We Speak Your Name, Alene Glover—the Contestant Who Fainted on The Price Is Right.
Today’s Textures is brought to you by that time a contestant won big, passed out and still could not stop the closing credits.
Contestant Alene became part of game-show history when the excitement of winning the final Showcase became slightly too much for her nervous system to process.
The episode record identifies her as Alene Fleming, although the clip has circulated for years under the name Alene Glover.
After host Bob Barker announced that her $7,000 bid had beaten the competing Showcase, Alene celebrated for only a few seconds before collapsing onto the stage.
Naturally, the show must go on—so the credits began rolling while Barker, producer Jay Wolpert and members of the crew attempted to revive her.
A Chevrolet, a Paris vacation and one extremely sudden horizontal exit. Daytime television had reached its dramatic peak.
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Alene had already earned her place in the Showcase.
Earlier in the episode, Alene won her way onto the stage with a royal recliner before playing One Right Price.
She correctly matched the $833 price to a nostalgia-style party set, winning it alongside a waterbed and advancing with $1,870 in prizes.
A 90-cent spin during the first Showcase Showdown then carried her into the final round as the episode’s top winner.
Her opponent, Shari, received the first Showcase and bid $6,000 on a collection that included appliances, a dining room, carpeting and a fur coat.
Alene’s graduation-themed Showcase contained exercise equipment, a collection of Encyclopaedia Britannica books, an Amana Radarange microwave, a seven-night trip to Paris and a Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu.
She placed a bid of $7,000. The actual retail price was $9,218, leaving her $2,218 away and comfortably closer than Shari.
Alene had officially won $11,088 in prizes. Her body requested an immediate commercial break.
Bob Barker knew something was about to happen.
As Barker announced the winning difference, Alene began jumping and celebrating before suddenly losing consciousness.
Barker later recalled seeing her eyes begin to roll upward shortly before she collapsed. He and members of the production team quickly moved in as the audience reacted.
The program had reached its scheduled ending, however, and television waits for no one. The closing theme began, announcer Johnny Olson delivered his sign-off and the credits continued across the screen while the crew remained gathered around Alene.
A closing announcement reassured viewers that she regained consciousness after the taping and remained delighted with her prizes.
She came on down, priced everything correctly enough and briefly stayed down. An unbeatable three-act structure.
The moment has continued circulating for decades because it captures everything gloriously unpredictable about classic game shows: genuine excitement, live reactions and a production clock that refuses to pause for anybody.
Dig out separately both the short clip and thee entire episode below!
Watch THE PRICE IS RIGHT contestant (Alene Glover) 1976.
The short upload isolates Alene’s Showcase victory, sudden faint and the closing credits rolling over the commotion. Despite the video’s 1976 title, the footage aired on September 15, 1977.
Watch The Price is Right — September 15th, 1977 — 2474D.
The complete episode follows Alene from Contestants’ Row through One Right Price, the Showcase Showdown and the unforgettable final reveal that sent the crew rushing across the stage.
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Our secondary Tuesday Textures reel spotlights the victory, the faint and the wonderfully unbothered closing credits that turned the sequence into game-show legend.
Sources: the short archival YouTube clip provided the isolated Showcase ending; the complete September 15, 1977 episode provided the full broadcast; The Price Is Right Episode Guide provided the contestant listing, games, prizes and Showcase totals; Entertainment Weekly’s Bob Barker retrospective provided Barker and producer Jay Wolpert’s recollections; and INYIM Media’s Instagram reel provided the secondary social embed.
