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The New Price is Right with Doug Davidson (1994)

Doug Davidson and a contestant just before a game reveal.
Doug Davidson and a contestant just before a game reveal.
Burton Richardson busts out another "Come on down!"
Burton Richardson busts out another “Come on down!”
The big difference in Hole in One was that it was played using small merchandise prizes which had to be ordered from least to most expensive.
The big difference in Hole in One was that it was played using small merchandise prizes which had to be ordered from least to most expensive.
The HI1 set as seen from the right-hand camera.
The HI1 set as seen from the right-hand camera.
Doug had his own style. Upset that the contestant missed, he leans on the set piece and doesn't notice that it's flipped over to the "OR TWO" side. Then he gives the player another try.
Doug had his own style. Upset that the contestant missed, he leans on the set piece and doesn’t notice that it’s flipped over to the “OR TWO” side. Then he gives the player another try.
Doug's picture on the Hole In One ball.
Doug’s picture on the Hole In One ball.
What's different here? The price is being shown while the flag is still on the prize display. At one point a prize was picked, then revealed, and the flag was set on the putting green. The player picked again if the price was higher than the previous choice.
What’s different here? The price is being shown while the flag is still on the prize display. At one point a prize was picked, then revealed, and the flag was set on the putting green. The player picked again if the price was higher than the previous choice.
The show's fifth camera captured many great establish shots around the studio. Here's the setup for One Away.
The show’s fifth camera captured many great establish shots around the studio. Here’s the setup for One Away.
The standard head-on shot of the 1A board.
The standard head-on shot of the 1A board.
Any car games which were designed to be played on the turntable were staged like Lucky Seven, with the game board covered by a red tarp (not concealed behind a curtain) as Doug made his entrance.
Any car games which were designed to be played on the turntable were staged like Lucky Seven, with the game board covered by a red tarp (not concealed behind a curtain) as Doug made his entrance.
Down to the final selection in Any Number.
And of course Lucky Seven continued to be staged in this fashion as well. A harp-like synth gliss accompanied the opening of the doors.
A Lucky Seven question: what kind of car is it? Doug decides to ask model Ferrari Farris. Big mistake. “It’s a red car, Doug!”
Whenever a certain game was to be played, its now-retired introductory prop stood at the ready at the rear of Studio 33, covered by another red tarp. The faithful knew what was in the offing.
Plinko makes the move to nighttime.
Here are the prize podiums.  In this version, you earned chips by guessing whether the actual retail price was higher or lower than what was listed.  Here, a contestant guessed wrong and did not earn a chip.
Here, on the other hand, the contestant guesses correctly and earns a chip.
The overhead camera during Plinko. Chip falls were accompanied by a special mix of one of Edd Kalehoff’s car themes for the show.
Doug even got to use his Plinko stick during the show when chips got stuck. He thinks beating on the board will get it loose.
Don’t forget that you need proper eye protection when you use the tanning bed.
Doug pulls a severed hand out of the 3 Strikes bag.
The first of the two methods wrong guesses were conveyed on 3 Strikes. A frame appeared around the number and “melted” away if the number was wrong. Later a “No” graphic similar to the one used on the daytime show was adopted.
Just like on the mothership, players let themselves go when they won. Here one 3 Strikes winner does a cartwheel. This scene was later added to the show’s opening sequence.
Make Your Mark is played for perhaps the only time. The name was changed using a non-light-up overlay covering the Barker’s Marker$ sign. (It’s this game that you have to thank because without it there wouldn’t even be a TNPIR Gallery here)
Doug kicks off the game by giving this contestant $100 which she can use to move the marker. Hmm, $100?
“Doug, you’re supposed to give the player $500!” as Phil Rossi makes a rare on-stage appearance to rein in his frugal host. Darn, nearly made $400 on the deal!
The old-style price displays,cut down to size when the prizes were put on their risers. This was necessary because the signs sometimes were between prizes, causing confusion.
Can you tell what today’s first game is going to be?
On this version Golden Road always used a small prize to set up the first two numbers, such as this fanny pack.
