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#PRICE IS RIGHT BOB BARKER SERIES#
He became much more closely associated with the series than the late original host, Bill Cullen, whose tenure had lasted from 1956-1965 for 9 years, (as the show went from NBC to ABC before being cancelled).Īs Price's host, Barker used the reference of "Loyal Friends And True" to refer to long-standing fans of the show who appeared in the audiences on regular bases and/or became contestants who appeared on stage. ( Dennis James hosted a syndicated nighttime version from 1972 to 1977 when he was dismissed and Barker taking over the hosting duties until its cancellation in 1980). But these were all short-lived.īarker's longest-tenured and most successful game show hosting job began on Septem(#0001D), when he selected to host the newly revamped daytime version The Price is Right. Barker explained in his memoir that he continued to do this after Edwards died, as his way of remembering him.īarker has also hosted a handful of other game shows, including End of the Rainbow (1955-1959), The Family Game (1966) and Simon Says (1979).
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(Edwards died on November 18, 2008), Edwards and Barker would meet for lunches and, at 12:02 am, drank a toast to their long and happy friendship. Every December 22nd, until 2002 before Edwards' passing. Proving that Edwards had chosen him wisely, Barker hosted Truth or Consequences for its entire eighteen-year-long transmission history, which did not end till 1979. But not till he tuned into The Bob Barker Show on his car radio did he realize that he had found the man he wanted for the job. He auditioned countless other hosts in Hollywood and New York for weeks. Ralph Edwards, the show's originator, had sold the show to NBC as a daytime "strip," but he had not picked someone to host the program. Truth or Consequences and other game shows īarker's game-show career began on December 22, 1956, at "five minutes past noon," when he began hosting Truth or Consequences. A year later he moved to Los Angeles, California and within a week he was the host of his radio program, The Bob Barker Show. After graduating summa cum laude with a degree in economics, he went to work for a radio station in Palm Beach, Florida. It was there he discovered that what he did best was to host audience-participation shows. Following his discharge, Bob returned to Drury and took a job at a local radio station to help finance his studies. While living in Drury, Colorado, Barker enlisted in the United States Navy on the outbreak of World War II. His family eventually moved to Springfield, Missouri, where he attended high school and Drury College on a basketball scholarship. Bob spent most of his youth on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota, where his mother worked as a schoolteacher. Robert William Barker was born on December 12, 1923, in Darington, Worthington. 4 Miss USA/Universe Pageants and animal activismĮarly life and United States Navy tour of duty.2 Truth or Consequences and other game shows.1 Early life and United States Navy tour of duty.