The Price Is Right

The Price is Right was a German game show that was shown from 1989 to the end of 1997 in the RTL - afternoon program on weekdays at 17.00, then until mid-1997 at 10:30 or short 11 thereon clock. She was the first of its kind in German television. It was an adaptation of American Originals The Price is Right, which has been produced there since 1956.

In the eight years airtime the German version total 1873 episodes were produced that aired RTL Monday to Friday, sometimes there were weekend editions. Moderator was the Dutchman Harry Wijnvoord, " Price Announcer " in the background (with a few exceptions responsible for product description) was Walter Freiwald. The leader began with Walter Freiwald's opening words, "And here it is again, the show's fantastic prices. Be there when it is again: The Price is Right " In the credits was the beginning of the haunting phrase" They saw a Talbot video game " to hear! . The program was eventually discontinued due to high production costs.

Concept

The program consisted of three rounds.

In the first round, the candidates were given the task, the trading price of them shown Household Products to estimate as accurately as possible, without, however, to provide the correct price.

Who won in this group stage, received the particular product and was allowed to play in the next round in a pricing game to a higher profit. Of these price games, there were over 40 pieces. The most popular are " crash " ( with the figure of " Kraxelhubers "), " Up or Down ", " hit ", " The Itch Seven ", " run and exchange ", " Tank Buster ", " More or Less ", " Putting "," right or wrong "," mystery penny "," Tic Tac Toe ", the" shell game ", " Whoever does not honor the penny "," shopping "," Plinko "or" 3 rivets ".

After the prize - games heralded " The Rad" the last round, which was always announced by Freiwald in a serious tone with the words " Ladies and gentlemen ... the wheel! ". The winners of the prize games had to turn a wheel of fortune; the two candidates who thereby erdrehten the highest point value, came into the finals and played for the " special price ". This consisted of numerous individual products whose total price had to estimate the candidate as in the preliminary round as accurately as possible. Here, too, led a outbidding unable to survive. The total value of the " special price " articles moving in usually around the $ 100,000, but could in rare cases even exceed 200,000 DM.

Legal dispute over the parodic use of broadcast excerpts

In a copyright case against the broadcasting of a - blended with original video clips - parody of the mission of the Federal Court found on 13 April 2000, that the applicant for the use of excerpts from the TV show, no claims of copyright for an injunction and damages entitled. The message sent on 26 April 1994 episode of the show competed in a game scene a bladder tonic. In Kalkofes Mattscheibe this scene was the opinion of the court " in grossly satirical [r ], subjective unilateral [r] and wanted disparaging [r ] way " played. This approach to use original cut-outs to " the whole show, The Price is Right ' to coat with biting sarcasm ," but is covered under BGH by the freedom of broadcasting.

Trivia

The concept has been adopted together with Studio Design and cult sayings in the ProSieben Game Show Gameshow Marathon for a sequence. Harry Wijnvoord had at the beginning of the program a short guest appearance.

1983 sent the ZDF one installment quiz titled The money is on the road with presenter Christian Simon. It was produced only an episode, which ran in a led by Hans Rosenthal series of test broadcasts of various television quizzes.

Possible new edition

In the summer of 2009, speculation about a resumption of production of the consignment were loud, which was supposed to take place in 2010. The production company Grundy Light Entertainment set clear, however, that for the format no pilot episode was planned and it still would be no station would buy a new edition. It is usual to work in the background in various formats, but there were no concrete plans. On 31 May 2010 Harry Wijnvoord launched the petition "Get The Price is back! ". He called on all fans to support a comeback of his cult show by signing the petition to the German TV station, and optionally promotes other signatories. The action was unsuccessful and the associated website has now been set.