I got into a silly spat with the board a while back over...well, I can't remember exactly what. Anyway, a poster on the board makes the point that The Price is Right hasn't changed its basic format much over the decades.
That's true to a certain extent, though a lot of different pricing games have come and gone. And the show is always refurbishing games with new designs and gadgetry. The poster then comments that Jeopardy has also stayed pretty much the same over the years, with the exception of the rule about returning champions.
In fact, even Jeopardy tried some tweaks to the format in the short lived NBC version All-New Jeopardy in 1978-79. But by and large, Alex and friends are still playing the same game that Art Fleming and friends played back in the 1960s (adjusting the cash amounts for inflation).
The lesson seems to be that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Jeopardy and TPiR are monuments to that conventional wisdom.
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