The Price Is Right (January 28, 1976): Showcase Showdown #2

From #1783D, next in a request by "Julius121081" for 1975-90 Showcase Showdowns. Can we get a $1,000 winner this time?

[@IVR02]

Gotta love the old beeper!

[@Landaux]

I cant believe how many times they have changed the sound of the arrow 'beeps' on the wheel over the years.

[@tjm3774]

Would you happen to know in what year the audience started booing contestants for not getting the wheel all the way around? Just curious, but I know it was somewhere in the very early 1980s.

[@jimamia77]

i wasn't even born yet when this show was taped and i'm 34! does that huge wheel have an odometer? Imagine the mileage!

[@jimamia77]

Until recently, the show refused to change except for the car models and prices!

[@jhzenor61481]

This show aired one day before my sister was born!

[@Golbez1991]

Funny how Bob reset the wheel to $1.00 when Dorothy didn't get a complete revolution of the wheel.

[@WarioBarker]

Actually, the Alberto incident was 11/3/75 (the first appearance of the current Big Wheel) - the all-the-way-around rule wasn't in place until around November '75.

[@WarioBarker]

My apologies, as I just noticed this...the "all-the-way-around" rule was in effect by the end of November 1975. And if you've seen the clip of Alberto, you will notice that even BOB was a bit upset at the guy. Can't say I blame him, since Alberto looked like he didn't really want to be there..

[@tatl9740]

wow...that's the month and year I was born!

[@WarioBarker]

@Golbez1991 ...Wow. To be honest, I never really noticed that before now, and it FEELS like a rule. Anybody with more Season 4 episodes than I, please feel free to chip in.

[@WarioBarker]

You're welcome! :-)

[@HarlemHyena]

3:17 Oh, NOW they light up the zero in 70. Right when it becomes a moot factor.