The Price Is Right | 10/15/1987 (Bob's first day with Gray Hair) 

R.I.P. King Bob Barker 1923-2023.

Bob has such an charming character and good humor. He is one of those cases where the gray hair made him even more distinguished. He always had a great sense of class.

The Sultan of sick days

This is why you stayed home "sick" from school...

"The Price Is Right" is/was/and will always be a rite of passage of all school kids when home from school and "sick." 😂

Every time I was sick or summer vacation from Elementary School was spent with Bob on The Price Is Right. I love hearing Rod Roddy announcing.

I was 5 in '87, but as kid especially in the 80s, My Grandfather would be in his Recliner laid back watching the Price is right. Sadly I lost my Grandfather in 2006. But when I heard of Mr.Barker's Death it took me back to my Grandfather's Day of watching. But I'm Blessed enough to still have my Grandmother who will be turning 100 next Month. I told her, that she and Mr.Barker was Born in the same year of 1923. She said she never knew they were the same age. My he R.I.P

I love his gray hair!!!! He looks very handsome that way

I was about a year & a half here. The sound of this show literally makes me feel like a baby.👶🏽💕 I’m 37. It’s the strangest thing.🤦🏽‍♀️😩🤣🤣🤣

The 80s just gives me a happy feeling, I can't explain it.

My favorite thing too watch when sick from school❤❤ and during summer break and xmas break 😊

Rod Roddy! The perfect replacement to Johnny Olson!

I was luckily a contestant around Aug 1993 or 94. Cant remember. I was about 22 years old. Name got called then I bid closest and won a large globe that lights up when touched ($1400). I got the pick a pair game but lost a dinning room set. At the wheel I went first and got 2 35s = 70. The second contestant went over but then the last girl got a dollar. That ended my Price is Right glory! And yes, I had to pay tax on the globe which I still have after 30 years and show off to anyone who sees it.

Dear Bob, Thank you for helping to take care of me when I was sick at home from school a lot. I love you, -Will

Bob Barker was such a class act everything looked good on him.

I loved this show and Bob. Was a favorite show as a kid ..😊 RIP BOB ❤

This is like an IV dose of childhood. OMFG. Lol. I love everything about this. Also, Barker was a handsome man.

This show came on at 11am when I would stay home sick from school--I grew up on east coast.

1:01 Twenty Years of Bob hosting with Grey Hair officially begins

The next shocking event in game show history will be on 9/18/2001 when the late Alex Trebek shaved his iconic mustache.

I was five when this aired. Somehow I remember it. "Mommy, mommy, look at Bob Barker"

I remember this episode lol. I was on break at my year round school and my mom saw it and said, "he looks very handsome for a white man". That was high praise from my mom.

20:30. Desk top phone had me laughing when it rolled out.

That's really fun. He handled it really well and everyone was down for it. Good timing. Thanks for sharing!

I just love that the price is right kept its 70s vibe thru bob's run. At some point in the 80s, there had to be a producer meeting to decide... " Hey we've let this 70s theme go on a bit long.. do we update or just run with it as our thing? " I love their choice to just keep it as a feature

Omg!! I remember this when I was 16. I was watching this with my grandmother. When he came out she said, “Wow, I’m SO happy he let his gray show.” I didn’t think it was a big deal, since my grandmother always let her gray hair show. I didn’t even know his hair was dyed that whole time. Watching it now I fully understand, partly because I’m now going gray.

"Fingers Greco" sounds like someone that will come break your kneecaps if you say you didn't like Bob's hair!

I’m crying 😢 right now. Rest in peace Bob Barker thanks for the memories.

That speed queen washer dryer combo just might still be around today. They were and are absolute tanks!

i remember this day vividly... the shock when he walked out ... as a kid i thought he looked so old, now he looks so young and vibrant. RIP Bob

Boy, that Mazda 323 was fancy!!😂 Mary was quite the player, no strikes and giddy as heck!☺💲

It’s like a 45 minute show and Bob did 10 minutes on his hair 😂 legend

Hear the great Rod Roddy. Ohhh, Yes. You just knew something AMAZING was about to happen. Loved this episode

I remember watching this episode live. My Mom came into the room as the show started and saw Bob Barker and was like "oh my gosh! What happened to Bob?" haha.

This guy had charisma coming out of every pore

What a fabulous playing of 3 Strikes!

Highlight of being home sick was watching this, eating some top ramen soup, and sleeping

I love Bob Barker may he forever rest in peace

43:38 “This are it.”

Sick day.from school...it was this show and soup

I think Phyllis was the real life Rose from the Golden Girls🤦

That’s the Bob Barker I’ll always remember. RIP Big Price

And back in the days of when standing ovations really meant something.

How bad is TV today to watch these reruns from 35 years ago LOL I love them of course :D

I think we all love Bob either with dark hair or gray! It doesnt matter!!! I tried to get the episode when he came out on the turn table to come on & Betty White was a guest star!! I honestly dont remember it.

