The Price Is Right (UK) S02E03 (?) with Leslie Crowther, ~1985

Complete episode retrieved from a VHS recording of its original airing ~12th January 1985, with ad breaks (note the now mildly racist ad for St. Ivel Shape!). Best viewed at 720p / 50 FPS.
Audience is from Nottingham, Derby, Long Eaton and (oddly) Purley.
Contestants:
Val Burdess
Jane Barisciano (sp?)
Martin McAlpine
Barbara Kerry
Vic Phillips
Peggy Chapman
David Hill
Suzanne Artless

[@leeannmansfield5254]

Me and my dad loved this....Best nights ever...family time...rip dad.. .

[@elizabethgalligan1805]

Thank you so much for posting this. Leslie Crowther was Great. Fond Memories of this show ☺️👌

[@SedriqMiers]

True Legend RIP Leslie Crowther that marvellous silky voice.

[@tomasjaramillo4430]

CAR

[@sebastianwelcome2080]

and l remember whatching the very first one

[@jameshodges1496]

Leslie Crowther is brilliant!

[@zacheryalderton-xo2hh]

Great man

[@stevescott1929]

Lovely, thanks for uploading this! I was a big fan of this show (aged 6). Leslie Crowther was such a good host and, by all accounts, and all-round top bloke.

[@itsjemmabond]

Definitely remember watching this episode. Female Leslie Crowther in the audience.

[@michaelholland375]

Im back hear after about four decads just couldn't resist it good old days .can anyone remember Lesley on crack a jack 😂

[@itsjemmabond]

I'm not that old!

[@wifeoftim]

I had no idea this version existed. Its weird seeing the host say Come on Down. This is fun to watch.

[@mattcrooke8321]

As a 10 year old, I used to love this on a Saturday night! 🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@Gannett2011]

I think I wasted more than a few Friday evenings watching this back in the 80s. You find yourself humming the background music! I can't remember where I put my keys in the morning, but I can remember the background music to The Price is Right from 40 years ago!

[@imaginationunreal]

Watching this as an American is surreal. I never knew it existed until a few weeks ago. Does anyone know why the manufacturers of the featured items are not mentioned? Is it against some sort of regulation?

[@johnking5174]

Hi, in Britain of the 1980s there was only one main commercial TV channel called ITV. There was another called Channel 4, but that was a minority channel. ITV was were the big game shows were. However, the authority who controlled ITV called the IBA Independent Broadcasting Authority were really strict on formats of game shows. Yes, they couldn't give prominence to product names, especially as TV sponsorship of programs was illegal in Britain until the 1990s. There was also a cap imposed on the amount they could give away per edition of ANY game show on ITV. By 1985 it was set at £1,750. This was due to the authority fearing that ITV would go too commercial like US stations and quality would drop. When ITV launched in 1955, it had so many limits on it, as the old fashioned politicians were wary of commercial television.

[@imaginationunreal]

@@johnking5174 Thanks for the explanation. I don't think there's a more perfect example of commercial TV than the American version of The Price is Right. In it's one hour of a show, it features 25-40 products or hotels by brand name. Add in the four commercial "breaks" that feature even more products or services and you have one hour-long sales pitch propped up as a game show. It is entertaining and fun to watch, but it's also a brilliant piece of commercialization.

[@MichaelOKeefe2009]

@@imaginationunreal Don't forget about the CASH and the CARS, the true stars of The Price is Right besides the crazy contestants.

[@mattcrooke8321]

@@imaginationunrealI used to be glued to the U.K. version of The Price is Right, every Saturday night (I was 10 when this episode was broadcast). Fast forward to 2023, and every so often I treat myself to the latest US episode on KZbin. They are fantastic. I have to say though, the MOST American you can possibly be, is to watch the Bob Barker episodes from the mid to late 80’s. They are just on another level 😂. The best part is, a lot of the original commercials have been left in too, so it’s like watching it on tv for real.

[@straightpipediesel]

Leslie Crowther does resemble a younger Bob Barker, certainly more than Drew Carey.

