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TVC 623.1: Game show historian Steve Beverly, retired professor of broadcast journalism at Union University and host of Steve Beverly's TV Classics, joins Ed for a remembrance of game show legend Bob Barker, longtime host of The Price is Right and, before that, Truth or Consequences. Bob Barker passed away on Saturday, Aug. 26 at age ninety-nine. In this segment, Steve talks to Ed about how Barker came to host The Price is Right in 1972; the role that the revival of Password in 1971 played bringing Price back to television; and how the Barker Price is Right differed from the version hosted by Bill Cullen from 1956-1965.
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TVC 623.1: Game show historian Steve Beverly, retired professor of broadcast journalism at Union University and host of Steve Beverly's TV Classics, joins Ed for a remembrance of game show legend Bob Barker, longtime host of The Price is Right and, before that, Truth or Consequences. Bob Barker passed away on Saturday, Aug. 26 at age ninety-nine. In this segment, Steve talks to Ed about how Barker came to host The Price is Right in 1972; the role that the revival of Password in 1971 played bringing Price back to television; and how the Barker Price is Right differed from the version hosted by Bill Cullen from 1956-1965.
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