The Price Is Right (1987)

The first edition of Series 4.
Hosted by Leslie Crowther.
With Judy Bailey, Cindy Day, Gillian de Terville,
Carol Greenwood & Denise Kelly.
and the voice of Simon Prebble.
A Central Independent Television Production.

[@voicezful]

Perfectly immaculate Lesley Crowther - the Roger Moore of quiz shows.

[@brody5211]

Good comparison- has he got the eyebrows?

[@gunsharck]

I can see that!

[@ianw1962]

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[@aaronjameslockwood2437]

I enjoyed watching the Central ITV version of The Price Is Right when I was very little at the time. The Leslie Crowther era of The Price Is right is the best.

[@morgansifer]

I LOVED this show as a child. I would ask my parents if they would let me go inside the TV to be a part of it. It looked so exciting. Bruce's version was OK but Leslie's era was the golden era.

[@simonhodgetts6530]

Agreed - Leslie Crowther made this show. Used to watch every Saturday night!

[@tomasjaramillo4430]

CAR

[@gunsharck]

Bruce had Emma Noble OOOOOOF she’s a tasty bird

[@MrDavey2010]

I met Leslie Crowther many years ago. Lovely man.

[@michaelc3051]

I remember loving this show as a kid and thinking how glamorous it seemed 😁😁

[@watkinsd1975]

It doesn't get any more 'gameshow' than this. I was 12 years old and loving life!

[@gunsharck]

As opposed to being in your fifties and hating it? I hope not, I hope you still have your zest!!

[@leeosborne3793]

The way everyone gets so hyped up and excited on this is hilarious!

[@greatwhiteshark9192]

Love the "come on down" music...furious disco at its best!!!

[@SuperZedd]

The voice of Leslie Crowther when he says "Come On Down"

[@SuperZedd]

JOHN COOPER You live and learn!

[@SuperFannyfarts]

Yes. Leslie said the best " Come on Down " ever :)

[@24yrukdesigner]

I was a baby but still remember

[@stephenduncan3605]

He's from Nottingham

[@geoffreyadlam1300]

I REMEMBER IN WORK ON THE MONDAY ALL OF US SAYING COME ON DOWN GEOFF STOCKPORT

[@paulaclements4483]

Leslie Crowther. is the king of game shows and he's the best

[@southpolaroid5]

It’s bob barker

[@ajk]

@@southpolaroid5 US King yeah, but UK wouldn't really know him

[@bryanhiggins3102]

Leslie was truly great!!! My favourite of all game show hosts!!! He was one of those rare hosts who realised that the show was mainly about the contestants, and not themselves!

[@flashtheoriginal]

Must admit. This WAS Saturday night. FACT. Brucey took it to even dizzier heights. On that very first Saturday night in 1984, England went absolutely fucking nuts. Everyone was talking about it at work on Monday. Happy days Love Leslie's left hand wheel over with the contestant card as he announces Come on Down

[@JesusCommando]

This looks entertaining as fuck! No wonder I used to love this in the 80s

[@thepowerman1000]

Brilliant. Used to spend many weekends with my grandparents and they loved this, 3-2-1, Play your Cards Right etc..etc... and it all seemed impossibly glamourous on their 26" Ferguson TX. Massive TV at the time. They also got LWT as opposed to our TVS, which made the weekend all the more exciting.

[@philljenner4045]

They rediscovered this set in 2016....and Sidney was still on contestant's row.

[@adventureoflinkmk2]

Sydney.. you mean?

[@MartinFarrell1972]

This takes me back, watched this with my family. I see one of Harry Enfield's scouser character is on it.

[@damiancoyne]

This was the Series when it moved from Saturday nights to Friday nights at 7pm

[@simonlumsden6045]

Leslie Crowther loved hosting The Price Is Right, you can tell!

[@LittleMissGrosser]

Leslie was the best host of this, in my opinion. Always wanted one of the teddy bears as a little kid in the 80s!

[@stephenlang3135]

Leslie crowther made this show

[@georgef551]

The "Come on down!" music is a variant of the original "Family Feud" theme song, being both were Mark Goodson / Bill Todman shows.

[@agbook2007]

That makes complete sense now… and it drives me a little bonkers to hear it “out of place”… 🤣

[@themanmaschine]

This is seriously classic Saturday night viewing! Brings back a lot of memories!

[@themanmaschine]

Even although Leslie says Friday, I think it was shown on STV on a Saturday, it was definately the case in 1984.

[@7Network]

+themanmaschine the final series went out on the less suitable Friday night

[@theartfuldodger6500]

Was quality and a great show during my childhood. Loved how the people went nuts ans flew down the stairs

[@MrDavey2010]

I’m sure it was broadcast on Saturday Nights not Fridays.

