Now that Watson has moved on from trivia to health care and the media atrocity is winding down, the flow of game show news has slackened. So it's time for another look at ancient artifacts from a vanished civilization called "black and white TV." In fact, a pair of intriguing artifacts turned up on YouTube, as I posted on the GSN Classics board...Rummaging around YouTube I found a funny pair of clips from What's My Line and I've Got a Secret with Harland Sanders of KFC fame...before he was too famous. The What's My Line panel stumbles around forever in what now seems like hilarious cluelessness about Sanders and his product. The colonel cops the full fifty bucks.
On I've Got a Secret the panel does better, but only with a huge hint from Garry Moore. The secret is that the colonel started KFC with his first Social Security check. The show also displays the two-million-dollar check Sanders got when he sold the business.
Other poster: I wonder if Kentucky Fried Chicken was actually good back then. Now it's disgusting. Or maybe that is why they changed the name to KFC.
I still like the chicken. Tastes the same as always...the original recipe chicken, that is. I agree the new stuff is miserable, but hardly anybody buys it, anyway.
Interesting that Sanders noted the international reach of the chain even back in the 1960s. Right now KFC's biggest growth market is China. The episode dates are 12/1/63 for What's My Line and 4/6/64 for I've Got a Secret.
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