@@scottytoohotty415 No. They were nuts. There were murders all of the time to a similar degree, if not a higher degree than there are now. The difference is the media didn't sensationalize it.
What a strange thing to think is a positive. I mean personally if I was on a game show I’d be wary of having my address revealed on TV. Did you support the patriot act by an chance
Born in 84 and growing up watching this game show. I watched the first one with Bob Barker and I saw this one suggested. All I have to say is wow now this is sweet! Watching older tv shows always gets me thinking what it was like back then.
same here remember watching the price is right in the 80's . I knew it was on longer before Bob barker,but never knew it was on longer before that. it a wonderful game show,but miss Bob barker on.
@allenjones3130 YES! I love that so much! The thoroughly disgusting so-called feminist movement ruined it for truly feminine women like me. I love to wear dresses and I love to look extremely feminine. I love it when a real gentleman treats me with a lot of respect and he treats me like a feminine lady which I am.
Mr. Cullen could barely walk, having suffered polio as a child. On all his many shows, he is almost always shown already sitting down, here you can see him at 4:45 taking a few steps. His condition was so skillfully hidden by his personality and simple stage and camera planning, that Bill is the topic of Mel Brook's most embarrassing moment. Brooks was a guest on a show called Guess Who, hosted by Cullen. Brooks saw Cullen walking and thought was doing a Jerry Lewis impression. Brooks started to mimic his walk, with his heels turned in and his legs spread wide apart and started hobbling across the stage toward Bill, when a stagehand yelled "he has Polio! he has Polio!!" Brooks recalls: "Oh my God! Just as I reach the middle of the stage and meet Bill, Bill gives me a hug and I see that he is crying. He looks at me and says thank you so much! I have never met a person with enough guts to mimic my walk and starts to laugh out loud! " Mel said "I did it for you, Bill.”
@@fjccommish Heroic? He thought he was impersonating Jerry Lewis, so he mocked him. Mel Brooks covered with the "I did it for you" comment. Brooks deserves to be embarrassed.
Fun fact about that car, the Isetta. After the construction of the Berlin Wall, all cars going from East Berlin into West Berlin were checked by East German border guards to prevent smuggling of E German citizens into the West. Because of it’s shape and small size, the Isetta was exempt from inspection. A man, determined to get his wife into the West, modified the engine. By removing the battery and heating system, he was able to squeeze his wife into the engine and drive through the border without incident.
SouthwesternEagle - I was stationed in West Berlin from 1982 to 1984. My account came from a book called, It Happened at the Wall. It was a paperback souvenir type of book that was sold at a shop at Checkpoint Charlie. It had accounts of methods people used to escape to the West. If you go to Google and type The House at Checkpoint Charlie - Page 2, there is an article from the Chicago Tribune that mentions the Isetta and other escapes.
Nikki R - The battery in a car is used to start the engine. Once the car is running, you can remove the battery and it will still run. The alternator in a car supplies electrical power for lights, wipers, radio, etc. You ever know anyone who had a dead battery in their car and they get a jump start from another car’s battery? Same concept. The other battery starts the car and you can drive even though your battery is useless.
Cullen went on to host game shows into the '80s, then became the "substitute teacher" of the game show industry, covering for hosts under the weather. He knew every game like the back of his hand.
It's crazy how genuine they all felt. It felt like less of a production and more just a bunch of new friends haning out and guessing prices of random household items. As a 19-year-old in 2016 I can truly say I love television from the 1950s
Pauly s I'm 71 watched this show live the days were much slower places to go much safer never had to lock the doors people much nicer to each other could live them years all over again!!
De Vaughn Yarbrough At what point did he mention hating black people? Your comment is ignorant. All she said was that it was a better time, which it was. why do people like you feel that you have to bring race into everything?
After seeing what has transpired over the past decade or so,she may hate them now after not having thought so then.If so,I can guarantee that she is not alone.
eric Mays: Not at all. People had more manners, spoke well, dressed modestly, took their religious beliefs seriously, and put family first. People have become more greedy, rude, lazy, skimpy, and it’s hard to find a family that prays together before dinner anymore. Values have changed, and not all for the better. However, we have traded values for equal rights, opportunities, medical advancements, and technological advancements. If I was alive during the 50’s, I wouldn’t have lived very long due to the lack of medical knowledge. I’m very glad we can look back on the 50’s, and remember a more sophisticated, simpler time. I’m even more grateful that my grandparents, and other older role models, were alive during this time. It is really cool seeing how far we’ve come. :)
@veronicaa.1416 a very interesting part of television history! I was actually surprised to learn how long the game show, Jeopardy, had been around as well. I'd found that out when reading more about the history of The Price is Right. If I remember correctly, Jeopardy had been around since the 50's or 60's. I love that there are different formats of the shows available to watch and knowing how they eventually progressed throughout the years.
Being a die hard fan of the show, "I know it would NOT have continued, had it remained like this video! I LOVE the newer, better version, but this is a real eye opener!
That's because the closest anyone ever got to identity theft was when the wives used their husband's credit cards. This is the 50s, so not everyone was enrolled in the Social Security program yet, and everything critical to their lives was seperate rather than being connected to their social.
That practice continued to the 1980s when someone was murdered as a result and the company that gave out the address was sued almost out of existence. I remember when all such mail in contest had the winner's name, address and phone number published. Someone in my home town won a prize from a magazine contest and the magazine published all that info on them and their house was broken into and stuff stolen and then they kept getting hundreds of letters from people around the country begging for things like money or donations to charities and some people wrote them to make death threats. They ended up having to move.
