage Barker episodes. However, instead of starting from the show's debut in 1972, they began with the second week of Season 11 in 1982, after the fur ban (though the fact that much of the show's EarlyInstallmentWeirdness had been shaken off by this point helps in this regard). Pluto being owned by Creator/ParamountGlobal (formerly [=ViacomCBS=]) probably helped this happen, with CBS even promoting the channel during ''Price'''s first-run episodes. As of June 2023, the run recycles at the last episode aired before they announced the passing of Johnny Olson in October 1985, though another new drop of episodes (which will include the post-Johnny auditions and the beginning of the Rod Roddy era) is anticipated soon.

** The 1972 {{Pilot}} — no, not the nighttime pitchfilm taped February 16, but rather a dress rehearsal taped August 15 (one day after the set was first put up, and four days before the taping of #0011D) to make sure things would go smoothly when taping began on the 19th (and likely to have something tangible to show to Creator/{{CBS}} execs). Interestingly, neither Bob nor Dennis hosted this taping...but the person who ''did'' has been lost to time, and Roger Dobkowitz doesn't believe any footage of it exists.

** Magic # was last played in November 2021. The prop apparently broke shortly after; as of June 2023, its status is still up in the air.

** Magic # became a particularly bad offender in the Carey era. It used state-of-the-art technology when it was introduced in 1992, but it stuck out like a sore thumb after new and refurbished pricing games utilized plasma and touch screens. It didn't help that its computer, which was never upgraded throughout its tenure, required a considerable amount of time to boot up prior to tapings. For that reason, the game couldn't be played earlier than third (it was last played second on December 24, 2007). This all came to a head in 2021 when the prop flat-out broke; it has not been played since, and the staff is still trying to determine if it even can be fixed.

** He also disliked ''Professor Price'', which only lasted two playings before it was retired. Surprisingly, its two playings were both successful, making it the only pricing game with a 100% (2-0) win-loss record.

** The original version averted any shame, and ensured it. In 1958, police arrested a viewer from New York City who tried to bribe the producers into selecting his sweepstakes entry. Later, as the quiz show scandals broke, charges were brought up that producers were instructing certain contestants to not exceed the prices of certain items. The charges were never proven.

* DiedDuringProduction: Johnny Olson died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1985 with a few weeks of shows airing after his death. Averted with Rod Roddy, who was already relying on substitute announcers on days when he did not feel healthy enough to continue, and thus ended up not having any of his work air posthumously.

** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]], in that all episodes of the current run are intact (September 1972 is when CBS quit erasing tapes), but even though the show has been released on DVD a majority of the run won't be, mostly due to older episodes offering fur coats as prizes and Barker's later membership in PETA. This includes ''the 1972 premiere'', although BCI (which released a box set in 2007) tried pretty hard to get fur episodes, offering to donate to Barker's favorite charities and/or put a disclaimer before the offending shows.

** Bob Barker's fur ban encompasses episodes with fur coats as prizes from the 1972 premiere to the first week of Season 11. The 1972-1980 nighttime run is even worse off with fur coats offered regularly. It remains to be seen whether or not the ban has been lifted following Bob's death in August 2023; the primetime tribute special ''The Price Is Right: A Tribute to Bob Barker'' featured clips from the first episode in 1972, which may indicate that it has at least in part. Notably, Creator/PlutoTV announced in November 2023 that they will be adding 60 Season 1 episodes (either back-to-back owing to the show's half-hour length in its early seasons on CBS or paired with the Bob Barker tribute) but would, not surprisingly, be skipping episodes that had fur coats as a prize.

** Bill Cullen stated in a January 23, 1972 interview that he was in negotiations with Goodson-Todman to do the revival in syndication and "We've hit a snag ... the price, so far, hasn't been right for me." At the time, Cullen was in New York as host of ''Series/ThreeOnAMatch'', contributor to ''Radio/{{Monitor}}'', panelist on ''Series/ToTellTheTruth'' and spokesperson for Korvette's department stores. To do the ''Price'' revival would have involved giving up ''four'' paychecks to move to Los Angeles (he would, however, finally move there by the late 1970s), and Goodson-Todman didn't have the budget to pay him enough to make up for that. Cullen has claimed in later interviews that the staging would have made it impossible to shoot around his limp even though that part hadn't been ironed out at the time, possibly because it was a more polite explaination than "[[MoneyDearBoy they didn't offer enough money]]". [[note]] On a similar note, Bill was to have guest-hosted ''Series/TheTonightShow'' during the week of July 22, 1963. A dispute between Frigidaire (''Price'' sponsor) and Hotpoint (''Tonight'' sponsor) scuttled the appearance. Arlene Francis filled in for Johnny Carson that week.[[/note]]

** Sometime between the pitchfilm and early August, the idea was hatched to use '''three''' Showcases per episode, so all onstage players could have a chance at more. This was dropped by mid-August.

** He also disliked ''Professor Price'', which only lasted two playings before it was retired.

** Bob Barker's fur ban encompasses episodes with fur coats as prizes from the 1972 premiere to the first week of Season 11. The 1972-1980 nighttime run is even worse off with fur coats offered regularly. It remains to be seen whether or not the ban has been lifted following Bob's death in August 2023; the primetime tribute special ''The Price Is Right: A Tribute to Bob Barker'' featured clips from the first episode in 1972, which may indicate that it has.

** In March 2023, Creator/PlutoTV announced that episodes featuring the pricing game Bump will not be streamed. This regrettably includes Johnny Olson's final episode and the first episode where Rod Roddy auditioned. One show with Bump got by on April 3, 2023, but this was because Pluto didn’t have enough time to pull the episode.The channel's official stance on Bump seems uncertain at the moment, However freemantle blocks episodes on YouTube before they air on the price is right the barker era channel. In August 2023 full episodes October 17 85 and November 8 85 got blocked those 2 have bump on em. However it's taking time for the next batch to air and there is speculation that with 10 bump playings coming up that they are taking their time to edit out the hip action.

*** For season 14, five episodes are skipped; #5795D (September 13), #5803D (September 18), #5811D/#58XXD (Either an unaired episode or a replacement that aired September 23, it's unclear which they would have shown), #5823D (October 2), & #5825D (October 4). Notably, all but #5823D have the game Bump, and those four were suddenly pulled from airing just weeks before they were to debut on the channel. #5825D did air on April 3, 2023, but this was likely unintentional, as this episode was supposed to air on this day prior to the last-minute exclusions, and did not air again afterwards. The channel's official stance on Bump seems uncertain at the moment, However freemantle blocks episodes on YouTube before they air on the price is right the barker era channel. In August 2023 full episodes October 17 85 and November 8 85 got blocked those 2 have bump on em. However it's taking time for the next batch to air and there is speculation that with 10 bump playings coming up that they are taking their time to edit out the hip action.

** Safe Crackers originally used [[RealSongThemeTune the theme]] from ''Franchise/ThePinkPanther'', which required Mark Goodson Productions to pay royalties for the music. For this reason, the theme was dropped and replaced by a generic cue in 1992. (The Tom Kennedy version of ''Price'', which aired during the 1985-86 season, used a separate cue.)