[@bethmc717]

Bloody brilliant show ,Hilarious 😅loved it

[@errolnicholson5632]

Rest In Peace Leslie Crowther

[@peterjones4785]

Cheers. Blast from the past

[@calebwashingtonproductions]

I like this version of UK Price, as much as Brucie's version.

[@LogoMan7777]

@@wecantfightgravity They used the same prize cue for everything.

[@Dim4323]

Bruce's price is right is better

[@sebastianwelcome2080]

@@Dim4323 l dont know about that this was the original l remember watching as kid in mid 1980s before he left then the Bruce's one in the 1990s and early 2000s

[@stuartsharman3055]

Hated this crap, and always,did, whoever ended up hosting it. It ruined Leslie Crowthers and Bruce Forsyth's whole professional reputations forever as far as I was concerned.

[@thegrandmuftiofwakanda]

A masterclass of absolute dignity.

[@31cify]

Makes me laugh. They say VHS tape degrades over time whether it's played repeatedly or not. This doesn't look like it's degraded one day in 40 years. Super quality of the Leslie Crowther classic.

[@gan9e]

The roll call of names at the start of each show could have been much better... I would have named myself Jenny Taylia... or Cleo Toris... "Jenny Taylia... come on down.... " Its Austin Power's humour I know.

[@dantootill]

"Rod Clutcher... come on down!"

[@gan9e]

@@dantootill Dixey Normous... come on down

[@andybailey3888]

And the ever popular Norma Snockers 😂

[@LogoMan7777]

Minstrels used the M&Ms jingle of the day.

[@dantootill]

That ad is so 80s isn't it? It was the age of over-the-top jingles and bulletproof hair.

[@LogoMan7777]

This is the third episode of the second season (series), because the first season's rules were different. Here, they play Supermarket to determine who goes to the Showcase Final. In the first series, they spun the Big Wheel.

[@dantootill]

Thanks, I've updated the description!

[@GoodkingMemorex]

Leslie announces that it's the first of a new series - surely, then, it would be S02E01 rather than S02E03? Great upload BTW

[@dantootill]

That's what I thought, but someone identified it as Episode 3. I will probably remove the episode number from the title if it's not clear which one it correct.

[@ajk]

@@dantootill You can confirm this is episode 3....just watched the open myself, and I quite clearly heard him say it was the 3rd program of the series, not the 1st. You and Goodking misheard him. Go back and re-listen closely, should be able to pick it up.

[@NguyenTuan-pl3oy]

Let’s share our thoughts on the message of the video.

[@nudisco300]

Never anyone from the West Country/South West. Throughout the entire 80s every bloody contestant or audience from every game show all came from up North. It didn't go unnoticed.

[@itsjemmabond]

But isn't Purley in the South?

[@cutemimi25]

47:08 The American audience would've booed her.

[@simonlumsden6045]

Leslie Crowther was superb.

[@anthonyguarino4242]

In our version during the time it aired, you have to be less than $100 to win both showcases. There are no double showcases rule in the UK, aren’t there? If there was, you have to be off by £25 or less to win both showcases. As of currently in the USA version, you have to be off by $250 or less to win both showcases.

[@lewisdanderson]

Phil Lynott's father-in-law

[@mercuryvapoury]

Wonder if they held up to that promise of recording the show!

[@zachalderton2057]

I NEED MORE

[@AdamJ617]

Can I find a clean copy of the music used for Supermarket and Race Game?

[@brain8484]

Peggy looked bored

[@osc1541]

Curious...I actually find there's rarely any visual improvement on a digitised VHS above 480p. You can see that going up to 720?

[@dantootill]

That makes sense. I captured the video in 576i and deinterlaced it, so there is minimal gain. The only reason I uploaded it in 720p was to keep it at 50 FPS, which KZbin doesn't support at lower resolutions.

