This is the battlefield for our game of speed and strategy! These are the letters which lead to victory on BLOCKBUSTERS! And here's the star of nighttime BLOCKBUSTERS, George Gobel!
Bill Cullen was one of the best game show hosts ever. And Don Pardo WAS NBC! I remember watching this as a kid when I was home sick from school. I would laugh my 🍑off when some wrong answer came up when I matched it with the question. That show was hilarious!!
I wonder if there would be a 2025 newly nighttime version of Now You See It a new one hour game show next spring on ABC tv with new host Sara Haines or someone soon!!
"In a moment, the game in which these dice determine the fate of two players as they compete for over $25,000 in cash playing...We've Got Your Number! And now, here's the host of We've Got Your Number, Jack Barry!"
Top five celebrities I think should host a 2025 reboot of the game show Tattletales to be coming on ABC: Selena Gomez Mischa Barton Autumn Reeser Willa Holland Melissa Benoist
This theme is catchy and fun, although it has always seemed kinda like elevator mus-zack, so breezy and cheery. It is interesting that the great theme from the early 70s show starts with the same 4 notes, just shuffled a bit.
Ladies and gentlemen, the name of the game is Go! And two teams are here to compete for a jackpot worth over $20,000. This week our celebrity captains are from_____X and from ______Y. And now here's your host ready to go, Kevin O'Connell
This is the battlefield for our game of speed and strategy. These are the letters that lead to victory, on Blockbusters! And now, here is the star of Blockbusters: Bill Cullen!
Bob Eubanks' Wardrobe Furnished By Rick Pallack Sherman Oaks, CA Same Wardrobe worn by the likes of Peter Tomarken, Chuck Henry, Bob Hilton, Rolf Benirschke, Bob Goen, Wil Shriner, Alan Thicke, Marc Summers and Tom Bergeron
This takes me back to those days of summer vacation and the days when I would stay home sick from school. Watch gameshows all morning and sleep when the soap operas would come on. Chicken noodles soup with crackers and 7up was on the menu. It was a great time to be a kid!
*Did you know. . .* The Price is Right premiered on November 26, 1956 with Bill Cullen as host? Don Pardo was announcer until the show moved to ABC in 1963. The show had four contestants to guess the prices, and the host tells “actual retail price is… (insert price here)”. The show was announced by Johnny Gilbert and Ed Jordan when the show moved to ABC in 1963. The original theme song was Charles Strouse’s “Sixth Finger Tune” (performed on October 8, 1956 from Scott Michel’s 1956 play *Sixth Finger for a Five-Fingered Glove*.) On May 17, 1961, it was replaced by a theme song by Bob Cobert, entitled “Window Shopping”. The show had a primetime syndicated version of the program just 9 months after its daytime debut, during August 1957. Both the daytime and primetime versions were hosted by Bill Cullen with Don Pardo as announcer. The primetime syndicated version was cancelled in January 1963. The show returned seven years and a day later, on September 4, 1972, with a new host (Bob Barker), new studio audience, new contestants, a new set, and new theme music, from Edd Kalehoff, who created music to the Goodson-Todman game shows of the 70s. Barker met Bert Convy and appeared two times on *The Price is Right*. The first one was March 8, 1974, and the other one was June 3, 1982. It is currently the longest-running game show in television history because it premiered on CBS in 1972 and still is on the air today. The show originally aired at the time slot, *10:30 a.m.*. On November 3, 1975, it expended to an hour in length, and became the “first hourlong game show in television”. The show now airs at the time slot, *10:00 a.m.*. In 1982, Barker met Bill Cullen to promote Mark Goodson’s new game show, “Child’s Play”. The show was originally announced by Johnny Olson until his death in October 1985, followed by Rod Roddy shortly before his death in October 2003, then Rich Fields until his retirement in June 2010. George Gray announced beginning in December 2010, then as “permament announcer” in April 2011. In April 1990, it was nicknamed the “longest-running game show”. Rod Roddy was the longest-serving announcer and Rich Fields was the shortest-serving announcer, both from February 1986 until June 2010. In September 1991, the show celebrated its 20th anniversary. The first syndicated version ran from 1972-80 with Dennis James as host. In 1977, Bob Barker took over. The second one ran as a summer syndicated version from 1985-86, with Tom Kennedy and Bob Barker as the hosts. On September 12, 1994, (the same day that Richard Dawson returned to Family Feud), another syndicated Price Is Right began as “The New Price Is Right” with Doug Davidson as host and Burton Richardson as announcer. The show originally dubbed as The New Price Is Right for the first CBS season and the first syndicated season. It ran until January 27, 1995. On January 31, 2002, the show had a 30th anniversary special in Las Vegas. This was a year later that the show has another syndicated version of the show called “The Price Is Right $1,000,000 (or Million Dollar) Spectacular”. The show ran from 2003 until 2008. On June 15, 2007, Barker retired, and a few months later, Drew Carey took over as host during both the daytime and syndicated version (known as “The Price is Right $1,000,000 (or Million Dollar) Spectacular”). The show had another syndicated version of the show as “The Price Is Right at Night” during Christmas 2019. The 50th season premiered September 13, 2021, and the 52nd season premiered September 25, 2023. During June of that year, it was announced that it would be leaving CBS Television Studios in Hollywood.
This theme was composed by Bob Cobert, who also composed music to the 1966 gothic soap opera Dark Shadows, also "The Price Is Right" (original version), and that theme was called "The 6th Finger Tune", which also had another theme called "Window Shopping", and also "Password" (1960s version) and that theme called "You Know the Password" replaced "Holiday Jaunt" in 1963, and "Blankety Blanks"/"Double Talk", these were the 1975 and 1986 Bob Stewart game shows, and also "Jackpot" (1980s version) he also did the themes to "Go!" and "The $25,000/$100,000 Pyramid".
I loved this theme as a kid. As an adult, working in small market radio, we read the school lunch menus every morning. I'd play this music while I read the lunch menus. Loved it!
“It’s a game for the uninhibited. Our guest stars for this week: from S.W.A.T., Shemar Moore; and from Law & Order: SVU, Mariska Hargitay. Watch their bodies do the talking on Body Language! And now, here’s the star of Body Language: Richard Karn!”
Crosswits 1st theme (1975-77), synthesizer, with a steel pan sounding drum to this. 2nd theme (1977-79), a Hal Hidey sound to the second theme. 3rd Theme (1979-80) Disco version of Theme 2.
