RIP Don Pardo He was also the announcer during the two weeks "Wheel of Fortune" did shows in New York City for the very first time (1988) and he was shown on camera on the last NYC episode.
I loved the unique items that were a regular part of this show, like the acrobatic mechanical poodle, and, of course, in this episode, the Cleenmobile, not to mention the Miss America bonus. There are two game show/staff announcers who have been amazingly at what they do for an amazingly long time. Pardo would continue to work for NBC for another half century! The other legendary announcer, still at it after 64 years in the business, is, of course, Johnny Gilbert. We will never forget these voices.
Don Pardo died in August 2014. He announced SNL from the show's debut in 1975 until a few months before his death. (He was replaced during the 1981-82 season.)
I thought that the price is Right was in color in the late 50's early 60's on NBC. I remember the NBC Peacock opening at the start. It's an early memory, around 5-6 years old, sitting on the kitchen floor at my Grandmother's house. For some weird reason she had a large console TV in her kitchen. BWT, my favorite part of these Price is Right's on RU-vid is Don Pardo's narration at the beginning and end of the program. The amount of audience noise seems purposely amplified. I say purposely, since, it appears to be that way for all the episodes on YT. Really cool!
+Joe Ray The NBC shows were in color, but the 2 inch reel to reel videotapes were reused. You are seeing a kinescope - a 16mm black and white FILM made by aiming a movie camera at a monitor. The sound has no dynamic range because of an automatic gain control Search for Let's Make a Deal - 1963 Pilot to see how these NBC game shows looked when broadcast.
2" videotape in 1950's? I assumed a kinescope was made directly from the live broadcasts. The opening theme music vs. audience noise seems to be part of the mix, not a "dynamic range" issue.
2 inch (wide) videotape was first used in the USA in 1956. A 1960 color tape compared to a B&W kinescope ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XyGxlkRC3xQ.html
And it is interesting that Don Pardo and Johnny Gilbert, who both are associated with Jeopardy! (which Gilbert is beginning his 35th season on), announced on this show.
Both also subbed on Wheel of Fortune in 1988; Johnny filled in for Jack Clark before his death and Don did Wheel when the show traveled to New York City
WOW! just under $15,500 of prizes in 1963... that's a LOT. Add to that he gets to come onto the show and win even more? And the NEXT sweepstakes offered an oil well/$25K cash PLUS the prizes?! I thought there were rather low limits imposed on winners in the 70s and 80s. When did this change?
NBC never had the prize limits that the other networks had. Also, to my knowledge, the original "Price is Right" never had limits on either network, so players could continue to win as much as they could as long as they kept winning.
Thank You very much for making it possible to see this incredible show again. I was born in 1952 and can remember seeing the big drums that they picked the contest winners from. One of the winners on a different episode was a Mr. Benjamin Seigal of Brooklyn, before he moved to Vegas? Some of those prizes were substantial enough to be life changing, like a business or a house, even a new car for free would be cool. (Not that I mind working for what I got!) Did anybody ever wrote a book about the show? Don Pardo also use to be the announcer on "Rowan and Martin's Laugh In" The sum total of the give aways would be interesting.
No---Gary Owens was the Laugh-in announcer, and he appeared on camera every week. If you have the Decades channel (over the air TV), there are 2 Laugh-in shows each weeknight.
Because the show was based in NYC, the WNBC booth announcer did the network cut-ins...he was Bill Faehn, and he would eventually work for WCBS-AM IN NYC....
My first recollection of Don P. was from the original Jeopardy!, even though I was 4 years of age for this video. Art Fleming constantly ribbed Don. BTW I wonder why no Cullen TPIR's have survived in color---even the NBC Peacock tags at the start are removed.
@@GeekGameCulture He preferred the security of the contract...he was given the option to get out of it and move to ABC, where he would double his current salary--$100,000
@@ChadQuick270W I was lucky enough as a young kid to had been able to be at the NBC Studio for color TV near Central Park with my Mom to watch a taping of the program. We had to be there by 10:15am for the taping which started at 11am. The daytime programs aired at 11am ET. We were there on Thursday, August 2nd, 1962.
"The Price is Right" would have been the first color daytime program on ANC, but, at was pointed out earlier, ABC didn't have the facilities or the revenue to do color shows during the day. I believe "The Jetsons" was ABC's first regularly scheduled color program in September 1962, but it may have been the only color show (aside from a few movies) until the 1965-66 season
I thought Milton Berle had one. And I think ALL of the NBC Staff Announcers were offered lifetime jobs because NBC wasn't hiring any new ones. Bill Wendell followed Letterman to CBS and ended his lifetime contract, which he supposedly later regretted.
Good grief they weren’t playing for peanuts. $10,000 in 1963 is about $80,000 today. I wonder how many shirts she had to clean to pay the taxes on the truck?
Think things are expensive? That first prize cost over $16,000 in 2021 dollars. How much would it cost to get a color TV with remote, a record player and stereo tuner today? $16,000? Hardly. I remember my father saving up for ten years to get a good stereo system that he dreamed about. Then again, back in 1963, such equipment was probably made in America by well-paid American workers, who still had jobs doing such things. Today, American workers get to sell foreign-made TV's etc. at Wal-Mart or load them on to trucks at an amazon warehouse. Whoopee for them, eh? Loved this show as a kid and love it now. The new TPIR has its charms too. It's just so different, that it can't be compared to this old version, especially the prime time show. Bill Cullen was the best. While he was witty, he never tried to upstage the contestants. The perfect host. I wish that every episode of Cullen's TPIR had been preserved.
Returning champions? And that guy ain't Bob Barker, he looks more like the current host! And why was the SNL guy filling in for Johnny? What kind of classic Price is Right is this? (sarcasm, for those who don't know such a thing)
Pardo is actually best known to people of a certain age for being the announcer on the original version of Jeopardy! that aired on NBC from 1964 through the first days of '75.
Yes, it was. The next show was going to return on Wednesday night, September 18th, at 8:30 pm eastern on another network (ABC). Betsy Palmer will be playing for members of the studio audience, And we will start a brand new showcase, with a chance for you to become a contestant, plus you can win your choice of an oil well or $25,000 in cash.
Wow... That last item has to be the most unusual product ever given away on any version of TPIR. At first, I thought it was a bad parody of Let's Make a Deal, but that was definitely something else.
As a kid my family had one of those gigantic home entertainment centers. We never used the radio or phonograph and the TV itself didn't work. We put a portable TV on top of the unit.
ELP!!!!! I am looking for my father James (Jim) Lansdale who was a contestant in 1957 while on leave in New York with the US Air Force. Please help me locate this episode. My mother is 88 and has never seen his appearance. Thank you!
I think at the time, September 1 or Labor Day was the start of the “new” TV season; somewhat ironically, it was nine years nearly to the day (9/4/1972) that the new version of TPIR (Bob Barker’s version) debuted.
Usually the television season would start the week of--or the week after--Labor Day. Daytime shows were most often live in the beginning, but as videotaping became more feasible, a number of shows were "pre-recorded: (usually a tag at the end of the show would say as much). By the 1970s, only a handful of soap operas were ever done live--I remember "The Edge of Night" would preface a few of its shows with "...and now, PRESENTED LIVE, 'The Edge of Night!'"
