Bob Barker

Future psychologist and talk show host, Dr. Phil McGraw, alongside his wife, Robin, went to visit him on The Price is Right, during their honeymoon in 1976. At the 2007 Daytime Emmy Awards, McGraw paid tribute to the game show legend for his 35 years of hosting Price, of his 50 year career in television.

In the first years of The Price is Right, fur coats were prizes for winning contestants. However, when Bob found his intrest in animal rights, fur coats and any other products that involved harming animals were never offered as prizes on the show again.

An amazing honor came when one of the most historic sites in the history of television, Stage 33 at CBS Television City in Los Angeles, was re-dedicated as the Bob Barker Studio in ceremonies following the taping of the 5,000th episode of The Price Is Right in March of 1998. Barker is the first performer to whom CBS has ever dedicated a stage. Stage 33, opened in November 1952, has been the home of such legendary television series as The Jack Benny Show, The Red Skelton Show and The Carol Burnett Show, as well as some of the network's most memorable entertainment specials starring such performers as Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby. The Gary Moore Show, based in New York, used it during its annual trip to the West Coast, and The Ed Sullivan Show, used it for all of its West Coast inserts. It was from Stage 33, in fact, that Elvis Presley made his historic first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.