* September 28 – Rod Roddy, American television announcer ( d. 2003 )

Then-Price Is Right announcer Rod Roddy served as the announcer for the week and former Let's Make a Deal model Carol Merrill presented the Secret Square and bonus round prizes.

Peter Tomarken was the show's host, and Rod Roddy was the primary announcer.

West later became an announcer for several game shows and filled in for Rod Roddy on The Price is Right during his illnesses and after his death in 2003.

Gary Owens ( announcer ), Eileen Brennan, Roddy Maude-Roxby, and Goldie Hawn came on in the show.

Disk jockeys included future Price is Right announcer Rod Roddy, Dick Biondi, Danny Neaverth, Sandy Beach, Jack Armstrong, Joey Reynolds, Steve Mitchell, Bud Ballou, Norm Marshall, Tom Shannon, and the Amazin ' Jim Quinn.

At the beginning of each episode, off-camera announcer Rod Roddy gives a brief description of the convoluted storyline and remarks, " Confused?

The disclaimer, the first in network television history, was both written on the screen and read by Soap announcer Rod Roddy.

Robert Ray " Rod " Roddy ( September 28, 1937 – October 27, 2003 ) was an American radio and television announcer.

Roddy succeeded original announcer Johnny Olson on Price and held the role from 1985 until his death in 2003.

After Goodson-Todman announcer Johnny Olson died in October 1985, Roddy was chosen as one of several substitute announcers ( along with Rich Jeffries, Bob Hilton, and Gene Wood ) to announce The Price Is Right.

Despite only announcing for six episodes ( the least of the four ), on February 17, 1986 Roddy was announced as the show's regular announcer.

Roddy also was the announcer on Tom Kennedy's Nighttime Price Is Right after Olson's death.

Rod Roddy was the announcer for the ABC specials.

After the 1985 death of the original announcer Johnny Olson on the Bob Barker version of The Price Is Right, Wood was one of four interim announcers on that show, until Rod Roddy was chosen as Olson's successor.

On April 4, 2004, CBS announced that Rich Fields would become the show's new permanent announcer to replace Rod Roddy.

Scripps Co. President and CEO Ken Lowe, who was known in the early 1970s by his WKIX air name of Steve Roddy ; Peyton Reed ( director of The Weird Al Show and other films ); Jim Bond, retired founder of the prestigious Washington D. C. broadcast consulting firm of Bond and Pecaro ; Bob Heymann, former NBC and CBS radio announcer and current national radio and TV station broker at Media Services Group ; CBS News producer Randy Wolf and John Altschuler ( IMDB entry executive producer and writer for King of the Hill ).

Known variously as " Colorful KQV ," " Audio 14 ," " Groovy QV ," and " The Big 14 " over the years, KQV premiered its top 40 format on January 13, 1958, and is remembered for its high-profile, high-energy personalities, such as Chuck Brinkman, Hal Murray, Dave Scott, Steve Rizen, Dex Allen, Jim Quinn, future game show announcer Rod Roddy, and their large-scale promotion of a Beatles concert at Pittsburgh's Civic Arena ( now the Mellon Arena ) in 1964, and its former showcase studios at the Chamber of Commerce Building (" on the corner of Walk and Don't Walk ," as the DJs would say ) in downtown Pittsburgh, where the disk jockeys could be watched through a large window.

Peter Tomarken hosted this Jay Wolpert production in association with Metromedia Video Productions, while Rod Roddy was the announcer.

Rod Roddy would earn greater fame in 1986, when he became Johnny Olson's permanent replacement as announcer on The Price is Right.

The success of the show made Downey a pop culture celebrity, leading to an appearance on Saturday Night Live in 1988, WrestleMania V in 1989 in which he traded insults with Roddy Piper and Brother Love on Piper's Pit, and later roles in movies such as Predator 2 and Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation.

A number of celebrities guest-starred on the series over the course of its run, including Debbie Allen, Bob Saget, Charles Rocket, Neil Patrick Harris, Lydia Cornell, Brooke Shields, Roddy McDowall, and others ; Chubby Checker, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, and Dr. Ruth Westheimer appeared in episodes as themselves.

* They Live ( 1988 ), by John Carpenter — As Roddy Piper is trying on his new " sunglasses " that allow him to see the world as it is, he looks at an advertisement for Control Data Corporation and sees the word OBEY.

John Harlan and Charlie O ' Donnell filled in as substitute announcers for Roddy on different occasions.

Derek Roddy drummed on all of the tracks ( except “ To Dream of Ur ”) as a session musician.

* Derek Roddy − drums, percussion ( session musician on Black Seeds of Vengeance ) ( 2000 )

She remained forgotten until 1991, when actor Roddy McDowall, serving on the National Film Preservation Board, paid for a memorial marker that reads: " The Biograph Girl / The First Movie Star.

The Bureau embarked on a second UK tour in November and December 1981 sharing the bill with The Modettes and Roddy Radiation And The Tearjerkers.

Miller sang for US servicemen in Vietnam, performed at the Hollywood Bowl, guest starred on numerous television shows, and appeared in Roddy McDowall's film The Cool Ones.

He appears on two tracks – " Rest on the Rock " and " Out of Light " – on the album, Before the Ruin, by Roddy Woomble, Kris Drever and John McCusker.

Terry Hall subsequently came in as vocalist, replacing Tim Strickland, and Roddy Radiation on lead guitar.

Roddy Frame sings in his song, " Over You ", the line " Me, stuck on the Strand ".

Groomed by Jim Crockett Jr. as his future top star, Flair won the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship when he defeated Bobo Brazil on July 29, 1977 ; and during the next three years, he held five reigns as U. S. Champion while feuding with Ricky Steamboat, Roddy Piper, Mr. Wrestling II, Jimmy Snuka, and Greg Valentine ( with whom he also formed a championship tag team ).

Flair also feuded with Roddy Piper, Syxx, and his old nemesis, Curt Hennig, in 1997 after Hennig was offered a spot in the Four Horsemen only to turn on Flair and the Horsemen at Fall Brawl in 1997.

Sammartino also engaged in a feud with Rowdy Roddy Piper after Piper insulted his heritage on a segment of Piper's Pit at Madison Square Garden.

More recently, the Baltimore-based rock band J Roddy Walston and the Business memorialized the fire in " Nineteen Ought Four ," on their album Hail Mega Boys.

On the latter two, Roddy appeared on camera on many episodes.

Rod Roddy, prior to his adoption of bright-colored suits, doing warm-up for a 1988 episode of The Price Is Right.

As a result, Roddy was unable to announce for The Price Is Right for the rest of Season 31.

* ' The Price Is Right's ' Rod Roddy Dies ( CBS News )

for syndication ), and Rod Roddy ( while at the same time announcing on The Price Is Right for CBS ) also filled in for him on the CBS version.

" became a catchphrase, and a Price Is Right tradition observed by his successors, Rod Roddy ( 1986 – 2003 ), Rich Fields ( 2004 – 2010 ), and George Gray ( 2011 – present ).

Roddy McDowall's character, Peter Vincent, was named after horror icons Peter Cushing and Vincent Price.

In March 2004, while still working for KPSP, Fields auditioned for the announcing role on The Price Is Right that was vacated by the death of Rod Roddy.

In 2004, he auditioned for the announcer's spot on television's longest running game show, The Price is Right, after the death of Rod Roddy.