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uncamark:

--- Quote ---Several books make it a point to mention that reruns aired in summers 1981 and 1983, so it would stand to reason those were the first two. So it was probably just a matter of keeping the staff from burning out by doing 260 hours/year.
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Seems to me that it happened a lot earlier than that--I recall seeing summer reruns sometime in the 70s.  It's entirely possible since \"LMAD\" (the other big audience participation show) seemed to be on a four-day week of new episodes through most of the ABC run and had several weeks of reruns during the summer (which ABC highlighted by having Jay Stewart record a \"this program was a repeat telecast\" voice-over added to the end of the show).  That's on top of the two or three weeks a year that guest hosts filled in for Monty.

I can't name you the exact year, but it seems that sometime after the first year, G-T decided to take the summer off on \"TPIR\"--and I'm sure that this was standard procedure by the time the show went to an hour.

And as for guest hosts--considering that the only time in the syndie run of \"T or C\" that there was a guest host was when they had a firm booking for remotes from Seattle (the only remotes they did in the syndie run) that couldn't be cancelled--and the guest host was none other than Ralph Edwards, the creator and original host--I sense that Barker's ego pretty much forbade that, outside of Dennis James' one stint on the daytime show.

tommycharles:
[quote name=\'cmjb13\' date=\'Jul 8 2003, 07:10 AM\']
I can't say for reruns, but he did keep up the same M-W 2 day tape schedule up until around 1998.

I wish they would go back to that schedule. [/quote]
 Just out of curiosity, why does it matter what their taping schedule is?

clemon79:
[quote name=\'tommycharles\' date=\'Jul 8 2003, 09:55 AM\'] Just out of curiosity, why does it matter what their taping schedule is? [/quote]
 Maybe it makes it easier for him to attend tapings.

Clay Zambo:
I remember it well.  I'd bought the \"New Price Is Right\" box game on Saturday night, and there, on Monday's show, the name was different.  I was crushed!

(I have this vague recollection that it was on that first \"The Price Is Right\" episode that Lucky Seven was premiered.  Anybody know for sure?)

-C

Steve Gavazzi:
Let's see here...

- The most common answer to \"when did TNPiR become TPiR\" seems to be around June of 1973.

- The opening music changed in either January or February of 1976.

- The gigantic color scheme makeover occurred in mid-to-late summer of 1975.

- The current taping schedule puts out five shows a week, as opposed to six with the old one.  TPiR's seasons in recent years have been about 20 episodes shorter than they used to be.  I'm guessing that these two facts are somehow connected.

- As far as I know, Lucky $even didn't debut until Season 2.

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