Slauson’s childhood neighbor Dee Gavaldon remembers his obsession well. “They play different games each show, and there’s lots of different prizes - cars, trips, RVs. “Every show is different,” said Slauson, now 52, explaining the attraction.
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He watched the popular daytime TV game show obsessively, tracked and memorized prices of hundreds of product prizes and dreamed of one day being a contestant - a dream that eventually came true.īut today Slauson is a San Antonio resident best known among rabid Price fans as the guy who, in 2008, made game show history when he helped another contestant make the first-ever perfect Showcase bid - and for how that triggered a controversy that almost destroyed TV’s longest-running game show. Billy Calzada /San Antonio Express-News Show More Show LessĪ California kid in the 1960s and ’70s, Ted Slauson was a “The Price is Right” savant. Billy Calzada /San Antonio Express-News Show More Show Less 10 of10 Ted Slauson “with one of the set of dumbbells he won while playing Punch-A-Bunch on the popular TV game show ‘The Price is Right’ in 1992. Slauson is something of a game legend, having attended 37 tapings over the years.
Billy Calzada /San Antonio Express-News Show More Show Less 9 of10 Ted Slauson holds a script from the television game show ‘The Price is Right’ signed by, among others, longtime host Bob Barker. That realization was the beginning of his efforts to track and memorize hundreds of product prices Screengrab from ‘The Perfect Bid’ /Courtesy FortyFPS Films Show More Show Less 8 of10 Ted Slauson, who has been on the television game show ‘The Price is Right’ many times, rummages through some of the items from the show, including name tags, a laminating machine and a contract, in his San Antonio home. Damian Dovarganes /AP Show More Show Less 7 of10 Soon after he started watching ‘The Price is Right’ as a boy, Ted Slauson realized that many of the same prizes, such as this Amana side-by-side refrigerator/freezer, appeared again and again on the show. Barker signed off after 35 years as the show’s host. Billy Calzada /San Antonio Express-News Show More Show Less 6 of10 Legendary game show host Bob Barker, 83, waves goodbye as he tapes his final episode of “The Price Is Right,” in 2007. Screengrab from ‘The Perfect Bid’ /Courtesy FortyFPS Films Show More Show Less 5 of10 Ted Slauson displays some of the memorabilia he has saved from the many times he was in the audience of ‘The Price is Right’ - and the one time he was called to come on down and play. Some thought the controversy might spell an end to the popular TV game show. Screengrab from ‘The Perfect Bid’ /Courtesy FortyFPS Films Show More Show Less 4 of10 This screen grab from the documentary ‘The Perfect Bid’ shows contestant Terry Kniess after The Price is Right host Drew Carey told him his 2008 Showcase showdown bid was exactly correct.
He studied the spreadsheet to help himself and others correctly guess merchandise prices. That’s why Ted Slauson’s read “Theodore.” Billy Calzada /San Antonio Express-News Show More Show Less 2 of10 Ted Slauson as he appeared in 1992 when he was chosen for the first and only time to be a contestant on ‘The Price is Right.’ Screengrab from ‘The Perfect Bid’ /Courtesy FortyFPS Films Show More Show Less 3 of10 One page of the spreadsheet of prize prices, listed by manufacturer and model that Ted Slauson kept from the TV game show The Price is Right.
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1 of10 ‘The Price is Right’ producers require name tags to carry the audience member’s full given names.