‘Price Is Right’ Producer Defends Late Bob Barker Amid Shocking Allegations: ‘Show Was a Happy Place’

Longtime The Price Is Right producer Roger Dobkowitz is speaking out to defend former host Bob Barker as sexual harassment allegations resurface as a result of a new tell-all documentary series.

Dobkowitz, 80, broke his silence in a Sunday, March 29, Facebook post, writing about what he experienced in the 36 years he worked on the popular daytime game show.

Specifically, he criticized the E! docuseries Dirty Rotten Scandals, which saw former Price Is Right models share past allegations of workplace misconduct against Barker, who died in 2023 at age 99.

“I avoided commenting on it because I didn’t want to add any social traction to such an obvious ‘hit piece,’” he wrote. “The ‘documentary’ should just quietly disappear into the bottom of a TV equivalent of a waste basket along with all the other forgotten so-called ‘exposes.’”

He went on to say the women accusing Barker were simply creating “falsehoods in order to justify a personal hateful vendetta against a person in order to draw attention to themselves.”

Dobkowitz also voiced his personal disgust with making these allegations against Barker after his death, “making it impossible for the accused to defend himself.”

“The show was a happy place…our working environment was the envy of other shows,” Dobkowitz said of his experience on the show. “Staff rarely quit…the dozens of women who were in our repertoire of models came back year after year, happy to be on our show.”

He concluded, “The only unhappy people, as would be found in any company, were the ones that didn’t get the raise they wanted, the ones that didn’t get the promotion they thought they deserved, and the ones that were terminated for not doing their job.”