A shot of the big doors just before the reveal. Doesn’t the Golden Road look great against the black stage floor?
Grand game was still played for $10000, but like the Golf Game it featured small prizes as well.
Could it be OLD EL CHEAPO PM? Relax, it wasn’t this time.
A player gets set to run around in circles for 45 seconds on the Race Game.
Model Lisa Stahl. After “The New Price Is Right” ended she got married, and had recurring roles on “Baywatch” and its short-lived spinoff, “Baywatch Nights”, as psychic Destiny. But her biggest fame came when she teamed up with Michael Young (from the old “Kids are People Too” to host Florida’s lottery game show, “Florida Flamingo Fortunes”, which borrowed some of the unused music Edd Kalehoff wrote for TNPIR.
Lisa tells Doug he has a phone call from Captain Kirk!
Lisa is angry with neighbor Ferrari, who has so many wonderful things in her backyard that she doesn’t. Maybe that should be green smoke?
Julie Lynn Cialini, one of the models on the series, was Miss February 1994 in Playboy magazine. Shortly after the series premiered she was featured again in the magazine to celebrate her job on TPIR, just as Dian Parkinson was featured years ago. Also, Julie was named Playmate of the Year.
One of Lisa’s standard jobs on TNPIR was to open the Safe Crackers safe. She always gave us one of those sweet little “follow me” moves when she crossed to the safe.
For some reason the safe only contained the grand prize, with the three-digit prize (the combination) outside just left of Door #2.
Shell Game was wheeled out by an available model after the Door #2 reveal. The model remained with the bonus prize and the doors stayed open throughout the duration of the game.
Harder to tell which shell has the ball when Andy chooses an overhead shot. The table almost disappears into the black floor tile.
Magic #, A contestant has his hand on the leever that controls the geezmo.
The repurposed Double Prices prop which concealed the prices of the two items in Magic #, with the top one the higher priced item.
Squeeze Play was played in one of two positions on stage: between Doors 1 and 2…
…and in front of the Video Wall.
Julie has such a supple wrist! How do you think she does it? I don’t know!
A unique way to play Switch? with two trips, each in their own door.
Doug “X”es another contestant.
When you watch every day, games like Ten Chances are a snap! This was one of the nighttime show’s best wins ever!
Prizes one and two during Most Expensive. Andy Felsher liked to use two-shots to show multi-prize game prizes when the doors first opened rather than a long shot.
Model Ferrari Farris. A model and sometime actress who appeared in mags like Black Elegance, often in swimwear. Jay Wolpert once said he liked his TPIR models to be “wholesomely sexy”, and Ferrari, Lisa and Julie fit that bill perfectly.
The girls rotated mike hand off duties, and each was more than happy to work with the studly Doug Davidson.
It’s the Clockless Game! This poor woman just bid $25,000 on a bumper pool table!
What the studio audience saw when Clock Game was played.
A fairly new game at the time, Swap Meet, was played quite often during the show’s run.
Great overhead shots were the trademark of this version, such as when the players spun “the mighty Price is Right Wheel”!
The nighttime show’s $1000 win graphic.
When the wheel wasn’t used, a variation on the one bid, The Price Was Right, was played. Contestants, lined up in play order rather than winnings (this ordering also was used for the Wheel), made a bid on a vintage item, and the closest without going over went into the Showcase.
The prizes for TPWR were shown as vintage television commercials. Here’s Dick Wilson’s very first Charmin commercial in 1965.
More often than not, an old car would be the focus of TPWR. Here’s a 1964 Chevy Corvair going through its paces. Not shown: Ralph Nader chasing after it.
The readouts for TPWR were built to such a height that some contestants were tough to see behind them!
It’s the same old address you’ve heard for 32 years now, accompanied on this version by a local phone number.
The Showcase prop was a second-generation Range Game board, with a scale of 10,000 to 70,000 and a range holder which held a plexiglass range shield covering anywhere from $3000 to $10000. Unlike the actual Range Game prop (used in the pilot for this version), there were no finer markings other than thousands.
