When producers hired Barker to host “The Price Is Right” in 1972, they hit the jackpot. The game show had faded significantly from its glory days in the late ‘50s and had been punted by two networks before it landed at CBS.

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    1 year ago

    He retired from hosting the show a while ago (Drew Carey has hosted since 2007). Maybe that’s what you remember, and somewhere along the line, your memory mistakenly replaced “retired” with “died”.

    That’s my boring, single-universe guess, anyway.