it is only a matter of time before The Price is Right is forced to move production out of California...

I highly doubt that's happening anytime soon. However, if the show were to move to the east coast, CBS owns a Broadway theater that will be empty by the end of the week...

No.

The Price set from 1975 through 1996 was a thing of beauty.  Other game show sets over the years that looked particularly nice were '70s Wheel of Fortune, '80s Pyramid and '80s Family Feud, to name just a few.

Colour should come from paint, not lights, and lights used to accentuate colour.  This is what looks nice.  When all colour comes from lights, it's too bright for my eyes.

Strongly disagree.

One of the big key advantages of using lights to create color is that the set can be more easily themed and modified for special events. Instead of having to hang up new curtains, install new doors or paint new turntable murals, now they can simply swap out colors for everything with the push of a button.

I personally love seeing how they manage to recolor and theme the set nowadays for special events. Granted, it can be easy to take it too far with too many flashy graphics, but in the end it’s an easy way to keep things visually fresh.

Nobody rushing to the defense of the Hollywood mural?  Shocking (sarcasm).

The set needed some work once they ditched the padded turntable.  The paint job was dull even though they used the same colors.  Then Syd got ahold of it and we all know what happened.

(That being said: the nighttime mural was very nice.)

Original topic: I think the doors would have been different than the starburst, much like 30 to 31.

Greetings to all for my first post as a long time fan of The Price is Right. Thanks to Chelsea for the name-drop. I run the Game Show Guides site which was formerly known as the Rewindium Blog

Determining what the approximate month of a taping is now a bit easier for episodes of Tom Kennedy's version in part because of the episodes of Bob's version that Barker Era had added a few years ago from season 13 and most of the season 14 episodes through to the January 9, 1986. Some of the changes that can be discerned for both Bob's version and Tom's version as they were both taped at the same time on different days include the older blue seats being changed with some episodes having a combination of both the older and newer seats, the older brown curtains being changed and some of the pricing game sets like with Grocery Game, Safe Crackers and Danger Price with updated signage and props. If it's an episode from February or March 1986, the odds are most likely that it would had been announced by Rod Roddy and the opening titles were changed from blue to red for the last of the taped episodes for that version. The change in the color of the opening titles to red hasn't been determined yet for Bob's version but they were mostly red for most of the second half of season 14 and the first six weeks of season 15 before reverting back to blue for good shortly after the 3000th episode.

I too hope for the day that a calendar for Tom Kennedy's version with the pricing games organized by production number is made available to the public

The one recording of Johnny's warmup that we have comes from #1685D, taped sometime in the fall of 1975; and Johnny mentions the postcards that can be dropped off as the audience exits, so the practice was around for a long time and for a long time before airdates were being written on the slates.

And even though they went years without putting them on the slates, it seems the intended airdates were known and, as one would expect, aligned to the production calendars. For example, #1414D is "TBA" on the slate for the airdate but was clearly intended for May 15, 1975 with the theme of the second Showcase being themed around that date.

That's what I thought I remembered from all those years ago (before boards like this were a thing)...I thought the postcards were a longstanding thing but started to wonder when TBA airdates became a thing. 
It is interesting with the studio situation the last couple years how messy the airdate vs. tape date thing has been.  A taping I attended the last week of July 2025 was scheduled right from the get-go to air on July 2, 2026...a more than 11-month time between tape and air would leave room for even the slowest mail delivery if they still did the postcards!