Priceless Memories by TV icon Bob Barker. If you grew up with The Price Is Right, or especially if you are interested in the early days of television, this is an interesting autobiography.
Raised by a single mother during the Depression, he became a Navy fighter pilot in WWII. Back home he started doing radio commercials and spinning discs, and was asked to do an audience participation show demonstrating home appliances for Southern California Water and Power, six days a week on location. He was a natural. This lead to national shows like Truth or Consequences (hosting for 18 years) and then The Price Is Right, the ultimate product placement show. Hosting TPRI for 35 years, he introduced things he believed in, like only giving away American made cars, and ending each show with the tag "Help control the pet population, have your pet spayed or neutered." which current host Drew Carey carries on in his honour. A vegetarian for many years, he fought for animal rights throughout his career.
Winning many awards (including 18 Emmys and being inducted into the Television Hall of Fame) the studio where TPIR continues to be taped was renamed The Bob Barker Studio.
He retired in 2007 celebrating 50 years in television.
For fans of early radio and television, he has great stories of seat-of-your-pants broadcasting, rolling with whatever an unscripted audience will say. If you are a fan who grew up watching TPIR in your Grandma's living room, rolling on her round ottoman even though you were told not to, this is an entertaining trip with someone you grew up with.
Enjoyable.
2009 / Hardcover / 245 pages
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