@@nunyabiznez6381 years ago I heard about a lady from somewhere in South America who won a very big cash prize in a lottery, there must have been a lot of publicity about it. the lady said she was so sick of people constantly begging her for money that she ended up giving the money back!!
@@danielthoman7324 That is fairly common. People get really stupid when they suddenly come into money. Their attitude most of the time is "Look everybody I am rich now! Aren't you happy for me! I want the whole wide world to know how wealthy I am!!!" And then they wonder why their house gets broken into every other day and why they keep getting hate mail and death threats and strange phone calls and everyone they have ever met and a great many they don't remember meeting demanding their perceived "fair share" or suddenly they have creditors they don't remember owing money to. It never fails. I had a neighbor about 30 years ago who won 3 million in the lottery. Before he won he had a job that paid twice minimum wage, good benefits, on track to retire with a nice pension at 60. He had a mortgage that he owed only $5000 on. His first mistake was instead of paying off his debts he acquired more. He threw a "I'm rich!" party for everyone he knew who then hit him up for loans and gifts of cash and in under a year he was was out of money and owed more than he could pay back if he worked three full time jobs for the rest of his life. He burned his bridges at work so they wouldn't take him back. Everyone he gave money too hates him so he has no friends. His girlfriend broke up with him and successfully sued him for 50% of his winnings AFTER he spent it all. Last I heard he was in his 70's working three full time jobs, two for the IRS and one for himself. He even lost his social security benefits. The secret is don't ever let anyone know you have money.
@@nunyabiznez6381 to I remembered something from about 30 years ago. I worked at a janitorial company over 30 years ago and remember someone telling me about one of the employees winning over a million dollars in the lottery. instead of investing it he bought many of his relatives new cars. (Lincoln) lots of other extravagant spending. less than 2 years he was broke and back cleaning up at night.
There's something comforting I find about the way voice-over announcers and TV personalities spoke back then. When I was a kid in the late-80s/early-90s, my dad would check the TV Guide for the old shows he watched when he was a kid like Looney Tunes, Lassie, The Beverly Hill Billies, and The Three Stooges to see if I'd enjoy them and I very much did. Still love them to this day. Listening to Bill Cullen here and the voice-overs in those Lux adverts, it makes me think of those days we spent together watching those shows.
Wow! an Isetta, a collectors dream today. That freezer is built bigger and better than any freezer today. $500.00 freezer = $4,284.00 freezer today. WOW! $1.00 in 1957 = $8.56 in 2016
remember when he died, because it was the day after my grandma went.Loved his show as a kid. Impressed he did what he did,dispite having polio, and impressed that Don Pardo was his announcer.
Everyone is so in awe at each prize and everyone is just having fun. I wish I could experience that time maybe live in 1955 for about a year or something.
Got to love the ISETTA 300! That was the only car that showed up on game shows back then. I remember Gary Moore once giving a gag gift of a cross country trip in an ISETTA to a newlywed couple accompanied by a violinist. It was a hoot watching three adults and a violin try to squeeze in to one of those death traps. Great choice of THE PRICE IS RIGHT episodes. Thanks!
I was very happy to see this there's a woman in it I never got to meet in my lifetime but I love being able to see family the way they were back when miss Ellen Miller was my grandmother's cousin my grandmother was Theresa Miller
Jonathan Dimmick - I’m a little confused by your statement. She was introduced as Mrs. Ellen Miller, which means she was using her husband’s last name. If your grandmother, Theresa, had the same last name, was she married to a man named Miller who was related to Ellen’s husband?
Wow, I love that we have people who upload these old shows... it's like going back in time. It's so interesting to see how much our society has changed in many ways... like calling the contestants Mr/Mrs Lastname instead of just Firstname. You didn't go out in public unless you were properly dressed, with a hat and maybe gloves if you were a woman. The older contestants are definitely gone now, and even the youngest is probably as well, or if not, extremely old.
Nah, the 80's and beyond is the best. Too much troubles in the 70's and beyond- especially with disease and domestic violence. We have been getting better with each decade. :)
@@kabiam yeah but the one for $200 at Home Depot is probably made in China for cheap labour using cheap materials. The one in the show was more likely made in America using solid hardwood
Wisk laundry detergent isn't even on the market anymore. It was discontinued recently. Unilever, which made Wisk originally, sold their North American detergent brands to the Sun Products Corporation, which in turn was purchased by Henkel of Germany. Henkel's Persil replaced Wisk.
In the 1970s, Wisk's ads are best remembered for its infamous "ring around the collar" campaign. One spot was particularly embarrassing; a couple went to Hawaii and when the couple got there, a native girl made fun of the husband, going "wing awound the collar".
How about people in stupid outfits jumping around and screaming to get attention? I still cringe years later from seeing a couple episodes of "Let's Make a Deal".
I love the 50's. I wish things where like the way they were back then now. I am was not even a thought until the late 70's so all I have to go on is seeing things on You Tube like this show. Thanks for posting.
+RichKillerJr25YT I agree with you also. I love the toys we have today and the advancement in medicine we have today. If we could bring back the family and a little bit slower life style combined with the things we have today. I think that would be great. Thanks for the comment.
Dude scored a cool BMW!! This show is kinda like the one we see today. Of course it has evolved but the main idea is knowing the price of stuff. A brand New mini car!!!!
If any of these people's family's still have any of the stuff they won on this show, this video would be even that much cooler for them to be able to see.
