As most of us here know, the Season 22 premiere was pre-empted for most of the country except for a very few stations in the East Coast that aired Price one hour at 10AM Eastern. My market in Buffalo, NY was one of them, but the other market I know that aired it, CHCH in Hamilton, Ontario Canada is the one I want to discuss.
It just crossed my mind that while Hamilton is it's own separate city, it also falls under the GTA (Greater Toronto Area), meaning that this would have been the station that viewers in Toronto, Ontario would have seen it on at the time. Toronto, being Canada's largest market, might have been a deciding factor as to why the episode was not rerun again.
Canadian market, sure, but Toronto and its municipalities made up a population of almost 5 million people at the time (It's at almost 7 million currently.) This might be part of the reason why the episode was considered "aired".