When the scale moved, the screen showed a split similar to that of the daytime show. More dramatic music was used with a synth sting accompanying the pulling of the handle to stop the range.
Cars were the rule rather than the exception, as were outlandish prizes. Lisa is wearing a sumo blowup suit, two of which were offered along with a full-size inflatable sumo wrestling ring.
Many of the familiar daytime backdrops made the move to nighttime as well, but there was one major difference in the staging: a video clip of each car in motion was added to every car presentation.
Model Julie Cialini poses next to a boat. On the nighttime show, this wouldn’t even be the biggest prize in most showcases.
Even if you drew a $4000 range…
…you could still win if the price was within the range. Even reasonably close guesses counted as well, given the lack of fine measurement on the range.
It’s Halloween, and Ferrari and Lisa have every right to be spooked.
That’s because the Universal Studios Monsters, Dracula and Frank and Stein (we mean Frankenstein — wrong Jay Wolpert show), made a special appearance!
The clam makes a rare nighttime appearance.
In the MacBurton showcase, Burton had designs on hosting TPIR.
He lures Doug onto his NEW BOAT! and starts drilling a hole in the deck. Bwa ha ha!
But Doug still made it to the studio in his NEW CORVETTE!!!, foiling MacBurton’s evil plans.
Showcases in the nighttime show returned to the level of zaniness and fun they enjoyed under the first Wolpert regime. Here we catch up on five of seven castaways, here on Gilligan’s island.
Burton starts the showcase by mentioning that The Skipper and The Professor are both dead now. “Seems everyone whose first name was ‘the’ died.” But Ginger, the movie star, is alive and well and as beautiful as ever.
The Howells, who’ve gotten maybe too much sun, decide to make a communications device out of Mr. Howell’s new ROLEX.
And here’s sweet and lovely Mary Ann! She’s got a kitchen set up on the island.
And who’s that leave to be Gilligan? Who else!!!
So join us here each day, my friends, you’re sure to get a smile!
Doug advises Burton about using echo-echo-echo in a Showcase. He’s used echo to bring on video games, of all things. “We use echo on ‘The Young and the Restless’ for dramatic moments, like when someone says PREGNANT-egnant-egnant.”
So Burton promises the next time he uses echo, it will be important.
“”A CAR!!!””
“A CAR!!!!!”
“”A CAR!!!!!!!”
Yes, three cars in one showcase. They were not won.”
He was off by about $10000 with only a $6000 range to work with.
You think Julie and Lisa would go out there dressed like that? You never know about these audiences!
A perfectly legal price for the car here. The contestant was given the first number. (Probably because the chicken in the bag ate it.)
Doug looks over his audience and welcomes them to the nighttime show.
Maybe the only time nobody was right when The Price WAS Right. All three players have overbid on a bottle of Mr. Clean in its inaugural year, 1958.
Ferrari made a cute Dorothy in a “Wizard of Oz” showcase where the wizard was a little hard of hearing.
Doug at home base. Ten Chances lurks behind the red curtain.
Doug saunters into the audience to inform a man he may be the next contestant.
Is the projection TV the most expensive item? Neither Lisa nor Burton can give out hints!
All Lisa wants is to be a country music star!
Plinko dollar values which were generally used each playing of the game.
TNPIR salutes Little Known Greek Gods, including Schvitzicles, who’s having a little trouble with his flap.
This never happened to Doug over at “Young and Restless”.
Doug shows a contestant named Alice that he’s wearing an Alice in Wonderland tie.
Alice (in the middle) has correctly guessed the price of a box of Maypo in 1956, but she doesn’t get anything extra for getting it on the nose.
It got a little hairy during the run as the models called various tabloids…
…and accused each other of trivial atrocities.
We’ll always have Lisa.
Super Ball!! in its nighttime staging, offset a little differently. The small prizes were kept off to stage right and Lisa took care of the balls.
Doug tells the girls that the tabloid war must stop.
T.C.B., baby! Burton is still in the building!
An interesting shot from the rear of the studio taken by camera 5. Whenever the showcase was lost, Doug (and frequently the girls) would do the audience greet.

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