I really love 🧡💓 this version of the price is right I’d watch this kind over n over again cuz I think it’s more of a laid back version of the game & + it was Very New and no other game show like it at the time. 😃😃😃 love it , love it , love it!❗️
That's so crazy my grandpa was twenty-three when this came out I'm actually living with him right now because my grandmother died and I'm helping him out and I appreciate every second I get with him. People need to appreciate the moment they have with elders
And sometimes it's not so different, in a good way we just got to see the good in times like that too. We could learn compared to the things that we don't agree with. It's still a history though it's not now and it's not us. This is just a cool thing to look back on. I'm a fan of The Price is Right and I think it's incredible that is passed it as long as it has is the television show it's gone through a lot of decades of different things that have gone on through the years and it's lasted as long as it has. It's pretty cool.
When we moved into our first house in 2002 it came with a freezer like that from 55 or 57... Dam thing kept working until about 2010...it seemed wrong to get rid of it in a way. Got $80 just for scrap because it had a lot of lead in it! U could have survived a nuke in that thing!!! That was before big corps realized they could make more money selling u a new one every few years instead.... Everything these days is money driven, profit for big box stores!!! Using slave labor from CHINA!
Oh hey I know Harold, he’s doing great! Just celebrated his 95th wedding anniversary. His grand kids are all grown up. Still drives around in that little car.
Originally telecast on May 30, 1957 at 11am(et). Lever Brothers {Wisk, Lux} sponsors the first half of the show; the network "sustains" the second half. "Station I.D." break at 15:12 {"WRCA-TV, Channel 4, New York"}.
I have always found digital displays fascinating and did not realize they could display information like that into the late 50s. I thought the Memorial Stadium scoreboard in Baltimore was neat in the 1970s. By dad got to sit behind the scenes and he said it used punch tape not long before the stadium was closed. I also liked the Family Feud board back when it was with Richard Dawson. When it was with Ray Comb, I noticed it was faster and had 2 cursors instead of one.
Really cool. Thank you so much for sharing. I was born in 85. Was kinda raised up by mr bob. So thanks for showing myself and everyone else the past before we knew.
I remember all of TPIR shows-from Bill Cullen, then Bob Barker, and now to Drew Carey. And that also goes for the announcers too: Don Pardo, Johnny Olsen,Rod Roddy,Rich Fields, and George Gray.
The announcer for this show is Don Pardo who would go on to announce for Saturday Night Live from it's beginning season in '75 until his death in 2014 at the age of 96. That little BMW Isetta 300 clown car at 8:48 has a 13hp engine and is worth about $40,000 today.
The value of Mr. Michael's prizes in today's dollars would be over $34,000. TPIR was never a cheap show. Funny thing is, in all the years that What's My Line was on, the most a contestant could win was $50, which bought less and less as time went on. Same producers. The difference was that TPIR was about the contestants and the plugging of the prizes on the air. What's My Line was always about the panel and how smart and witty (or sometimes not) they were.
+Andrew Silva The alarm was not to keep someone from stealing it. It was to prevent the food from spoiling if the power went out. An excellent feature needed today as well.
+DottyGale8 even though I have been to alot of appliance stores looking for this, but havent seen it in a lot of years, but I still remember when some refridgerators actually used to have built in television monitors so you could actually watch tv while I guess you were in the kitchen, but the part I could never locate or figure out was if they actually had these Television monitors built into them, I looked all over the back of them, but I could not locate where the Cable hookup was even though if I remember correctly., back then you could get the normal 2-13 channels and this was even without an antenna hooked up to it....LOL
how about that newest fridge that has that built in Computer Monitor that it has plus all those small cameras that it has that you can see via yur phone pr whatever to see what you have actually inside of it like if you go to the store and you need to see what you might need for it Dang thing cost almost 5 GRAND
The strange thing is that at the time, The Price is Right was on at 11:00am, the same time the current one is currently on CBS. Despite the fact that the CBS version with Bob Barker wasn't moved to 11am until the spring of '79, it's just a weird coincidence.
Bob Barker was the best host for TPIR just like Gene Rayburn was the best host for the Match Game. Both are awesome game shows. Bob Barker would remind people to "get their pet spayed or neutered" at the end of TPIR.
Fun fact, Paul Alter was the only guy to direct both the Bill Cullen and Bob Barker editions of The Price Is Right. Alter directed all episodes of The Price Is Right from 1956 to 1965. Under the Barker era, Alter directed from October 1986 to December 2000. CBS would bring Alter back a little bit after, but Alter altogether retired in 2001. He died in 2011 at age 89.
Damn this original show was freaky as fuhh with all the women ooooh'n & uuhhhhh'n like they were gettin thrashed out right on The Price Is Right studio set 🤣🤣
If someone had told these people that we would be watching them on a thing called RUclips on a thing called the internet 64 years later they never would have believed it. And if they did it would have blown their minds
@@kck9742 The older ones for sure but maybe not all of the younger ones.They could very well still be alive in their 80s and 90s. My mom was a teen in the 50s and only passed away 7 years ago at 73. I was born in 1961 and am alive and well at 60 years old.
Huh only 1 bidding game in it? No other price games? but those peoples were just people like we are, they weren’t that different (are they?) and the man of the show did presented the show pretty well, i absolutely never knew this show dates soooo far back, just wow.
It's funny. My dad has told me for decades how much better everything was back when he was growing up compared to today. Sorry, but today's PIR is much more exciting, more random and more viewer-friendly by a longshot. And I'm sure PIR will be much better 30 years from now simply based on how game shows push limits as well as the integration of technology. Great vid & thanks for sharing! +!
i can't help but think of my late grandmother watching these shows. what's interesting is how the 3 women on the panel are all "housewives". eisenhower was president, elvis and marylin were "shaking" things up, brown v. board of education had outlawed school segregation in 1954 yet the governor of arkansas used the national guard to block a black kid from enrolling , joseph mccarthy would die that year, the kkk in alabama forced a black truck driver to jump to his death off a bridge...