[@pedanticradiator1491]

At the time Friday nights were nearly as big a TV night as a Saturday for game shows

[@IVR02]

I love the music they use for Time Play!

[@bethmc717]

Leslie was hilarious 😂 Such a mad show 🤣 Fantastic tv

[@michaeldignan4607]

I had a big crush on Cindy Day way back then...

[@littletraveller5428]

Is it just me or does it seem like people were nicer then?

[@leebeardshall2888]

We were a lot nicer back then.

[@jasongoodacre]

Yeah people were nicer for sure

[@mmoore4087]

@@leebeardshall2888 . . Except me, I have been a complete asshole for over 66 years...medicated for 10 years.

[@ajs41]

True

[@hughjass2745]

@@leebeardshall2888 werent so politically obsessed

[@traviskiker4]

Now I am watching The Price Is Right from Great Britain.

[@PrinceBarin77]

Imagine pitching this to TV execs now. 1 hour of the public trying to guess the price of tat from a mail order catalogue with the top prize a beige caravan. Shame because this beats modern entertainment hands down. Miss these simpler times.

[@gavc6442]

TJ Hooker followed on after this finished :)

[@invisibleman4656]

Haha The blondie Gorgeous

[@gavc6442]

Yes I was just telling my friend this, happy days, 17 yo glued to tv for two hrs with my fave shows and my Chinese takeaway…. Bliss!

[@antster1983]

William the Teddy was named after the show's producer William Gladstone Stewart. And we all know what he did after TPIR was cancelled. It's currently showing on weekday mornings at 9.30am on Challenge :o)

[@HarlemHyena]

To quote: "2 questions each, 1 right answer from you to survive."

[@MotorhomeVoyagerUK69]

I always wanted to run down from the crowd. Loved watching this with my nan

[@reedberry]

I was on the U.S. version very recently and once they call your name, it's like being shot out of a cannon. Everything happens so fast. I actually just went to the show because I thought it would be exciting to be there on the first day of taping with a full studio audience in over three years since the pandemic started, but then I got called to "Come On Down" and ended up winning the showcase. Fun!

[@Tubewings]

I think this is the first episode of Series 5 (the final series) if Leslie mentions that "It's Friday", since "Price" usually aired on Saturday nights during the Crowther era. (OAD--27 November 1987)

[@robertoxley7976]

back when tele was good!! non of this reality crap,or z list celebs making arses of themselves!!

[@ectopudding]

I like the fact that they use the same set for the Showcase Showdown and the Showcase Final by simply getting the contestants to reposition themselves.

[@LogoMan7777]

The IBA really messed with this show's potential.

[@damiancoyne]

Fact: Voiceover Simon Prebble now does audio on Headspace

[@mattcrooke8321]

Surely the most game show of game shows ever!!!

[@gbgameshows]

This is the only episode I have I'm afraid.

[@zacheryalderton-xo2hh]

Bring more esipodes soon with Leslie

[@darren2514fv]

This was the series where it was moved to Friday Nights

[@BePositive1984]

Love the hair 😂

[@johnking5174]

The Price Is Right for the first real attempt at a UK game show trying to be very American, with the attitude, the energy, the buzz, shame the prize limits enforced by the IBA made it a bit rubbish, but it was a good attempt.

[@andersbriar5227]

I realize I am kinda randomly asking but does anyone know a good website to watch newly released tv shows online?

[@johnking5174]

@@andersbriar5227 What type of shows, and are you looking for current or old shows

[@geoffreyadlam4586]

The price is right Leslie Crowder FANTASTIC GREAT. WONDERFUL BRILLIANT. AND. GREAT PRIZES BETTER THAN SOME OF THE PROGRAMS THAT'S ARE ON NOW ASKING FOR MONEY YES. PUT.

[@jaynestag95]

Went to see Leslie at the theatre when I was 10 yrs and he threw a toilet roll out to the audience and I caught it which was great because I had a new small bag and it filled it out. Think it was a panto.😂

[@MrMarkhall1]

Brings back 80's memories, polyester jumpers lol.

[@97channel]

I'm not the only one who always wanted the little man to fall off the cliff, am I?

[@geoffreyadlam4586]

The price is right The man falling off the cliff Well that depends on the

[@geoffreyadlam4586]

The price is right the man Throwing up cliff That depends on the CONTESTANT IF THE PERSON IS. A. BIG. HEAD A RIGH. KNOW-IT-ALL THEY. YES. WHICH LOADS OF PEOPLE I'M SURE. SERVES HIM RIGHT FOR. BRING. A SHOW. OFF. GEOFF STOCKPORT

[@geoffreyadlam1300]

O NO YOUR NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO WANTS TO SEE THE LITTLE MAN FALL OFF THE CLIFF IF THE CONTESTANT IS SHOWING OFF BIG TIME THEN YES AND LOSE THE LOT GEOFF STOCKPORT

[@LittleMissGrosser]

No! Haha. I was a little bugger and always hoped he'd fall off!

