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Bob Barker Biography

Game Show Host

Bob Barker hosted the TV game show The Price is Right for a remarkable 35 years, from 1972-2007. Barker had already been the host of TV's Truth or Consequences for 18 years before he signed on to host The Price Is Right in 1972. (He succeeded the original host, Bill Cullen.) The show, in which contestants try to guess the price of potential prizes, became the longest-running game show in television history. Barker has won 12 Daytime Emmys for his hosting and producing talents, and he was given a Daytime Emmy Lifetime Achievement award in 1999. Barker is also a well-known advocate for animal welfare and animal rights; for years he ended The Price is Right telecasts with a reminder to viewers to spay and neuter their pets. At age 83, Barker taped his final The Price Is Right episode on 6 June 2007; the episode aired on 15 June 2007.

Extra credit: CBS announced in July of 2007 that comedian Drew Carey would replace Barker as host of The Price Is Right.

Barker also appears with Chrissie Hynde in our loop Critter Defenders.

Other game show hosts of Barker's era include Richard Dawson, Pat Sajak and Gene Rayburn.

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