21:28 They gave out the woman's full name and address on national television. What a different era this was.
Back than people weren't nuts.
@@scottytoohotty415 No. They were nuts. There were murders all of the time to a similar degree, if not a higher degree than there are now. The difference is the media didn't sensationalize it.
What a strange thing to think is a positive. I mean personally if I was on a game show I’d be wary of having my address revealed on TV. Did you support the patriot act by an chance
@@scottytoohotty415 I see a lot of people swap "then" for the proper "than" but it's rare I get to see it in reverse, lol.
Well, it's all over the internet now!
Born in 84 and growing up watching this game show. I watched the first one with Bob Barker and I saw this one suggested. All I have to say is wow now this is sweet! Watching older tv shows always gets me thinking what it was like back then.
It was a lot different. People were quieter and cars were louder.
same here remember watching the price is right in the 80's . I knew it was on longer before Bob barker,but never knew it was on longer before that. it a wonderful game show,but miss Bob barker on.
The contestants were always well-mannered and well-dressed; the ladies wore dresses and the gentlemen wore suits and ties!
@allenjones3130 YES! I love that so much! The thoroughly disgusting so-called feminist movement ruined it for truly feminine women like me. I love to wear dresses and I love to look extremely feminine. I love it when a real gentleman treats me with a lot of respect and he treats me like a feminine lady which I am.
Mr. Cullen could barely walk, having suffered polio as a child. On all his many shows, he is almost always shown already sitting down, here you can see him at 4:45 taking a few steps. His condition was so skillfully hidden by his personality and simple stage and camera planning, that Bill is the topic of Mel Brook's most embarrassing moment.
Brooks was a guest on a show called Guess Who, hosted by Cullen. Brooks saw Cullen walking and thought was doing a Jerry Lewis impression. Brooks started to mimic his walk, with his heels turned in and his legs spread wide apart and started hobbling across the stage toward Bill, when a stagehand yelled "he has Polio! he has Polio!!" Brooks recalls: "Oh my God! Just as I reach the middle of the stage and meet Bill, Bill gives me a hug and I see that he is crying. He looks at me and says thank you so much! I have never met a person with enough guts to mimic my walk and starts to laugh out loud! "
Mel said "I did it for you, Bill.”
It was a heroic moment, not an embarrassing moment.
@@fjccommish Heroic? He thought he was impersonating Jerry Lewis, so he mocked him. Mel Brooks covered with the "I did it for you" comment. Brooks deserves to be embarrassed.
@@sallylapradd2900 Heroic - to use humor even in the face of a handicap. It's not beyond joking. Weak people think it's mocking, but it was a joke.
Thats super interesting, thanks for sharing mate :)
According to what I read, the show was Eye Guess.
The announcer here was Don Pardo. He was the announcer on Saturday Night Live until 2014. He died at the age of 96.
+norelco pc Yup, and he was also the rare announcer who got the life-time contract with NBC.
Johnny Olson lifetime contract with CBS?
And original Jeopardy with Art Fleming
He was also the announcer on The Price Is Right when Bob Barker was the host.
Johnny Olson's contract was with Mark Goodson Productions.
I love how everyone was genuinely happy for each other when they won something.
These days they'd follow you home and kill you for the stuff.
@@carycoller3140No, they wouldn’t. You people are crazy
@ThaSchwab Yes they would. It would be a conspiracy to divide the loot 😂.
I love this. Shows how gracious everyone was. Love watching old videos
5 years old comment but here goes anyways, good gosh youre adorable, marry me please
Velkej Řízek LOL
Except the lady on the right (Miller) did the 1 dollar more thing at the very beginning.
Women were women and men were men
@@velkejrizek1640 im just now seeing this, thank you
Fun fact about that car, the Isetta. After the construction of the Berlin Wall, all cars going from East Berlin into West Berlin were checked by East German border guards to prevent smuggling of E German citizens into the West. Because of it’s shape and small size, the Isetta was exempt from inspection. A man, determined to get his wife into the West, modified the engine. By removing the battery and heating system, he was able to squeeze his wife into the engine and drive through the border without incident.
John Becker Whoa! I'd love to read more about this! :O
Can you provide me with a link, please? I'm fascinated.
SouthwesternEagle - I was stationed in West Berlin from 1982 to 1984. My account came from a book called, It Happened at the Wall. It was a paperback souvenir type of book that was sold at a shop at Checkpoint Charlie. It had accounts of methods people used to escape to the West. If you go to Google and type The House at Checkpoint Charlie - Page 2, there is an article from the Chicago Tribune that mentions the Isetta and other escapes.
John Becker Oh wow, thank you! I'll check it out! :)
I’ll admit, I know absolutely nothing about cars.. but how did the car drive without the battery?
Nikki R - The battery in a car is used to start the engine. Once the car is running, you can remove the battery and it will still run. The alternator in a car supplies electrical power for lights, wipers, radio, etc. You ever know anyone who had a dead battery in their car and they get a jump start from another car’s battery? Same concept. The other battery starts the car and you can drive even though your battery is useless.
Cullen went on to host game shows into the '80s, then became the "substitute teacher" of the game show industry, covering for hosts under the weather. He knew every game like the back of his hand.
It's crazy how genuine they all felt. It felt like less of a production and more just a bunch of new friends haning out and guessing prices of random household items. As a 19-year-old in 2016 I can truly say I love television from the 1950s
same! 20 here!!