The smile on Holly's face when she revealed the losing price with that first contestant🤣🤣🤣🤣

RIP Mr. Bob Barker...You will always be the best Price is Right host in my book.

Wow.... I actually remember this episode! This used to come on before I got on the bus in Kindergarten. I kept wondering what happened to his hair😂😂

I was born in 83, but watching these older episodes when they figure the price out on a sexy mazda and it's a 4 digit number...yeah...

RIP Mr Barker, we'll miss you!😭

I just realized Bob Barker had the same cadence and speech delivery of Jack Benny.

I was 4 when this aired, super nostalgia right here. Watching Price Is Right with my mom and sister as a kid is one of my favorite childhood memories

Makes me sad that I missed so many of these because I had school. There just wasn't enough sick days and vacation days to keep me from missing Bob & the Crew.

I happen to be home that day not much to do but the TV AND THIS EPISODE OF THE PRICE IS RIGHT WILL FOREVER TO ME BEING MONUMENTAL MOMENT IN TIME

The gray hair Bob Barker, my favorite appearance

It is so much fun to watch these and try to guess the prices on prizes taking inflation into account.

I'm over here cheering for Mary winning that car nearly 40 years ago haha, I know she's long since passed but I hope she had a great rest of her life after this episode!

As a kid, I thought that Bob Barker switched places with Johnny Carson, not realizing that Bob Barker actually went gray (or was already gray, but was tinting/dying his hair).

I remember this change rocked the community of the retirement home my grandparents lived in at the time. People were all in a tizzy delirious with ecstasy.

I remember watching this with my Grandma. I was blown away how different he looked. I was 11. I miss you Nana❤️❤️

A standing ovation for not dying his hair! I recall this was a news item in Canada.

My fav era!! The bob i always knew and started watchin 😊

We went to 99 without going over

Too many mornings at 11 am i was home from school watching this

They LOVED you Bob...Rest in peace...I AIN'T gonna even hold you...😑

10:22 YES!!! Mary done hit a grand slam playing 3 Strikes! And winning an '87 Mazda 323 hatchback to boot! And so did Consuelo Grepo on Benicia, CA, who watched TPIR on independent station KOFY-TV 20 San Francisco (since then Group W owned-and-operated KPIX-TV Channel 5 pre-empted much of CBS' daytime schedule up till 1994).

woohoooooooooooooo you go Mary xxxx no strikes. that was fabulous and for the lady playing at home... thats awesome. i used to watch this daily when Bob was hosting. RIP Bob love you always

3 trips and a car for a showcase? Omg, they wouldn't do that nowadays

LOL I love it. This was the day I turned 4.

R.I.P Bob Barker 1923 - 2023.💔🕊️

Bob in this episode is only a couple years younger than Drew is now and looks much better .

$1100 for a showcase? Lady, this isn't the 1950's!

80's and 90's! Peak game show era.

seeing that desktop telephone cracked me up sideways. not only its a phone, but its a calculator and a clock. now thats worth 895 dollars in 1987

I was living in Germany when this aired but did not see bob with his grey hair until 1988 when we came back from Germany because the American forces network or (AFN) which is the channel for the Americans stationed there in the military did not air the price is right. Exciting to see it though.

I miss Rod and Bob. California looked so happy.

Amazing how Bob looked this old for 40 years

those lights were pretty exciting as a kid

So weird to think that price is right's ratings actually got better when Bob decided to stop dying his hair

i like the sound quality of this episode

the Price is rights first season in stereo

I have never watched the Price is Right since Bob Barker left. It just isn't the same.

I miss the old Pick-A-Pair with the carnival wheel and music.

Rip Bob 😭😭😭.

It certainly brings back memories to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much!!!!!!

that MAZDA was kinda nice

I loved the old cast and crew! The models were all natural beauties nothing fake from teeth down to their nails! The today's set is too florescent in colors, and everything moves way too fast...like the show on steroids. RIP Bob, no one can replace you or those real beauties

The energy, the crowd, the etiquette, and the attire of the audience speaks to how far we as a nation have declined. Our national epitaph will read: With Freedom Comes Responsibility.

Couldn't even get that sailboat for 15k today in 2023

The voice of game shows like vin scully is the voice of baseball

i love the price is right.

RIP Bob. They should’ve showed the beginning of this episode during the tribute episode.

“Alright Happy, nice and easy…..that was NOT nice and easy…”

13:41 I want you to know we deal in accuracy here. Look what Janice is doing to this picture of me. See that, the grey hair? (Laughs)

1987 is when this episode aired.i saw this episode.this is back when bob barker was the host and rod roddy was the announcer.

They carried the shows music from the 70s straight into the 80s.

by then Bob was already 63 going on 64, it was about time he let his hair go gray.

A NEW CAAAAAARRRRRRR!!!! 7:48

And it seems here that Bob still had some hints of his former hair in this first gray look, before going full gray some time later.

I remember my first time hosting a game-show with white hair. Brings back memories.