[@bradleyhyde8975]

I would not mind showing the Leslie Crowther episodes on challenge instead of Bruce Forsyth episodes or cutting back on the chase

[@johnjohnston9917]

My all time favourite game shows ever

[@johnking5174]

50:00 - £100, a tea set, a cheese board, leaf dish, decanter and a dish washer - so ITV would have paid out around £300 to her. Compare that to the thousands of dollars shed on contestants in the US version at the time, just shows the IBA prize limits on all ITV game shows at the time were very restricted.

[@alexojideagu]

The limit was between 3,000 and 5,000 hence that was the limit on Bullseye too.

[@geoffreyadlam4586]

The price is right is a game As indeed we all know It is not judging people by their Income. Like I'll game shows They are winners and losses They don't ask you how much Are how much do you earn a week when you go on a Otherwise did be millions of Well thousands of people Who would never get on a A game show. GEOFF STOCKPORT.

[@cutemimi25]

I like how the Showcase Showdown is done, it's similar to Doug Davidson's The Price was Right, but it's an elimination game, kinda wish we did this once on the US version but people prefer the big wheel and I don't blame them.

[@IVR02]

They added the wheel to "Bruce's Price is Right" in 1995. The sad thing is, it's a bit lacking, as it's a lot simpler. It's so simple that it doesn't even have a beeper-it just goes click-click-click!

[@cutemimi25]

BikerBoyNJ I don't mind the click-click-click, I actually like the clicking noise from the 89 Wheel :P.

[@ajk]

They did do the Wheel at start of this version in 84, but the IBA forced them to change to a skill based game, since the Wheel was more luck to them. I think they had two formats as well for this, one with 3 contestants (representing the halves of the show they were in) where in they picked grocery products (up to 4) with the one pricing closest to 20 pounds advancing to the Showcase (or Range Finder as called there), and the one seen here with all 6 playing at once. They interestingly used the wheel in Series 2 still (where they had began the phase out as an overall determiner of Range Finder contestants) as a means to figure who had the option to bid or pass in the Showcase final, but not again after that. All really interesting stuff to me.

[@geoffreyadlam4586]

The price is right Leslie Crowder One of the programs. That put some life. INTO. SATURDAY NIGHT. GEOFF. STOCKPORT

[@fraserkatie]

Showing product placement in the Three in the Row game with the Clairol hairdryer except product placement rules werent around in the eighties on shows

[@stephenduncan3605]

This was miles better than Bruce Forsyth did it, sorry BRUCIE but you were better doing Play your cards right

[@philljenner4045]

Ken's caravan lasted 3 weeks before it collapsed.

[@jean-lucpicard5510]

While he was in it.

[@givemethevalium]

‘HERE HE IS….!’ several years before The Sopranos

[@spreadthelove77]

Ol’ Ken gutted at his Showcase compared to Elaines!

[@reedberry]

I'm in the U.S. and I think that if the UK had simply copied our American version of the show, it probably would have been more successful than it was. Here, TPIR has been on five days per week, one hour a day, for 51 years. Same theme music and logo, many of the original games and, now in it's 52nd season, has only had two primary hosts: Bob Barker, who retired in 2007 at age 83 after hosting the show for 35 years, and comedian Drew Carey since Bob's retirement. I just think if other countries had simply replicated a hugely successful format (which they could have easily done,) they would have enjoyed greater success and longevity with the show.

[@hughjass2745]

Too bad that car crash ended his career

[@FlavioGirl]

this was before they went to the euro.....cheers :)

[@bluebear1985]

+FlavioGirl Last I heard, the UK still uses the pound as their currency.

[@IVR02]

They still use Pounds in the UK.

[@pedanticradiator1491]

We still use pounds

[@rangersasc]

Never cared for Lesley i much preferred Bruce as a person but yet i like this show better so i guess he was better than i gave him credit for mmm

[@cutemimi25]

08:03 AAGH! Gotta love Match Maker.

[@chloekopsho3038]

Has anyone in the UK Ever seen the original US version?

[@auto_stable]

One thing that occurs to me (other than bathing in the warm lather of memory that this video provokes - I was 11 when this aired and it was my favourite show) is that this simply wouldn't work these days as everything you can think of could be made and sold cheaply or well. Eg the mirror, no doubt you could get one on amazon for £20 or one from a fancy furniture shop for £100.