I'd prefer the 70's over the 50's
yah when they redid price is right in 1972 it got better
you should watch some of these from 1962...NEWPORT CIGS was the main product. Its weird to see them pushing cigs...And I grew up with it
The 1970s Match Game was the best!
I like how they are all genuinely happy for each other. I loved the episode were they gave away a submarine for 2500 and a house in Florida for 16500.
A fucking submarine???
@@Kuzo53 : I don't think that was its purpose.
@@kennymurphy2116 😂😆🤣
"genuinely" by 1950s game show standards
@@redwinmediapeople were just better back then.
From Cullen to Barker to Carey, I will always love the Price is Right.
Don't forget Dennis James, Doug Davidson and Tom Kennedy. They also
hosted "TPIR" at one time.
Bill would've hosted the new price is right in 1972 if he'd been able to walk ...the new format required it.
Drew was really rough, at first. You could sense how uncomfortable and unsure of himself and what to do. A year or two later and he was fine.
Pauly s I'm 71 watched this show live the days were much slower places to go much safer never had to lock the doors people much nicer to each other could live them years all over again!!
Martha Graham. I bet you hated black people then?
De Vaughn Yarbrough At what point did he mention hating black people? Your comment is ignorant. All she said was that it was a better time, which it was. why do people like you feel that you have to bring race into everything?
After seeing what has transpired over the past decade or so,she may hate them now after not having thought so then.If so,I can guarantee that she is not alone.
B L why was it a better time for you whities because we were segregated?
eric Mays:
Not at all. People had more manners, spoke well, dressed modestly, took their religious beliefs seriously, and put family first. People have become more greedy, rude, lazy, skimpy, and it’s hard to find a family that prays together before dinner anymore. Values have changed, and not all for the better. However, we have traded values for equal rights, opportunities, medical advancements, and technological advancements. If I was alive during the 50’s, I wouldn’t have lived very long due to the lack of medical knowledge. I’m very glad we can look back on the 50’s, and remember a more sophisticated, simpler time. I’m even more grateful that my grandparents, and other older role models, were alive during this time. It is really cool seeing how far we’ve come. :)
Unbelievable! I thought The Price is Right didn't start until the 70's! This was great to see. Thanks for posting!
@veronicaa.1416 a very interesting part of television history! I was actually surprised to learn how long the game show, Jeopardy, had been around as well. I'd found that out when reading more about the history of The Price is Right. If I remember correctly, Jeopardy had been around since the 50's or 60's. I love that there are different formats of the shows available to watch and knowing how they eventually progressed throughout the years.
In 1972, the debut was called the New Price is Right. This was the original
My dad was 24 when this aired. He's now going on 88 years young 🙂
Same age as my grandpa I'm so glad that he is still with us
Mr. Michael's grandchildren, if they are alive, are in their 70's now.
Yep my dad would have been 7 almost 8 yrs old when this aired, and he’s 71 now.
my mom and dad got married in 1957. they meet each other on labor day weekend that same year. so I enjoyed this show.
I don't know how I've gotten by without amazing Blue Liquid WISK in my life.
I love how Bill plugged _Truth or Consequences_ with Bob Barker at the end.
Don Pardo was the announcer. He also did SNL many years later.
Being a die hard fan of the show, "I know it would NOT have continued, had it remained like this video! I LOVE the newer, better version, but this is a real eye opener!
This version continued until 1965.
21:23 - They gave out someone's full address. Man the 50's were weird.
That's because the closest anyone ever got to identity theft was when the wives used their husband's credit cards. This is the 50s, so not everyone was enrolled in the Social Security program yet, and everything critical to their lives was seperate rather than being connected to their social.
That practice continued to the 1980s when someone was murdered as a result and the company that gave out the address was sued almost out of existence. I remember when all such mail in contest had the winner's name, address and phone number published. Someone in my home town won a prize from a magazine contest and the magazine published all that info on them and their house was broken into and stuff stolen and then they kept getting hundreds of letters from people around the country begging for things like money or donations to charities and some people wrote them to make death threats. They ended up having to move.
@@nunyabiznez6381 years ago I heard about a lady from somewhere in South America who won a very big cash prize in a lottery, there must have been a lot of publicity about it. the lady said she was so sick of people constantly begging her for money that she ended up giving the money back!!
@@danielthoman7324 That is fairly common. People get really stupid when they suddenly come into money. Their attitude most of the time is "Look everybody I am rich now! Aren't you happy for me! I want the whole wide world to know how wealthy I am!!!" And then they wonder why their house gets broken into every other day and why they keep getting hate mail and death threats and strange phone calls and everyone they have ever met and a great many they don't remember meeting demanding their perceived "fair share" or suddenly they have creditors they don't remember owing money to. It never fails. I had a neighbor about 30 years ago who won 3 million in the lottery. Before he won he had a job that paid twice minimum wage, good benefits, on track to retire with a nice pension at 60. He had a mortgage that he owed only $5000 on. His first mistake was instead of paying off his debts he acquired more. He threw a "I'm rich!" party for everyone he knew who then hit him up for loans and gifts of cash and in under a year he was was out of money and owed more than he could pay back if he worked three full time jobs for the rest of his life. He burned his bridges at work so they wouldn't take him back. Everyone he gave money too hates him so he has no friends. His girlfriend broke up with him and successfully sued him for 50% of his winnings AFTER he spent it all. Last I heard he was in his 70's working three full time jobs, two for the IRS and one for himself. He even lost his social security benefits.
The secret is don't ever let anyone know you have money.
