My favorite among the old black-and-white game shows from the fifties and sixties has always been I've Got a Secret. GSN gave us parched IGAS fans a small sip with two weeks of episodes last month. Luckily, YouTube offers a lot of clips from the secretive proceedings, though not nearly as many as What's My Line. A couple recent I've Got a Secret uploads to the site prompted a few comments from me on the black-and-white discussion thread at the GSN Classics board...Just spotted a very nice recent upload on YouTube, the first Christmas episode of I've Got a Secret from 1952. Bill Cullen, Jayne Meadows and Henry Morgan are already on hand. And Garry Moore's hair is a lot longer than usual. Funny to hear the panel discussing "President Truman."
The 1952 ep shows how IGAS started as a pretty straight panel show, similar to What's My Line. Later the format loosened considerably, with skits and stunts and musical numbers and the Salvation Army band and a cast of thousands. Once that happened, IGAS enjoyed its greatest rating success, becoming a top ten show for the 1955-58 seasons.
William Frawley's performance of Melancholy Baby on the 5/3/65 I've Got a Secret episode has also been reposted to YouTube. This was one of the eps in GSN's two-week run last month. Commented about this before, but the clip is rather sad because Mr. Frawley died less than a year later.
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