I miss that old set, the times...everything back in the 1970's and 1980's. Sad times we live in...this is as close to a time machine we're gonna get. Thank you Bob for the memories.

I have attended three tapings of TPIR with Bob Barker. I never saw Bob leave the stage in the 75 minutes it took to tape the show. They would stop tape during the commercial breaks so the crew could set things up for the next game. It took five to seven minutes. Bob would stay out on stage and talk to the audience.

He made a lot of people smile for many years

Yes, Johnny O was one of the best parts of the show - he really shined when Jay Wolpert produced the show, and had him in all those great showcase skits!

Thought I'd tell you, my most favorite part of this video is Johnny Olsen disco dancing to "Disco Inferno". What an awesome way to warm up the audience!

This is great...always love seeing behind the scenes footage, but this is just classic Price in it's prime!

Thanks for this rare clip. It's always fun seeing the behind-the-scenes of game shows like TPIR!

And before that episode with the Any Number problem aired, Johnny would add in a disclaimer in post-production after his closing spiel, "Due to a production error, a portion of the program was re-created and the tape edited."

Since my last comment, Adam Sandler is the current director (one of the few remaining staffers left from the Barker era), and on one special episode we got to see him hard at work. Oh, and RIP Marc Breslow.

Johnny Oslen was great but I also would like to see how Rod Roddy fires up the crowd in the 80s & 90s as well

Wow this is a very outstanding quality video despite Bob with dark hair!! Nice to see behind the scenes stuff :)

This was great. Thanks for posting.

During the contestant selection, you can also see Gina Edwards-Nyman (then Gina M. Edwards) there as well helping out the process, and she's still on the show as of today (one of the remaining staff members of the Barker Era remaining). Not only that but she would sit next to the chair that had the "Right" seat to tell the contestants what to do and what not to do between each act (blue, then later green) as well as give a smile and/or wave during the opening.

R.I.P., Johnny Olsen We miss you!

Rest in peace, Bob.

1984-1992 are the golden years 1980-1983 are the silver years

How interesting, even with all of Johnny's antics and dancing about the studio; the audience was still sitting politely in their seats. Today's audience's would be jumping up and down and shouting.

That's David Shire's "Manhattan Skyline," from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.

I attended a taping back in 2008. I could hear everything in the studio that you hear on TV. However, it was often hard to hear the names being called by the announcer and the stuff said by the contestants over the crowd noise. They do hold up cue cards with the contestants' names when they are called. That's probably why Drew (or Bob) will repeat back a bid incorrectly, since it's hard to hear.

@AmericanPride1234 I attended a taping in April 2007. During a commercial break, someone suggested that to Bob, to which he replied, "Sure. And maybe I'll become a bodybuilder and run for governor of California". I'm sure a lot of people agree with you. Actually, there was once a showcase which centered around what things would be like if Bob were president.

@oldertvshowswerebetr They do play the main sounds, like the Come on Down music, the Main theme, and the Big Wheel beeps, but I cannot remember if they played them all.

Amazing. I had no idea the music wasn't playing when they were doing the "Come on down!" and when Bob came out. And even when they win a price the "ding ding ding" doesn't play! It's all added later!

Anyone notice that the guy that said "I'm going to take Bob Barker's place" made it onstage to play a pricing game? You can see him at :45 and 3:38.

#RIPJohnnyOlsen , #RIPBobBarker

It was too cold to get excited

I'm so glad albeit brief I've met Mr barker irl

@3:20 Bob Barker admits that there were days when he didn’t feel like getting out of bed to go to work hosting TPIR. It got me thinking what did Bob Barker like to watch on TV when he was sick? Did he ever call in sick so he could stay home and watch reruns of TPIR?

It's interesting how its basically the same just without all the modern lights on. Just an auditorium with house lights.

i wish had seen eps earlier than 1984...1984-1991 is the golden age of tpir in my world...

For me, 1991-2007 (my golden age of Price is Right) :D

Someone should post an audio warm up of johnny olson in action. I seen an audio warm up on KZfaq before. But, there has to be more.

I went to a taping once and experienced a brief stopdown because the display on an SP stand for Spelling Bee wouldn't light up. :-D

Maybe I'm just not hearing it, but I always thought the tunes they play would be played during the taping.

Sure wish that George Gray could be in the showcases like Johnny Olson and Rod Roddy did.

GOOD TIMES 😊

Imagine when you have a headache and work for the show (or any other actually) when the people start screaming hahaha Just like singers with a concert or anyone that works with crowds and noises.

Flash forward to 2.020: no audience, just contestants, George Gray, and host Drew Carey. Plus Carey's Beauties.

What was the instrumental piece in the background?

Manhattan Skyline from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.

I'd feel bad if I were the contestant and my game messed up, because it's better if things go smoothly. I wonder why they couldn't bring up the 6 in Any Number before they stopped tape but they were able to bring it up after the stop.

By the way, TPIR's current director (as of 2011) is Michael Dimich; Rich DiPirro has too many on his plate now including Family Game Night (with Todd Newton and Burton Richardson, who announced on the Doug Davidson TPIR and was one of the sub-announcers after Rod Roddy's death).

Was this on 60 Minutes?

Listen carefully to the TPiR worker at 2:28. Does she not sound just like Lorna Patterson (the love interest stewardess) in the movie Airplane! ??

0:00-0:12 1:10-1:20 1:53-2:23

CBS Television City, 7800 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, California 90036 Stage number 33

They need to show some $25,000 pyramid behind the scenes

The real Price is Right.

300? Try over 5000+ now in 2013.

@lakebay972 I agree - thanks to him, Marc got fired by someone that considered him to be his son, Mark Goodson, and after Mark Goodson did that, both he and Marc Breslow were sworn enemies of Bob Barker after he was promoted to EP in 1986 - hellva way to treat a guy, huh?

This isn’t a show. It’s an hour of companies advertising their products

the price is right wheel...seem its being control backstage......

@armymjm too bad Bob Barker didn't like him

Bob Barker for President

the price is a loss of brain function

These stupid contestants have no idea what they are letting themselves in for. First of all, the prizes are worthless. Who in the hell needs a "party boat," especially if you live in the middle of a city? And the cars are not worth the price of admission.! They do not come fully loaded and the contestant has to pay a 40% luxury tax on the car, not to mention the other prizes. Furthermore, the contestant has to go to the dealership to pick up the car and the dealership could be in another state, so they either have to fly or drive there. And a lot of these automobiles come with standard transmission. If you can't drive a standard transmission, you have to pay extra for an automatic transmission. And, the car you see on the showroom floor is not always the car you get when you arrive at the dealership. And who needs a trip to the Azores, or some other country that is embroiled in war? Give me a break! The contestants who win the big showcases throw themselves into a higher tax bracket. If you make $30.00.00 per year, and you win a $65,000.00 showcase, you are now in the top tier - $95,000.00 tax bracket. Not worth the trip to the studio, suckers!

Video quality is bad - come on, have some respect for the show, why post this blurry highly compressed garbage !!!

the only time in tpir history where production is stopped to technical error instead of immediately awarding the prize, or you keep taping, so the guy who didn't have to do anything in 10 chances had all 3 prices revealed if marc breslow was directing that day, he would have stopped taping after the first one was revealed instead of awarding the contestant all 3 prizes, or the guy that pressed the red button on flip flop we would never have seen that if marc breslow was there directing, he would have stopped taping and recreated the game with the contestant flopping the 59 to 95 for 4695 i think was the price of the prize, 2 classic examples marc breslow would have screwed us out of ever knowing happened.