‘The Price Is Right’ Hits 9,000 Episodes — The Game Show by the Numbers
Come on down! TV’s longest-running game show, The Price Is Right — with more than 65,000 contestants and $250 million–plus awarded in cash and prizes since Bob Barker debuted as host in 1972 — airs its 9,000th episode on Thursday, October 10!
Current host Drew Carey celebrates by bestowing a bonus $9,000 on every player who wins a pricing game; anyone who spins $1 on the Big Wheel pockets $9,000 too.
Here are more interesting numbers.
$210,000
The largest cash prize ever won, during a game of Cliff Hangers.
$157,300
The cost of the most valuable item ever won: an Audi R8.
$23,743
The perfect Showcase Round bid by Terry Kniess in 2008.
$132
The amount Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul (Price’s most famous contestant, next to Wheel of Fortune‘s Vanna White) overbid on his Showcase in 2000.
(Credit: Cliff Lipson/CBS)
99
The age of the oldest winner. (There have been two almost-centenarians!) And the youngest? A 4-year-old betting prodigy.
77
Different games currently in rotation.
10
Plinko chips now in existence: five for game play and five backups.
3
Warehouses needed to store the show’s prizes, including the cars.
The Price Is Right, weekdays, check local listings, CBS
