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Premiere Playing (November 1, 1978, #3013D)[]
Johnny would be heard saying you can win..."A Food Slicer, a Toaster Oven, or......A NEW CAR!" The camera would cut to the door just as the car was announced.
A fantastic Buick Regal! The 2 smaller prizes are a General Electric Food Slicer and a Norelco Toaster oven. The contestant will have a chance to win just one of these three prizes.
Nextel? Verizon? LOL No, it's just the long lost Telephone Game!
These Certs breathmints have to be pretty darn cheap in 1978.
These are the next three grocery products.
The Certs breath mints are 20¢.
The hot sauce is 35¢.
That gives her a total of 55¢. That means she gets to talk on the phone and maybe win a car.
Bob hands the contestant the Price is Right dime she'll need in order to make her phone call.
Next, we take out the HUGE directory - which is located right next to the oversized TPiR phone itself.
She picks the 5995 number.
Quiet everybody! All the Beauties have their hands on the phones. Which one is going to ring?
Dian has picked up the phone, and the contestant has won the toaster oven worth $59.95.
The car was $5,600.
Finale Playing (November 29, 1978, #3053D)[]
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The three prizes involved.
They'll be playing Telephone Game for the last time ever.
Bob, Jose, and the Product Table
The Telephone Game Set
The 5th Avenue candy bar is only 20¢.
The crackers are 69¢.
For a total of 89¢. That means Jose gets to talk on the phone and hopefully win the car.
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Bob's looking into that weird TPIR phone directory.
As you can see, these are not your typical average telephone numbers. These are the possible prices of the car. One is the true price, but the other two are prices of the other two in dollars & cents. They left out the decimal points to heighten the suspense.
Jose says, the price of the car is $4489.
So to find out if he's right or wrong, he inserts the dime he won from the grocery item game...
...dials the number...
...and now, which model will answer the phone and give him the prize next to her?
IT'S DIAN! HE WON THE CAR!
The price to one of the prizes was revealed but not the other. (It was $43.95)
Now that is one happy contestant.
And why not? Winning a car makes anyone happy.
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Jose is on his way home to Guam with a new car! Congratulations Jose!