Game show The Price Is Right celebrates its 50th season

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The game show has subtly evolved, with sturdy grandfather clocks as prizes replaced by electronic gadgets. However, 'you still need to know the price of that laptop or that iPhone', says model Rachel Reynolds, who joined the show in 2003.

If you can remember the price of a jar of mayonnaise, what an Armani purse goes for and how much to pay for an iPhone 12, there's really only one place to shineThe longest-running game show in television history is celebrating its 50th season this month and offering viewers a chance to, as always,"come on down" to win by guessing the correct retail price for various items.

Television host Bob Barker appears on the set of his show, 'The Price is Right' in Los Angeles on July 25, 1985. The longest-running game show in television history is celebrating its 50th season. Contestants are mostly regular people, nursing aides or home renovators or book store managers."Good luck, man," current host Drew Carey will say. Or,"Let's see those great prizes back there, Heather." They are overjoyed to be there. One recently wore a partially bedazzled T-shirt that said:"Drew, Let's party like it's $19.99".

Since 1972, producers say more than US$300 million in cash and prizes have been given away. More than 2 million audience members have attended a taping over those years and 68,000 of them have become contestants. More than 8,400 cars have been given away.

 

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