The first version of TPIR to air in Spain was a weekly 90 to 120 minute primetime edition broadcast on TVE Monday nights starting in 1989, which was a smash hit reaching over 17 million viewers. It ran through 1993.
El Precio Justo channel hopped to Canal 7 for a primetime stint on Saturdays for a season, with interactive home viewer elements.
By 1999, the show had returned to TVE, but as a daily afternoon show inspired by Bruce’s Price is Right. In fact, it used the same set & music, and used Euros for pricing games. Strangely enough, contestants bid in pesetas as previous versions had, and their bids were converted to Euros.
The spiffy logo of Spain’s el Precio Justo (2001)OK, follow this entrance…the host, Carlos Lozano leaps through one of the big clam shells……makes a “rat-a-tat-tat” gun motion towards the audience (making a “rat-a-tat noise)……and spins the model holding the microphone around like a flamenco dancer. Imagine poor ‘ol Barker trying any of that…As part of the Euro conversion, the host shows a poster of Euro currency (with his trusty Euro Stick)The announcer sits in the audience, in his little DJ booth to call contestants down. He doesn’t say “Come on Down…” just shouts the contestant’s namesEven in another language it happens. *2* people showed up in Contestant’s Row when one name was called. They all look to the announcer for the nameBids are displayed on monitors. They bid in pesetas but the equivalent bid in Euros is displayed underneath. In this case, Chris (the first bidder) bid 32.500 pesetas or €195.33Would you like to win a food slicer and a “lavadora”?The video wall displays a 3rd prize…a kitchen consisting of cabinets, range hood and a built-in electric smooth top range.In any language, Make Your Move never changesShe set the prices at €49 for the slicer, €732 for the lavadora and €4,429 for the kitchen. The players bid in pesetas but all of the pricing games use Euros. Carlos continually reminds us about the conversionThey didn’t forget to pay the power bill. They dimmed the studio lights to light up the correct digits in the prices of the prizesPepe (yes that’s his name) is trying to win a South Pacific holiday playing Pick A NumberWhich fills the price correctly? The 2, 4 or 8 our lovely model is gesturing to?He can’t decide. He picks 2 then changes his mind to 4.Another winner!Esther watches on as Carlos tosses the ARP card into the audience. The crowd goes nuts trying to catch the cardThe big clam shells reveal a TV and DVD player!It’s Hole in One with 4 prizes to advance along the course. Carlos doesn’t make an inspiration putt.The prizes are a drafting board, calculator, compass set and fountain pens. To advance, she must keep choosing higher (mayor) and higher products.The calculator is more than the compassAnd the drafting board was more than the calculator. The model moves the flag up the course with each correct guessThe pens were third most expensive so she putts from the 2nd closest lineIt looks good…No! She loses and they play the “losing horns”. She only gets one chance to make the putt.Carlos walks to home-base and can’t believe her “rare bad luck”. I don’t speak Spanish so I don’t know if he said she was in a rest home or not…It’s the “Euro Wheel”. Get 100 in one spin and you win €1,000. Esther got 100 in two spins but didn’t get the bonus70. You have to spin againThis guy is excited at winning a suitcase! I wonder how he’ll react if he wins…A new car!It’s Let ‘Em Roll (Los Dados)Each cube has 3 cars and 3 money amounts. €150, €300 and €600. He gets one roll free and can win 2 more if he knows enough about…Wire connectors?Light bulbs?!An air freshener?!!?!Before pricing the items, he takes his first roll……and gets 2 cars and €600. He will risk his €600 and try to win another roll. If he doesn’t win anymore chances, he loses the money.Are the light bulbs MAYOR or MENOR? He says MAYOR…Wrong. He has to get the last one right. MAYOR or MENOR? MENOR this timeYes! He wins another rollHe needs 3 cars to win the car…Nope. Even though he won €1,050, they played the losing hornsWho wants to win a laptop?It’s everyone’s favorite, Bonus Game!I wonder what those are?Paper cups?! He got this one wrongUh oh…I recognize the last wordOh geez…plastic spoons. Missed this one tooAre we talking plates here?Yup. Paper plates. Are they MAYOR or MENOR €1.25?Did you get it right?I wonder if they redeemed themselves?Have you ever seen a model so beautifully gesture at paper napkins?He got the napkins. If it’s here you lose, if it’s here you lose, if it’s here you win, if it’s here you winYou loseYes old lady! You’re the next contestant on El Precio JustoCarlos goes up into the audience to help her down the stairsA fabulous array of prizes (with a theme I bet)CookwareServing Piecesand Crystal drinkwareOne of them has the wrong price. Which is it? She thinks it might be the crystal but the audience tells her to pick the serving pieces. She doesAnd we get our last winner of the day!This time we have a tie score at the wheel. The guy who lost the car is the bigger winner so he advances to the showcaseYou can tell that this version has borrowed heavily from Bruce’s Price is Right in the UK. Esther is the top winner and gets to stop the range finder200.000 pesetas is the range they have to come within to winReady to see your showcase?First, we have a motorcycle…..….and another one!Add in a trip to the Canary Islands…and a Toyota 4×4 Truck and you’ve got yourself a showcaseAn overview of the prizes as they make their bids. Pretty cool shot of the 3 “big clam shells”Esther bid 6.800.000 pesetasHe bid 6.200.000. They typed their bids into a computerTheir bids go up on the video wallTonight’s showcase is worth €34.498Which is 5.740.000 pesetas. They both went over! No one wins the showcase!
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