Professor Price

Professor Price was a pricing game on the American television game show, The Price Is Right. Played on November 14 and 21, 1977, the game was created by then-Executive Producer Frank Wayne played for a car.
Game play
Professor Price involved up to five questions asked of the contestant. In order to win the car, the contestant had to correctly answer three of the five questions. The centerpiece of Professor Price was an animatronic Professor who nodded or shook his head to indicate whether an answer was right or wrong. He also kept score with right answers on his upward-pointing right hand, and wrong answers on his downward-pointing left hand.
As with Clock Game, Professor Price did not allow help from audience members. The first question was a general knowledge question with a numerical answer between zero and nine. After this question, the contestant was shown the last two digits in the price of the car. The second question was whether or not the answer to the first question was one of the first two digits in the car's price.
Question three was another trivia question, and question four, if needed, asked whether the answer was the remaining digit in the price of the car. The fifth question, if needed, was another trivia question.
At the beginning of the game, Pomp and Circumstance played as the Professor was introduced and when the game was won, an owl perched on top of the set would flap its wings while a grandfather clock's hands spun rapidly.
Professor Price was retired after only two playings, making it the shortest-lived pricing game in history. Its retirement came about because the game had little to do with the show's core concept of pricing items. The game was more of a trivia contest, and a contestant's chances of winning or losing depended on general knowledge.

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