[@rajnirvan3336]

Brilliant Saturday night tv

[@RedStrikerBeetleborg]

was that an Amstrad computer

[@straightpipediesel]

The Squeeze Play set doesn't seem very well thought out... I envision competitors tripping or tying their shoe.

[@EthanBarry-ph2bk]

9 years before I was born

[@accampbell]

Crowther was such a great host and his version of Price felt like a party. Warman couldn't capture that on Sky. Bruce Forsyth was always charming. Joe Pasquale was annoying. I am sure Alan Carr was fabulous, but none of his run of playings is on KZbin.

[@aaronlusanko8779]

Definitely the dollar store version of the Price Is Right.

[@dantootill]

In the UK we call it a "pound shop". 😉

[@accampbell]

Due to regulations all UK game shows were really cheap

[@johnking5174]

Until 1993, game shows on commercial television in Britain were limited to how much they could give away by the broadcasting authority. In 1985 when this aired, the limit per edition was set at £1,750.

[@justschr]

Where are the trips and cars?

[@antster1983]

Would have gone against the IBA's strict prize limits at the time. They were lifted in 1993, but the television production companies voluntarily decided to gradually raise the prize values themselves over the next few years rather than just go all out. All bets were off in 1998, however, with the launch of Celador's quiz show _Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?_

[@ajk]

Interesting looking back at this.....that for the wheel spin segment at the end.....the "closest without going over" rule was rescinded.....also interesting how they rotated spins vs. 2 each back to back....rather strange in each case.

[@saucyminx73]

I'm trying to locate an episode my dad appeared in. His name was Dick Bryan. Think it was either 80s or 90s

[@dantootill]

So sorry I only have the one episode. Kept it on tape all these years as my aunt and uncle were in the audience. I hope the episode with your dad turns up at some point.

[@mshroye2]

In the state’s she would have won both showcases

[@andrewbaird7834]

Peggy doesn't look as if she gives a fxxk about anything offered in her showcase but well done Val for winning her showcase

[@cliveevans9795]

I'd forgotten about poor old late great leslie.crowthet

[@pika23]

Uk tpir? Multiple seasons? I have my weekend planned lol! Outside watching

[@elijahjosephpineda6221]

Greetings! Do you have other Crowther episodes of Price? It would be fascinating to see the other games that fans haven't seen yet. Stay safe!

[@dantootill]

Sorry, I'm afraid I don't have any others. We only recorded this episode and kept it for so many years because my great aunt and uncle were in the audience.

[@elijahjosephpineda6221]

Thanks anyway Dan! It's been a treat to finally see their sets of Any Number, Hole in One and Safcracker.

[@martinagalvin1326]

Have you got any more episodes of the price is right please?

[@dantootill]

No, sorry. The only reason I have this episode is that my aunt and uncle were in the audience.

[@martinagalvin1326]

@@dantootill oh ok not to worry. Thank you.

[@dangmarc]

Boy! Those prices were awful!

[@twotonedearly]

51:52 - shame the UK version doesn't have a Double Showcase Win rule, least I don't think cause if it did then this would have been a Double Showcase Win without a doubt.

[@johnking5174]

Impossible for the UK version, due to the cap imposed by the broadcasting authority on game shows. In 1985 it was limited to just £1,750 per edition of a game show.

[@twotonedearly]

@@johnking5174 ah I see then. makes sense

[@johnking5174]

@@twotonedearly Yes, the rules on game show prizes was very very strict back then. ITV was Britain's first commercial TV station, and many didn't want it to exist. So when they knew it was here to stay, they decided to impose restrictions on it. Did you know that before 1972, television hours were limited by the government? ITV could only air 50 hours PER WEEK of general entertainment. There were exemptions for educational programming, sporting coverage and state occasions.

[@jonathanwilkinson1461]

Babycham girl Jacqueline Bucknell, absolutely gorgeous..

[@philipmclaughlin9636]

They didn't give away a car?

[@gbhxu]

Not at the time due to TV regulations limiting the size of prizes

[@cerinolancerinolan7148]

State of gay abandon.