@@nunyabiznez6381 to I remembered something from about 30 years ago. I worked at a janitorial company over 30 years ago and remember someone telling me about one of the employees winning over a million dollars in the lottery. instead of investing it he bought many of his relatives new cars. (Lincoln) lots of other extravagant spending. less than 2 years he was broke and back cleaning up at night.
There's something comforting I find about the way voice-over announcers and TV personalities spoke back then. When I was a kid in the late-80s/early-90s, my dad would check the TV Guide for the old shows he watched when he was a kid like Looney Tunes, Lassie, The Beverly Hill Billies, and The Three Stooges to see if I'd enjoy them and I very much did. Still love them to this day. Listening to Bill Cullen here and the voice-overs in those Lux adverts, it makes me think of those days we spent together watching those shows.
Wow! an Isetta, a collectors dream today. That freezer is built bigger and better than any freezer today. $500.00 freezer = $4,284.00 freezer today. WOW! $1.00 in 1957 = $8.56 in 2016
Game shows on live television! And giving the name AND ADDRESS of the home winner! Unreal.
remember when he died, because it was the day after my grandma went.Loved his show as a kid. Impressed he did what he did,dispite having polio, and impressed that Don Pardo was his announcer.
Everyone is so in awe at each prize and everyone is just having fun. I wish I could experience that time maybe live in 1955 for about a year or something.
This was my favorite show as a kid. Tks so much for putting these up
Got to love the ISETTA 300!
That was the only car that showed up on game shows back then.
I remember Gary Moore once giving a gag gift of a cross country trip in an ISETTA to a newlywed couple accompanied by a violinist.
It was a hoot watching three adults and a violin try to squeeze in to one of those death traps.
Great choice of THE PRICE IS RIGHT episodes.
Thanks!
I was very happy to see this there's a woman in it I never got to meet in my lifetime but I love being able to see family the way they were back when miss Ellen Miller was my grandmother's cousin my grandmother was Theresa Miller
Jonathan Dimmick - I’m a little confused by your statement. She was introduced as Mrs. Ellen Miller, which means she was using her husband’s last name. If your grandmother, Theresa, had the same last name, was she married to a man named Miller who was related to Ellen’s husband?
John Becker right cousin by marriage Aunt Ellen's husband was blood related to my grandmother Ellen is a relative by marriage
Jonathan Dimmick - Gotcha. I thought Ellen and Theresa were blood relatives. Thanks for clarifying.
Wow, I love that we have people who upload these old shows... it's like going back in time. It's so interesting to see how much our society has changed in many ways... like calling the contestants Mr/Mrs Lastname instead of just Firstname. You didn't go out in public unless you were properly dressed, with a hat and maybe gloves if you were a woman. The older contestants are definitely gone now, and even the youngest is probably as well, or if not, extremely old.
Sadly
My grandmother luv this show right before the news n young n restless
I am an 80's baby but wish I was growing up in the 1950's . Love 50's shows
Karim Sanchez - I am a 60’s baby but loved growing up in the 80’s.
Nah, the 80's and beyond is the best. Too much troubles in the 70's and beyond- especially with disease and domestic violence.
We have been getting better with each decade. :)
You don't have to live in '50s to watch their TV shows.
90s kids rule. 80s kids drool.
There needs to be a special episode of the modern price is right where they play it like the 1950's price is right.
WOW, Rolling in Style to the golf course in a Brand New 1957 BMW Isetta
I didn't know how far this show went back wow great time watching it
I was 5 years old when this aired. TV the way it was 😃💯❤👍
OMG! This was on TV 2 days after I was born!
Charlie’s Angeles final episode of season 1 aired the day I was born.
Love how excited the lady was over that freezer.
Shoot I’d love to have one myself!
*_5 Piece Dining Set_*
Me: $300.
Contestant: $75.
Me: .___. I can't comprehend your economy, 1950s. I'm out.
Yep. $75 in 1957 would be $683 now, 2019. Over 800% inflation, hard to imagine those numbers.
$75 was just the opening bid. She probably expected to bid at least once more.
Actual price $215 in 1957 = $2150 in 2021 You can currently pick one up for $200 at Home Depot. Inflation, what inflation.
@@kabiam yeah but the one for $200 at Home Depot is probably made in China for cheap labour using cheap materials. The one in the show was more likely made in America using solid hardwood
Wisk laundry detergent isn't even on the market anymore. It was discontinued recently. Unilever, which made Wisk originally, sold their North American detergent brands to the Sun Products Corporation, which in turn was purchased by Henkel of Germany. Henkel's Persil replaced Wisk.
In the 1970s, Wisk's ads are best remembered for its infamous "ring around the collar" campaign. One spot was particularly embarrassing;
a couple went to Hawaii and when the couple got there, a native girl
made fun of the husband, going "wing awound the collar".
If Persil replaced Wisk, then why is it so much more expensive?
@@kennymurphy2116 That was the plan. Buy the competition then get rid of it so they could jack up the price.
I'm 66. I remember Wisk. I've also bought Sun. It did a good job.
TV used to be so simple. No fancy graphics, no over the top music, no silly jokes. Just a tv production.
How about people in stupid outfits jumping around and screaming to get attention? I still cringe years later from seeing a couple episodes of "Let's Make a Deal".
@@thunderbird1921 LMAD has always been that way throughout the late 60s, 70s and 80s, though it didn't start out that way.
I love the 50's. I wish things where like the way they were back then now. I am was not even a thought until the late 70's so all I have to go on is seeing things on You Tube like this show. Thanks for posting.
