Wasn't The Price is Right a result of the relaxing of how much viewers could win when appearing on a TV game show in the UK? I'm sure before this the prizes had a (Cash) limit. I stand to be corrected though.March 1984
The Central TV Production The Price is Right is first broadcast....”Come on down”
A original Gameshow idea from the US which was first broadcast by CBS in 1972.
Leslie Crowther would present it for the first 5 series.
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The IBA did relax rules on cash prize limits from the early 1980s on, though the UK version of Price is Right had prize money many multiples below the US version.Wasn't The Price is Right a result of the relaxing of how much viewers could win when appearing on a TV game show in the UK? I'm sure before this the prizes had a (Cash) limit. I stand to be corrected though.
I knew there was a relaxation of the cash prize rules around that time, We could never compete with American game shows for prizes/cash back then, I do remember a programme about the US game shows and those who won huge prizes like houses, Expensive vintage cars, vast amounts of money etc and some of the stories didn't end well for those who won these things, Divorce, Court cases, Even murders in some extreme cases and there was us in the UK watching something like the Generation Game or Sale of the Century winning a few quid, White goods etc or if you were really lucky a car.The IBA did relax rules on cash prize limits from the early 1980s on, though the UK version of Price is Right had prize money many multiples below the US version.
Popular programmes like Sale of the Century of course used products that were expensive for the era as a way of getting around cash prize regulations.
A easy win for TV companies who would not have had to pay for the product. Manufacturers were all too keen for a bit of free publicity on prime time TV.
Is that the $64,000 question ?Wasn't The Price is Right a result of the relaxing of how much viewers could win when appearing on a TV game show in the UK? I'm sure before this the prizes had a (Cash) limit. I stand to be corrected though.
Ah yes...I think you are correct.Roger Taylor?