``Come on down!'' ``The Price Is Right'' -- hosted by Bob Barker until 2007 and then Drew Carey thereafter -- features a wide variety of games and contests with the same basic challenge: guess the prices of some everyday (or not-quite-everyday) retail items. Four contestants, all of whom are seated in one of the wildest audiences in daytime game show history, are called down to the stage to play a preliminary pricing round. That winner joins the host on stage for one of over 70 different pricing games. After three such games, the contestants spin a big wheel -- hoping to get as close to $1 as possible -- in the ``Showcase Showdown'' round. The two highest winners of that round advance to the final round, where prizes could be cars or roomfuls of furniture. All of the show's prizes are presented by a trio of models.
- Premiere:
- Sep 04, 1972
- Original Network:
- CBS
