Editing The Price Is Right (section)

====1972–1980====
A weekly syndicated version debuted the week after the daytime premiere and continued to air until September 1980.<ref name="sheanight">{{cite web| url=http://www.j-shea.com/TPIR/nighttime/nightTPIRstations.htm| publisher=j-shea.com| title="The Nighttime Price Is Right" Station List| date=March 10, 2006| access-date=April 30, 2007| archive-date=September 27, 2007| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927023002/http://www.j-shea.com/TPIR/nighttime/nightTPIRstations.htm| url-status=dead}}</ref> It was distributed by [[Viacom Enterprises]], which had started as the syndication arm of CBS. When Mark Goodson devised the revival of ''Price'' for the 1972–73 season, it was intended for a nighttime broadcast only under new rules for [[Prime Time Access Rule|early-prime syndication]], and Goodson named [[Dennis James]] to host the show. When CBS commissioned a new weekday daytime version, Goodson also wanted James to host that show, but CBS wanted Barker, who was still hosting the syndicated ''[[Truth or Consequences]]'' at the time, to take it. Barker preferred to host ''[[The Joker's Wild]]'', but CBS, again, insisted that he host ''Price'' instead.<ref>{{cite book|last=Barker|first=Bob|title=Priceless Memories|year=2009|publisher=Center Street|isbn=978-1-59995-135-5|page=[https://archive.org/details/pricelessmemorie00bark/page/38 38]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/pricelessmemorie00bark/page/38}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Rice|first1=Lynette|title=Bob Barker on saying goodbye to ''The Price Is Right''|url=http://www.ew.com/article/2007/06/08/bob-barker-saying-goodbye-price-right|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=19 May 2015}}</ref>

James eventually hosted a taping day (four half-hour episodes) of the daytime show in December 1974 when Barker fell ill; those episodes were broadcast on and around Christmas Day. James did so concurrently with another daytime hosting gig, on the NBC version of ''[[Name That Tune]]'', another revived format from the 1950s.<ref name="eotvgs"/>

The two versions were largely similar at the beginning, as both were called ''The New Price Is Right''. Some games had rule differences because of the larger budget and less commercial time on the nighttime show; for example, Double Prices was played for two prizes instead of one.

This version retained the 1972 half-hour format for its entire run and never adopted the daytime show's Double Showcase rule or the Showcase Showdown added to the daytime format when it expanded to an hour in 1975. The word "New" was dropped from the program's name starting in the second season, being titled simply ''The Price Is Right'' (as the daytime show was by this time as well) from that point onward, and was often referred to on the air by James and Olson as "the nighttime ''Price Is Right''." In most of the U.S., stations carried the syndicated ''Price'' as one of other programs airing in the timeslot (7:30&nbsp;p.m. ET) immediately before primetime which was created by the 1971 [[Federal Communications Commission|FCC]] Prime Time Access Rule.<ref name="mus-goodtod">{{cite web|url = http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/G/htmlG/goodsonmark/goodsonmark.htm|title = Mark Goodson and Bill Todman|publisher = [[Museum of Broadcast Communications]]|access-date = May 25, 2007|author = Mark McDermott|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070610102927/http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/G/htmlG/goodsonmark/goodsonmark.htm|archive-date = June 10, 2007|url-status = dead|df = mdy-all}}</ref>

Though the nighttime version originally had higher ratings than the CBS daytime version, by 1975, the syndicated ratings started to drop. After the fifth nighttime season in 1977, when the contract with [[NBC]]'s owned-and-operated stations ended, James's contract was not renewed. [[CBS]]'s owned-and-operated stations picked the show up and the decision was made to hire Barker, to bring it in line with the daytime version.{{citation needed|date=August 2021}} The series taped its 300th and final episode on March 12, 1980, and was cancelled after weekly syndicated game shows had fallen out of popularity in favor of daily offerings (such as ''[[Family Feud]]'', which had expanded to daily syndication the same year ''The Nighttime Price Is Right'' ended). With a run of eight seasons, it was one of the longest-running weekly syndicated game shows of the era and the longest-running regularly-scheduled primetime version of ''Price'' (the 1957–1964 version aired seven seasons).