A group of panelists try to guess a guest's secret.A group of panelists try to guess a guest's secret.A group of panelists try to guess a guest's secret.
- Nominated for 3 Primetime Emmys
- 3 nominations total
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- TriviaThe telecast that aired live on February 9, 1956, with Lucille Ball as a guest panelist, featured a 96-year-old contestant who was the last surviving witness to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Garry Moore introduced this senior citizen, Samuel Seymour, by saying he hailed from Maryland. When Seymour died two months later on the anniversary of the assassination, newspapers said he was a longtime resident of Arlington, Virginia. Whatever the truth of his residence, his secret was uncovered by Jayne Meadows. After she uncovered it, Moore explained to her, the other panelists and viewers that when John Wilkes Booth jumped down from the presidential box at Fords Theatre immediately after shooting Lincoln, five-year-old Seymour witnessed only that jump without knowing that any shots had been fired. The audience's laughter in reaction to the play muffled the sound of the gunshots for many people. The child felt sorry for the man who obviously had injured himself jumping from the presidential box to the stage. Booth indeed injured his leg and sought medical treatment before his capture.
- Alternate versionsAlso available in a computer colorized version.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Television: Fun and Games (1988)
- SoundtracksPlink, Plank, Plunk (I've Got A Secret)
Written and Performed by Leroy Anderson from 1952 to 1961
Featured review
The Game Show Network is the perfect time machine.
While channel-surfing the backwaters of digital cable, I came across a whitecap of historical political incorrectness. Gary Moore, the winsome host of "I've Got A Secret," dons an overcoat and muffler at the start of the broadcast. He then breaks the "fourth wall" of the studio on West 47th Street, ventures out into the bitter cold of a New York winter's night and corals a fifteen year old boy on his way to a show. Moore invites the kid in to be a contestant on HIS show. The boy's secret: "I was brought in from the street" easily stumps the celebrity panel. The young man wins two prizes: eighty dollars and a carton of Winston cigarettes--the show's lone sponsor.
Can you imagine the outrage today if a television host gave a minor a carton of smokes? The fifties WERE a simpler time.
Can you imagine the outrage today if a television host gave a minor a carton of smokes? The fifties WERE a simpler time.
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- May 26, 2004
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- Tengo un secreto
- Filming locations
- CBS Studio 52, New York City, New York, USA(1960-1967)
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- Runtime30 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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