[@BePositive1984]

You’ll work a day in your life my son😂😂😂

[@DaryckReese300]

100 Pounds Was Equal To 500 Dollars, In The American Version of The Price Is Right.

[@killybing1]

Im not sure but i think it was 1984 when i won the Showcaase

[@rajnirvan3336]

Leslie Crowther version was 1 hour long unlike Bruce's Price Is Right or Joe Pasquale

[@fraserkatie]

Product placement again with the magimix kitchen processor

[@kevvywevvywoo]

When the show first started in the UK it was criticised for being 'too american'. The press said it would encourage greed and gluttony.

[@StFidjnr]

19:42 from here on out the actual retail item is either higher or lower

[@Synthematix]

Ken is from London, i thought he would be.

[@KrakenMan5853]

I would like to see an episode featuring the "Tic Tack Toe" pricing game.

[@darren2514fv]

With the prize car on ITV game shows at the time the engine sizes were restricted up to 1.6 litres

[@timdaugherty5921]

is this still on today?

[@97channel]

No. This was the first version here in the UK. It was massively popular, yet only had a short run between 1984 and 1988. It was put on hiatus despite huge ratings. It transferred over to Sky satellite TV in 1989 with a new host, running through to 1990. Satellite TV had literally just started up in the UK, so barely anyone owned the equipment to watch it. 1995 saw it return to ITV as Brucie's Price Is Right, with a refreshed look, bigger budget star prizes and hosted by veteran game show host Bruce Forsyth. It recaptured much of its popularity and ran to 2001. 2006 saw another revival in the daytime schedule, with comedian Joe Pasquale at the helm. It ran until 2007. It had been off British screens until 2017, when Channel 4 aired yet another revamped edition, a pilot episode with comedian Alan Carr. Currently, it's out of production, but it looks very likely to return soon.

[@jameshaywood878]

Do they check if the contestants have a car that can tow a caravan, before giving one as a prize.

[@StFidjnr]

@ 14:02 I think the mountain climber has a slipup

[@digiblader1]

Permutation would come to North America 20 years later as Balance Game (with fewer choices and a better set), but only one chance instead of 2.

[@user-sg9rp4wz3w]

Opening night

[@Dim4323]

Thats now Punch a bunch works.

[@sophiee.h]

Saturday 7th february 1987

[@solojinglesradio1]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@tvman323]

The Punch A Bunch Grand Prize Should've Been 5,000 pounds.

[@cutemimi25]

Brock Schul They also should've kept the 0s out.

[@tvman323]

Exactly.

[@michalczerwinski7711]

With a prize limit of £3,000? That would have been quite difficult…

[@markheying2830]

Are there any Bonuses for bidding exactly right on any of those One Bid Prizes?

[@gbgameshows]

Yes, they received £100 cash. 🙂

[@littletraveller5428]

The prizes are pretty shit but they sure looked good in those days. Apart from the hifi ours was much better back then

[@asusedz]

Gilly the Gerbal hahaha

[@deborahfirby2022]

nice caravan's like chalettie's

[@MarkNF82]

The rules of some of the games completely through me for a loop. Clock Game for 3 prizes, Punch a Bunch, but with a "0"...I assume the US version wasn't shown over there, or they'd probably have to adhere to the US rules more closely.

[@deborahfirby2022]

Walt Disney

[@damienholmes3052]

Crowther was a professional if opportunity knocks was later he would be up for contention huey green was slime in comparison to this guy he had class this dude

[@rickycole4061]

Steve the contestant that came down looks like one of the scousers from Harry Enfield TV show ❤ of maybe it's Billy connelly 😅😅😅

[@jayargonauts7428]

Just out curiosity I sometimes look on Facebook and found him looking much older lol

[@deborahfirby2022]

theme's

[@brockschul3221]

Wish that the punch a bunch board was from 5 to 1000 pounds or 0 to 500 pounds

[@bens1972]

That caravan is sat in a field covered in weeds and mildew rotting away

[@deborahfirby2022]

Swiss family Robinson

[@leemorrison7113]

I would be a bit p*ssed if i got the caravan rather than a round the world holiday of a lifetime ;) The show as a kid seemed like a cut above.... better production values and bigger prizes :)

[@7_31_73]

Did i enter some type of portal? Or twilight zone episode?

[@HCHaven7619]

I got to be honest, I like the US Version of Cliffhangers better than the UK Version. That ding sound for each pound the mountain climber hits that is overlapping the music sounds really annoying.

[@petercolbeysgameshowmania7176]

8:04 AAGH!

[@deborahfirby2022]

like the muppet's

[@aaronhooper1110]

Punch a bunch 🥊

[@bammy1690]

She gets a world holiday and he gets a caravan 🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭

[@jfrancis28]

14:01 I see a little man is going backwards and walking forwards