Bart Eskander
Director

In 1974, fresh out of college, I got a job as a “Go For/Runner” on The Price is Right TV show. The show was just starting its third season, and I thought it would be a fun job for about six months or so until I could make some more contacts to further my career as a “western movie horse wrangler”. At that time, the Goodson/Todman Company had recently expanded their New York offices and were setting up the California West Coast Division. Soon they had multiple shows on all three networks.The availability of working several shows at once was there and I took the opportunity of working on as many as I could. Sometime, three at once!

I became a Stage Manager on the weekends and later discovered I was really good at timing shows. I then became an Assistant Director. The main Director out of Goodson’s stable had a reputation as being “difficult”. We worked well together and had a 14 year run. Not only did we do The Price is Right, but also every new development and pilot that Mark Goodson dreamed up. Due to a talent conflict, a new Director disappeared. I was asked by the production to please stay and help with the transition period. That lasted ten years.

Over the years, corporate ownership of the show changed hands several times and we finally landed at FremantleMedia. It was at this time that I had the privilege and honor of directing the last five years of Bob Barker’s 35 year run and won two Emmy’s along the way. So now, some 30 years later, I am still running a small horse operation (about 30 head) and if history repeats itself, under the regime of Drew Carey… I’ll be able to start my “western movie horse wrangling” career at about the age of 90!!