Editing The Price Is Right (section)

===Hosts===

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[[Bob Barker]] began hosting ''The Price Is Right'' on September 4, 1972, and completed a 35-year tenure on June 15, 2007. Barker was hired as host while still hosting the stunt comedy show ''[[Truth or Consequences]]''. His retirement coincided with his 50th year as a television host. His final show aired on June 15, 2007, and was repeated in primetime, leading into the network's coverage of the [[34th Daytime Emmy Awards]].<ref name="variety-final">{{cite news|url=https://variety.com/2007/biz/news/barker-s-final-price-airing-june-15-1117965636/|title=Barker's final 'Price' airing June 15|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |first=Josef |last= Adalian|date=May 22, 2007|access-date=May 24, 2007}}</ref> In addition to hosting, Barker became Executive Producer of the show in March 1988 when [[Frank Wayne]] died and continued as such until his retirement, gaining significant creative control over the series between 2000 and his 2007 retirement. He was also responsible for creating several of the show's pricing games, as well as launching ''The Price Is Right $1,000,000 Spectacular'' primetime spin-off. Reruns of Barker's final season were aired throughout the summer from the Monday after his final show (June 18, 2007) until the Friday before [[Drew Carey]]'s debut as host (October 12, 2007), when the season 35 finale was re-aired. During his time as host, Barker missed only one taping of four episodes. [[Dennis James]], then hosting the syndicated nighttime version of the show, filled in for him on these shows in December 1974.<ref name="eotvgs"/> In 1981, shortly after the death of his wife Dorothy Jo, Barker became an animal rights advocate and vegetarian, and began signing off each episode with "Help control the pet population, have your pets [[spaying and neutering|spayed or neutered]]." After Barker's retirement, Carey continued the tradition with the same sign-off.

On October 31, 2006, Barker announced that he would retire from the show at the end of season 35. In March 2007, CBS and [[FremantleMedia]] began a search for the next host of the show. Carey, who was hosting ''[[Power of 10 (American game show)|Power of 10]]'' at the time, was chosen and, in a July 23, 2007, interview on ''[[Late Show with David Letterman]]'', made the announcement.<ref>{{cite news|author=David Bauder |url=http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Jul23/0,4670,TVPriceCarey,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080222213153/http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Jul23/0%2C4670%2CTVPriceCarey%2C00.html |archive-date=February 22, 2008 |title=Price is Right for Drew Carey |agency=Associated Press |date=July 23, 2007 |access-date=July 23, 2007 |work=Fox News |url-status=dead}}</ref> Carey's first show aired October 15, 2007. Barker made three guest appearances after Carey took over as host: on the April 16, 2009 episode to promote his autobiography, ''Priceless Memories'', on December 12, 2013, as part of "Pet Adoption Week" that coincided with his 90th birthday,<ref>{{cite news|last=Dovarganes|first=Damian|title=Bob Barker to mark his 90th birthday on "The Price is Right"|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bob-barker-to-mark-his-90th-birthday-on-the-price-is-right/|agency=Associated Press|publisher=CBS News|date=October 29, 2013|access-date=July 17, 2014}}</ref> and on the episode which aired on [[April Fools' Day]] in 2015, his final appearance on the show, where he hosted the first One Bid and pricing game as part of April Fool's Day.<ref>{{Cite episode |series=The Price Is Right |network=CBS |date=April 1, 2015 |season=43 |number=7073K}}</ref>

The 2013 April Fools' show featured Carey and announcer George Gray modeling the prizes while the show's models performed hosting and announcing duties for the day.<ref>{{cite press release|url=http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013/03/26/the-price-is-right-and-lets-make-a-deal-both-celebrate-april-fools-day-with-themed-shows-april-1/175098/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130410100418/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013/03/26/the-price-is-right-and-lets-make-a-deal-both-celebrate-april-fools-day-with-themed-shows-april-1/175098/|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 10, 2013|title='The Price is Right' and 'Let's Make a Deal' Both Celebrate April Fool's Day with Themed Shows April 1|last=Kondolojy|first=Amanda|work=TV By the Numbers|publisher=Zap2it|date=March 26, 2013|access-date=May 9, 2015}}</ref> On the April Fools' Day episode in 2014, [[Craig Ferguson]], Carey's former castmate from ''[[The Drew Carey Show]]'', and [[Shadoe Stevens]] hosted and announced, swapping places with Carey and Gray, who had performed those roles on the previous night's episode of ''[[The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson|The Late Late Show]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2014/03/17/carey-ferguson-price-is-right-late-late-show/6523425/|title=It's no joke: Carey, Ferguson swap jobs on April Fool's'|last=Keveney|first=Bill|work=USA Today|date=March 18, 2014|access-date=May 9, 2015}}</ref> The 2015 April Fools' episode featured the last of Barker's three post-retirement appearances on the show, where he hosted the first One Bid and pricing game before turning it over to Carey.