You're very welcome! Thanks for watching! :)
lidsman2221 me too, buddy... me too...
srry but no....I like all the techno that we have this time then back then.....I'm just expressing my feelings
+RichKillerJr25YT I agree with you also. I love the toys we have today and the advancement in medicine we have today. If we could bring back the family and a little bit slower life style combined with the things we have today. I think that would be great. Thanks for the comment.
+1BlubeTube So, you were born exactly seven months before the first "Price is Right" episode aired.
watching this and thinking "all these people are probably dead now"
There have been some recent TPiR contestants that have mentioned they've been on this version.
I mean, they are probably like 90-110 years old if they are still alive,
I was looking at the contestants and thinking the same thing.
@@AdamDeLand "probably"
I found a high shcool year book from 1940 one time. Me and my sister went threw it and finally I said She dead he dead they all dead lol.
Seeing that guy be so happy with his golfclubs was so sweet!
Dude scored a cool BMW!! This show is kinda like the one we see today. Of course it has evolved but the main idea is knowing the price of stuff. A brand New mini car!!!!
If any of these people's family's still have any of the stuff they won on this show, this video would be even that much cooler for them to be able to see.
That car was the greatest thing I've ever seen, but it's probably a deathtrap lol
+I_iguavas_I It's supposed to be the late 50s version of today's Smart Car.
Steve Urkel drove one on Family Matters
I had NO idea price is right predated Bob Barker as host. Damn this show is old
I’m glad the way this game show was played changed, I was lost for awhile.😅😂
I really love 🧡💓 this version of the price is right I’d watch this kind over n over again cuz I think it’s more of a laid back version of the game & + it was Very New and no other game show like it at the time. 😃😃😃 love it , love it , love it!❗️
$1100 worth of merchandise in 1957, lots of money. They were so excited about dining set.
Oh look, it's a 1957 Smart car.
Believe it or not, that's a beemer.
They are great cars
These are collectable It's a $50 000 car.
I thought the same thing.
The Steve Urkel car
Bob Barker mention at 28:35. Wow!
That's so crazy my grandpa was twenty-three when this came out I'm actually living with him right now because my grandmother died and I'm helping him out and I appreciate every second I get with him. People need to appreciate the moment they have with elders
And sometimes it's not so different, in a good way we just got to see the good in times like that too. We could learn compared to the things that we don't agree with. It's still a history though it's not now and it's not us. This is just a cool thing to look back on. I'm a fan of The Price is Right and I think it's incredible that is passed it as long as it has is the television show it's gone through a lot of decades of different things that have gone on through the years and it's lasted as long as it has. It's pretty cool.
I gotta say that’s a pretty cool freezer, 17:05
When we moved into our first house in 2002 it came with a freezer like that from 55 or 57... Dam thing kept working until about 2010...it seemed wrong to get rid of it in a way. Got $80 just for scrap because it had a lot of lead in it! U could have survived a nuke in that thing!!! That was before big corps realized they could make more money selling u a new one every few years instead.... Everything these days is money driven, profit for big box stores!!! Using slave labor from CHINA!
This show has come a long way baby !!!
Oh hey I know Harold, he’s doing great! Just celebrated his 95th wedding anniversary. His grand kids are all grown up. Still drives around in that little car.
Originally telecast on May 30, 1957 at 11am(et). Lever Brothers {Wisk, Lux} sponsors the first half of the show; the network "sustains" the second half. "Station I.D." break at 15:12 {"WRCA-TV, Channel 4, New York"}.
Price is right has come a long way baby!!!
I was 10 days old when this first aired!
15:12-15:42 Local 30 second station break, with station identification {"WRCA-TV, Channel 4, New York."}
I have always found digital displays fascinating and did not realize they could display information like that into the late 50s. I thought the Memorial Stadium scoreboard in Baltimore was neat in the 1970s. By dad got to sit behind the scenes and he said it used punch tape not long before the stadium was closed. I also liked the Family Feud board back when it was with Richard Dawson. When it was with Ray Comb, I noticed it was faster and had 2 cursors instead of one.
Really cool. Thank you so much for sharing.
I was born in 85. Was kinda raised up by mr bob. So thanks for showing myself and everyone else the past before we knew.
I remember all of TPIR shows-from Bill Cullen, then Bob Barker, and now to Drew Carey. And that also goes for the announcers too: Don Pardo, Johnny Olsen,Rod Roddy,Rich Fields, and George Gray.
It's really something how much everything has changed since then, people were more sociable and things were more affordably priced, liked this video
What a happy, simple time it was. Highly enjoyable, thanks for posting
This is amazing. I especially love the way the exes kept some of the originality til this day.
I wonder what those contestants would have thought of how much items cost on The Price is Right 2018.
The announcer for this show is Don Pardo who would go on to announce for Saturday Night Live from it's beginning season in '75 until his death in 2014 at the age of 96. That little BMW Isetta 300 clown car at 8:48 has a 13hp engine and is worth about $40,000 today.
T or C with Bob Barker airing after this TPIR!!
The value of Mr. Michael's prizes in today's dollars would be over $34,000. TPIR was never a cheap show. Funny thing is, in all the years that What's My Line was on, the most a contestant could win was $50, which bought less and less as time went on. Same producers. The difference was that TPIR was about the contestants and the plugging of the prizes on the air. What's My Line was always about the panel and how smart and witty (or sometimes not) they were.
an alarm system on a refridge? Now lets se them do that today....LOL
But still a alarm, I mean who's going to try to steal a big refridge.....espicially back then.....
+Andrew Silva The alarm was not to keep someone from stealing it. It was to prevent the food from spoiling if the power went out. An excellent feature needed today as well.
