TPIR '77: Multiple big wheel winners on same show 

The wheel has been tightened considerably since this was made.

Here's a clip from 1977 on the American TV show "The Price is Right" where they are multiple big wheel wins on 1 episode in the Showcase Showdown segment. 🇺🇲 🇺🇲

9:02 - "Stay tuned for _Double Dare_ starring Alex Trebek, next over most of these CBS stations!"

Yes, I too noticed how much tighter the wheel was during the spin-offs, you can't get away with ridiculous stuff like that these days, thankfully.

1978, when they made "5" and "15" green as well.

They also made the pegs between the sections of the wheel bigger (not in this video, but since then). That slows the wheel down faster as well.

They tightened it up. The wheel was very loose during the first SCSD. look at how much faster the wheel stops when it clicks onto the dollar second time around

I believe they did that in an effort to speed up the show and add more commercial time, not to mention they were probably running long with some of the guys who would spin ti so hard it would go into Young & Restless.

CBS dropped the practice of game show announcers saying "Stay tuned for ____ next over most of these CBS Stations" in either the late 70s or early 80s.

That's some great camera work in the winning spins...that's textbook, that's how it should be done. You don't see that anymore...

The big wheel sounds different than it does now.

I remember these sounds on the wheel.

March 3, 1977

Great camera and directing indeed! Really tight.

That wheel was hot!

I saw an episode where 4 people got a dollar. One of them won the 10,000.

DO you remember when Johnny Olsen was saying (Stay tuned for Gambit,Double Dare & Love of Life next over most of these CBS Stations?

I'm glad this isn't like Twitter where characters are limited I'd like to be here for an hour! Where do I start? They didn't reset the wheel for the spin-offs or after a non-qualifying so I don't know if they did that after they added the green sections in 1978. Also it was a very small window where Double Dare followed Price is Right. I know The Price is Right started at 10 a.m. eastern when it went to an hour in 1975. I don't know if that was the case at this point.

Wow the prices lol

That is somethin right there.

and in one day the price is right went bankrupt

Interesting...when that last contestant didn't get the Wheel all the way around, there was no booing!

So theoretically, if Y&R was pre-empted, you could win more back then than today.

Now if only Rich Fields would invite viewers to "Stay tuned for your Local News next over most of these CBS Staions."

Kills me that Bob couldn't say "Giacomo" correctly...

wow alex trebek hosted gameshows in the 'states back the 70s? i was always under the impression that pitfall and high rollers were his first hosting jobs...

did bob say damn?

how do you know this is there a clip for because i would like to see it

Inflation with out FIAT Currency has made prize packages go five figures now. Yes back then, $7,000 dollars for all of that stuff was expensive, but compared to now, I cannot fathom how lucky we had it back then!!

I wonder why all the themes on TPIR back then used the low-tone variant?

Funny to see a $5,000 show case

I guess I should clarify what yeldell1234 was trying to say. I think he, or she, was wondering when they added the bonus spin to the Showcase Showdown, which was 1978.

It's under the FAQ section of golden (dash) road (dot) net. And I don't have a clip of it.

Thanks!!!

generally speaking the wheel was much looser years ago than it is now...watch an ep from 1976, then an ep from the 90s or 2000s, and you'll see what i mean...

4:22... Molly Shannon

when the gree sections were introduce

What games were played on this episode?

A different beep this time! :^)

Wow!!

This show was aired between Monday, December 13, 1976 and Friday, March 4, 1977.

No copyright/year yet in the closing credits. Must not have appeared until 1978 or 1979.

i bet bobby never thot hed be doing this show for decades lol whats it been 30 years? finaly a new host

it's ~50 cents slower

December 1978

Before the bonus spin and the green sections.

there used to be a decimal point on the wheel?

They should have then added 5 and 10 in this segment

Anybody know if this full episode is available?

Bob barker, the greatest game show host ever of TPIR. Now the price is right has the worst.

That was a weird rule that they'd win another $1000 if they would get $1 on the wheel in one spin during the spinoff. Doesn't seem right. RIP Bob Barker (1923-2008)

Same half inch from 15 cents one dollar two one

No bonus spins