Now or Then March 1987, I was in Kindergarten back then and back then, The Price is Right was in its 15th Season on CBS Daytime, Bob Eubanks was still hosting Card Sharks on CBS and The New Newlywed Game for syndication and Elaine Joyce was the host of The All New Dating Game while Former Dating Host the late Jim Lange and Karen Thomas (formally of The Video Game) were still hosting The $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime and the late Bill Rafferty was still hosting Card Sharks for syndication and The NEW Blockbusters for NBC Daytime and NBC Daytime also had a handful of Game Shows during that time $ale of the Century w/the late Jim Perry & Summer Bartholomew, SCRABBLE w/Chuck Woolery, Super Password w/the late Bert Convy and Wordplay with Tom Kennedy and Pat & Vanna were still spinnin' the Wheel of Fortune on both NBC Daytime and Nighttime Syndication (which they continue to do to this day) and Alex Trebek was and still is the KING of JEOPARDY! and also, the TV Icon Dick Clark was still KING of The NEW $25,000 Pyramid on CBS Daytime & The Original $100,000 Pyramid on Syndication, Bloopers and American Bandstand and Bandstand was in its Final Season abc Saturday Mornings before makin' its jump to syndication
Memorial Day 1996. Not along after Chantel Dubay joined the show permanently and two weeks after the closing credits went to Chyron. The 1994 syndicated music package was a pretty recent addition to the show around this time. This was also right after Happy Gilmore came out and helped make Barker and the show more popular with younger folks.
They tried the chyron credits for the 7/1/1988 episode, the 16th season finale, and then went back to the regular way they did credits starting on the 17th season premiere
And also the time when the production number switched from D to K, this was #0011K. I have to wonder when they run out of production numbers that end in K, if they will switch again.