+DottyGale8 even though I have been to alot of appliance stores looking for this, but havent seen it in a lot of years, but I still remember when some refridgerators actually used to have built in television monitors so you could actually watch tv while I guess you were in the kitchen, but the part I could never locate or figure out was if they actually had these Television monitors built into them, I looked all over the back of them, but I could not locate where the Cable hookup was even though if I remember correctly., back then you could get the normal 2-13 channels and this was even without an antenna hooked up to it....LOL
+Andrew Silva A tv built into the fridge?! Now that is odd! 😀
how about that newest fridge that has that built in Computer Monitor that it has plus all those small cameras that it has that you can see via yur phone pr whatever to see what you have actually inside of it like if you go to the store and you need to see what you might need for it
Dang thing cost almost 5 GRAND
The strange thing is that at the time, The Price is Right was on at 11:00am, the same time the current one is currently on CBS. Despite the fact that the CBS version with Bob Barker wasn't moved to 11am until the spring of '79, it's just a weird coincidence.
Bob Barker made this show, nobody is as awesome as Bob.
Bob Barker was the best host for TPIR just like Gene Rayburn was the best host for the Match Game. Both are awesome game shows. Bob Barker would remind people to "get their pet spayed or neutered" at the end of TPIR.
Mr.Micheal did a great job in estamating the pricies...He and his wfe must have been chillin' ! lol ! Thx 4 upload !
Omg Westfield New Jersey! Hey girl hey!!!
Fun fact, Paul Alter was the only guy to direct both the Bill Cullen and Bob Barker editions of The Price Is Right. Alter directed all episodes of The Price Is Right from 1956 to 1965. Under the Barker era, Alter directed from October 1986 to December 2000. CBS would bring Alter back a little bit after, but Alter altogether retired in 2001. He died in 2011 at age 89.
This is great stuff!
When you factor in inflation, they had high prices back then.
If you factor in the fact that a GOOD wage back then was $96 A WEEK, then yes most items weren't any cheaper..
People didn't own a bunch of crap either.
No chinese slave labor
@@scrapplepig I'm saying it negativity of slave labor...
They sure did! I'm surprised at how expensive the items were on old game shows relative to people's wages.
That “Lux liquid” vaporizes food off the plate yet is gentle on your hands
Oh wow I remember Bill Cullen from game shows in the past!
Yes!! Lots of game shows!! 😀😀😀
best tv show ever!😍
This is very interesting, thank you!!
People were so well mannered and behaved in those days. I can't believe how the world had degenerated so quickly.
The only difference between now and then is that the degenerates are on tv.
🤷🏾♀️👍🏿🤔😪😢 I love Old School 😍
That’s because back then people were taught manners and shamed if they misbehaved. Plus the majority of the homes had a father at home.
I know right? I agree with you.believe me as far as manners & respect go,we took a wrong turn somewhere.
Happened to see this show recently, and could not belive the prizes given out....for real? ????????
Matt Damon still looks young even as a talk show host
29:10- "Now stay tuned for 'TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES', which follows immediately over most of these NBC stations."
Damn this original show was freaky as fuhh with all the women ooooh'n & uuhhhhh'n like they were gettin thrashed out right on The Price Is Right studio set
🤣🤣
I like how the show wen on air with that little "beep"
THAT FUCKING CLIP ON MIC IS AMAZING!
Mr michael is my Grandad he left me all the heritage that's why we're very rich now
If someone had told these people that we would be watching them on a thing called RUclips on a thing called the internet 64 years later they never would have believed it. And if they did it would have blown their minds
They're all likely gone by now (the older folks for sure).
@@kck9742 The older ones for sure but maybe not all of the younger ones.They could very well still be alive in their 80s and 90s. My mom was a teen in the 50s and only passed away 7 years ago at 73. I was born in 1961 and am alive and well at 60 years old.
@@eph2vv89only1way Yeah, that's kind of what I said. 🙂
You can see why Elvis and rock 'n' roll were considered so wild and crazy at the time, 1957.
the new price is right was made in 1972 by: Bob Barker
Thank you. I wondered when it changed.
Colts fan for life and your avatar is the eagles?
that kid was amazing with those plates. this is before special effects so you know it's real
This show is now completely different from the current version of the Price is Right with Drew Carey.
This show is now completely different from the current version of the Price is Right with Drew Carey.
Michael Friedman Gee I wonder why
It is just lengthy version of contestants' row
Yep, completely different. It's in color now!
They must have canceled this version cause there is another price is right episode 1 1972 with Bob barker
love this show
sue
Huh only 1 bidding game in it? No other price games? but those peoples were just people like we are, they weren’t that different (are they?) and the man of the show did presented the show pretty well, i absolutely never knew this show dates soooo far back, just wow.
Premiered in 1956.
It's funny. My dad has told me for decades how much better everything was back when he was growing up compared to today. Sorry, but today's PIR is much more exciting, more random and more viewer-friendly by a longshot. And I'm sure PIR will be much better 30 years from now simply based on how game shows push limits as well as the integration of technology. Great vid & thanks for sharing! +!
Oh man, Don Pardo. The only thing missing from this show is a Muuusical Guest
i can't help but think of my late grandmother watching these shows.
what's interesting is how the 3 women on the panel are all "housewives".
eisenhower was president, elvis and marylin were "shaking" things up, brown v. board of education had outlawed school segregation in 1954 yet the governor of arkansas used the national guard to block a black kid from enrolling , joseph mccarthy would die that year, the kkk in alabama forced a black truck driver to jump to his death off a bridge...